Reflecting on AltaVista
Today is Dec 1, and it seems like an appropriate day to reflect on DEC’s one-time foray into web search:…
SmartData Collective
I was recently asked to join the SmartData Collective, which is a social community of bloggers and professionals interested in…
Software Agents and Rationality
Back when I was an undergraduate (yes, a long long time ago), there was a lot of excitement about software…
Blogging Increasing in Popularity Among Gen Y
Anderson Analytics’ GenX2Z releases partial findings from 2009 US College Student Report. The longitudinal study tracks college students attitudes and…
Good Data
I have written in the past about efforts by Microsoft ( using SQL Server at http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/cloud/) and the data browser…
A Program for Catching Terrorists
Unlike other Indian Bloggers, this one is not about the Mumbai attacks. I have stayed in those hotels , including…
Decorating data
An early Christmas present has arrived from the DabbleDB team for the 100 million or so of us that have…
Blogs are Dead!?! – Not Among Gen Y
A couple of weeks ago Wired magazine featured one of the “founding fathers of blogging”, Jason Calacanis, who claimed blogs…
How Google Analytics Shows Me Who Visits My Blog (and Why It’s Important)
I’m not obsessed about visitor metrics to ariwriter.com, but considering more people read a page than add a comment, I’m…
Upgrading your data integration efforts to enable Business Intelligence (BI) 2.0
People have been using the term “business intelligence 2.0” for a few years, but it’s described in different ways. In…