http://www.piepalace.ca/blog Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:15:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/2009/09/theres-money-in-them-thar-bytes.html http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/2009/09/theres-money-in-them-thar-bytes.html#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:12:40 +0000 Erigami Scholey-Fuller http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/?p=1086 Gawp has impressed on me the value ofcuration – that’s the process of normalizing and verifying data so that it can be used elsewhere. Clean, useful data is clearly awesome, but I didn’t realize it would be possible to build a business on it. AggData apparently has. They scrape publicly available data, normalize it and make it available for a small fee. I’m amazed that they can employ five people with a business model based on pure curation. Good for them! Further proof, if any was needed, that we live in the future. (Via Weather Sealed)]]> http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/2009/09/theres-money-in-them-thar-bytes.html/feed 0