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Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Growth, Search, & Costs — the Google Killer?

Amazon: Unrelenting Growth, Search, and Costs I noted the Netcraft data which were presented in “Amazon Web Services’ Growth Unrelenting.” Amazon is a sprawling online services company. The firm hit on the idea of becoming a cloud provider years ago. The write up presents a diagram which uses a log scale (check with an attorney …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Jaron Lanier – – Information Does NOT Want To Be Free — and the Internet Killed the Middle Class

The Dark Side of Information Posted: 27 Jun 2013 08:46 PM PDT Free information will be our doom, Quartz‘s Jaron Lanier asserts in, “Free Information, as Great as it Sounds, Will Enslave Us All.” From high-frequency trading to online marketing, insists Lanier, big data is being used by those with the resources to collect and …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir Anomalies in Funding, Litigation, & Media

Palantir: $300 Million Not Enough? I spotted a blog post called “Could Palantir Technologies Be Raising Additional Funding?” I have no clue who or what is behind this interesting item. The main idea is that Palantir, a high profile company which has been in the news about litigation and other matters, has been funded already. …

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Stephen E. Arnold: As Different Types of Thinkers Emerge Collaboration Is Key

As Different Types of Thinkers Emerge Collaboration Is Key June 21, 2013 The article titled How an Entirely New, Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley on Wired discusses the possibility of a new way of thinking. “Pattern thinkers”, those who think in patterns, whether consciously or unconsciously, are separated from “picture thinkers”, who are …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source Security a Corporate Concern

Open Source Security Remains Corporate Concern Posted: 22 May 2013 06:15 AM PDT When it comes to enterprise information technology concerns, security is usually at the top of the list. Some say that using open source software leaves an organization more susceptible to security risks, while others argue just the opposite. This very debate continues …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Government Opens Information Highway — Sort Of

Government Opens Information Highway Posted: 11 Jun 2013 11:04 AM PDT The U.S. Government is trying to improve the American dream by making sure that its citizens have access to some of the government’s arsenal of information. According to the Whitehouse article “Executive Order — Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government …

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