The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Chasing Non Swimmers from the Data Lake If you are one of the Big Data believers, you will find “Clearing Up Muddied Waters in the ‘Data Lakes’” a reminder about the plasticity of concepts and their connotations. The write up addresses a clever phrase used to describe a storage pool into which You store raw …
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Intel is doing something new and useful. They have introduced a Conflict-Free Smelter Program (CFSP) to migrate toward assuring Intel consumers that its offerings are free of minerals from conflict environments — tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold are the ones they are focusing on. What Intel is doing impresses me for two reasons. First, they …
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The Amazon Cloud: From Objects to an “Incredible Figure” I suppose rural Kentucky is no bellwether for the economic micro climates in which Amazon, Google, eBay, Facebook, and a handful of other companies operate. The big news in Kentucky is General Electric’s rumored sale of the sprawling Appliance Park. The “park” is a misnomer or …
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Reflections on China & The Internet LinkedIn, 3 November 2014 It was my great privilege to be a co-founder with Winn Schwartau of the first Information Warfare Conference in the early 1990’s. Winn, through his books and Congressional testimony did more than anyone else to warn us of both NSA’s likekly malfeasance (see his 1980’s …
Open Source CRM Pulls in Open Source Search I read “12 Open Source CRM Options.” I think of CRM as a synonym for customer experience or CRM as an easy way to suck down a top salesperson’s contact list when he or she heads to greener pastures. I know. I am shortsighted. The write up …
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Wandering, Big Data is… Top 10 mergers and acquisition in the Big Data space 2014 LIST ONLY Oracle & BlueKai Salesforce & RelateIQ TIBCO & Jaspersoft Cloudera & Gazzang Hortonworks & XA Secure Teradata & Think Big Analytics Google & Rangespan IBM & Cloudant Microsoft & Capptain Twitter & Namo Media
FLO projects make their source materials freely accessible to the public at no cost & with few, if any, restrictions. What’s the Problem? Technological advancements lead to increases in productivity that are supposed to lead to increases in wealth. But for the vast majority of Americans, real wealth has actually been decreasing over the last 30 …
