Feb 17th, 2011 |
If you’re building an app or service that needs good, structured data at reasonable terms, you’re probably having a bit of a rough go.
Your problems likely include 1) not being able to find the right vendor, 2) not having enough usable data when you find a source 3) dealing with complex T&Cs and 4) no great way to keep it fresh and updated.
Fortunately, companies such as Factual - founded by Applied Semantics co-founder and Web 2.0 Expo speaker Gil Elbaz – are tackling these tough issues by building data services and components.
We recently spoke to Gil about this problem/solution, as well as about his upcoming Web 2.0 Expo session Facing the Big Data Challenge – Getting Some.
In our interview with Gil, we covered
- Factual’s role and future in Big Data
- What innovative approaches companies are taking with data
- Disrupting traditional data companies
- How to structure and clean data with fewer humans involved
- How to think about data rights in a complex ecosystem
Listen to the full interview for more.
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Kaitlin Pike is the Web 2.0 Expo community manager. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike. To see Gil speak, register for Web 2.0 Expo SF now with discount code websf11bl20 to save 20%.
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