Joshua Rubin, Unlocking Real-Time Data
- Unlocking real-time - why hard?
- National weather service is open...so consumers have lots of choices
- Opened up MBTA (Boston) data, several apps built quickly for schedule
- Traditional model: countdown system, then shared. What if we shared first bus location system first.
- Provided real-time data feed. W/in 1 hour someon had it on google maps, 1 week desktop widget, w/in 5 weeks nice iphone app, 8 weeks then text msg system. No cost to MBTA.
- Beginning to open system for rest of busses.
- Imaging the innovative solutions.
- someone built bluetooth watch w/ realtime data.
- Therefore...Release your data first and let others create solution.
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