Kristen Nicole
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Hadoop Stirs Up the BI World
Hadoop and unstructured data analytics managed to turn into a rapidly-growing trend in just a few years–a trend that’s taking the business intelligence software market with it as it pushes forward. Enterprises have begun exploring new opportunities to extract value out of their data, and IT vendors are promptly following with new solutions to answer ...
Code Academy, Minorities in Tech and the Nitty-Gritty of Programming
“The New Promised Land- Silicon Valley” documentary hosted by Soledad O'Brien and aired last week by CNN has spark racial fires and was said to be sensationalized for pointing out that there are very few African-American startups out there that are venture-backed. It appears that it would have been better if the matter was left ...
Mobile Retail Especially at Risk on Cyber Monday: How You can Stay Safe
It has been part of our modern culture to shop during holiday seasons. It’s the time when the price of stuff we’ve been eyeing all year round plunges to suit our budget. Even new devices and online family getaways experience a discount. However, before you get all giddy about the number of things that go ...
The End of Data as Usual – Brian Solis Muscles Up Book Two
For this week’s Profile Snapshot we talk with the legendary Brian Solis, the socialite of social media. He’s gone through a career boost this past year, moving to Altimeter Group to round out a powerhouse team alongside Charline Li and Jeremiah Owyang. The added focus on data collection and research has put some oomph behind ...
Would an Amazon Smartphone use Android?
Given the success of Amazon’s latest Kindle tablet, it’s almost normal people start speculating about Kindle phones. Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney and Kevin Chang believes Amazon is on its way to manufacturing phones as well, based on their “supply chain channel checks in Asia.” Mahaney is that same Citi internet research analyst who successfully predicted ...
Vimessa’s Mobile Video Messaging App Comes with Promise of Cross-Platform Sharing
Vimessa launches its video messaging service today, taking claim of the world’s first video voicemail app for any mobile device. You can send high-definition video messages for free to any mobile phone number or email address in the world, bypassing the video chat fad all together. Compared to other services like iMessage, FaceTime, MMS and other ...
Google Mobile Initiative GoMo Launches in Mobile. Where Else?
The number of people using mobile devices keeps increasing because everybody wants to stay connected while on the go. Google sees yet another opportunity in this growing trend beyond from search, mobile OS and social network, and organized GoMo, a service that helps owners make their website mobile friendly.
Where’s Etsy’s Big Data Strategy? Musings of Hadoop World 2011
Big data’s so prevalent in the social media space that you hardly think of them as mutually independent. At Hadoop World last week the social representation amongst Hadoop users were well represented, with sessions from Facebook, LinkedIn, Bit.ly and Etsy, amongst others. But these are the four I’m concentrating on, as the most high profile ...
Siri’s Cousin Trapit Launches AI Search Assistant
From the same artificial intelligence platform as Siri comes its cousin Trapit, a personalized web search tool powered by one of today’s most popular technologies. It launches its public beta today, letting in the onslaught of users anxious to see the next iteration of AI’s personal assistant toolbox. Trapit has been in private beta for ...
How Mobile Shaped HTML5, and Why Flash Isn’t Dead Yet
Steve Jobs was right after all. He avoided using Flash on Apple products to avoid his company from depending on Adobe. Besides, there’s not really that much difference between a web page using HTML5 and Flash. Sticking to an open standard technology over that which is privately-owned is a smart move and it’s no surprise ...
