Factual Sees Open Data As Its Future(gigaom.com)

http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/

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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.

johannchiang17 anni fa

Just found CouchDB solving peer-based replication, and it's not structural.