Database
ウェブサービスの公開からわずか一年たらずで、ウェブサービスを利用して作られた無数のサイト経由でアマゾン商品を購入したユーザは、数千万人にのぼった。･･･自社の生命線たる商品データベースを公開することで、アマゾンはネット小売り業者から、eコマー…
要は、「いかにしていろんな立場の人からオンラインに情報を吐き出させるか」だと思うのですよ。リアルの中で先生達というのが、オンラインに情報を提供していないわけですよね。そういう人たちからいかに引き出すか、それによってオンラインの情報の量が増…
Applications are increasingly data-driven. Therefore: For competitive advantage, seek to own a unique, hard-to-recreate source of data.
The race is on to own certain classes of core data: location, identity, calendaring of public events, product identifiers and namespaces. In many cases, where there is significant cost to create the data, there may be an opportunity for an…
We expect to see battles between data suppliers and application vendors in the next few years, as both realize just how important certain classes of data will become as building blocks for Web 2.0 applications.
Contrast, however, the position of Amazon.com. Like competitors such as Barnesandnoble.com, its original database came from ISBN registry provider R.R. Bowker. But unlike MapQuest, Amazon relentlessly enhanced the data, adding publisher-su…
Every significant internet application to date has been backed by a specialized database: Google's web crawl, Yahoo!'s directory (and web crawl), Amazon's database of products, eBay's database of products and sellers, MapQuest's map databa…
Google isn't just a collection of software tools, it's a specialized database. Without the data, the tools are useless; without the software, the data is unmanageable. *snip* In fact, the value of the software is proportional to the scale …
The deep enthusiasm for making things, for interacting more deeply than just choosing options, is the great force not reckoned 10 years ago. This impulse for participation has upended the economy and is steadily turning the sphere of socia…
