Data markets aren't coming. They're already here. Jud Valeski (@jvaleski) is cofounder and CEO of Gnip, a social media data provider that aggregates feeds from sites like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, delicious, and others into one API. Jud will be speaking at Strata next week on a panel titled “What’s Mine is Yours: the Ethics of Big Data Ownership.” If you’re attending Strata, you can also find out more about growing business of data marketplaces at a “Data Marketplaces” panel with Ian White of Urban Mapping, Peter Marney of Thomson Reuters, Moe Khosravy of Microsoft, and Dennis Yang of Infochimps. My interview with Jud follows. Why is social media data important? Jud Valeski: Social media today is the first time a reasonably large population has communicated digitally in relative public. The data itself is important because it can be analyzed to assist in disaster detection and relief. What are some of the most common or surprising queries run through Gnip?
Jud Valeski: We don’t look at the queries our customers use. Hackers and hippies: The origins of social networking. 25 January 2011Last updated at 08:16 By Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent, BBC News The first Community Memory terminal at Leopold's Records in 1973 People that have been to see last year's blockbuster The Social Network, could be forgiven for thinking that the rise of sites like Facebook started just a few years ago. But to find the true origins of social networking you have to go further back than 2004. In a side street in Berkeley California, the epicentre of the counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, I found what could well be the birthplace of the phenomenon. Standing outside what was once a shop called Leopold's Records, former computer scientist Lee Felsenstein told me how, in 1973, he and some colleagues had placed a computer terminal in the store next to a musicians' bulletin board - of the analogue variety.
They had invited passers-by, mainly students from the University of California, Berkeley, to come and type a message in to the computer. "We were wrong. Network crisis.
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