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Re:Show HN: Placekey – An ID for Every Place by todsacerdoti on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @12:52PM (#24699877)
This reminds me of when we launched the VAST (https://www.iab.com/guidelines/vast/) standard in online video advertising. Standards lift all boats. Congrats on the launch as this is a big step forward for location based products.
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Re:Show HN: Placekey – An ID for Every Place by arjie on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @01:49PM (#24700489)
Thanks, Tod. The fact that data companies also gain from network effects when their datasets can be combined was quite the insight for me when I first encountered it¹. The naive way is to silo off your data, but network effects get you way farther.

¹ https://twitter.com/auren/status/1141010679706476544

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