Amazingly impressive: Liverpool's ScraperWiki goes from strength to strength (financially):

Today we closed our round of investment from Enterprise Ventures and Blue Fountain.

In total, provided we hit certain milestones next August, and with the Knight Foundation money, this means we have a cool $1,000,000 of capital.

And also now has the Canonical CEO joining to chair the board. Bonus points: she's female, improving the gender ratio.

Useful for any time you might want to scrape Twitter for, well, anything.