Briefs

Ed Sim | May 22, 2008 7:54 AM

A common theme from two meetings I had the other day: The next generation of the Web will be built on data mining -- extracting intelligence from the reams of data web services collect on a daily basis.

I've been thinking about this for at least a couple of years:

I truly believe the next battleground will be based on scaling the back end, and more importantly, mining all of that clickstream data to offer a better service to users. Those that can do it cheaply and effectively will win. The tools are getting more sophisticated, the data sizes are growing exponentially, and companies don't want to break the bank nor wait for Godot to deliver results.

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