[Sigia-l] Commercial power of metadata

Ziya Oz listera at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 22 02:02:46 EST 2006


When you want to see cute pictures of flowers and dogs you go to Flickr.com
When you want to see a price comparison for buying a digital camera you go
to online comparators like PriceGrabber.com.

The former was designed for social sharing of photographic moments, the
latter for tabular drilldown of purchasing options.

And yet, secondary metadata that, in many cases, may not even be obvious to
its providers can propel an aggregating site like Flickr.com to offer
priceless commercial information, which at first seems so out of their
original purpose:

<http://www.flickr.com/cameras/>

Three cheers for EXIF!

Can you think of other undiscovered depositories of commercially viable
metadata?

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Ziya

Usability >  Simplify the Solution
Design >  Simplify the Problem






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