Why the Integrated Approach to Mobile Devices is Winning
Until last week’s announcement of the new Surface tablet, Microsoft had taken the same approach to mobile devices that they…
Optimizing Facebook Engagement – The Effect Of Post Length
Size matters with regard to Facebook Engagement. People on Facebook are tired, busy, bored, hungry and utterly bombarded with a…
Sentiment Analysis Symposium call for speakers, and free videos from New York
The Call for Speakers is open for the next Sentiment Analysis Symposium, slated for October 30, 2012 in San Francisco. Whether…
3 Big Data Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
Google has indexed 1.5 million results for the term “big data,” a testament to its quick march to buzzword status.
100 Petabytes of Data in Poop?
University of California computer scientist Dr. Larry Smarr is a man on a mission—to measure everything his body consumes, performs,…
Hadoop pushes, pulls Big Data analytics into mainstream (Part Two)
Did you miss out? It’s ok. We’ll fill you in. Part one of this two-part exploration of Hadoop’s affect on…
SAP’s Social Layer: Making Collaboration Real
You’ll recall a few weeks back I wrote a post about attending SAP’s SAPPHIRENOW user conference this past May discussing…
Microsoft Buys Enterprise Social Network Vendor Yammer for $1.2B
The much anticipated and highly rumored announcement finally hit the wires today. One of the biggest questions was where would…
Food Data : The next target of Massive Analytics
It has been a very busy period since my last post but also a very interesting one. At the Social…
