In return, Amazon reaped data on urban and exurban centers that it could use to develop the next wave of its white-collar office space, and more than $2 billion worth of tax breaks from the cities that it will eventually call home for its new offices.
The researchers reaped more data on shaking from the Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan.
Those that do can overcome the annoyance of slow connections by reaping the data and letting you read and deal with it at your leisure.
Open data is sweeping the world as government after government seeks to publish data and reap the hoped-for benefits: increased transparency, accountability and efficiency.
This will let Facebook reap even more valuable data than it does now about its users' habits and desires, which in turn can be used to sell more fine-tuned advertising.
Once Telerate established a critical mass, all the company had to do was supply the data and reap the profits.
But by the third year, you should be able to start generating data, and reap the benefits of all your efforts so far even though you didn't see tangible outcomes.
Bruce Sterling recently wrote in The Atlantic about the need to "stop saying 'smart cities'" because of the risk that more affluent cities will reap the rewards of data and technology while leaving less affluent cities even further behind.
A legal music and movie site called ArtistDirect aims to reap profits by selling data on what movies and songs are swapped the most and in which regions and by charging content producers to thwart pirate networks by clogging them up with bogus and flawed files.
Included on the list of companies that hope to reap profits from VBI data broadcast services to consumers are Wavephore, Hauppague Digital, ADS Technologies, Inc., General Instrument, Scientific Atlanta and PC makers such as Compaq, Gateway 2000 and Toshiba, not to mention all the broadcast networks that have VBI transmission capabilities.
