How Big is the SaaS Market in 2022?
SaaS (Software as a Service) is the ubiquitous acronym on the lips of all investors and entrepreneurs in 2022. It’s widely considered as the best business model for upcoming startups, thanks to its recurring revenues ensuring some predictability if properly scaled. SaaS has its own dedicated subreddit (/SaaS) feat. 35.8K members at time of writing. It’s […]
The importance of prompts in your interaction with GPT-3
GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) is a language model released by OpenAI on June 11, 2020. Access was originally granted via a waiting list. The API was made generally available in November 2021. Since then, dozens of startups have launched AI-powered writing assistants. The most popular on the market at time of writing (July 2022) are Jasper (formerly Jarvis), Rytr and Copy.ai. The main […]
Is Verticalization the Future of Search?
What do we mean by verticalization? A vertical can be defined as an industry / use case, either wide (e.g. hospitality, travel, health, software,…) or hyper focused (e.g. italian restaurants, flights, weightloss, CRM,…). Google offers a general purpose horizontal search engine, not aimed at a specific vertical. Google’s competitors include are Bing, DuckDuckGo, You.com, Brave, etc. Competing with Google on the horizontal […]
How to live stream on multiple platforms with multiple cameras
Do you want to live stream an interview, a conference or a concert simultaneously on Youtube, Facebook, Periscope and Twitch and maybe on some other platforms? You’d like to use multiple cameras to change angles in real time and make your live stream more vibrant? Let me explain how you can live stream on multiple […]
How to connect Python to WordPress
You might already be using Python to scrape, enrich and/or curate data. Python offers great packages such as Selenium, BeautifulSoup and Pandas enabling you to create advanced automated workflows. I’ll cover those packages in more details in forthcoming articles. What if you want to connect Python to WordPress to generate and/or update some posts on your WP […]
How to install lxml in PyCharm on Mac OS Catalina
I still run Mac OS Catalina on my iMac (yes, I know, it sounds kind of vintage when everyone is moving to macOS Ventura, released in late October 2022). Everything is fine performance-wise but once in a while I run into some configuration issues. Recently, in order to use the Python Google Ads API, I needed to […]
Country and Language codes to be used with Google Ads API
If you plan to use the Google Ads API via Python or another client, you will have to mention the location id(s) in your request. You can download the latest CSV version of the file listing location IDs via this link. If you’re looking to call the API for country-level requests, I have compiled a shortlist of […]
The new face of music A&R in the age of big data.
There used to be a time when A&R teams’ main sources of talents were live gigs in the small venues of the so-called “toilet circuit”. I remember attending with a friend a gig at the Barfly (now Camden Assembly) in the late 1990s and spotting a band called King of The Mountains (soon renamed Grand […]
SEO without AI tools is doomed to be an unequal fight
When you take some time analysis what Google AI is capable of, such a generating Wikipedia snippets by summarizing long text sequences (link to paper), you understand that the task of SEO specialists simply armed with guesswork is doomed to fail in an unequal fight. In this example, we’re not only talking about old-school extractive […]
The deceptively simple things AI can’t do today
Imagine you’d like to create a Pinterest-style search engine featuring 10,000 healthy vegan recipes from hundreds of different blogs. For each recipe, you want to grab the link to the publication, for the attribution, get a nice image, identify the main ingredients, source the nutritional data and craft a short description. If you ask a […]
