integrating detailed clickstream data with other data as opposed to keeping it isolated by itself.
Bill Franks • Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
Yet, one of the superpowers of connected technologies - networks - is that they will remove scarcity if at all possible. Connected networks by definition make things abundant that were once scarce.
Andy Weissman • On art and business and context and mirrors
“Stock and flow” is an economic concept that writer Robin Sloan has adapted into a metaphor for media: “Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that remind people you exist. Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is tod
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This technique is useful in many types of business, because every company depends for its survival on sequences of customer behavior called flows. Customer flows govern the interaction of customers with a company’s products. They allow us to understand a business quantitatively and have much more predictive power than do traditional gross metrics.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success
StreamsKey benefit or use cases: Reward ongoing commitment, real time - pay by the block.