The data-as-a-service marketplace – semantic or not – suddenly does seem to be on fire. Microsoft has its Windows Azure Marketplace that’s tied closely into its cloud hosting platform; InfoChimps has its downloadable and API-accessible structured and unstructured data sets, with a strong focus on Twitter; xignite has its financial market data on-demand; SimpleGeo goes the location data route, and so on.
via Kasabi Sees a Business Model In RDF Data – semanticweb.com.