Updated: 2012-12-31 05:18:13
The end of the year always signals a time for reflection on past trends and projections for the future. Speculation on anything and everything big data is typical throughout the year, but even this already popular subject is seeing a spike. From Computer Weekly comes a countdown in regards to big data called the Top [...]
Updated: 2012-12-31 05:08:41
This year, 2012, was a crazy year with lots of big news items and lots of interesting developments in the tech world. Open Source Insider provides a 2012 year in review with, “Video: a Good Year for Open Source in 2012.” The article jumps into some startling statistics: “ . . . Some serious development [...]
Updated: 2012-12-31 05:06:24
SharePoint is Microsoft’s glorified collaborative content management platform. It usually provides decent out-of-the-box solutions for managing projects and allowing users to work and share on content collectively, but sometimes it needs help from an IVP to make it better. Metavis is an add-on software solutions provider and according to Web Media 360 they have “Metavis [...]
Updated: 2012-12-31 05:04:53
Gannett is a media and marketing company that represents USA Today, Shop Local, and Deal Chicken. One can imagine that such a prolific company has a lot of data that needs to be organized and made workable. Marketing and media companies are on the forefront of the public eye and if they do not get [...]
Updated: 2012-12-31 05:02:08
Unstructured information has been piling up for years and it was not until the Big Data boom of early 2012 did people really begin to see its hidden potential. Like a huge boulder rolling down hill, unstructured information uses have taken off and businesses are doing their best to take advantage of the new information [...]
Updated: 2012-12-30 05:02:06
When can a $100 million investment be considered “cute”? When compared to an investment of billions, it seems. ReadWrite declares, “Time Warner CEO Thinks YouTube’s $100 Million Content Investment ‘Cute’.” At Business Insider’s recent Ignition conference, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes downplayed Google’s efforts, comparing them to his company’s $5 billion per year. D’oh! Though [...]
Updated: 2012-12-29 05:02:31
In its Government section, OpenSource.com declares that “Open Source Software Policy is Better Without Open Source.” The confusingly titled article is actually a strong defense of open source software. Writer and self-proclaimed “huge nerd” Gunnar Hellekson of Red Hat believes that special policies for open source software are redundant and unnecessarily prejudiced. He writes: “When [...]
Updated: 2012-12-28 17:22:45
This has been the year of “big data” and search acquisitions, and we have tracked the changes closely. CMSWire has also noticed the trend, making note in the recent article “Search in 2013 Will Become a Business Critical Application.” The article comments on the emerging trend of search implementation and argues that information and actionable [...]
Updated: 2012-12-28 05:18:46
Bruno Aziza has two titles for his position at data analytics company SiSense. One is the Vice President of Worldwide Marketing…and the other: Data Geek. He comes out as such in a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article called, ”The Big Deal About a Big Data Culture (and Innovation).” In a conversation with their contributing editor, Aziza talks about the developing role [...]
Updated: 2012-12-28 05:08:49
The global recession has been bad news for most areas of the global economy, with few industries proving to be immune or at least capable of weathering the storm. However, recessions can also provide a needed adjustment to the economy, getting rid of unproductive and dying industries that produce no true value. The recession that [...]
Updated: 2012-12-08 05:20:56
When I pushed out the first version of Beach G33k / Beach Ball (I'm not actually sure what the thing is called) - a search engine for beaches - I did as close to nothing in terms of features as...
Updated: 2012-12-07 11:52:01
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