This Week’s Hangout with Paul Bissett:: Data Marketplaces v. Data-as-a-Feature Business Models
This week’s hangout features WeoGeo’s CEO and co-founder, Paul Bissett. We will be talking about the differences between data marketplace and data-as-a-feature offerings in the spatial data industry. Marketplaces connect buyers and sellers of data reducing the importance of a customer’s software package to the process. In contrast, data-as-a-feature offerings bring high-quality data directly into a software package, allowing software vendors to use their purchasing power to bring free or low-priced data to their customers and creating lock-in potential for the software vendor.
We’ll be talking on the IRC channel again so either show up to the Hangout page on WeoGeo or better yet, point your IRC client to #hwjf on chat.freenode.net.
HWJF
This Week’s Hangout with Paul Bissett:: Data Marketplaces v. Data-as-a-Feature Business Models
This week’s hangout features WeoGeo’s CEO and co-founder, Paul Bissett. We will be talking about the differences between data marketplace and data-as-a-feature offerings in the spatial data industry. Marketplaces connect buyers and sellers of data reducing the importance of a customer’s software package to the process. In contrast, data-as-a-feature offerings bring high-quality data directly into a software package, allowing software vendors to use their purchasing power to bring free or low-priced data to their customers and creating lock-in potential for the software vendor.
We’ll be talking on the IRC channel again so either show up to the Hangout page on WeoGeo or better yet, point your IRC client to #hwjf on chat.freenode.net.
HWJF
Identity Crisis? Possibly, But Those Who Embrace Change Always Survive
If you want something to read that sums up most of what I’ve been saying the past few months, read Stephen Mather’s post.
Now, there are a few things fueling shifts in the GeoSpatial industry. Notably, ESRI, for all their billions of dollars, brilliant (if un-hip), closed-source, and patented software, huge (and smallish and mediumish) government contracts is having an identity crisis. That makes everyone nervous. They are moving into the services (not just the proprietary licensing) portion of the sector, and streamlining workflows that before required technicians and analysts to complete, so they are directly competing with their a) resellers and b) users. That is a scary change indeed.
It gets more awesome from there…
The Jerk
Embrace change, don’t fear it
JS.geo - January 14th & 15th
Update: The date has changed again, but it will still be awesome.
There isn’t much yet, but if you want to be at the center of Geospatial (big G) JavaScript, you’d best get registered before it sells out. January 16, 2013 January 14th and 15th is probably a beautiful time to be in Denver.
JS.geo - January 14th & 15th
Update: The date has changed again, but it will still be awesome.
There isn’t much yet, but if you want to be at the center of Geospatial (big G) JavaScript, you’d best get registered before it sells out. January 16, 2013 January 14th and 15th is probably a beautiful time to be in Denver.
The One Where Tom Says Vectors Are For Squares
This week was our first hangout with 3 people. Why? Because MapBox is that big! Eric, Alex, and Tom joined us to talk about MapBox, TileMill, the Knight Foundation Grant, OpenStreetMap, San Francisco Giants, Arc2Earth and Pushpin OSM
The video is below and the IRC log is on the WeoGeo Video page with many of the links that were talked about.