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Top 10 Companies Looking for People with Hadoop Skills
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…
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Social is the Interesting Omission From Google’s Timeline on the History of Search
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…
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A Voice Test: Microsoft TellMe v. Apple Siri
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:…
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Bummer: Google Wave To Disappear Forever This Coming Spring
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…
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Welcome to the Coffee Shop – The Country Club Is Closed
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…
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Funding, Acquisitions and Partnerships – A Chart for the Growing Big Data Universe
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…
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Klout Kicks in Google Plus
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…
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Heroku Adds Automated Support for Hadoop with Help of Stealth Startup
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…
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RIM Outlook Revised after Outages and Stalled Sales for PlayBook and BlackBerry 7
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),…
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Using Activity Streams to Give Badges Instead of Performance Reviews
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…