Aggregator and reseller Gnip is at the forefront of the growing marketplace for social data.
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This time, they're eager to clarify that the data accessible through Gnip is fully anonymized.
So, Gnip will know that a female Foursquare user stopped by a specific Starbucks at 11:30AM, but that's all.
Both Gnip and DataSift have built robust networks which can cope with massive amounts of data in real time.
Foursquare is putting your check-in data to use through its new partnership with Gnip, a service that aggregates social media APIs.
Gnip has similar deals with companies like Tumblr and Disqus, and it plans to provide Foursquare-sourced information to market and academic researchers.
The activity streams standard has already been adopted by MySpace, Windows Live, Google Buzz, BBC, Opera, TypePad, Gowalla, Gnip and many others.
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The streams from Gnip and DataSift can be combined with data from more specialised firms that try to extract meaning from social-media data.
Financial firms have become interested in feeding such data into the algorithms they use to make investment decisions, says Chris Moody, Gnip's president.
Gnip, based in Boulder, Colorado, is more of a wholesale distributor.
The data keeps coming too, and the Library of Congress has access to the Twitter stream via Gnip for both real-time and historical tweet data.
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The organizer of the panel, Scott Hendrickson of Gnip, has provided a useful run-down of some of the arguments for and against the possible disappearance of data scientists.
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