The next frontier: Decoding the Internet's raw data

June 1, 2009

There's no shortage of uses for the massive amounts of data in every nook and cranny of the Internet.

Advertisers want to mine the photos and status updates you post on Facebook to better sell their wares. Scientists want to track weather patterns based on decades of climate records to better forecast troubling storms. And White House officials now want to make government data sets available for citizens to use however they see fit...