What’s all this about Big data? Everyone seems to be
talking about social media, open, machine to machine and now personal data lockers
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21568438-data-lockers-promise-help-people-profit-their-personal-information-know-thyself.
Could this really be true? As the end of the year approaches I am managing to
find a bit of time to play around with some of the gadgets I’ve bought over the
last couple of months. I received a personal GPS and heart monitor for my birthday and which I
now use religiously whenever I take my bike out or go running. I just worked
out how to upload all this information onto the web. Apparently I can start to
link to my friends to compare our respective workouts, speeds and power ratios.
What’s even better is that whilst I try and find some real friends, the website
www.strava.com gives me some imaginary friends
to compare myself against, because “Frederic Tonera” and “Mark
Telfer” are obviously real people…
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