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The Nuconomy team is expanding and we’re recruiting two developers and an operation manager for a new large scale web analytics project. So if you’re a kickass developer who’s interested in large scale computing and data processing, I’d like to hear from...
There’s a very interesting blog post over at Raw Thought on the topic of hiring programmers. It offers the following insight on hiring:
There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can...
This couldn’t be more ironic. The title for the presentation by Dov Moran, CEO and Chairman of Modu, at the upcoming TheMarker convention: (translated from Hebrew: “How to go from a huge company to a large one, from large to medium, from medium to small...
Last week the NY Times reported that Twitter has raised about $100 million of new funding, making the company’s value to be $1 billion. Just to put things in perspective, they also provide an example:
For context, that is almost double the market capitalization...
Facebook has the second largest installation of Hadoop (a software platform that lets one easily write and run distributed applications that process vast amounts of data), Yahoo being the first. It is also the creator of Hive, a data warehouse infrastructure...
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...
Its a rare occasion that I go out of a restaurant (and I go to many) with an absolute feeling of “WOW!”… This Monday was one of these occasions. On the past couple of week we’ve been working on a new, food related venture (more details on that in the...
A bunch of interesting/inspiring topics for the weekend… Designing “Big Data” Jeff Veen from Small Batch Inc. gave a 20-minutes talk at the Web2.0 Expo at San Francisco. During the talk he focuses on some classic examples for information visualization...
In a response to Microsoft watcher Todd Bishop’s post saying Microsoft should buy Twitter, Mary Jo-Foley wrote Microsoft Shouldn’t Buy Twitter saying: …But I’d argue Microsoft could simply do a Twitter clone — the same way that it has built its own Facebook...
The discussion over Google’s latest move into behavioral ad targeting is all over TechMeme. Basically what this means is that Google will start selling users (or more specifically, clusters of users, like football fans for example) in addition to words...
I just finished installing Windows 7 Beta on my home machine to find a fish swimming on my desktop: But not just any fish, its a Siamese fighting fish , also knows a “betta fish” (or just “betta”). A subtle Microsoft joke? Hope it does a better job selectively...
I was very fortunate to get invited to the 2009 DLD Conference as a participant (Thanks to Yossi Vardi!). This was my first time at DLD and I can definitely say it has been the most amazing conference I have been to so far. As defined by Steffi Czerny...
The Internet is a media platform based on content from traditional media companies (Times Magazine, etc.) as well as content produced by its users – blogs, forums and other social communication platforms. This vast new world of content is taking the lead...
How do you create an internet company\product that can get the attention of more than 100 million unique viewers a month? That’s the tough question that Yossi Vardi’s was trying to find an answer to on his panel at this year’s DLD conference - 100,000...
Originally published on Cloud Avenue. About a month ago, Microsoft rolled out its previously announced 3rd wave of Windows Live Services refresh. The purpose of the release was to position the Live Services as the central hub for everything you do online...
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