Apache Hadoop has risen to the seven spot on the Indeed top 10 list of job skills that are in peak demand.  It’s a jump that shows why big data is expected to be one of the most discussed topics in the year ahead. Hadoop Job Trends Hadoop jobs The job market for people with ...

Google breaks down its history of search into three categories that focus on how search has evolved and what holds for the future. It focuses on its current search methodologies for how it conducts searches for Web pages and such indexed data as weather and flight information. But most interesting is what Google omits. There ...

A Microsoft executive said this week that its TellMe service on Windows Phone 7 is similar to Apple Siri. Jason Carwright, a videoblogger from Australia, decided to put the two to a side-by-side test: TellMe on Windows Phone 7 v. Siri on the Apple 4S. He asked: “Create a meeting at 10 a.m.” Siri: Noted ...

Google will start shuttering Google Wave at the end of January and turn it off completely April 30. We often write in this blog about young tech companies and their innovation. But it is also important to remember that reliability is the biggest drawback for adopting the technologies developed by these young players. They may ...

I am thinking about going to a coffee shop this afternoon. I work at coffee shops quite a bit. I can go there and get my work done just as easily as in my home. Doing a call at my favorite coffee shop, Albina Press,  can be a bit difficult but for the most part ...

I sat down with James Kobleius at the IBM Information on Demand conference  several weeks ago and listened almost open-mouthed as he described the Hadoop universe. I kept thinking “someone needs to make a chart,” about the markets, the companies, the technologies – everything, really. Well, Ramon Chen has something that begins to show the ...

Klout added Google Plus to its scoring algorithm this morning and its leading to big jumps for people active on Google’s newest social network. Klout began developing its model for Google Plus in late September. Today, Klout started measuring influence for people who already have connected their Google Plus accounts. In a blog post this morning, Klout’s Alexy Khrabrov and Adithya Rao write that they are measuring influence ...

Heroku has added automated support for Hadoop through Treasure-Data, a startup that is still in “stealth,” mode, according to its Web site. Heroku currently offers Hadoop support with Amazon Elastic MapReduce as a manual set up. But Treasure-Data adds something more. It helps remove the complexity that comes with managing Hadoop clusters. According to the ...

A once bullish analyst for RBC Capital Markets has lowered fiscal third-quarter estimates for Research in Motion due to stalled sales for the Blackberry 7 and the Playbook. According to the Boy Genius Report (BGR), sales had initially shown strength as subscribers showed interest in upgrading to the new smartphones. But now sales are slowing as ...

It seems like every day we see new ways to turn industrial age management tactics into ones more suited for the digital economy. Take the activity stream, for example. It is becoming the modern  equivalent of the “memo,” or “report” from the boss. Today, it’s the stream, not a report or standardized form that is ...