Hadoop Looms Big After The Hadoop Summit
Hadoop Summit 2011 was held this week at Santa Clara and it highlighted how Hadoop has matured in the past few years. Hadoop is an open source project under Apache Foundation which aims to solve the storage and processing of big data. Based on Google’s Map Reduce, Hadoop has emerged as a major platform in [...]
Open Source, my aaS ?
On February 23rd, Infoworld blogger and cloud expert David Linthicum posted an article that, until today, I had been studiously trying to prevent from playing over and over like the proverbial stuck record in my rather inquisitive mind. My inquisition, and subsequently my inability to let this escape my attention, was not necessarily raised the [...]
The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery
It surprises me how many really smart people I meet still doubt the power of Twitter. It seems the urge to be a naysayer of Twitter is really strong for some. I think some of this stems from the early days of Twitter when it was presumed that it was a technology to tell people [...]
Three Reasons Google Should Acquire Delicious from Yahoo
So the news is out. Yahoo plans to shutter Delicious, the largest social bookmarking site. Which is shocking, particularly among the tech savvy and socially oriented. Delicious is iconic for its application of social sharing and collective intelligence. Hard to believe Yahoo wants to shut it down. But wait…this doesn’t have to be the end. [...]
Gmail, Don’t be a Yahoo!
In the 90’s I used to laugh at friends who all used Yahoo! as their personal email service. I did not understand how anyone could put up with the slow speeds of web-mail, and tried to convince them to install a decent email client, like Outlook, which is what most of them used in their [...]
Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a great leader and seem to be having this conversation a lot lately about Facebook, Yahoo!, Zynga and others. I wrote several of the characteristics when I did the Top 10 (11) Attributes of an Entrepreneur. One thing that I’ve realized over the years [...]
VMware Buying Zimbra – My Initial Thoughts
According to Kara Swisher of AllThingsD, VMware is close to buying Zimbra, open source collaboration software, from Yahoo. Yahoo is close to selling its Zimbra unit to VMware, according to several sources close to the situation. Though nothing has been made official yet by either parties, the news seems to be credible. Zimbra was one [...]
Corporate Reputation, Privacy and the CEO of Google
You have nothing to hide if you are doing nothing wrong; it is a scary thought because we all have things we don’t want other people to know about. There is a line between public knowledge that we share on Facebook, Likaholix, Posterous, MySpace and the tons of other places where we leave our digital [...]
OAuth Beginning to Rock the World
OAuth, or Open Authentication is “an open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications”. Basically it’s a way to allow one web application to utilize another without the need for users to worry about pesky authentication keys or the like. It also allows for data [...]
Is Google the Next Media Company?
Think about this for a moment, Google mail, YouTube, Google book search, soon to come Google Wave, and a plethora of other stuff, the only thing that Google is missing is a distribution contract with RIAA and the MPAA. With Google Checkout that might be one way to get the lagging payment system by Google [...]
News Corp Saber Rattling Threatens to Sue Google and Yahoo and Looks to Reevaluate the Kindle
I do not run News Corp, I do not make any decisions for them, I do not know what their balance sheets look like, but what is important is that according to reports on the Inquistr and on CNN, it looks like Rupert Murdoch is seriously thinking about how to squeeze the last amount of [...]
Yahoo! Releases Its Own Hadoop Distribution
Yahoo! is releasing its own distribution of Hadoop: Hadoop is a distributed file system and parallel execution environment that enables its users to process massive amounts of data. In response to frequent requests from the Hadoop community, Yahoo! is opening up its investment in Hadoop quality engineering to benefit the larger ecosystem and to increase [...]
Yahoo Embraces Cloud Storage
I have documented Yahoo Inc.’s Cloud Computing efforts in this space many times already. They are doing some classy work on projects like Hadoop, etc.. What about their own use of Cloud Computing internally? There was not much info about it till recently. Now, the company has announced how they are tapping into a Cloud [...]
Gmail Migration Tools Attack Inertia
A few years ago a software recruiter told me how he deleted job applications sent from a Hotmail account: after all, how could an applicant claim to be technology-savvy and still be using hotmail? Seriously. While Yahoo was by far not as bad as Hotmail, there was a stigma attached to using the free webmail [...]
Yahoo Thrusts Itself Further Into Cloud Computing Research
Image by Yodel Anecdotal via Flickr Yahoo has been pretty active on Cloud Computing research. They are the biggest contributors to Hadoop, which is fast becoming a significant player as an enabler of Cloud Computing. They have played a significant role in the development of Pig, a high level language for Hadoop. Apart from these development efforts, [...]
