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The Data 2.0 Conference saw some lively debates around data security, data monetization, and the overall trends of the data ecosystem. The underlying thesis of the conference was- arguably- that there are similarities cutting across social data, geo data, government data, and advertising data that can be voiced collectively within a one-day event. During the [...]
Days before the Data 2.0 Conference opens in San Francisco on April 4, the U.S. government announced that Data.gov will be shutting down, alongside seven other government data projects such as apps.gov and USASpending.gov. According to Wikipedia, Data.gov was to “become a repository for all the information the government collects. The site would publish to [...]
Here’s the short story. Andreas Weigend, a professor at Stanford and the former Chief Scientist at Amazon, explained his ideas on “Social Data” in preparation for his keynote at the Data 2.0 Conference. Here’s an excerpt from the Harvard Business Review: “The second data revolution brought about a new dimension to data creation: users started [...]
In the final ramp-up to the Data 2.0 Conference on April 4 in San Francisco, I wanted to ask you in the data community for your thoughts and questions on this first annual conference. As the conference gets closer, I thought it worthwhile to explore our internal ideas around the ecosystem of online data. Our [...]
Here is an incomplete list (as of March 18th 2011) of the data-centric that will be participating in the Data 2.0 Conference as speakers, sponsors, or pitch day data startups. I’ve excluded later-stage data companies like Google or comScore since it is difficult to define a large company as being “data-centric”. 3taps Apigee Bizo BrightTag [...]
Let’s talk about data, baby. Let’s talk about you and me… Everyone knows it’s not culturally acceptable to discuss sex. And for decades, the word “data” has been just as controversial: neither make for polite conversation, and most people just circulate rumors. But data can bring revelations on many levels: to the point that, perhaps, [...]
For the past 5 years, we’ve assumed that Google search would know more and more about what it is we’re looking for. We had a vision of “smart search”. But the fact is that we’ve actually started searching for relevant information somewhere else. Most of us have our sites of choice for news, events, or [...]
Here at Data 2.0, we’ve been working hard with industry leaders to ask the big questions at the conference that we believe will rethink the next phase of the web–the interconnectivity of data. Have you checked out the schedule? Our workshops and panels will feature discussions spanning the next decade of data: from the data [...]
What do Netflix, healthcare predictions and Data.gov have in common? They solve big problems with online data. The Data 2.0 Conference is about finding these solutions. On April 4, 2011, the $3 million Heritage Health Prize will launch at the midVentures Data 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Following in the footsteps of the Netflix prize, the Heritage Health Prize is the [...]
Startups that are changing Business, Technology, and Society The Arms Race: Financial firms and government organizations have discovered something that you haven’t: that data is king. When your small business makes decisions you may rely on intuition or advice, but chances are you don’t know the difference between comScore, Hoovers, and Palantir. And that’s a [...]
More business, social, and government data is accessible now than ever before. The US government and city governments are opening up data on platforms like Socrata, businesses are monetizing data on marketplaces like InfoChimps, and social networks like Facebook are enabling startups to integrate their social data. This new access to data has spurred an [...]
