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In an advertising dominated web, the product is the view of the advertisement. The advertisement is displayed in the interface. The reason the data is not ava
by pj 17y ago
In an advertising dominated web, the product is the view of the advertisement. The advertisement is displayed in the interface. The reason the data is not available outside the interface, is because the advertisement will not be seen. Facebook cannot open its data, because if its data was open, the ads on the Facebook pages would not be seen by the users of the data, and therefore Facebook would not make money.
We can only open data when we change the business model on top of the data.
- mojuba 17y agoGood point, but I don't think TBL or whoever else started building the Web with him at the time thought about advertisement or how content providers could make money. Same story now. I think we can leave that problem to those interested and surely enough ads will find their way to any new medium. It's a technical problem literally.
- stcredzero 17y agoGovernments don't have this issue. Raw data from government should be posted on the web. We've already paid for it, after all.