Submitted by logicalextremes
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TIME to revisit the always compelling — and often disconcerting — debate over digital privacy. So, what might your movie picks and your medical records have in common? Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This ImageDarren Hauck (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
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THE PRIVATIZATION OF SURVEILLANCEThe U.S. security establishment is rapidly increasing its ability to monitor average Americans by hiring or compelling private-sector corporations to provide billions of customer records. The (Read More)
MAKE Magazine:
Pretty much everyone has googled themselves to see what the internet has to say about them. However, if you're particularly active on forums, blogs, twitter and so on, you'll end up with so many hits you can barely process it (Read More)
Submitted by Mahendra
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One of the pillars of Social Tools is discovery. You have built a network of like-minded (or influential) people around you, you start striking conversations with them and you start getting the feel of belonging.But of course (Read More)
readwriteweb:
In their demo video, indicee refers to "accounting's ERP black box," a not so subtle remark about the challenges facing the average business user when trying to draw knowledge from a traditional enterprise technology such as (Read More)
Seth's Blog:
Until recently, most of the decisions we were called on to make were based on hunches, insight and a little bit of data. Occasionally, a field like direct marketing would develop into something quite data-driven ("I don't car (Read More)
IT Project Failures:
The excellent Enterprise 2.0 Conference is currently in full swing in San Francisco. Given the excitement around this conference, now’s a perfect time to re-examine the “enterprise” part of Enterprise 2.0.In this guest blog p (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Greylock Partners announced today that it closed its "lucky" thirteenth round and brought in LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman as partner.We spoke with Greylock partner David Sze on the phone about the news, and learned:The raise (Read More)
Delicious/ajkohn2001:
A lot has been written lately about Google Maps Navigation. Google is basically giving away an incredible mapping application with good mapping data for free. Why would they do such a thing? Most of the guesses I've seen b (Read More)
Wired.it Rss:
Per le storie di spionaggio e fantapolitica non serve necessariamente un racconto di Clancy: la realtà, a volte, supera la fantasia. Come, per esempio, nel caso di Visible Technologies. Si tratta di un’azienda che offre servi (Read More)
Submitted by jgmize
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Around the world, individuals contribute to Hadoop and build community around the technology. This kind of collaboration is at the heart of open source software, and here at Cloudera, we feel privileged to be a part of the Ap (Read More)
CNN:
KnowledgeMiner has released v2.0 of KnowledgeMiner (yX) for Excel, a data mining tool. The software scrutinizes Excel spreadsheets for patterns, highlighting trends in a more explicit fashion. It can also use data to genera (Read More)
The Inquisitr:
Chances are that your will never know if any of your social media friends is a spy and nor should you. That doesn’t mean that they aren’t out there, or at least their surrogates according to a post over at Wired’s Danger Room (Read More)
TED | TEDBlog:
Today, Internet scientist Evgeny Morozov answers questions from the latest Reddit-powered, TED community-driven interview. Enjoy!rras asks: Do I see any novel and telling reactions and counter-reactions from individuals or gr (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The Health 2.0 conference is probably the only “2.0″ conference that doesn’t belong to the O’Reilly empire (it was founded by healthcare visionaries Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya in 2007). However, like many of the other “2.0 (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
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Twitter is supposedly talking to Microsoft and Google – no, silly, in two separate rooms – about data mining. Twitter wants to sell a full feed from its service that could be integrated into the results of their search engine (Read More)
Submitted by jgmize
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My colleagues and I will be giving a talk on BOSS at Yahoo!’s Hack Day in NYC on October 9. To show developers the versatility of an open search API, I developed a simple toy example (see my past ones: TweetNews, Q&A) on the (Read More)
Royal Pingdom:
Facebook has released a “happiness index” based on the status updates people make on their site. They have an algorithm that looks for words connected with positive and negative feelings, and categorize the status updates acc (Read More)
Submitted by jgmize
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Two weeks ago I gave a presentation at the Sun HPCW workshop in beautiful Regensburg, Germany. It was a great chance to meet many of the folks from the Sun Grid Engine team face to face. It was also a great chance to take a (Read More)