http://blogs.opml.org/cgerrish/ en-us Copyright 2005 Cliff Gerrish. Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:00:00 GMT Wed, 19 Oct 2005 05:18:18 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss OPML Editor version 0.6 http://blogs.opml.org/cgerrish/2005/10/18#attentionAndMajesticResearch <p>Steve Gillmor has been talking about the value of "attention data." But no one's been able to pinpoint what attention is actually worth. It looks like <a href="http://majesticresearch.com/page_home.htm">Majestic Research</a> is looking at attention data to try and predict the direction of stock prices. And that's worth some money. </p> <p>Would you spend 2 million to make 20 million? If Majestic can get it right, there's money to be made. Of course that's a big if.</p> <p>But it's not your data or my data that's worth money. It's data that adds up to a large enough sample size to understand consumer behavior as an emerging event -- and then tie that to specific sectors, companies and stock direction.</p> <p>Of course there may be other models, but here's an early one.</p> Wed, 19 Oct 2005 04:59:39 GMT http://blogs.opml.org/cgerrish/2005/10/18#attentionAndMajesticResearch