How do you get your data?

Google: “The information is out there, we just have to crawl it and index it.”

Amazon: “The data lies in user behavior, we just have to apply the right machine-learning technique.”

Facebook: “If we make it fun, users will enter the data themselves.”

Twitter: “If we build an API, third parties will solve the problem and all the data will just flow through our system.”

How do you get your data?

(PS: People who don’t have an answer to this question yet: most of the social-recommendations apps, all the semantic web guys)

  • When writing internal apps, I found Facebook's model to be the most useful. Nobody had a problem finding data; people had a problem entering data. Think, busy salesmen.
blog comments powered by Disqus