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[Ciantic]

Protocol for data sharing requires also a good product. I wish they get one, but I'm afraid this could end up like "Semantic Web", there is very little business incentive to make data sharing between services easy. Data after all is one of the most important assets for companies.

[Twisell → Ciantic]

IMHO thinking of data as assets is what kept many company out of crowdsourcing opportunities.

Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap for instance are wonderful example of successful open datasets.

And what are social network if not personals public datasets. Now is maybe just the right time to make them more open.

[brokenmachine → Twisell]

>Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap for instance are wonderful example of successful open datasets.

Wikipedia definitely has a nice dataset, but they don't seem like a successful business.

They always have the ads at the top of the pages asking for donations and talking about how poor they are.