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One of Us Just Joined SAP
One of us just joined SAP. That’s the first thing I thought of this morning when I heard the news that Sameer Patel has joined SAP as Global Vice President for the Social Software Business…
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What Are the Big Themes This Year at SXSW?
Earlier I posted about SXSW and the change over the past six years. Yesterday, I asked several people what big themes they see coming out of this year’s conference. The ambient apps came the…
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From Blogs to Social Objects – How SXSW Has Changed Since 2006
The discussions at SXSW are more about data this year than in years past. Social is a topic of discussion but the influencers are now putting more attention on the data layers built on…
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What Apps Are You Using at SXSW?
Over the next few days I will do a “Question of the Day,” here at SXSW. Today: What Apps Are You Using at SXSW?” The responses today may surprise you. Services Angle What company…
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Dropbox Gets A New Look for the Web and Shows Again Why Simplicity is Its Secret Weapon
Dropbox has made its Web site simpler to use with easier sorting capabilities, an improved presentation layer for photos and a similar drag and drop experience as it provides on the desktop. Action Bar Dropbox…
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United Airlines Goes From the Web to DOS
This past week, United and Continental Airlines made a last transition to becoming one airline. For its reservation system, the combined companies dropped the United Web-based interface for a command line interface that runs…
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IDC Pegs Big Data Market at $16.9 Billion By 2015
In a report now available, IDC sees the big data and services market growing to $16.9 billion by 2o15. That’s up from $3.2 billion in 2010, a 39% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). IDC…
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Intel Cuts Latency By Baking I/O Into New Xeon Processors
Intel released the latest in its Xeon family of processors today that boasts increased performance of up to 80%, new vector extensions for compute intensive applications and the first integrated I/O actually baked into…
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Why “Science” is an Important Word in the World of Big Data
Some observations from conference organizers Alistair Croll and Ed Brill on theCube last week at the Strata Conference: Once users start using Hadoop, it is often the unexpected things that create value and it’s…
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Big Data Visualization: Very Cool But Still Very Complex
The data visualization blog Beautiful Data has some great stuff this week from the Strata Conference. The most recent post by Benedikt Koehler features a network map of the tweets from the first day at Strata…