Dataminr builds a Twitter-powered early warning system

There’s a growing opportunity in making sense of the flood of data flowing through services like Twitter. More and more, there are valuable insights that can be gleaned from real-time social data if it can be identified and confirmed as critical even…

There’s a growing opportunity in making sense of the flood of data flowing through services like Twitter. More and more, there are valuable insights that can be gleaned from real-time social data if it can be identified and confirmed as critical events for markets, industries and governments. Dataminr has got a good sense of how to leverage that data and make it useful to this growing customer base, who sees more insights emerging from the flood of social data.виртуальный городской номер

The Darwinism of the tech food chain

But this further clarifies the role of users in the Darwinian ecosystem. We are at the bottom of the food chain. We are, as has been described here so many times, mere hamsters spinning the wheels. The more hamsters and the more spinning means more dol…

But this further clarifies the role of users in the Darwinian ecosystem. We are at the bottom of the food chain. We are, as has been described here so many times, mere hamsters spinning the wheels. The more hamsters and the more spinning means more dollars for the beings higher-up the food chain. Unless.

Unless — we choose not to participate.

We’re going to do more in the coming weeks and months to define what we mean by “choose not to participate.” But just to begin, for vendors it means charging users a fair price for a service provided. And in return, a promise not to aggregate the users into a fine pink slime that can be reconstituted into billions of Facebook dollars. And for users, it means deciding that we’re creating more than just little dots of pink slime on Zuck’s social graph.интернет контент фильтр

Hackers and Players

This decade is indeed the decade of play but it is a decade it will have to share with being the decade of hacking. And that marriage will make our society substantially better overall.

This decade is indeed the decade of play but it is a decade it will have to share with being the decade of hacking. And that marriage will make our society substantially better overall. Author lyklePosted on Categories Geen categorie