26 Sep 2002
Interview with Watson’s Dan Wood
O’Reilly interviews Dan Wood: “I had run across some small utilities that did web ‘scraping’ (extracting and reformatting useful data from HTML pages) such as monitoring eBay auctions and collecting headlines of SlashDot.org. I decided that the world needed a handy container application for these kinds of utilities, and from there the individual tool ideas started coming left and right.”