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How is it possible that Facebook, which owns the data, does not give tools like these but others tap this using their data?
by geekam 13y ago
How is it possible that Facebook, which owns the data, does not give tools like these but others tap this using their data?
- mtgx 13y agoImagine how much more of this could be done if they did open their data.
- programnature 13y agoThe attitude of companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter is: if the product isn't addictive or useful to Billions of people, its not worth doing. Hence there are vastly more resources dedicated to assimilating eg photos and games into their ecosystem, than into something computationally innovative. This is IMHO a huge mistake, since they could instead be introducing simple forms of programming that takes you on a continuous curve from using the product, to developing for it. There is a huge hunger in the masses for better forms of programming. This point will probably become obvious if the Wolfram Language is successful.
- taliesinb 13y agoI'm sure Facebook's Data Science team does a lot of interesting things internally. They do in fact have some interesting papers [0] and [1], though obviously with more of an 'academic' feel than the blog post. [0]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4503 http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4503 [1]: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.4145 http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.4145 (edit) Edit: they also have this FB page which has a steady stream of interesting stuff: https://www.facebook.com/data https://www.facebook.com/data
- photorized 13y agoData is their biggest asset, they wouldn't want to just shar it freely.