Tag Archives: big data

Google’s looming hegemony

December 9, 2012 – 10:13 pm

Tweet  If we factor Google geospatial applications + its unique data processing infrastructure + Android tracking, etc., we’re seeing the potential for absolute power over the economy.  Large utility companies worry about Google. Why? Unlike those who mock Google for being a “one-trick pony”, with 99% of its revenue coming from Adwords, they connect the [...]

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Facebook’s Gen Y Nightmare

September 23, 2012 – 5:12 pm

Tweet  GenerationY will — paradoxically — pay a high price for giving up its privacy to Facebook.                   Taos, New Mexico, Fall 2012. At 18, Tina Porter has been on Facebook for four years. Duly briefed by her parents, a teacher and a therapist, she takes great [...]

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The value is in the reader’s Big Data

September 17, 2012 – 4:06 am

Tweet  Why the right use of Big Data can change the economics of digital publishing.  Digital publishing is vastly undervalued. Advertising has yet to fulfill its promises — it is nosediving on the web and it failed on mobile (read JLG’s previous column Mobile Advertising: The $20 billion Opportunity Mirage). Readers come, and often go, [...]

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