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Why Filtering is the Next Step for Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

Why Filtering is the Next Step for Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

If there’s one thing to be learned from social media tools, it’s that these services were not made to interact with one another. Complaints are rolling in and …

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JavaOne take home #1 - Hudson The first thing I’ll do (well, 2nd after filing the expense report), is to download and install Hudson. Hudson is tool for building and testing software projects continuously. It makes it easier…
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Sci(entific) B(a)zaar Net(work): sci.bzaar.net, May 17, 2008 in Milan Sci Bzaar logoNext Saturday (May 17th, 2008) I’ll be in Milan at the Politechnic School of Design for sci.bzaar.net.
With some friends of bzaar.net and few people I still don’t know, we will brainstorm…
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Sci(entific) B(a)zaar Net(work): sci.bzaar.net, May 17, 2008 in Milan Sci Bzaar logoNext Saturday (May 17th, 2008) I’ll be in Milan at the Politechnic School of Design for sci.bzaar.net.
With some friends of bzaar.net and few people I still don’t know, we will brainstorm…
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Sci(entific) B(a)zaar Net(work): sci.bzaar.net, May 17, 2008 in Milan Sci Bzaar logoNext Saturday (May 17th, 2008) I’ll be in Milan at the Politechnic School of Design for sci.bzaar.net.
With some friends of bzaar.net and few people I still don’t know, we will brainstorm…
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Sci(entific) B(a)zaar Net(work): sci.bzaar.net, May 17, 2008 in Milan Sci Bzaar logoNext Saturday (May 17th, 2008) I’ll be in Milan at the Politechnic School of Design for sci.bzaar.net.
With some friends of bzaar.net and few people I still don’t know, we will brainstorm…
May
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Report of Conference on Business Information 2008 Business Information Systems conference logoI spent the beginning of the past week in Innsbruck for the 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems.
My presentation went well but I’ll post about it later. Overall the…
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Report of Conference on Business Information 2008 Business Information Systems conference logoI spent the beginning of the past week in Innsbruck for the 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems.
My presentation went well but I’ll post about it later. Overall the…
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Report of Conference on Business Information 2008 Business Information Systems conference logoI spent the beginning of the past week in Innsbruck for the 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems.
My presentation went well but I’ll post about it later. Overall the…
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Report of Conference on Business Information 2008 Business Information Systems conference logoI spent the beginning of the past week in Innsbruck for the 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems.
My presentation went well but I’ll post about it later. Overall the…
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If pigs could fly

Ed Cone tells a story of an airline’s exquisite stupidity. He shows a picture of the jammed seats behind his jammed row 11 and the empty seats ahead and says:

What’s going on? An industry that…
May
9th
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In season

Well, you’d never see this as a promotion from an American newspaper. I just caught this tweet from the Guardian’s Comment is free, in full:

“We can’t keep fucking flying stuff around the…
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Starting Findory: Funding [This is a continuation of the posts in my Starting Findory series describing my experiences building my first company, Findory.]

I had the wrong strategy with trying to get funding for…
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Scaling Facebook's databases Impressive numbers from Facebook on their architecture: 1,800 MySQL servers (900 pairs of master/slave) holding a heavily partitioned data set managed by just 2 DBAs.

Failures are handled by…
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Netflix-KDD Workshop The “Second KDD Workshop on Large-Scale Recommender Systems and the Netflix Prize Competition” will be on August 24 in Las Vegas.

Last year’s workshop was a gold mine of work on large scale…