Now any analysis applied to a data set is now "Big Data." While easy to just resolve it to being how the media treats most science stories, I had hard time understanding the demarcation. I now go by DevOps Borat's definition - "any thing which crash Excel" [1]
Probably the avenue for monetization would be access to the back catalogues. Which in turn eliminates the free part of free stock photography.
While this may seem ludicrous (eliminating the appeal of your free stock photos over paid ones) this is common practice after a series of emails looking to elaborate on this point with a few of the services.
However, the company gives a shit about their bottom line. It has been proven that their customers - humans - react positively to humanized language and as a result this is just a natural outcome in markets where the bottom line is important (read:all).
With my phone, I am only notified for calls and texts on my homescreen. Everything else I consider low-priority and can wait for an indeterminate amount of time before I check them based on badge icons.
With Facebook's Messenger application, every time I open it up, after a delay of a second or two a splash screen pesters me to turn on Notifications interrupting my flow of whatever I was reading or composing. This is a true nuisance and I hope they fix this in coming updates.
Realistically, regardless of any company's stated policy or array of settings that can be tweaked, if it goes on the internet - it will be available somewhere to someone forever. This is the ideal situation which bars data breach or misconfigured settings which erroneously releases the data to a greater group than specified.
Then research any startup incubators. There are ones specifically in Toronto, for example, that server to pair teams with their missing link whether that is design, programming a backend, or building a MVP, or brainstorming ideas. Placing yourself in situations like this will not guarantee success but will increase the associated probabilities.
I found shareLaTeX's collection to be great.[1] The sources of them are available with some Googling and slight modifications should give anyone the difference to stand out provided someone else used the same template.
This truly is the thousand/million/billion(?) dollar question. If you figure it out, be sure to write a follow up post.
Look around your local area for meetups for a language you enjoy, interact and participate with the Open Source community if that is not possible, and paradoxically the harder you try to think of the Next Big Thing the harder time your brain will have. Start off first by building something you think is cool and not necessarily a great idea.
Google didn't start out with the premise of "lets monetize people's data under the guise of search." He even states "I think they should be set up to be the minimal collection as needed, as opposed to the maximal collection possible." I take this to mean collection has begun and it will be interesting to see how their policies change. Sure, they may not add personalized search results, but that does not mean they cannot implement IP/search indexing and be the subject of a government request for this data.
The best feature, if you are concerned about quality of search and privacy, is the bang syntax[1]. !g $search and you can have the best of both worlds.
Most likely not. The skills to program can be taught but what I think that these goldrush devs would be lacking would be either the creativity and appreciation for the nuanced aspects of design.
I think the only measurable change would be the amount of clones would increase (like the Flappy Bird / Threes&2048 fads)
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”[1] I wonder if an influx of get-rich-quick devs will occur if enough of this posts gain traction.
Considering the fact that numerous artists on Rap Genius comment and participate on their and other's lyrics, I would imagine that the artists certainly see a benefit. (http://rapgenius.com/verified-artists)