mesh up – Data Science, Data Analytics and Machine Learning Consulting in Koblenz Germany https://www.rene-pickhardt.de Extract knowledge from your data and be ahead of your competition Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:12:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Business Model of Metaweb with freebase https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/business-model-of-metaweb-with-freebase/ https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/business-model-of-metaweb-with-freebase/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:08:47 +0000 http://www.rene-pickhardt.de/?p=369 Today I want to talk about one of my favourite Internet start ups. It is called Metaweb. Metaweb was founded in 2005. To my knowledge it had two rounds of investment (all together about 60 Million US Dollar) and it was bought by Google in June 2010.
So why do I love metaweb? Well they started to work on a really important and great problem using modern technology to solve it. Up to my knowledge they did not have a direct business model. They just knew that solving this problem would reward them and after gaining experience on the market they would find their busniess model.

The problem metaweb was solving

We are lucky. modern and great companies have very informative videos about their product.

I also love the open approach they took. Freebase the database created by metaweb is not protected from others. No it is creative common licence. Everyone in the community knows that the semantic database they run is nice to have but the key point is really the technology they built to run queries against the data base and handel data reconciling. Making it creative common helps others to improve it like wikipedia. it also created trust and built a community around freebase.

Summary of the business model

  • openess
  • focussing on a real problem
  • learn with the market

I know it sounds as if I was 5 years old but I am fully convinced that there is an abstract concept behind the success of metaweb and I call it their business model. Of course I can think of many other ways than selling to google how to monetarize this technoligy. But in the case of metaweb this was just not neccessary.

]]> https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/business-model-of-metaweb-with-freebase/feed/ 1 Download Data Sets on this blog https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/download-data-sets-on-this-blog/ https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/download-data-sets-on-this-blog/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:15:33 +0000 http://www.rene-pickhardt.de/?p=216 On the Internet you can download some very interesting data sets that computer scientists and others use for scientific or ecnomic reasons. One application, for example, might have the function to test data mining algorithms or even further create new knowledge from the data. In other cases data sets can be used to create mesh-ups. A mesh-up is an application which combines several data sets to create an interesting new peace of information. In this section I will try to collect a bunch of different data sets that are available for download on the Web. In some cases I might also include a short tutorial on how to use and process the respective data set, though I think that in most cases the publisher of the sets will already give you enough information on how to use them. Since my major in university is Webscience, semantic data and open linked data will be of special significance in this section. .

Some data sets might only be available through an API. If there doesn’t exist good tutorials I will introduce the API in these cases.

In the end, I just wanted to encourage you that if you think I am missing out on some good data sets, to please contact me and tell me about it immediately! That would be very helpful!.

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