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This is the kind of thing they need to get into. Data that lots of people care about, data for the masses, rather than obscure details on bolt sizes or ancient
by programnature 14y ago
This is the kind of thing they need to get into. Data that lots of people care about, data for the masses, rather than obscure details on bolt sizes or ancient currencies. "Compute things people want".
I could only imagine what they could do with celebrity gossip. Or product comparisons.
- spitfire 14y agoI am genuinely surprised we have not seen any "big data" articles about celebrity gossip rags. That has to be a market you could data-mine the crap out of for fun and profit. I can imagine split testing Tom Cruise vs George Clooney to see who generates more revenue. You could call it quantitative gossip.
- chime 14y agoI'm pretty sure media companies do that already. They just won't publish it because of competition and PR reasons.
- karono 14y agoMedia companies are actually doing this already, for example to recommend the fitting celebrity for an advertisement ;-) Just take a look at http://www.celebrityperformance.com/ http://www.celebrityperformance.com/
- samstave 14y agoI would be surprised if FB does NOT have an analytics portal similar to this it allows NSA types to access.
- Raphael 14y agoWhy would they spend time on an interface for the government?
- rdl 14y agoNot necessarily built in-house. Or, charged for at sufficiently high rates, or used as an internal research tool ("how are people using our product?"). Also, Palantir.
- samstave 14y agoYeah - I always forget about Palantir! I'm imagining they must be like the Spanish inquisition of tech companies.