How schools around the country are turning dead PCs into speedy Chromebooks

Re:How schools around the country are turning dead PCs into ... by hardwaresofton on Thursday February 18, 2016 @04:31PM (#11129489)

I want to note that just because the data doesn't "look" valuable to you now doesn't mean it isn't. There are lots of types of data that didn't seem valuable before people connected some dots and realized they are.

Attendance records could be very valuable. If I can determine trends in what days you attend school, which classes you attend, and with which frequency, I might be able to create an even more specific advertising audience to sell to ad publishers. "high school students who showed affinity for Cooking class" (assuming most high schools even offer a home ec/cooking class) might be a very compelling ad segment to some up-and-coming social baking app or something.

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Re:How schools around the country are turning dead PCs into ... by robk on Friday February 19, 2016 @04:46AM (#11132577)

Sorry that's just not how targeted advertising works. Seriously with MySpace you had TONS AND TONS of data about posting history, likes, affinities and such and it made virtually no impact on monetization. Things like attendance are laughably irrelevant to ad dollars.

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