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Not to rain on their parade, but wasn't data mining supposed to make FoxMarks valuable too?
by pchristensen 16y ago
Not to rain on their parade, but wasn't data mining supposed to make FoxMarks valuable too?
- mediaman 16y agoThere are many businesses for whom vague hand-waving about data mining is supposedly a monetization strategy. Most of them don't work, because people forget that not all data is valuable.
- photon_off 16y agoMy sentiments. I think that anybody who says "URL popularity data mining is valuable" is just repeating what somebody else said. There are probably 100 services right now that could tell you the hottest 1,000 URLs. Delicious, Google/Yahoo Buzz, any of the dozens of popular bookmarking and social media sites, AddThis.com and their ilk, Quantcast and their ilk, Twitter, any URL shortening service, your ISP, etc. URLs have been currency for a long time now. I hear about this information being valuable all the time, yet I've never once read about any of these companies profiting from knowing the popularity of URLs. I might just be ignorant, so please HN, tell me who is paying for a list of popular URLs?