Comments on: Social media: data versus interface

By: Shared data services - the next frontier? | The Equity Kicker

Shared data services - the next frontier? | The Equity Kicker — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:44:37 +0000

[...] 2005, do a search on ‘data is the Intel inside’, or you could even look at what I have written about it before), or worse, under the moniker ‘semantic web‘ Tim Berners-Lee has been [...]

By: PaulSweeney

PaulSweeney — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:00:24 +0000

How did online boards make money?

By: PaulSweeney

PaulSweeney — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:00:00 +0000

How did online boards make money?

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:40:44 +0000

“Google and Facebook separately announced the general availability of their respective data portability programs on Thursday.”
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154988/
Looks like Facebook are happy to allow data portability as long as the control it….

By: henryyates

henryyates — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:40:00 +0000

By: nic

nic — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:24:09 +0000

Some great comments guys, thank you. I wonder if O’Reilly doesn’t really think about money when he assesses technologies.

By: nic

nic — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:24:00 +0000

Some great comments guys, thank you. I wonder if O’Reilly doesn’t really think about money when he assesses technologies.

By: Martin Owen

Martin Owen — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:11:41 +0000

I do not think Xerox made any money out of inventing ethernet (or the modern computer for that matter.

On the other hand Altavista didn’t make Google’s money from search tech even when they had near monopoly (even in relative terms of audience)… so there is no sure thing.

But if you want a good example of sharing sale of data and the best of interfaces, the prize has to go to iTunes. Amazon can beat them (or level them) with a price war. Apple’s monopolistic prices have been bad for consumers but good for Apple’s medium term profit. I don’t see Amazon pulling off the same trick with the Kindle but there may be other vertical systems out there where data, interface and platform form a virtuous circle of great profit. I hope so.

By: Martin Owen

Martin Owen — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:11:00 +0000

I do not think Xerox made any money out of inventing ethernet (or the modern computer for that matter.

On the other hand Altavista didn’t make Google’s money from search tech even when they had near monopoly (even in relative terms of audience)… so there is no sure thing.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:10:30 +0000

I had a mull over this with respect to Twitter a few weeks on my blog and suggested that Twitter is in a difficult monetisation space as its own share of traffic generated in Twitter (i.e. the amount of traffic through a proprietary interface) is low and falling. If they do nothing about this then they will be forced to monetise through selling access to its API. This seems a “fair” exchange – and arguably the one likely to see the most success – but would certainly redefine the modus operandi in the web 2.0 world of free exchange.