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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.




>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.




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