James Kobielus' Blog

Stuff the Beatles left off the White Album January 23-27 2012

2012-01-27T23:40:00.000-08:00

Is the 'quantified self' movement just a fad?

Google kills more services

Jim Kobielus on 2012

http://www.decisionstats.com/jim-kobielus-on-2012/

Apps Overtaking Middleware

Amazon Dynamo DB: Big Data's Big Cloud Moment

The PC industry is heading for collapse

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-pc-industry-is-heading-for-collapse/17828?tag=nl.e019

What Megaupload's Demise Teaches about Cloud Storage
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7823979/7006273/548530/0/

Using Libraries In the Age of eBooks
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3393423/5553367/280399/0/

Web Jargon Origins Revealed
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3394228/5553367/280481/0/

Facebook's Timeline Apps: Beacon 2.0
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3394228/5553367/280484/0/

Internet Promotes Literacy, Study Says
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3394228/5553367/280486/0/

Hadoop Takes a Giant Step Toward the Enterprise

http://www.smartertechnology.com/c/a/Business-Analytics/Hadoop-Takes-a-Giant-Step-Toward-the-Enterprise/?kc=STNL01232012STR3

The 10 dumbest tech predictions for 2012

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/the-10-dumbest-tech-predictions-for-2012/3004?tag=nl.e101

Oracle's Hadoop move could push rivals toward big data bundles

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223599/Oracle_Move_Could_Push_Rivals_Toward_Big_Data_Bundles?source=CTWNLE_nlt_thisweek_2012-01-23

Megaupload, Anonymous, SOPA and the Internet fallout

The Hazy Future of Phones
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3395283/5553367/280841/0/

Microsoft Takes a New Approach to the Cloud

IBM Debuts New Analytics Appliance to Help Retailers Transform Big Data Into Business Opportunities

MicroStrategy Delivers Free In-memory Data Discovery Capabilities to Salesforce Users http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4952253&access=EH

MicroStrategy Announces General Availability of MicroStrategy 9.2.1m http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4952278&access=EH

12 Hadoop Vendors To Watch In 2012

Hadoop's Flexibility Wins Over Online Data Provider

Q&A: EFFECTIVE PREDICTIVE MODELING TECHNIQUES MORE THAN A MATH
PROBLEM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16147559/2433922

IceWeb, nDataStor Team on Unified Data

The MDM and Governance Ripple Effect

Testing the Edge of the Cloud

Dot Collectors and Dot Connectors

Cloudera Teams With O'Reilly Media to Merge Hadoop World and Strata Conferences

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudera-teams-oreilly-media-merge-143500569.html

Google+ Says 'Yes' to Nicknames, But No to Anonymity
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3396420/5553367/281192/0/

Google Looks to Speed Up the Internet
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3396420/5553367/281195/0/

Facebook, Twitter Devs Release 'Don't Be Evil' Tool for Google
Search
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3396420/5553367/281202/0/

The Web's Growing Muscle

'If I Die' Facebook app sends your final message

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223679/_If_I_Die_Facebook_app_sends_your_final_message_?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2012-01-25

Microsoft set to launch SQL Server 2012 on March 7

6 Predictions For Business Intelligence In 2012

CEP and Big Data 2

CRM data integration provider Scribe boosts cloud offering with GUI synchronization services

Alteryx, another disruptive technology of huge importance

Cassandra and Hadoop

Understanding the options for Big Data in the cloud

Rival Social Nets Scold Google With 'Don't Be Evil' Bookmarklet
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74258.html

Google's Plan for World Domination

Microsoft's plan for Hadoop and big data

http://links.eqentia.com/520b2ad1536d771f/?dst=http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/microsoft-big-data.html&utm_campaign=visibli&utm_source=cloudcomputing&utm_medium=twitter

EMC Tops Backup Appliance Market

BI Experts: Why Enterprise Data Strategies Must Support Business Goals

Q&A: "Cool BI" List Includes Dashboards, Visual Discovery Tools

2012: Year of Cloud BI

Q&A: Analytics, Unstructured Data, and the Growth of Social Media

From the BI Scorecard: The Year Ahead in BI and a Look Back on 2011 Highlights

EMC lays out product roadmap, warns of disk shortages

Google to combine users' data across its services

Tibco adds geolocation to its Tibbr social platform

Why the time is almost ripe for Solid State Disks in the data center

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/networking/why-the-time-is-almost-ripe-for-solid-state-disks-in-the-data-center/5279?tag=nl.e102

IBM Netezza Appliance: Speed Lane To Retail Insights

BPM AND ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE: THE CASE FOR INTEGRATION
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16160853/2433922

GARTNER MAGIC QUADRANT: ORACLE, IBM LEAD PRODUCT MDM SOFTWARE MARKET
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16165565/2433922

CREATE BUSINESS RULES IN ORACLE HYPERION FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16165164/2433922

Total Execution of Social Networks and Analytics

Cloud and Social IT Serendipity

Applications of R in Business

Amazon Web Services moves backups to cloud with new appliance

BMMsoft Announces EDMT Solution 9.0 on MySQL for Small and Medium Enterprises

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/25/4213792/bmmsoft-announces-edmt-solution.html

Amazon Dynamo DB: Big Data's Big Cloud Moment

SAP's HANA in-memory database will gain ability to run ERP this year

Is Security An Afterthought For NoSQL?

IBM, Oracle Make Competing Smart Grid Announcements

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=121003Y8RBWD&nl=2

Amazon Rolls Out Ultra-Scalable DynamoDB

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=121007WBM55U&nl=2

Big Data's Big Challenges for Content Management
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74243.html

TIBCO Spotfire Webcast to Offer Insights on Increasing Customer Engagement, Efficiency and Loyalty Through Advanced Analytics

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/tibco-spotfire-webcast-offer-insights-on-increasing-customer-engagement-efficiency-loyalty-nasdaq-tibx-1611256.htm

PepsiCo Makes Employees Social Ambassadors

Why Personal Health Records Have Flopped

Mavuno: A Hadoop-Based Text Mining Toolkit

http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/16519051392/mavuno-a-hadoop-based-text-mining-toolkit

Preston Gralla: Is Steve Ballmer a better leader for Microsoft than Bill Gates had been?

Microsoft set to launch SQL Server 2012 on March 7

Joomla gets search, database reinforcements

NoSQL-Based Database Service for Apps Launched by Amazon

CIA-backed Cleversafe announces 10-exabyte storage system

EMC To Release 'Project Lightning' Flash Cache Soon

6 Predictions For Business Intelligence In 2012

Twitter can now block tweets in specific countries

Oracle proposal would create single committee to oversee Java specs

Talend Seeks More Partner 'Mindshare' For Its Open-Source Software

4 Best Practices for Process-Centric CRM

Not All Analytics Fit for the Cloud

Big Data is More Than Hadoop

How to Predict the Future and Act with Certainty

Alteryx, another disruptive technology of huge importance

Cassandra and Hadoop

My thoughts on IBM, NEC, and OpenFlow

Can Cloud-Based Collaborative Data-Sharing Be Secure Enough for
Defense Systems?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3398729/5553367/281990/0/

Microsoft Cloud Service Lets Users Crunch Big Data
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16173082/2433922

Analysing customers: It pays to keep data near where they are crunched

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c0f5f848-412f-11e1-8c33-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1kfY5hmJw

IBM Joins Google, Microsoft In Cloud Productivity War

Amazon cloud storage gateway scrutinized by competitors
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16190734/2433922

IT Execs Predict Big Future for Clouds, Big Data

Cloud, SaaS Offerings Bolster Business Intelligence Market

Amazon Web Services Launches AWS Storage Gateway

Solid State Storage Can Save You Money

Twitter Prepares To Censor Tweets, Country by Country
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3399745/5553367/282398/0/

INTEREST GROWING IN CLOUD-BASED BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16191532/2433922

Scientists Close In on Invisibility Cloak
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74285.html

Aweekstweets Jan 22-29 2012: the week the electrical dust had started to rust my trapezoid thermometer taste

2012-01-27T23:37:00.001-08:00

#Hadoop Wave is locked/loaded for publication on Thurs. Yes, market is evolving very fast. In my Feb 9 teleconf, I'll put Wave in context

"The Point!" (bit.ly/94DJWO!) JK--Didn't realize the main character, Oblio, was voiced by Mike Lookinland (Bobby from "Brady Bunch")

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Me and My Arrow by Harry Nilsson from Greatest Hits JK--Theme to early 70s anim8d made-for-TV film "The Point" on ABC

17m

"7 Speaking Tips That Beat Pretend Your Audience Is Naked" (bit.ly/AkMRU9) JK--That tip can distract U if speaking at beauty pageant

26m

Yo La Tengo "Autumn Sweater" (youtu.be/UIkMeaAfIRw) JK--Hoboken-born title act in Onion piece, whose show featurd fictional disaster

30m

Squirrel Bait "Sun God" (youtu.be/PImYNoVrsl0) JK--I'd never heard of them before, but they were referenced in that Onion piece.

31m

Daniel Johnston "Speeding Motorcycle" (youtu.be/fv_t66T3cV4) JK--Artist referenced in Onion piece.

33m

Death Cab for Cutie "You Are A Tourist" (youtu.be/p8lwAJJpyt4) JK--Band referenced in Onion piece.

35m

The Dismemberment Plan "Life of Possibilities" (youtu.be/nRLOf3bSlVs) JK--Group referenced in Onion piece.

37m

Galaxie 500 "Tugboat" (youtu.be/mT__EYIujYY) JK--Group referenced in Onion piece.

38m

Sebadoh "On Fire" (youtu.be/jcbmBm5k-dc) JK--Group referenced in Onion piece.

40m

Funny thing about that Onion article: There really is/was Schoolkids Records. Ann Arbor. My absolute fave record store in late 70s/early 80s

43m

Classic piece in @TheOnion from 2002: "37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster" (onion.com/bOaiWg)

49m

Simon & Garfunkel "April Come She Will" (youtu.be/mxsoNoUOM8Q) JK--Paul wrote a simple short tune around classic-feeling verse.

51m

The Beatles "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (youtu.be/UQG8fGXQBYo) JK--John & Paul gave this to George to sing off their 1st LP.

52m

The James Gang "Walk Away" (youtu.be/x_GZIaghqV0) JK--Woke up at 1am and somehow had craving to hear this one.

55m

@bfr3nch #Hadoop Here: "On Hadoop 1.0: James Kobielus" (bit.ly/zAX07o)

Rented "The Tree of Life" & wish we hadn't. Art film that makes no fucking sense. Dinosaurs, galaxies, Brad Pitt, biblical hoohah? Stop it!

Next best action in multichannel #CRM . When applied 2 customr experience, should simply shape guide foster. Only optimal expernce is Heaven

RIP James Farentino. Handsome TV actor I hadn't heard about in years. Reading his obit. Both impressive and pathetic.

Lynda Carter Altman has been DC-area local as long as I have. She gets her still-beautiful face in paper every time she goes out for a bite.

James Kobielus likes liking the "Like" feature and even likes the likeness and other features of likable Facebookers. Like, far-out daddy-O!

Contemplating what I'll call my aweekstweets and stuff blogposts this weekend.

Local TV news. The place to turn to if you need a daily feed of local crime.

The next "V" in #BigData is either Variability, Volatility, Value, Verticalization or.....Vertigo...I'm getting dizzy up high here...

In fact, my children's generation (they're 20-somethings) speak a bit like IT professionals. The Internet/computer lingo started in in utero

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Little Mercy by Doomtree from Live on KEXP JK--These musicians speak like IT professionals. "Best practices" etc.

RT @TibcoSpotfire Join us Feb. 2nd w @jameskobielus of @Forrester: "Advanced #Analytics in #CRM" bit.ly/yEH7dN #SCRM

"Scientists Close In on Invisibility Cloak" (bit.ly/zFAyMM) JK--So what. I'll B impressed when they devise SpiderMan wristwebshooters

10h

"Twitter Prepares 2 Censor Tweets, Country by Country" (bit.ly/zyXW7t) JK--Hope dont retroactively rewrite 2 expunge historical recd

10h

Front-page WSJ story yesterday on #SAP #HANA was eye-opening. Editors of major biz paper think DB tech worth calling general attention to.

10h

Economists who serve presidents of either party tend to prescribe same policies. That's why I dont praise or blame party in power 4 economy

10h

Economy's picking up. Should help incumbent re-election 2 White House. See '96 & '04 for precedents of embattled president buoyed by economy

10h

Wish I had propeller-head. I need to keep my head in the Cloud. Better than being Edward Scissorhands, cutting everything to ribbons.

10h

#ff @bevelson @rbkarel @kateleggett @waband @nyuhanna

10h

#FF @cpapenfuss @datagenius @BIMarcom @TDWI @timoelliott @juliebhunt @TibcoSpotfire @bitterer @merv @davidloshin @tydak

10h

#ff @bitterer @bevelson @curtmonash @claudia_imhoff @colinjwhite @databaseguru @danvesset @davidloshin @howarddresner @dmenningervr

10h

Comes a time every day where I realize I've been breathing shallowly for hours, trying to concentrate. A deep breath then is mind-expanding.

10h

Amazing. #BigData hasn't totally blown my mind yet with its sheer "too-much-ness." It is all too much for one dude to grok without caffeine

13h

Another tricky part of #BI is not being distracted by all the questions you could conceivably ask of the data. What's your burning question?

13h

Getting the data right is the trickiest part of #BI. Are you slicing & dicing a golden fruit, or something rotten at the core?

13h

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Rock & Roll by The Velvet Underground JK--It saved Jenny's life? What'd it do? Did Chuck Berry talk her off a ledge?

15h

I love Apple. I mean I love apples (eg juicy one I'm biting into now). Gotta watch those sudden uppercase eruptions. Might send wrong signal

16h

"Why Big Data Won't Make You Smart, Rich, Or Pretty" (goo.gl/DMTEG) JK--Unless you're already smart enough 2 cash in. Pretty...slick

16h

"Dying Steve Jobs kept a letter from Bill Gates at his bedside" (bit.ly/yl3SqR) JK--Sounds like SNL sketch-fodder.

16h

Dear Companies That Want 10 MInutes of My Precious Time 2 Respond 2 Online Customr Satisfaction Survey: Give me something precious 4 my time

16h

"Analysing customers: It pays to keep data near where they are crunched" (on.ft.com/AD5fkC) JK--RAM price declines stimul8 in-memory

16h

@LoraineLawson It's simply a matter of being comfortable with one's own skin, whatever skin you're fated to live in.

16h

"Microsoft Cloud Service Lets Users Crunch Big Data" (bit.ly/wsuVon) JK--Hey MSFT, converge this with your cloud #BI strategy!

16h

@LoraineLawson Depends on one's opinion of one's own face at 50. "Deserve" is double-edged word. You project nice or nasty "deserts" onto it

16h

My phone is optimized for tweeting, my tablet for retweeting, and my laptop for tweeting, retweeting, & reading.

16h

"Can Cloud-Based Collaborative Data-Sharing Be Secure Enough 4 Defense Sys?" (bit.ly/wEmhaZ) JK--Cites #Exostar ForumPass. Hi Vijay!

16h

Please stop using "disruptive" in any context other than genuine catastrophes. In IT context, it's lame. We seldom quake in our boots.

16h

"Nature gives you the face you have at 20. Life shapes the face you have at 30. But at 50 you get the face you deserve." - Coco Chanel

16h

"Talend Seeks More Partner 'Mindshare' For Its Open-Source Software" (bit.ly/w4IOpN) JK--Positioning itself to take on Red Hat?

17h

"Twitter can now block tweets in specific countries" (bit.ly/xdyBeo) JK--Apparently, they have no "don't be evil" in their charter

17h

Usual morning chore of inspecting wife's and own bulk mail folders. Hey, I'm a considerate husband. I do put out the trash.

18h

I've stopped following me on socials. Won't this guy ever shut up?

26 Jan

I can't stand quasi-formality of Facebook's "so-and so & so-and-so are now friends." Sounds like "going steady." When ya getting engaged?

26 Jan

The IT trade press seems hellbent on handing Steve Ballmer his walking papers. What exactly did he do to piss them off? Monkey boy dance?

26 Jan

Tech vendor told me they used Twitter as shoestring marketing tool. I said small world. I've been using it as lightweight publishing tool.

26 Jan

You wanna go to the moon, Newt? You wanna go to the moon? I'll send you there. Bang! Zoom! Right in the kisser!

26 Jan

WSJ reports that HANA stands 4 "Hasso's New Architecture." Only remotely interestng new detail in piece appearing today. Lotsa 10x trashtalk

26 Jan

Very different fotos of Obama w/Arizona woman politicians: in one, nasty governor chews him out, in another, wounded representative embraces

26 Jan

Technically, I don't think someone's head can spontaneously combust. But David Cronenberg may beg to differ. Regardless, mine feels that way

26 Jan

Multidomain master data management, relying on complex relationship modeling, can be a graph analysis challenge. Graph database MDM repos?

26 Jan

Taking briefing from Neo Technology, a leading graph database vendor.

26 Jan

Why does media propagate this demeaning "propeller head" epithet re tech industry people? We're the core of modern business & culture.

26 Jan

Mavuno: A Hadoop-Based Text Mining Toolkit (bit.ly/yuXVtZ) JK--Brief #Forrester please. Sounds interesting.

26 Jan

"Is Ballmer better leader 4 MSFT than Gates had been?" (bit.ly/wnDbYU) JK--I've never met a single "propeller head" at MSFT.

26 Jan

"TIBCO Spotfire Webcast 2 Offer Insights on Increasing Customer Engagement, Efficiency & Loyalty Thru Adv Analytics" (mwne.ws/A45Zw4)

26 Jan

@bevelson #Forrester #BI Hey dude, that report you wrote is one of my favorite go-to docs on all things visualization in BI context.

26 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Emmylou by First Aid Kit from The Lion's Roar JK--Nice modern country vibe on this one. New artist worth watching.

26 Jan

"Is Security Afterthought 4 NoSQL?" (bit.ly/xNjye1) JK--Afterthought 4 #Hadoop & #BigData generally. "Security" doesnt begin with "V"

26 Jan

Note to longtime techies: To the extent you invoke Xerox PARC, Homebrew Computer Club, & Marc Andreessen, you're lapsing into fogeyism.

26 Jan

Android tablet now my breakfast companion. Listen to #kexp, glance at pers email, & check FB pre-work. Occasionally get wet cereal on screen

26 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Carolyn's Fingers by Cocteau Twins from Blue Bell Knoll JK--1988. Still feels like cutting edge. That Cocteau rush!

26 Jan

First thing every morning I sort the wheat from the chaff, e-mail-wise. I've plugged anti-chaff rules into my spam filter.

26 Jan

@SemperD Thanks! I tweet it all for you!

26 Jan

In degrees of real-world separation, I once knew Bob Ethington, who definitely knows Ralph Carney, who definitely played with Tom Waits.

25 Jan

Egidia sends her love. She'll be accompanying me again.

25 Jan

You won't be attending?

25 Jan

I'm very choosy about wine. I tend to choose whatever wine somebody has just poured in my glass.

25 Jan

Sitting here reading equivalent English & Malay texts frm 1614. Sitting here thinking in 2012 US English. Overhear wife speaking 2012 Bahasa

25 Jan

My "blues name" is either Pigmeat O'LAP or Blind Lemon McHadoop, king of the Big-Ass Delta Data Gutcrunchers. You may address me as "Mister"

25 Jan

Warm day near Alexandria, Virginia. Tweeting this simply to see if Weather Channel app scoops it up into social stream for this vicinity.

25 Jan

Twitter is a powerful tool for fast social reconnect, when the moment is ripe.

25 Jan

#BI #analytics #DW & related data mgt/integration specialties come in a dizzying range of position titles. Holy MOLAP!

25 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Payback, Pt. 1 by James Brown from 50th Anniversary Collection JK--Song hugely influential on white punk-rockers

25 Jan

On #BI inquiries, pointing #forrester customers to practical guidance is easy. I simply direct them to @bevelson comprehensive/deep research

25 Jan

With an incoherent #BI initiative in your company, the first consideration is always "where to start?" Who's the "BI nag" to prod it along?

25 Jan

Helped a customer this morning on inquiry to put together quick action plan for bootstrapping internal #BI strategy to present to mgmt.

25 Jan

There are only so many ways you can slice & dice the concept of #BI before it's mush. Hey, analysts, don't overanalyze analytics! Trust me!

25 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Beach Sluts by Howler from America Give Up JK--Song and album titles make me laugh.

25 Jan

@TonyBaer Yes, you know it, Tony. Diffs btwn row & columnar storage will be less important. The compression/storage efficiencies will be key

25 Jan

"PEST, VPEC-T, Scenario Planning and Pattern Based Strategy" (bit.ly/zzBb3i) JK--Feels a bit too convoluted for biz-IT lingua franca

25 Jan

"IBM Netezza Appliance: Speed Lane To Retail Insights" (bit.ly/ApdnMT) JK--Article smartly focused on in-db predictive analytics.

25 Jan

"Why time is almost ripe 4 Solid State Disks in the data center" (tek.io/yw9QMD) JK--Performance is paramount. Prices fast dropping.

25 Jan

Juliana Hatfield Three "My Sister" (youtu.be/siJZXTuwBjA) JK--Just wanted to hear it again.

25 Jan

"Google to combine users' data across its services" (bit.ly/wrnQ0u) JK--Clear privacy & e-discovery ramifications--& user empowerment

25 Jan

#BigData is just big glob of raw goo w/out rich agile creative contextual & interactive visualization that calls out actionable intelligence

25 Jan

"Scientists say Facebook's roots go way back" (on.msnbc.com/zblStL) JK--Now can be told: Winklevoss Twins invented it in prep school.

25 Jan

RT@TheOnion "Romneymania Sweeps America" (onion.com/wBYiqg) JK--Unexpectedly & suddenly, he's not massively boring anymore.

25 Jan

BTW, #Forrester has expert on advanced #BI analytics visualization. His name is @bevelson . Actually, that's his handle. Just call him Boris

25 Jan

Saul Ilinsky discussing data visualization design on O'Reilly Strata call. A quantified society must be visualized creatively from all POVs

25 Jan

O'Reilly Strata "Toward the Quantified Society" (event.on24.com/r.htm?e=389653…) JK--Event starting now.

25 Jan

Tuning into O'Reilly Strata conf "Towards the Quantified Society." Will start at top of hour.

25 Jan

#Microsoft #Hadoop support for Hive add-in in Excel paves way for future Hadoop-centric user-self-service next-gen cloud #BI

25 Jan

"Microsoft's plan for #Hadoop & #BigData " (bit.ly/zirvaT) JK--Distro, in CTP, includes .NET MapReduce devel & Hive add-in for Excel

25 Jan

"10 Ways Google Is Working Towards World Domination" (bit.ly/AlLYh1) JK--Company co-founders were actually Pinky & the Brain.

25 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from Where All Merrymakers Go JK--I first heard this on car radio w/my 12-yr-old son.

25 Jan

Stuff is absolutely piling up. Breathe, Jim. Don't forget to breathe.

25 Jan

"Understanding options for Big Data in the cloud" (bit.ly/AzbD17) JK--Doesn't mention Amazon Web Services Elastic MapReduce. Why not?

25 Jan

"Cassandra and Hadoop" (bit.ly/xqaeMz) JK--Mentions #DataStax. Fails to mention #Acunu

25 Jan

"CEP and Big Data 2" (bit.ly/zJyHBx) JK--"Big Data 2"? LIke "Jaws 2"? Mentions HStreaming. Doesnt specificly call out IBM Infosphere Streams

25 Jan

LOL RT @mas_jones: @jameskobielus re "If I Die app" "Another Facebook Fail. The list grows.

25 Jan

"Microsoft set to launch SQL Server 2012 on March 7" (bit.ly/xckkPd) JK--FKA "Denali." Among other features, columnar storage.

25 Jan

"'If I Die' Facebook app sends your final message" (bit.ly/A4vXcx) JK--Geez. Please spare us the "goodbye cruel world" friend-spam.

24 Jan

Nigerian spam scam? From somebody named "Goodluck Jonathan." That's obviously a made-up name. Delete!

24 Jan

The Lounge Lizards "Do The Wrong Thing" (youtu.be/qIgLcQa5iRc) JK--1981. Arto Lindsay, John Lurie, et al with fractured no-wave jazz

24 Jan

Ambitious Lovers with Arto Lindsay et al. on Jools Holland's Night Music , 1989 (youtu.be/YCjvkZRLviw). Tuneful, cool, Latin-tinged

24 Jan

Golden Palominos "Clean Plate" (youtu.be/P9uSNetie2U) JK--1983. Arto Lindsay, Anton Fier, & other NYC downtown art/punk/funkers

24 Jan

DNA "Blonde Red Head" (youtu.be/sRSzGbuhF0g) JK--From Arto Lindsay's thoroughly compellingly strange NYC "no wave" art-punkers. 1981.

24 Jan

Blonde Redhead "23" (youtu.be/a7FqUNlEdwA) JK--Electro shoegazer trance music par excellence. Band named for early 80s song by DNA.

24 Jan

POTUS delivered State of the Union tonight? Wasn't paying attention. Which state won the competition this year? Bathing suit competition?

24 Jan

Darn darn darn. YouTube has no video of Jethro Bodine speaking of a "see-ment pond" or of how cool it would be to be a "double naut spy."

24 Jan

Darn it all YouTube has its limits. Can't find video of Skipper hitting Gilligan with his cap or calling him his "little buddy." Shocking!

24 Jan

Brian Wilson interview from '67 (youtu.be/sRFE-24ucxc) JK--Beach Boys maestro is 69, overcame mental illness, & finished "Smile"

24 Jan

Bob Dylan "Forever Young" (youtu.be/OaFV9FvrL0A) JK--Greatest songwriter of the 20th century is 70 & still cussedly productive.

24 Jan

Pete Seeger "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" (youtu.be/uXnJVkEX8O4) JK--Godfather of modern American folk is 92 & overcame McCarthyism

24 Jan

Willie Nelson "Gravedigger" (youtu.be/Bzz8jG2SO1Y) JK--This country-western great is 78 & staring into the void with quiet dignity

24 Jan

Tom Waits "Downtown Train" (youtu.be/hZhW76LAnTY) JK--This American original is also 62 and has the most awesome unbroken cool streak

24 Jan

Nick Lowe "Checkout Time" (youtu.be/lOIt6OZFxl4) JK--Power-pop pioneer is 62 and still a vital creative force.

24 Jan

Beatles "When I'm 64" (youtu.be/eCss0kZXeyE) JK--Paul's almost 70 & hasn't lost his hair. His kids are not named Vera, Chuck, or Dave

24 Jan

The Rolling Stones "Mother's Little Helper" (youtu.be/PL8dmdFC5Co) JK--Getting old isn't a drag. Getting bored is. Don't grow bored.

24 Jan

Indie group Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr said their 2nd choice for a bandname was Counting Crows Pt 2. Well played. Either name makes you chuckle.

24 Jan

13th Floor Elevators "You're Gonna Miss Me" (youtu.be/0OytJYBfwUk) JK--Sudden urge to hear this. Roky Erickson's scream is primal!

24 Jan

Did a cross-role #Forrester mind-meld on #BigData. Got to chat with some analysts whose work I admire but I haven't yet met in person.

24 Jan

"Google Looks to Speed Up the Internet" (bit.ly/A6vf3X) JK--Meddling in Internet plumbing? Who do they think they are? Cisco?

24 Jan

RT @MikeToner "What ever happened to Ask Jeeves?" #ask.com JK--Why don't you ask Jeeves? Or would that be far too meta? He might melt down.

24 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Alabama by Neil Young from Harvest JK--C'mon Neil. Whyn'tcha nag Ontario for a change? Give the folks back home hell

24 Jan

"Cloudera Teams w/O'Reilly Media 2 Merge #Hadoop World & Strata Confs" (yhoo.it/yByx3B) JK--Excellent. Clearly, a go-to #bigdata conf

24 Jan

Taking a briefing from #EMC #Greenplum #Isilon with @VanessaAlvarez1 . NDA. Good stuff.

24 Jan

Taking briefing by #Kalido. Me & @nyuhanna

24 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain from Psychocandy JK--What's he singing? "I'll be a plastic toilet"?

24 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Stay Useless by Cloud Nothings from Attack on Memory JK--Lots of tech-pun potential in bandname, LP name, & songtitle

24 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Holidays in the Sun by Sex Pistols from Never Mind the Bollocks JK--JRotten had snottiest vocal style in rock history

24 Jan

Re paper, my daughter is much like me. We print out materials (me: tech research, her: school texts) to facilitate in-depth analysis

24 Jan

Anybody who has siblings knows that the rivalry never ends, no matter how old you all are or what you've done in the world.

24 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp My Sister by The Juliana Hatfield Three from My Sister JK--Great honest sibling-rivalry song. Not many of those.

24 Jan

RT @loserboy "Mickey Mouse Joy Division Tshrts & Bonnie “Prince” Billy Coffee" (ow.ly/8EwaH) JK--1st=lawyer-bait. 2nd sounds gross

24 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Obstacle 1 by Interpol from Turn On the Bright Lights JK--They gotst angst in their pangst & they needs to dangst!

24 Jan

My time's in-demand at events like #TDWI. Believe it or not, I try to be reasonably fair in doing greetings, meetings, eatings, & briefings

24 Jan

Hey vendor AR/PR, I'm letting all your requests to brief me at #TDWI Vegas next month accumulate. A week or so before event, I'll schedule

24 Jan

But I said as much re #IBM #Netezza last year in this #forrester report (bit.ly/edr3gG) . It's a stable longterm commitment by them.

24 Jan

It is fairly impressive how #Netezza has grown its partner ecosystem after being acquired by #IBM while also going deeper w/ sibling brands

24 Jan

I expect #IBMNetezza to roll out a wider range of industry solution appliances, incorporating both #IBM & partner software & data models.

24 Jan

My life is filling w/ digital while at same time it is filling with paper. I dont consider those either-or media. Both have place in my life

24 Jan

#IBMNetezza Customer Intelligence Appliance (ow.ly/8EpTi) JK--Partnership w/ #Aginity. Industry analytic solut'n appliance 4 retail

24 Jan

Death of paper? Ha! What's dying is the reliance on paper as your only or even your primary means of distributing & consuming info.

24 Jan

@lauradidio Oh, that's right. Follow your inner cricket.

24 Jan

Cool Infographic on history Jefferson Airplane/Strshp/etc evolution (bit.ly/xVGC8B). Elegantly packs key details. Thanks 2 @mega_int

24 Jan

Taking briefing from #Acunu , #Cassandra software vendor that modified back-end & Linux kernel 4 rl-time, has key-val store, & cluster mgmt

24 Jan

Love/hate relationships are common & don't worry me. What I fear are people who love to hate and people who hate to love.

24 Jan

@lauradidio I don't get the angel/pariah link to JIminy Cricket. Fill me in. Perhaps I'm clueless. Set me straight Laura.

24 Jan

@IBMbigdata Apparently, the "pariah" wants to party with tech influentials on socials. Or just needs a hug from whoever.

24 Jan

Jefferson Airplane "Plastic Fantastic Lover" (youtu.be/zHC9NANKluU) JK--1967. Mentions IT vendor. IBM. "Science is mankind's brother"

24 Jan

Twitter follow-me requests this a.m. from one person whose profile implies they're angel, another who describes self as "pariah." No to both

24 Jan

Morning and day to be spent reviewing last round of vendor comments on #Hadoop Wave pre-publication.

23 Jan

I love how newspaper photo captions routinely describe Callista as Gingrich's "third wife." I'm sure that's how she introduces herself.

23 Jan

I love Leonard Cohen's characterization of louche lounge decadent Frenchy-German torch songs as the "European blues."

23 Jan

Today had some great customer inquiries on a huge range of interconnect data, analytics, & OLTP topics. I kept redrawing my mental diagram

23 Jan

Yes, Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney) is distantly related to the GOP pres candidate. In 60s parlance, "freak" & "straight" are bros.

23 Jan

Andrew Bird "Eyeoneye" (youtu.be/2959hVrrugo) JK--From his forthcoming "Break it Yourself" LP. He's amping up his volume.

23 Jan

Talking Heads "Once In A Lifetime" (youtu.be/XI3c-22lL_s) JK--My personal pick for greatest video in rock history.

23 Jan

Modest Mouse "Float On" (youtu.be/CTAud5O7Qqk) JK--Same basic message as Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime." A true son of Byrne.

23 Jan

Cake "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" (youtu.be/X5KmB8Laemg) JK--1998. The fractured lyric continually promises to make sense, then eludes.

23 Jan

Pavement "Stereo" ( youtu.be/Z5j4W2Y7RPQ) JK--1997. How exactly does this song avoid falling apart? It builds & gets funnier.

23 Jan

The Zombies "Tell Her No" (youtu.be/wqoJvNbiQLg) JK--One of those songs you imagine you could sing as well as Colin Blunstone.

23 Jan

Chicago "Colour My World" (youtu.be/74_SSQNNY0Y) JK--The simplicity of the piano + percussion + voice arrangement is its power.

23 Jan

Chicago & Beach Boys "Wishing You Were Here" (youtu.be/zdKdHE6m8hU) JK--1974. Strikingly great collaboration you wouldn't expect.

23 Jan

RT @merv: gets better and better every time - Fleet Foxes' Blue Ridge Mountains bit.ly/wPwFd8 #iTunes JK--You know it dude! Luv 'em!

23 Jan

Beach Boys "The Warmth of the Sun" (youtu.be/AP4KIrvfiJo) JK-One of my favorite lush harmonies by the striped young men.

23 Jan

The Beach Boys "Salt Lake City" (youtu.be/anLZ1o1mu-c) JK--The California dudes obviously dug those cute blonde Mormon chicks.

23 Jan

The Beach Boys "California Girls" (youtu.be/0a49McFOFp0) JK--Love how Brian intros with cheesy roller-rinky-dink organ pumping

23 Jan

Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg "California Girls" (youtu.be/hOhcwksG4hE) JK--There is indeed a melting popsicle image midway through.

23 Jan

The Magnetic Fields "California Girls" (youtu.be/vuENHA1l_K0) JK--Stephin Merritt lathers distortion over a fairly nasty sentiment.

23 Jan

Gonna go get the work stress rubbed, kneaded, & pressed clean out of me.

23 Jan

Newt Gingrich seems like a party crasher in the GOP race. Literally: he's going to cause his party to crash & burn.

23 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Eyeoneye by Andrew Bird from Break It Yourself JK--More rocking, darker, thicker-toned one from his forthcoming LP

23 Jan

Cambridge Semantics one of the few #BI vendors (call selves "operationl intelligence") that build on core W3C #SemWeb stds: RDF, OWL, SPARQL

23 Jan

Taking briefing from #SemWeb operational intelligence solution provider Cambridge Semantics. Me & @practicingEA

23 Jan

"Oracle's #Hadoop move could push rivals toward big data bundles" (bit.ly/w85gnl) JK--Bundles of Hdp & other #BigData DBMSs, that is

23 Jan

@yusufbash Good point. I'm dating myself in ways untold.

23 Jan

I'm jazzed & excited awaiting new LPs early this year from The Shins, School of Seven Bells, & Andrew Bird, among others.

23 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Moon Killer by Small Black from Moon Killer JK--Samples Pere Ubu "Thriller!" from LP "Dub Housing."

23 Jan

Let's create a prize for the dumbest overreaching/failed predictions. I say call it the "NostraDumbAss Award."

23 Jan

"10 dumbest tech predictions for 2012" (tek.io/xyfzOa) JK--Whew! None of mine in there. And my name not in obits. It's a good day!

23 Jan

Frightened Rabbit "Swim Until You Can't See Land" (youtu.be/SzjERZU3wbY) JK--Another example of their subtle Scots rock vibe

23 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Loneliness & the Scream by Frightened Rabbit from The Winter of Mixed Drinks JK--Scottish band w/Scottish vibe

23 Jan

"Internet Promotes Literacy, Study Says" (bit.ly/xspFI8) JK--It promoted my own kids being able to type at young age. No typing class

23 Jan

"PC industry is heading 4 collapse" (zd.net/ynCwMD) JK--I last bought a desktop 12 years ago, laptop 2 years ago, tablet last month

23 Jan

Wishing Tracy Morgan a speedy recovery. The funnyman has delicate health.

23 Jan

Weekend was delicious blend of relaxation and stress. You know what I mean? If you don't, that statement shows how yoga has rewired my brain

23 Jan

"Jim Kobielus on 2012" (bit.ly/zwdF3K) JK--Wanna thank partner-in-poetry @0_h_r_1 for stoking my own self-involvement w/this headline

23 Jan

"Is the 'quantified self' movement just a fad?" (bit.ly/zOdkoo) JK--Trend that takes notion of "self-involved" 2 annoying new plateau

23 Jan

@beyondthearc Maybe I should.

23 Jan

Megaupload. Described in press as "one of the most popular sites on the Internet." I'd never heard of it.

23 Jan

The brittle ice layer remains from last week. I'll accept this as all the winter we deserve.

22 Jan

Google once again tops list of best companies to work for? It tops my personal list of companies I'm tired of hearing are best to work for

22 Jan

Johnny Otis "Willie and the Hand Jive" (youtu.be/TEeeGMpM_Nk) JK--Passed away this week. This one rocks with swagger to burn!

22 Jan

Egidia's been making new year's calls to friends & family. "Sin ca ju i" in Tio Ciu. "Gung hay fat choy" in Cantonese.

22 Jan

Shawn Mullins "Lullaby" (youtu.be/hG9C0VwruXE) JK--Spoken verses & sung choruses that paint a sympathetic portrait of a lost girl

22 Jan

Suzanne Vega "Tom's Diner" (youtu.be/FLP6QluMlrg) JK--A rap-like ballad that tells a narrative you follow from beginning to end.

22 Jan

Cowboy Junkies "Sweet Jane" (youtu.be/x4XVJj4jER4) JK--A re-interpretation of the VU/Lou Reed classic so perfect you sit transfixed.

22 Jan

Toad the Wet Sprocket "Something's Always Wrong" (youtu.be/gcCJQP5iggU) JK--One of my fave radio bands of the 90s. Terrific songs!

22 Jan

Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under The Bridge" (youtu.be/GLvohMXgcBo) JK--Slow soulful gem from shirtless tattooed punk-funk-rock maestros

22 Jan

The Doors "L.A. Woman" (youtu.be/sl-IWlzSItM) JK--Led by Alexandria VA dude who gigged with some buds in southern California

22 Jan

Foo Fighters "I'll Stick Around" (youtu.be/nFzrHIzM6Qo) JK--Led by Springfield VA dude who got his start with some Seattle band.

22 Jan

Scritti Politti "The Sweetest Girl" (youtu.be/7VuEEFjunk4) JK--Song marked their transition from art-noise to romance-dance-pop.

22 Jan

The Raincoats "Shouting Out Loud" (youtu.be/AtjkG2aFVQU) JK--I remember blasting this on boombox on Detroit's Belle Isle 1 summer day

22 Jan

Essential Logic "Fanfare in the Garden" (youtu.be/36KHk5TMIlM) JK--Essential Logic was essential Rough Trade postpunk group.

22 Jan

Aztec Camera "We Could Send Letters" (youtu.be/8wqKZkIQkBE) JK--I have memories of listening to this song in deep Michigan winter.

22 Jan

The Gist "Greener Grass" (youtu.be/Se1IY2Ugjf0) JK--Stuart Moxham put vibrant instrumental on Rough Trade compile cassette. I have it

22 Jan

The Gist "Yanks" (youtu.be/qgweaxLCTKo) JK--Stuart Moxham's project that followed straight after Young Marble Giants. Same basic vibe

22 Jan

Stuart Moxham "Broken Heart Blues" (youtu.be/hrwpUpCqNTU) JK--Great rockr from guy best known as songsmith behind Young Marble Giants

22 Jan

@beyondthearc Data-science conference should offer prof education, multi-industry tracks, application focus, & wide range of adv analytics

22 Jan

A good example of a data scientist conference is SAS' annual "M****" events. Data scientists discuss projects. Ya learn stuff about business

22 Jan

Not really. I didn't see any specific or substantive data science focus at the Strata at which I spoke.

22 Jan

What's the "go-to" event for data scientists? There is none, yet, that isn't vendor-specific.

22 Jan

Poland the only EU country to avoid recession. The Polish quarter of me takes undeserved pride in the news.

22 Jan

RIP Joe Paterno. Reported by ESPN. Clearly, sudden/sickening late-life scandal severely tarnishes what otherwise woulda been golden legacy.

22 Jan

Digital media, digital channels, digital content, digital experience. All optimized thru #BigData, w/ #Hadoop #NoSQL & other new approaches

22 Jan

I'm happy I evolved my #BigData coverage to include #CRM . I take more briefings alongside #Forrester great Marketing & Strategy analysts.

22 Jan

Winter mornings put me at peace. I love the cold.

Stuff that doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world January 17-20 2012

2012-01-22T06:11:00.000-08:00

Universities Worldwide to Introduce Analytics Education

IBM Brings the Power of Analytics to Social Business
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4935176&access=EH

A letter of regret to Google Cloud (My)SQL?

Where are all the cloud-based Hadoop services?

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/a-letter-of-regret-to-google-cloud-mysql/5247?tag=nl.e055

Splunk: are you imaginative enough to realise its potential?

The Data Works, a marketer's best friend

Oracle fills another gap in its big data offering

Geeks 1, Congress 0: Controversial anti-piracy bill SOPA 'shelved'

IBM rolls out new social analytics tools

Oracle Jumps on Hadoop Bandwagon with Cloudera

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=100005VTNJLW&nl=2&full_skip=1

PC Move by HP's Ex-CEO Was 'Suicidal'

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=10000A8XPMGG&nl=2

Oracle Revamps TimesTen In-Memory Database

Microsoft Is Creating a Real-Time Botnet Information Feed

Hadoop, Ruby on Rails Top Hottest Open-Source Projects List

Google Mobile Ad Revenue Could Top $4B: Munster

IBM Rattles Moore's Law With Smallest Magnetic Memory Bit

Requirements for Advanced Analytics

Google+ Search Controversy Grows

The Data Works, a marketer's best friend

Your identity up for grabs

TVs are Interesting Again
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3385584/5553367/278326/0/

Maker of Steve Jobs Action Figure Kills Project
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3387305/5553367/278721/0/

Oracle’s Big Data Appliance is based on Cloudera

http://www.sdtimes.com/link/36253

HANA'S PROMISES OF SPEED AND SIMPLER LANDSCAPES HAVE CUSTOMERS LISTENING
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16075074/2433922

Big Data: Mind Your Head in Cloud

SAP Makes Strategic Investment in Forecasting and Replenishment Software for Retailers and Beyond http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4934875&access=EH

Hosted Predictive Analytics Solution LityxIQ 2.0 Now Available http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4938110&access=EH

Salesforce Snags Former Federal CIO

IBM launches Connect conference to drive 'social business'

IBM smashes Moore's Law, cuts bit size to 12 atoms

2012 State Of Databases: Pricey And In Flux

IBM Hones Social Enterprise Tools
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74200.html

ADOPT ZERO TRUST TO HELP SECURE THE EXTENDED ENTERPRISE
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16079870/2433922

Apple Cofounder Wozniak Praises Android
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3388327/5553367/279025/0/

When Your Data's in the Cloud, Is It Still Your Data?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3388327/5553367/279032/0/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204409004577157493201863200.html?mod=djemTECH_h Big Companies Try Crowdsourcing

DARPA set to develop super-secure "cognitive fingerprint"

On Hadoop 1.0: James Kobielus

http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2012/01/17/On-Hadoop-10-James-Kobielus.aspx

When your data's in the cloud, is it still your data?

SAP Leads, Oracle Lags In Enterprise Apps

Big Data Changes Storage Needs

Jerry Yang resigns from Yahoo's board of directors

Microsoft Brings the Cloud Down to Earth for Enterprises http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4938652&access=EH

SOPA Blackouts Continue Despite White House Pushback

Everyone Hates the Compliance Officer

Schedule of 2012 trade shows and conferences

IBM: Defining a Social Business

Oracle, IBM, Microsoft Rule the Business Analytics Market

Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easier

Veghte to set strategy for HP

Tableau revamps BI visualization tools with user-centric focus

MICHAEL STONEBRAKER PREDICTS TROUBLE FOR RELATIONAL DATABASE LEADERS IN 2012
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16086810/2433922

Cloud Services Show Value of Online Identity Management

Personal Identity and Social Media

The Data Works, a marketer's best friend

IBM Aims To Be First With OpenSocial Embedded Apps

Oracle prices its SAP HANA rival Exalytics, signaling imminent release

Jaspersoft aims its open-source analytics suite at PaaS vendors

Apps Overtaking Middleware

Oracle Strikes At SAP Hana With TimesTen Database

Big Data in Context

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/16/big_data_study/

10 Key Elements of Your Data Strategy

Q&A: Mobile, Search, and Cloud Top "Cool BI" Innovations

Why NoSQL is Moving from "Need" to "Want"

Q&A: Moving Beyond Traditional Data Virtualization

4 Performance Management Trends to Watch in 2012

EMC Leads Market for Purpose Built Backup Appliances With 3X Share of Nearest Competitor http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4942461&access=EH

Jaspersoft Delivers Analytics for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Customers http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4940604&access=EH

Microsoft Makes Cloud Management Move On VMware

SOPA and the Rise of Web Culture

RainStor launches Hadoop version of enterprise database

With Yang out, big changes coming to Yahoo?

China to expand real-name registration for Twitter-like microblogs

6 Tips for Governing Analytics

Another choice for Hadoop

4 ways to beat data bloat

DARPA set to develop super-secure "cognitive fingerprint"

CLOUD IDENTITY MANAGEMENT AS A SERVICE: NOT QUITE READY FOR PRIME
TIME
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16104033/2433922

Hadoop Takes a Giant Step Toward the Enterprise

Oracle Big Data Appliance Featuring Hadoop Goes Live

Microsoft engineers file system for a new era

McCartney's Cloud-Based Archive Getting Better All the Time

2012: A Cloudy Year for Big Data

How to Deploy Mobile Analytics

The (IBM) Social Network

Tableau Twists Platform for More Sharing

Facebook Timeline gets new Open Graph apps

Amazon Dynamo DB: Big Data's Big Cloud Moment

How 'Technical Debt' Can Pay Off

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?doc_id=237950&f_src=itgazette

Panorama Necto BI Suite Features SharePoint Integration - Enhances Microsoft Platform with Social BI http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4942801&access=EH

Microsoft Enterprise Software Roadmap for 2012 http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4943359&access=EH

Marriott Automates Marketing

Social Business: If You Build It, Will They Come?

The (IBM) Social Network

Twitter acquires social-media feed condenser Summify

Amazon Adds Managed NoSQL Database To AWS Cloud Services

What's Good for Social Business Is Good for Social CRM
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74217.html

Amazon DynamoDB brings speedier NoSQL to the cloud

The Open Group releases SOA and cloud computing standards, updates OSIMM

Were SOPA/PIPA Protests a Success? The Results Are In
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3391471/5553367/279816/0/

Facebook Announces 60+ New Apps for 'Timeline'
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3391471/5553367/279820/0/

Microsoft Passes Yahoo for First Time in Search

SOPA Support Goes Sour
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74221.html

IBM Bolstering Social Business Play With Analytics

Hadoop Challenges

http://www.jaspersoft.com/blog-entry/hadoop-challenges

Amazon Launches Big Data Service

Solid-State Disk Storage Costs to Fall in 2012

Microsoft's Bing: Mere 'decision engine' no more

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-bing-mere-decision-engine-no-more/11709?tag=nl.e589

Facebook's New Actions Go Beyond 'Like'

Plaxo's Broken Services: Part Deux

Data Analytics Can Backfire Without Experts

Tips for Facebook Timeline Apps: Beware What You Share
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3392584/5553367/280243/0/

Aweekstweets January 14-22 2012: the week that went fairly well

2012-01-22T06:09:00.001-08:00

I rarely turn the TV on for news anymore. That's so last century.

Sin ca ju I!!!!!!!!!

12h

RIP Johnny Otis. "Willie & The Hand Jive," for starters.

15h

Slowly decompressing my head. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

22h

Dentist office waiting room. Routine checkup. Listening to Crowded House "Don't Dream It's Over" on overhead. Lots of mags. None interest me

21 Jan

Parade's "Walter Scott's Personality Parade" stays random: Q: "Are Alicia Silverstone & Liv Tyler half-sisters?" A: Yes but not 2 each other

21 Jan

Colbert: "We must stand for corporations because they have no legs."

21 Jan

Colbert: "The only difference between Mitt Romney & a statue of Mitt Romney is the statue never changes its position."

21 Jan

Colbert: "You gotta thank the bloggers for just coming outside."

21 Jan

Colbert: "I don't need to pander to the most beautiful people in the world."

21 Jan

Colbert: "Whoever said you can't go home again didn't have a friend with a private jet."

21 Jan

Colbert: "I am the Martin Luther KIng of ccorporation civil rights."

21 Jan

"Colbert...turns spotlight on super PACs in South Carolina" (wapo.st/w35jg1) JK--Hilarious. I will quote Colbert in several tweets.

20 Jan

@0_h_r_1 Deck.ly doesn't work anymore, it seems. Check my Facebook for poem that I wrote 10 years ago that sums up my present state of mind

20 Jan

Zero 7 "Destiny" (youtu.be/INn1C6ImJKg) JK--This one puts me into an incredibly deeply mellow place. Always. LIke musical magic.

20 Jan

The Shins "Simple Song" (youtu.be/tvj_a5dwrf4) JK--Listen for yourselves. From the forthcoming new LP. They just stay awesome!

20 Jan

Sam Beam mentions strategically dropping curse words into his lyrics. He has an artist's ear for the texture of a memorable phrase.

20 Jan

Iron And Wine: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (youtu.be/6nT911jkWEo) JK--Sam Beam writes cool songs with funky folky-poetic zest.

20 Jan

Tom Jones' Tiny Desk Concert at NPR Music (youtu.be/118zckalkJ0) JK--Tom is even cooler as an old man stripped of showbiz hoo-hah!

20 Jan

I am registering a "like" for every picture of cute kids on Facebook tonight. Just because kids make me smile.

20 Jan

Feelin' awfully mellow tonight. It's not just the wine.

20 Jan

NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert: Nick Lowe (youtu.be/JKhawkQQQmY) JK--Lowe has inhabited his aging person in the coolest way.

20 Jan

Godsmouse (bit.ly/A7PtEk) JK--Simple effect--your cursor casts apparent shadow on earth's surface--but totally addicting.

20 Jan

Lambchop's Kurt Wagner Plays A Tiny Desk Concert at NPR Music (youtu.be/IG_uM5th6Fo) JK--Very subtle, soulful guitar, voice, & songs

20 Jan

The Who live late in Keith Moon's life (youtu.be/WT5uAIPFft8) JK--They had the most awesome stadium presence of any rock band.

20 Jan

Jerry Lewis & Buddy Rich drum solos (youtu.be/141o_jwG7cA) JK--Both of these dudes were pieces of work.

20 Jan

Jerry Lewis "Typewriter" (youtu.be/Fxm0TN5WDQI) JK--Yes, he mugs shamelessly for the camera. But always eminently watchable.

20 Jan

Big Star "September Gurls" (youtu.be/BNKSs1J38EA) JK--Essentially, zero airplay in its day. Only became aware of them in past decade

20 Jan

The Monkees "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day" (bit.ly/w4PT7A) JK--Their stuff still sounds as fresh as it did when I was a kid.

20 Jan

Life is definitely a journey.

20 Jan

Fairly good week. The air smells like snow.

20 Jan

Seeing a distinct shift in #BigData mania toward #Hadoop + #NoSQL + graph databases.

20 Jan

Fairly good week. Nothing earth-shattering in the news. But some cool NDA stuff for the next few weeks.

20 Jan

@practicingEA Ask what real nice?

20 Jan

I tend to follow people on Twitter who are at least vaguely interesting. I don't follow people who are blatantly moronic. Fine line.

20 Jan

Using a visual #BI tool to do some analysis for a forthcoming #forrester report. I won't say which vendor/tool. That would imply endorsement

20 Jan

Garbage "Stupid Girl" (youtu.be/1HBxUWSxcq8) JK--Unlike Stones song (diff song), this one sung by girl...I mean woman.

20 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Everybody's Under Your Spell by The Duke Spirit from Bruiser JK--Reminds of great Garbage--the band Garbage, that is

20 Jan

I swear, Tom Jones could milk a song for all the suggestive potential the TV censors allowed in the late 60s. Classic!

20 Jan

Tom Jones "Help Yourself " (youtu.be/OvHkWl8HfrI) JK--Welsh singer performing hipswinging hit on his great ABC series from late 60s.

20 Jan

Saying you're #BigData without any of the scalability bonafides is the "check's in the mail" of this new scale-intensive world we live in.

20 Jan

Hey vendors, dont say U're #BigData if PBs, rl-time, and/or polystructrd data not core of yr approach, or if dont scale-out to 100s of nodes

20 Jan

And, yes, I do plan to go to the #Cloudera #Hadoop event this coming fall. Couldn't make it this past fall due purely to work conflicts.

20 Jan

Heard rumors of #Hortonworks and #Yahoo planning to host #Hadoop Summit week of June 11. Was a great show last year. I'll go to this one too

20 Jan

"Microsoft's Bing: Mere 'decision engine' no more" (zd.net/zEZy0F) JK--MSFT positioning it as enabler for doing, not just deciding.

20 Jan

"Amazon Launches #BigData Svc" (bit.ly/w3eP8w) JK--In addition to #Hadoop svc, Elastic MapReduce, which has been live for a few years

20 Jan

Next best action, predictive analytics, customer experience optimization, social graph analysis, cloud/SaaS--the stars are aligning.

20 Jan

RIP Etta James. Among her best-known songs: "At Last" (youtu.be/_1uunRdQ61M).

20 Jan

" #Hadoop Challenges" (bit.ly/wbVdWs) JK--Good high-level discussion by @williammcknight

20 Jan

Nantucket Nectars has printed the most useless piece of trivia inside bottlecap: "Benjamin Franklin's mother was born on Nantucket."

20 Jan

Nah, #bigdata isn't being hyped. The hype won't truly begin until we start spelling it all uppercase with exclamation points: BIG DATA!!!!!!

20 Jan

#FF @nyuhanna @NeilRaden @ocdqblog @onwallstreet @Pspeer @pleclare @howarddresner @rwang0 @rbkarel @jamet123 @johnrrymer

20 Jan

#FF @jaimefitzgerald @JeffShadid @Ravi_Shankar_ @jilldyche @RomanStanek @shawnrog @Claudia_Imhoff @stevepol @silverdata

20 Jan

#ff #businessintelligence #influencers @alyswoodward @BarryDevlin @BeyeNETWORK @BIScorecard @bitterer @Claudia_Imhoff @ColinJWhite

20 Jan

Hmmm...exactly one year to Obama's second inaugural.

20 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Rubber Ring by The Smiths from Louder Than Bombs JK--Nobody sez "U're a clever swine" more convincngly than Morrissey

20 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Odessa by Caribou from Swim JK--2010. Layered production wiggles & shakes like an unstoppable electronica snake.

20 Jan

Interviewed via email by @chriskanaracus re a #BigData vendor announcement due out next week.

20 Jan

WSJ "A Gut Check for Many Ailments" (on.wsj.com/z23xq4) JK--My gut tells me this is absolutely right.

20 Jan

PIPA. No, it's not Kate Middleton's sibling. It's Senate's sister legislation to the House's news-magnet SOPA.

20 Jan

I have heard only one pro-SOPA message. That was on the local radio. I live in the DC area. That spot meant for legislators to hear.

20 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Transmission by Joy Division from Permanent JK--A postpunk classic that I was only barely aware of when it came out.

20 Jan

Amazon has #Hadoop , #NoSQL key-value, & RDBMS. So does Oracle. Expect other database cloud, appliance, & software vendors to follow lead

20 Jan

After two tweets in a row that use the word "ass," I thought I'd made it a triplet and leave it there.

20 Jan

After my first Star Trek related tweet ever, I'm bracing for onslaught of Trekkie-bots to start following my sorry ass.

20 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Museum of Flight by Damien Jurado from Maraqopa JK--May the powers that B grant Damien at least one big-ass radio hit

20 Jan

My highschool English teacher used Star Trek 2 explain reasoning styles. "Scotty induces & Spock deduces." I pointed out that Kirk seduces.

20 Jan

Listening to Snow Patrol "Tiny Little Fractures" from "Final Straw" (youtu.be/duKlBQWA78Q). JK--2003. A great charging dynamic.

20 Jan

I'm always gratified when clients tell me they appreciate my technical depth in published research, inquiries, & consulting. I sweat details

20 Jan

@jamet123 And thank YOU for your comprehensive approach to this topic.

20 Jan

Cool. I was number 16 on list of #forrester "best-read" analysts in 2011. But I don't hold a candle to @rbkarel @bevelson @waband

20 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp White Telephone by Charlotte Gainsbourg from Stage Whisper JK--Nicely atmospheric. A frosty winter feeling.

20 Jan

WSJ "The Eternal Teenager in Love" (online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…) JK--Excellent interview with Dion DiMucci.

20 Jan

Newt. Fun fact: He was named for an amphibian because he's even lower on the evolutionary ladder than the reptiles.

20 Jan

Expecting freezing rain tonight. Nothing is as heartwarming as a midwinter frigid bonesoaking & icecoating. Picture postcard winter!

19 Jan

Eastman Kodak's Chptr 11. Very sad corporat casualty of digital age. Products were primary imagers of modernity since l8 1800s. Fading fotos

19 Jan

Perry drops out of GOP race. The 3 or 4 or was it a score of federal agencies that he proposed deepsixing can all breathe easier.

19 Jan

MPAA chief calls SOPA Web blackout a "gimmick." Would he have calld Montgomery Bus Boycott a "gimmick"? Social protests express popular will

19 Jan

#Solariat sys arch: low latency, high throughput and availability, #bigdata , & horizontally scalable w/ clusters, sharding, & replication

19 Jan

Intention is function of someone's awareness + sentiment + propensity + permissions + wherewithal, constrained by object availability

19 Jan

Let's retrofit old songs w/next best action call & response: "How much is that doggie in the window?" "We can give it to U at 25% markdown"

19 Jan

#Solariat has tech for "intention & response" that is suitable for #CRM Next Best Action. They are looking for channel partners.

19 Jan

Taking briefing on #Solariat, startup w/cloud-bsd social listening svc that detects "intention" on social media at scale. @znh also on call

19 Jan

"Amazon Dynamo DB: Big Data's Big Cloud Moment" (bit.ly/ynI1qJ) JK--Key-value store w/ACID & HA. Separate from their EMR #Hadoop svc

19 Jan

Enjoyed & learned a lot at #CMAdata yesterday in Toronto. Canadian analytics companies are very sharp on marketing campaign optimization.

19 Jan

"McCartney's Cloud-Based Archive Getting Better All the Time" (bit.ly/ynhibo) JK--Where the Beatles assets to go to live & let die.

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Annie You Save Me by Graffiti6 from Stone In My Heart JK--Saw them on Leno recently. Excellent tune.

19 Jan

"Microsoft engineers file system for a new era" (bit.ly/zcwNgV) JK--ReFS. Filenames max 32,000 characters. If you must be verbose

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Simple Song by The Shins from Port of Morrow JK--Gr8 new one frm much-awaited new LP. Due in March. I'll get it ASAP!

19 Jan

"Oracle Big Data Appliance Featuring Hadoop Goes Live" (bit.ly/wNWjdI) JK--Released. Didnt "go live." Not a cloud/SaaS offering.

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark & Hilldale by Love from Forever Changes JK--Gr8 fractured title!

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Alone Again Or by Calexico from Convict Pool JK--Love cover. Love this cover. Love Love.

19 Jan

Hey @loserboy #kexp "punches outside its weight class" in the world of online radio influencers. You are not mistaken.

19 Jan

Experience optimization. An optimal work experience should include a good laugh or two at regular intervals. Seriousness can prove deadly.

19 Jan

@BestBITools Not kidding. Won't say who. I'm not into the whole "public shaming on social" thing.

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Maggot Brain by Funkadelic JK--1971. Year after Jimi passed. Clearly, his spirit very much alive in this.

19 Jan

Ha ha ha. Just saw a consultant ask for developers with 10+ years of #Hadoop experience. Omigosh. Made my day.

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Be-in by Dandy Warhols from Dandy Warhols Come Down JK--Smouldering burning bass-y trance song. Dandies do 'em well!

19 Jan

Odd phrase: "I hope this message finds U doing well." Who's doing the finding: "I" or "this message"? If latter, is info sentient life form?

19 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Grey Cell Green by Ned's Atomic Dustbin from God Fodder JK--Band with delightful nonsense name.

19 Jan

Interviewed by Nicole Laskowski & Mark Brunelli of #TechTarget re my recent #Hadoop case study report.

18 Jan

Presenter says "answer to that is #Hadoop " at #CMAdata. #Hadoop is not a specific answer to anything. It's part of vocab for answers.

18 Jan

RT @MJMcKean: Just hearing about the passing of Tom Ardolino, NRBQ drummer; solid rock'n'roll guy. RIP

18 Jan

Seems to be one topic only today on social media (I'm slightly exaggerating, but not too much): Stop SOPA/PIPA!

18 Jan

James Vogtle of #Accenture discussing continuous "test + learn" multichannel @ #CMAdata. I refer 2 that as "real-world experiments."

18 Jan

"Enterprise #Hadoop :Big data processing made easier" (bit.ly/zpLvHU) JK--Excelent overview of some Hdp vendors. Stay tuned 4 my Wave

18 Jan

Good conversations here at #CMAdata. Multichannel next best offer, customer segmentation, marketing automation, & experience optimization

18 Jan

"Landscape amnesia." Jared Diamond's great phrase for culture not noticing gradual changes to their milieu. Apply to tech environment too.

18 Jan

I recognize that my speech topic, "conversational customer intimacy," has privacy implications. But I won't explore that this morning.

18 Jan

RT @CyG_science: Forgetting Actually Strengthens Memory--A Special Report (bit.ly/w8NaUN) JK--Someone tell my wife this. Mea culpa.

18 Jan

My #Hadoop Wave will publish on Feb 2, I'm told.

18 Jan

My #forrester colleague Rob Brosnan impressed the CMA at an event not long ago. Hope I don't disappoint by comparison. Brosnan's excellent.

18 Jan

The A/V coordinator at the Canadian Mktg Assn show is playing the whole Florence + Machine 2nd LP. I hadnt heard whole thing before. Superb!

18 Jan

Chilling with coffee & conversation here at Canadian Marketing Assn Analytics conf at Toronto's convention centre. My speech starts at 9:10

18 Jan

Multichannel conversations should be intimate attuned engaged interactive empathetic adaptive personalized consistent simple easy friendly

18 Jan

Speaking at CMA Analytics Conf on "Guided Conversations: The Key To Customer Intimacy." Yes, I have topics other than #bigdata #hadoop #edw

18 Jan

Speaking this morning at Canadian Marketing Assn Analytics Conf, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Bldg, Rm 702, 9am. See you there!

18 Jan

Don't censor the Web. Squash #SOPA & #PIPA once & for all.

18 Jan

Indicator of how devoid Romney is of personality. Didnt realize comercial "celebrity impersonator" doing him. Just sounds like dull anouncer

17 Jan

"On Hadoop 1.0: James Kobielus" (bit.ly/zAX07o) JK--LOL. "Kneedeep in enterprise elephant experiments"? Sounds like I sweep droppings

17 Jan

"Big Companies Try Crowdsourcing" (on.wsj.com/yyw2JW) JK--They're doing more than "try." They're sourcing to "crowd" known as "Asia."

17 Jan

"Apple Cofounder Wozniak Praises Android" (bit.ly/AbpBft) JK--I can feel Jobs rolling over & unquivering a few lightning bolts.

17 Jan

Took a few NDA briefings today. Which explains why I haven't been tweeting about them. Good stuff. Mum's the word for now.

17 Jan

If "The Artist" takes home Oscars this year, I hope the acceptance speeches will be silent placards flashed on-stage for 5 seconds.

17 Jan

@dmenningervr It's "made-up" in sense that it's verb that didnt evolve organiclly from older verb root, but from noun that lacked verb equiv

17 Jan

"Attrit" or "attrite"? My dictionary lists both. Either way, it's made-up word, a back-formation of "attrition." Either way, verb sounds odd

17 Jan

Interviewed by Alex Handy of Software Development Times re #Hadoop 1.0 milestone.

17 Jan

Speaking in Toronto tomorrow at Canadian Marketing Assn Analytics conf. Snow predicted. Wish me much luck. Wish I had mucklucks.

17 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp A Town Called Malice by The Jam JK--Fun fact: Paul Weller hometown. Seat of Maliceshire, England.

17 Jan

Hey @loserboy , "Friends" theme is better to cover than the "Frasier" theme. "Tossed Salad & Scrambled Eggs" will kill budding music career

17 Jan

Online waiting for #IBM Smart Analytics System & zEnterprise Teleconf #ibmzanalytics to begin.

17 Jan

#TIBCO #Spotfire & me "Webcast: Adv Analytics in #CRM: Key to Cross-Channel Efficiency & Engagement" 2-2-12 Register: bit.ly/wRx8L0

17 Jan

"Mark Cuban's 12 Rules for Startups" (bit.ly/AymIAW) JK--"1) Dont start one unless obsession 2) If exit strategy, it's not obsession"

17 Jan

"Big Data: Mind Your Head in Cloud" (bit.ly/wPTwwh) JK--Cool graphic that shows sheer growing magnitude of different data types.

17 Jan

"Oracle’s Big Data Appliance is based on Cloudera" (bit.ly/xdfnce) JK--That, plus #Oracle hardware & plenty of ORCL software.

17 Jan

"Maker of Steve Jobs Action Figure Kills Project" (bit.ly/AxBQAf) JK--Legal issues & tough 2 show steal-Microsoft-oxygen in action

17 Jan

"When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other." - Eric Hoffer JK--Being the outlier/oddball often painful.

17 Jan

@jamet123 has right approach: Treat next best actions as analytcs-infused decisions as ntwk or workflow of linkd decisions steps & processes

17 Jan

"Requirements for Advanced Analytics" (bit.ly/wTOJ5T) JK--Oper8nl decision-net enhance--risk & opportunity--to drive key biz outcomes

17 Jan

"IBM Rattles Moore's Law With Smallest Magnetic Memory Bit" (bit.ly/ztNth1) JK--But that's galactic scale compared to quantum storage

17 Jan

"Microsoft Creating Real-Time Botnet Information Feed" (bit.ly/zry1RN) JK--Botnet threat signature surveillance & impact assessment.

17 Jan

"IBM rolls out new social analytics tools" (zd.net/yvjbrG) JK--IBM Connections 2 gauge employee, partner & customr social sentiment

17 Jan

"Geeks 1, Congress 0: Controversial anti-piracy bill SOPA 'shelved'" (zd.net/x7YUs4) JK--Game not over. Senate has bill. Kill bill!

17 Jan

"A letter of regret to Google Cloud (My)SQL?" (tek.io/As0MoC) JK--Author takes issue with GGL cozying up to #Oracle product.

17 Jan

"Universities Worldwide to Introduce Analytics Education" (bit.ly/yR08Um) JK--Should be in core curriculum of all science majors.

17 Jan

Seattle got bit of snow. I'm 3000 miles east of there. Just want to assure them the "other" Washington is no better at driving in the stuff.

17 Jan

The weekend was pleasant. Technology thoughts only intruded on my serenity when I specifically invited them in.

16 Jan

"Google Mobile Ad Revenue Could Top $4B: Munster" (bit.ly/AyIH8H) JK--Thought he was still employed at Gateman Goodbury & Graves

16 Jan

Penance for tweet sarcastic about Richard Branson? Unsolicited attention of @branson_effect . "Learn strategies of self-made billionaires"

16 Jan

Meryl Streep wins Golden Globe? Oh must we continu 2 indulge ths woman's vanity & stoke conceit that she's one of all-time gr8st moviestars?

16 Jan

My two favorite states of being are thoughtfulness & thoughtlessness. Most of my actual life is lived in between those states.

16 Jan

@Brett2point0 Brett, it's only been 4 months since I did that preso. Be patient.

16 Jan

"House Kills SOPA" (examiner.com/computers-in-d…) JK--Hallelujah! Legislators actually converged on right course of action.

16 Jan

Rightwing daily Washington Examiner. Actual news starts on page 10 with Associated Press wire stories. "News" up front is staff hatchet jobs

16 Jan

Data mining is the opposite of mining in the traditional sense. You are not depleting the resource that you extract. You are enriching it.

16 Jan

Before long, you will be able to carry an entire data warehouse on a gadget. By "long," I mean end of decade. Ever cheaper flash storage.

16 Jan

Expecting analytics and data industry news this week. That's just intuition. Not sitting on any NDAs. MLKJDay marks end of holiday slumbers.

16 Jan

Packing warm clothes for Toronto, tho I'll only be there a short time & will be indoors most of that time. Should also bring huskies & sled

16 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes JK--Song magically combines winter & summer into single cycle of color & fertility

16 Jan

All I can say is that it's fortunate Dr. King didn't call himself a baton twirler for truth and justice.

15 Jan

Maybe I'm a geek, but I love "How It's Made" on Science Channel. I could watch a daylong marathon of episodes without blinking.

15 Jan

Yenta. Wonderful Jewish word for type of woman in every culture. Strangles with over-intentioned, overbearing advice for every occasion.

15 Jan

Richard Branson in late 60s resembld Austin Powers, then morphed into blond Mick Jagger & now looks like David Spade's creepy English cousin

15 Jan

Exploring Ann Arbor, Michigan on Google Earth. Cool 3-D effect on structures around Diag. Far-out, man, & Hash Bash not even in session now!

15 Jan

Exploring Madison, Wisconsin on Google Earth. Dairyland state's good sense 2 put city on isthmus makes most visible state capital from space

15 Jan

Exploring Higgins Lake, Michigan on Google Earth. Go-cart track on which we Boy Scouts competed is clearly visible from geosynchronous orbit

15 Jan

Exploring the Soo Locks on Google Earth. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario is much larger than Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. It's obvious from space.

15 Jan

Listening to Beatles "She Loves You" & "Sie Liebt Dich" from "Past Masters Vol. 1." Sound almost identical, except 4 language. Coincidence?

15 Jan

I have never understood the term "lo-fi" aplied 2 genres of music. Low fidelity 2 what? To comercial gospel that U must make formulaic crap?

15 Jan

Do firearms reproduce male heirs sexually? Why does it seem that everybody's a son of a gun? How can species survive without daughters?

15 Jan

Snooki. Nickname you'd give to yr pet hamster. Woman seems like understudy to 4th female lead in local dinner theatre production of "Grease"

15 Jan

Tori Spelling. Is there a reason we should care about her? Spell it out.

15 Jan

Fareed Zakaria CNN show gets credit for best pun of the day: "The Bain of Romney's Existence."

15 Jan

VH-1 seems to be morphing into the "Wives" channel. Basketball, Mob, Baseball, etc. Should merge w/History Channel & present Old Wives Tales

15 Jan

"In War, We All Desecrate the Enemy" (washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-…) JK--The horribly twisted human logic that has always sustained wars everywhere.

14 Jan

Madonna "Don't Tell Me" (youtu.be/gLFWRDsx5AI) JK--Dig this cool start-stop rhythm. The beginning has deliberate false start.

14 Jan

Brian Eno "Ambient 1 - Music For Airports" (youtu.be/vLOPaanz0gA) JK--1978. Eno boldly injected structured silence into pop vocab

14 Jan

What's totally radical about Beatles "Flying" is that it's incredibly ambient. Well before its time. Even an outlier in the Fab's catalog.

14 Jan

The Beatles "Flying" (youtu.be/6yTY__PKLDQ) JK--Complete 9:38 version from "Magical Mystery Tour." Their only instrumental. Druggy

14 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Boat Behind by Kings of Convenience from Declaration of Dependence JK--Modern mellow done right!

14 Jan

RT @kalynraphael: "Amp up yr Law of Attraction-Use yr Sexual Energy 2 Charge yr Manifestations" JK--Too complicated. Just use it to get laid

Albert Brooks @AlbertBrooks 14 Jan We wish John Edwards a speedy recovery so he can go to prison in good health.

14 Jan

Omigosh. My #ff list would be incomplete without acknowledging today. As long as I can remember, Saturday has always followed Friday.

14 Jan

I love the "discover" feature of the redesigned Twitter browser interface. It helped me find lots of gaps in list of people/orgs to follow.

Stuff I stuffed in my old kit bag January 9-13 2012

2012-01-14T16:22:00.001-08:00

Big Data Plans: You Need More Than One

Oracle's Bad Quarter: IT Spending Sign, Or Fusion Confusion?

7 Data Management Ah-Ha Moments

The End of Social Media Groups?

Data Science Skepticism

MDM Hits a High Note

How Google and Apple will control TV

Self-service IT: Are users up for the task?

Salesforce.com Steps Past CRM, Into Social Marketing

CRM in 2012: Big Changes in the Wind
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74130.html

Will Google Join the TV Revolution This Time Around?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74124.html

Automakers Rush To Offer Apps in Cars

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0210022CMRUO&nl=2

Hadoop hits milestone 1.0 release

http://www.sdtimes.com/link/36236

Internet access isn't a human right, says Google VP

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/internet-access-isnt-a-human-right-says-google-vp/3534?tag=nl.e539

Big data and the disruption curve

Oracle rolls out big data play with aggressive price, Cloudera

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/oracle-rolls-out-big-data-play-with-aggressive-price-cloudera/66529?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Mobile, Data Will Define 2012

The Other "BI"

The New Science of Big Data

To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/to-know-but-not-understand-david-weinberger-on-science-and-big-data/250820/

Big Data -- Big Money Says It Is A Paradigm Buster

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2012/01/06/big-data-big-money-says-it-is-a-paradigm-buster/

Apache Launches Hadoop 1.0

Ray Ozzie's latest tune: That's Cocomo with a 'C'

MOBILE, SOCIAL ENGINEERING TOP DATA SECURITY MANAGEMENT CONCERNS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15992065/2433922

'Big data' to inspire streamlined analytics programs in '12, IIA predicts

http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/news/2240113543/Big-data-to-inspire-streamlined-analytics-programs-in-12-IIA-predicts?asrc=EM_NLN_15993246&track=NL-544&ad=859293&

Building a Bridge Along the Enterprise-Agile Big Data Continuum

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2012/01/10/building-a-bridge-along-the-enterprise-agile-big-data-continuum/

Oracle Makes Big Data Appliance Move With Cloudera

12 New Flash Memory, SSD Devices Provide Diversity

Technology and Finance Industries to Dominate New Domain Applications http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4925773&access=EH

Oracle's Big Data Appliance brings focus to bundled approach

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223325/Oracle_s_Big_Data_Appliance_brings_focus_to_bundled_approach?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2012-01-11

Open Source: Not Just for Tech Anymore
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74145.html

Master Data Management And Justice For All

Data Analytics Can Backfire Without Experts

SAS's Year Of Living Socially

IBMs Vision for Analytics in the Midmarket: gaining deeper business insight

Google Social Search Adds 'Personal' Picasa, Google+ Results
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3381797/5553367/276888/0/

Zoho 'Socializes' Its CRM

Microsoft Shows Off Metro

The Data Model's Role in Data Governance

How Lyza Learns from its Users

Q&A: Data Strategies and Philosophical Dilemmas

BI Experts: Good Data Strategy is Good Business Strategy

Why Search-Based Applications are Set to Thrive

A Big Year Ahead for Big Data and Hadoop

BI 2012: The Future that has Already Happened

IBM Closes Platform Computing Deal

Splunk 4.3 gets a boost for business analysis

Oracle Makes Bold, Risky Move With Big Data Appliance Launch

The Problem with Pilots in a Cloud-speed Era

IBM aims to formalize the social enterprise movement

Exostar Launches ForumPass 5

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/exostar-launches-forumpass-5-2012-01-10

Kapow Delivers App Dev Punch

Oracle Jumps on Hadoop Bandwagon with Cloudera

CES Shows the Future of Television

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=023002LZFTOM&nl=2&full_skip=1

Oracle fills another gap in its #BigData offering

http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2012/01/10/oracle-fills-another-gap-in-its-big-data-offering/

Oracle updates its TimesTen in-memory database
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/oracle-updates-its-timesten-in-memory-database/66863

Web-Based Platform Revolutionizes How Retail Companies Market Their Brands http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4927107&access=EH

Oracle reveals pricing for its SAP HANA rival Exalytics, signaling imminent release

http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-management/oracle-reveals-pricing-its-sap-hana-rival-exalytics-signaling-imminent-release-183905

State Dept.: Governments can't fight social media

Does NoSQL Mean No Security?

IBM Attacks The Complexity Of Security With Identity Intelligence

Google search: This time it's personal

SSD prices will fall below $1 per GB in 2012, says IDC

Dell launches dedupe appliance, VMware integration

2012: A Tablet Odyssey
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16017387/2433922

Oracle Strikes At SAP Hana With TimesTen Database

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/info_management/232400228?cid=nl_IW_daily_2012-01-12_html&elq=ba4e404f166b44c6b2f47723b69f92a0

QUESTIONS, DOUBTS GREET UPCOMING SAP HANA DEVELOPER KIT
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16019192/2433922

Oracle Launches Cloudera-Powered Big Data Appliance

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Oracle-Launches-ClouderaPowered-Big-Data-Appliance-172364/?kc=EWKNLCLD01122012STR2

Data Analytics Can Backfire Without Experts

BI Metrics Interesting, But Not Strategic

How Governments Are Hurting the Web's Progress

Automation, Analytics Increasingly Important for Sales Data

A Data Governance Framework Jigsaw Puzzle

Google Kills Author Search, Redirects Users to Google+

Managing Big Data: What Every CIO Needs to Know

IBM smashes Moore's Law, cuts bit size to 12 atoms

Oracle updates TimeTen in-memory database, aims at SAP HANA

Oracle fills another gap in its big data offering

IBM creates data storage at the atomic level

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57357938-52/ibm-creates-data-storage-at-the-atomic-level/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&tag=nl.e019

IBM smashes Moore's Law, cuts bit size to 12 atoms

Microsoft to launch real-time threat intelligence feed

A quick look at the creation of computer-language translation efforts -- 58 years ago this month

Microsoft the Sleeper Hit Of CES 2012?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3383851/5553367/277767/0/

Ford Wants Vehicles to Monitor Your Health
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