Finally the dude started blogging again. I am in no position to prove him right or wrong, but his emphasis on parsing/mining skills is very understandable. Sim

Finally the dude started blogging again. I am in no position to prove him right or wrong, but his emphasis on parsing/mining skills is very understandable. Simplifying, commercial software does (mostly) two things: collects data and transforms data. Too many programmers focus on the later ignoring the former. For instance, designing and running cool algorithms on a some sort of a giant graph is cool indeed, but parsing and representing a real-world data in a form of graph is boring and challenging. "Web 2.0" likes it easy way: "Users will bring you data themselves" :)