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In Memory of Aaron Swartz: Take a Step Back – The Aaron Swartz Raw Nerve Essays
To understand Aaron Swartz is to read his last few essays. I found Aaron Swartz’s series of essays called RawNerve. I am reposting his first entry called Take a step back which this repost of his original post that introduced the his new series, Raw Nerve from this past year. The full series is here: Raw ...
Aaron Greenspan is Creating Aaron Swartz Memorial Grants
Death of Aaron Swartz is causing outpouring of feelings (see story) never seen in decades and even the family is establishing foul play (see story). Now we are seeing financial support from the community of internet citizens. Aaron Greenspan, the entrepreneur and writer of the Lost Chapter an essay that tells the real story about ...
Family of Reddit Cofounder Aaron Swartz Says Massachusetts and MIT Contributed to his Death
The family of Internet freedom fighter and social activist hero Aaron Swartz put out an official statement. Our beloved brother, son, friend, and partner Aaron Swartz hanged himself on Friday in his Brooklyn apartment. We are in shock, and have not yet come to terms with his passing. Aaron’s death is not simply a personal ...
Cofounder of Reddit and Internet Freedom Fighter Commits Suicide After Hacking MIT – The Net Mourns
Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit and online activist, hangs himself in New York City last night. At the moment the Internet community is having a virtual wake. Aaron was a young star in the tech community who was known for doing the right things for good not money. Apparently on some bogus government shakedown by ...
Big Data Alert: Hadoop Summit 2013 Registration Now Opens
Hadoop Summit 2013 (hadoopsummit.org) registration now open. This year Hadoop Summit will continue to focus on the technology innovation driving the business of Big Data. SiliconANGLE Wikibon will be live streaming again with theCUBE. Here are the videos from Hadoop Summit 2012 – lots of great conversations from the Hadoop ecosystem thought leaders – http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5ABFCADFA347D8E3 ...
IBM Services Chief Steps Down As Rivalries Ramp Up
Mike Daniels, an executive who played a prominent role in IBM’s services strategy and came very close to becoming the company’s CEO in 2011, has left the company. The Register reports that he has retired. Daniels, who joined Big Blue in the 70s’ after earning his bachelor’s degree in political science, climbed up the corporate ladder ...
ActiveVideo Networks CloudTV – Next Gen TV User Experience? Cloud & Social Going CloudTV
With all the buzz about social TV and cloud based Software-led Infrastrcture (SLI), it’s a no brainer that TV is going to the cloud. Just look at Netflix. A startup is talking next generation TV in the cloud. The company is ActiveVideo Networks. They have announced the launch of its “CloudTV Access™’ developer program, an ...
DataCenterANGLE: Data Center Availability & Safety – Future Requirements
{Guest Post: This is a guest post by datacenter executive Mark Thiele, founder of Datacenterpulse.org and EVP of Switch. Mark is a practitioner and thought leader in the datacenter and cloud marketplace.} Is it safe to build a data center anywhere along the coast? Can you really protect the availability or accessibility of your systems in ...
Samsung Comes To Silicon Valley Big Time
Samsung is coming to Silicon Valley in a big way to try to stay a leader in the consumer electronics game. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, is investing in Silicon Valley by expanding their existing R&D centers and establishing new innovation centers in the Bay Area. Samsung has announced an incubator in Palo Alto recently to ...
Breaking Analysis: Software Defined Networking OpenFlow is positioned to succeed in 2013
By Steve Noble, Principle of Router Analysis We open this final post on the State of OpenFlow 2012 testing with a very specific statement: OpenFlow is positioned to succeed in 2013. The final report, which should be out early to mid January will contain specific information backing this statement past what we talk about here. The ...
