Kristen Nicole

Named by Forbes as a top influencer in Big Data, Kristen Nicole is currently a Senior Editor at SiliconANGLE.com. She got her start with 606tech, a Chicago blog she dedicated to the social media space, going on to become the lead writer and Field Editor at Mashable. Kristen Nicole has also contributed to other publications, from TIME Techland to Forbes. Her work has been syndicated across a number of media outlets, including The New York Times, and MSNBC. Kristen Nicole published her first book, The Twitter Survival Guide, and is currently completing her second book on predictive analytics.

Latest from Kristen Nicole

Open Source Cloud Misconceptions, Chaos and Evolution: Q&A with Zenoss

  The open source cloud territory is a hot button topic for IT in today’s age of transition, as legacy systems struggle to keep up with demand and the underlying infrastructure behind our networks and storage becomes fragmented across a variety of Services.  As the enterprise seeks improved solutions, open source cloud offerings deliver hopeful ...

Can’t Get Your Hands on the Sold Out Nexus Q? Watch Us Unbox and Configure It

If you were wondering how the public would take to Google’s first attempt at a home entertainment streaming device, just look at the enthusiasm around its launch.  First day on the shelves, and the Nexus Q is sold out.  If you try to buy one from the Google Play store, you’ll see a message that ...

Biggest Oops in Data Backup? The “Doh!” Moment, says Spanning CEO

Google rolled out its Cloud Partnership Program this week, marking territory for a massive enterprise play.  Plenty of partners have already signed on, anxious to leverage the portfolio of tools powering some of Google’s most successful programs, Apps and services.  But even as Google rolls out more features and support around its cloud offering, there’s ...

BYOD Drives Developer Interest in Apple, Windows 8 [REPORT]

Appcelerator and IDC released the results of a new joint survey today that polled over 3,500 mobile developers, and provides a few very notable insights into the current state of the mobile industry. One of the several conclusions that the two firms drew is that the enterprise is very high on developers’ priority list. An ...

Bottlenose Enters Public Beta, Takes on Google for Social Search

Bottlenose entered public beta today.  The real-time social search engine aggregates data from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and LinkedIn and visualizes it all for the user in one of several different formats.  Undergoing a major change from its initial product launched a few months ago in private beta, Bottlenose has added several features to enable ...

Siri’s Sister Trapit Rolls Out iPad App, Stays Focused on Core AI

Trapit is an interesting little service that acts as a hybrid between a search engine and a recommendation app, with a number of social components that go on top. Today the startup is introducing an iPad application to give users access to their content directly via a mobile client.  It’s one of the biggest updates ...

Visual.ly Launches Social Network: A Microcosm of Data Cross-Breeds

Probably the most intriguing thing about today’s emerging interest in data is its horizontal impact across industries and disciplines.  Data analytics, for instance, is being applied to academia, finance and healthcare alike.  Data scientists are a conglomerate of studies and experiences from statistics to language arts, and this phenomenon is converging around all the new ...

All Devices Need WiFi, Says Xirrus CEO Shane Buckley [Q&A Series]

WiFi’s one of those technologies running in the background, rarely pondered until there’s a problem with the router.  But it’s a major part of our infrastructure as we power into an era of mobility, filling in the gaping holes 4G leaves behind and connecting everything from our tablets to our Bluetooth headsets so they can ...

Manage eBay, Craigslist and Facebook from your Phone: Quick’s New App

Quick launched their new app today, aiming to streamline online marketplaces into one place – your mobile phone.  The app brings buyers closer to sellers via multiple social and enterprise platforms such as eBay, Craigslist, Facebook, and of course the QUICK Mobile Marketplace. “You can do almost anything from your smartphone – from paying bills ...

Telerik Deep Dives into the Tablet Space with Kendo UI Update

Telerik announced a big update to its Kendo UI mobile development framework today with the release of several new features, including ASP.Net wrappers and functionality that extends the platform from just mobile devices to tablets as well. The company added what it calls ‘server-side helpers’ for ASP.NET MVC. Now a developer can write code in his  or ...