Comments on: Factual Sees Open Data As Its Future http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Factual Nabs $25 Million to Push Open Data : Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-545073 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:01:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-545073 [...] start-up, built by Applied Semantics co-founder Gil Elbaz, got off the ground last year. In September, the company sharpened is focus on local data, releasing a huge amount of geo-coded [...]

]]> By: Factual Wants to Be Your Place Database in the Cloud: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-281830 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:00:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-281830 [...] data API provider Factual is making a play for the hot geo-local space today. The company, which launched last fall, offers tools for improving data through crowdsourcing and data sets that web and mobile [...]

]]> By: Grant Nestor http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226557 Mon, 24 May 2010 23:16:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226557 Ashkay,

I’m not sure what you mean by partitioning…you can “split up” a Factual table by using filters. Let’s say, for example, that you have a table of food trucks in Los Angeles and you want to see food trucks that only serve Mexican food; apply a filter and the table is now Mexican food trucks in LA.

Does this answer your question?

]]> By: Akshay http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226556 Sat, 22 May 2010 16:32:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226556 Any info on partitioning of fact tables

]]> By: Data is the Future of Web: Latest Validation from Prominent Investors? « Semantifi Blog http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226555 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:04:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226555 [...] Here is GigaOM’s  .. [...]

]]> By: Grant Nestor http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226554 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:29:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226554 Johann,

As a matter of factual…users can add columns to Factual tables–new columns, or joined columns from other tables.

As for data consistency, syndicated Factual tables on external sites push and pull data from Factual, so any changes made to a Factual table, syndicated or otherwise, affects all instances of that table. The API will operate similarly. Good question!

]]> By: Links 13/10/2009: Ubuntu 9.10 for Servers, ASUS Back to GNU/Linux? | Boycott Novell http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226553 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:37:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226553 [...] Factual Sees Open Data As Its Future Earlier this month, much to the chagrin of some of our readers, I equated the Hadoop-focused startup, Cloudera, to Red Hat. My argument was that in the late 1990s, open-source operating systems and web software proved to be major disruptors and helped Internet services grow exponentially. About a dozen years later, the future of Internet services revolves around data and data analytics. [...]

]]> By: Johann Chiang http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226552 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:03:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226552 Looks like wiki spreadsheets for structural data with API. Still has limitation that we can’t add columns, for example latitude and longitude for restaurants.

On revenue model, it is ok to charge for premium API since it hosts infrastructure. Still hope to have some mechanism like Hg or Git to make open database distributed and synced, so other companies can host the data if they wish.

]]> By: Structured Search Is On The Table | The Noisy Channel http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226551 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:34:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226551 [...] can read more detailed coverage in Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, and [...]

]]> By: Friends of Dave (friendsofdave) 's status on Tuesday, 13-Oct-09 12:08:09 UTC - Identi.ca http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226550 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:08:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/#comment-226550 [...] http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/ a few seconds ago from api [...]

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