Week 37 of 2009
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Every award show seems to have its “YouTube moment” – a shareable event, perhaps staged – that’s guaranteed to be at the top of YouTube and DiggDigg by the morning (not to mention all the sharing on FacebookFacebook and TwitterTwitter). Who can forget, for instance, the Bruno and Eminem incident at the MTV Movie Awards? [...]
Posted in Technology | Tagged kanye, moment, outburst, swift, taylor, vmas, wests, youtube
“Location” has been one of the most frequently used buzzwords in the web industry recently, with i.e. Twitter, Facebook and Google having substantially stepped up efforts in that area in the last few months. TechCrunch has always been particularly bullish about location-based mobile social networks, with Loopt, Brightkite or, most recently, Foursquare among the big [...]
Posted in Technology | Tagged adds, app, centrl, first, integrates, locationbased, messaging, mobile, network, realtime, social, system, web
Intel is expected to reveal a sweeping management change on Monday, according to people briefed on the company’s plans. Among other changes, the chip maker will announce that Pat Gelsinger, the senior vice president in charge of Intel’s enterprise group, is leaving Intel after 30 years in a variety of roles, these people said.Mr. Gelsinger [...]
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Like Santa Claus, Infegy’s Social Radar knows when you’ve been bad or good. The enterprise solution collects millions of articles and conversations from traditional media, social networks and blogs and captures them in a brand snapshot. The tool has been crawling millions of pages since January 2007 and can compile a dossier-style picture of your [...]
Posted in Technology | Tagged after, dominos, grossout, radar, social, tracks, video
In the very early days of databases, when they contained relatively small quantities of information, the distinction between frequencies of access was pretty immaterial.Now that we collect and store data in massive quantities, however, the distinction is becoming increasingly important. And apposite terms have evolved to describe this facet of data: “Hot” data is accessed [...]
Posted in Technology | Tagged a, data, good, is, Need, thermometer, what, you