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Data Market Chat: Tyler Bell discusses Factual

Data Market Chat: Tyler Bell discusses Factual

By Paul Miller on January 20, 2012

Having received some $27 million in investment from big names like Andreessen Horowitz, LA-based Factual is one of the better funded examples of a ‘data marketplace.’ But Tyler Bell, the company’s Director of Product, is not sure that Factual necessarily fits most people’s perception of what a data marketplace should be. Focussed — for now — upon […]

Posted in Business | Tagged data market, data market chat, data marketplace, data markets, Factual, geospatial data, location data, open data, Podcast, Tyler Bell

Data Market Chat: the podcasts are a-coming…

Data Market Chat: the podcasts are a-coming…

By Paul Miller on January 13, 2012

Image via Wikipedia To follow up on my Data Markets post earlier this week, I’m now scheduling a series of podcasts in which the conversation can — and will — delve an awful lot deeper. I’ve contacted representatives from most of the obvious data markets, some startups working in closely related areas, and several of the key […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged AggData, big data, chris hathaway, data market chat, data markets, DataMarket, Factual, Hjalmar Gislason, open data, Podcast, podcasting, Tyler Bell

Nurturing the market for Data Markets

Nurturing the market for Data Markets

By Paul Miller on January 10, 2012

From Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace to the eponymous DataMarket, or InfoChimps, Factual, and Kasabi, there’s resurgent interest in the venerable business of collecting, curating, and commercialising data created by others. But despite investment and innovation, there isn’t yet the matching evidence for much use or — even — interest amongst prospective customers. In principle, at least, these data markets […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, cloud computing, data market, data marketplace, data store, DataMarket, European Commission, Experian, Factual, Gapminder, IBM, infochimps, kasabi, microsoft, open data, Redmonk, windows azure

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