I think more information is necessary before advice can be given. For example what is the volume of user data available? What category/categories does it fall under? Wha... (more)
Our platform is optimized for publishing data to two end points: 1) API and 2) downloadable file. There is clearly articulated demand for data that does not need to reside ... (more)
Though it's true that we recently launched a whole slew of awesome APIs, bulk download is an integral part of the Infochimps experience, and will contin... (more)
The public datasets on InfoChimps' catalog is a mixed bag with no apparent quality control. I uploaded http://www.infochimps.com/datase... several days ago and it's still in the directory. Meanwhil... (more)
I plan on selling and offering for free statistical scoring (predictive scores for financial or web transactions) via a simple programmable API, see http://www.analyticbrid...(more)
We (the Open Knowledge Foundation) have written extensively about this, especially the idea of 'componentization' and a 'debian of data': http://blog.okfn.org/writings/co.....(more)
By analogy... Open source code in the 1980s was organised well into tarballs. By the end of the 1990s it was in centralised repositories. Now... (more)
I've just written a pretty massive blog post on different players in the emerging field of data markets. It describes the different projects, their background and status, b... (more)