A Perspective on Location Services, Mobile Entrepreneurship & Startup Life

Not embeddable, but check out the ‘Small Team, Big Impact: The People Behind Photos’ video. More Facebook promo videos on their Facebook Fan Page.

Why do I blog this? Interesting to see the dimension of the problems they have to face, storing billions of photos is not easy and cheap… It’s all about scalability.

Demo of the first Apple Macintosh by Steve Jobs, January 1984, in front of 3000 people. Andy Hertzfeld captured the moment quite well in his retelling: “Pandemonium reigns as the demo completes. Steve has the biggest smile I’ve ever seen on his face, obviously holding back tears as he is overwhelmed by the moment. The ovation continues for at least five minutes before he quiets the crowd down.”

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When you put data on the web, the added value you get is from the way it can be queried in combination with other data you might not even be aware of. People will be connecting this data with scientific data, community data, social web data, enterprise data, and government data from other agencies and organization, and other countries, to ask all kinds of interesting questions not asked before. This data must be put up with an awareness that it is one among many data sources with which it will later be linked together.

[Source: Linked Open Data - The National Dialoque by Tim Berners-Lee]