Alex Williams

Alex Williams is an editor for SiliconAngle and lives a charmed life in Portland, Or.

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Top 10 Companies Looking for People with Hadoop Skills

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

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 …

Social is the Interesting Omission From Google’s Timeline on the History of Search

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

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 …

A Voice Test: Microsoft TellMe v. Apple Siri

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

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 …

Bummer: Google Wave To Disappear Forever This Coming Spring

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

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 …

Welcome to the Coffee Shop – The Country Club Is Closed

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

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 …

Funding, Acquisitions and Partnerships – A Chart for the Growing Big Data Universe

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

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 …

Klout Kicks in Google Plus

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

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 …

Heroku Adds Automated Support for Hadoop with Help of Stealth Startup

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

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 …

RIM Outlook Revised after Outages and Stalled Sales for PlayBook and BlackBerry 7

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

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 …

Using Activity Streams to Give Badges Instead of Performance Reviews

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

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 …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Top 10 Companies Looking for People with Hadoop Skills

Social is the Interesting Omission From Google’s Timeline on the History of Search

A Voice Test: Microsoft TellMe v. Apple Siri

Bummer: Google Wave To Disappear Forever This Coming Spring

Welcome to the Coffee Shop – The Country Club Is Closed

Funding, Acquisitions and Partnerships – A Chart for the Growing Big Data Universe

Klout Kicks in Google Plus

Heroku Adds Automated Support for Hadoop with Help of Stealth Startup

RIM Outlook Revised after Outages and Stalled Sales for PlayBook and BlackBerry 7

Using Activity Streams to Give Badges Instead of Performance Reviews

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