James Kobielus' Blog

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
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3383851/5553367/277776/0/

IBM Research Determines Atomic Limits of Magnetic Memory
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4929261&access=EH

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203721704577156871175716212.html?mod=djemTECH_h Apple Could Rewrite TV Reality

Google's Eric Schmidt Denies Android Fragmentation

Data Mine This: Government Challenges Scientists

Data storage industry preview 2012: Rise of SSDs and clarity for
cloud
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16032338/2433922

Why Did Kodak, Motorola, And Nortel Fail?

The Future of TV: You'll Be More Involved
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3384813/5553367/278188/0/

Red Hat, Jaspersoft Bring Business Intelligence To Cloud Platforms

Aweekstweets January 6-14 2012: the week I breathed exceptionally deep

2012-01-14T15:32:00.000-08:00

31m

If you're in Toronto on Wednesday at Canadian Marketing Assn Analytics conf, catch my keynote. "Conversational Customer Intimacy."

Just recalled indelible memory of 2011: the extraordinarily high volume of tweets streaming thru TweetDeck right after Jobs death announced

Fast Company: Elevated Path Makes You Feel At Home In The Trees (goo.gl/mag/8dne2) JK--Elegant & nondisruptive. Mother Nature smiles

Fast Company: House On Stilts Is Like A Treehouse For Grown-ups (goo.gl/mag/Fn10h) JK--Beautiful and practical. I totally want that.

Engage your audience. Don't enrage your audience. If you want to walk out alive. Or your livelihood is politics or professional wrestling.

When you have nothing much to sell, market the hell out of it.

All of my tweets are must-read. You must. Now.

Apparently this "Tebow" sports star makes a show about being religious. American idolatry must be served.

Need Twitter rebus-grammar where each noun replaced by tinyURL pointing to Internet instance of that noun's referent.

Best thing about our old netbook is that its carrying case makes great carrying case for my tablet.

Hangin' solo at Panera on a pleasant Saturday afternoon. Egidia and colleague Penelope Neely going to all-girls party in Maryland. Cool.

An overwatched pot boils over more readily. Attentive eyes are virtual lid on pressure cooker.

Actually, an over-monitored over-instrumented over-dashboarded organization can easily be construed by inhabitants as overbearing. Go easy

Would be sorta nice if # BI human cap perf mgt dashbrds could continually track impact of biz-lvl perf on aggregated employee blood pressure

Infomercial 4 bathtub fixture that helps you clean btwn yr toes. I came equipped at birth with cheaper alternative. They're called "fingers"

I continue to use Wikipedia as reference because its accuracy, validity, comprehensiveness, & depth on diverse topics continues to impress.

Funny WashPost Weingarten column on dumbness of crowdsourcing answers to tough questions. He raked Yahoo! Answers over the coals.

Continuously monitoring yr own vitals via wearable/embedded sensors & smart gadgets/cloud? Chances are you'd expire from tech obsolescence.

WSJ had article on dubious notion U'll live longer if continuously monitor yr vital signs via smartphone. "Watched pot never croaks" theory?

Anybody who thinks #Oracle will be content to rely on partner offering longterm as heart of #Hadoop offering doesn't know Oracle.

#BigData inexorably spurs search 4 Big Virtualization as Variety of Big Data techs explodes while imperative of integration screams louder

Curiosity is simple algorithm: ask "wot dat?", repeat, keep repeating.

Ricky Nelson "Hello Mary Lou" (youtu.be/zLkCWT2neuI) JK--Gene Pitney wrote this. Handsome TV star who could really rock made it a hit

Gene Pitney "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance" (youtu.be/vDN4L7cAQf0) JK--Had an actorly singing voice. Also a talented songwriter.

The Crystals "He's a Rebel" (youtu.be/2TE5cd5Z4y8) JK--Was "Bobby" inspired by photo of Dylan+girl on cover of bit.ly/yj7fKT ?

The Crystals "Uptown" (youtu.be/wK7OxBXThkU) JK--A compressed epic. Spector excelled at those. Tells story of redeeming love.

Dick Dale & his Del-Tones "King of the Surf Guitar" (youtu.be/JQA0CJlfN3Y) JK--Borrowed backgrnd girl singers frm Phil Spector 4 this

Surfaris "Surfer Joe" (youtu.be/pD6LKzhQcDc) JK--Gr8 shaggy-dog ballad w/ lyrics & dopey vocal from guys better known 4 "Wipe Out"

Chantays "Pipeline" (youtu.be/j09C8clJaXo) JK--1963. Surf instrumental group on "Lawrence Welk" (no joke).

Kyu Sakamoto "Sukiyaki" (youtu.be/mvuO0BsEEss) JK--Has wonderful cinematic sweep & dropdead beautiful melody. No subtitles necessary

Ritchie Valens "Donna" (youtu.be/HMcHbh6HBDk) JK--Teenager's soul yearning for missing beloved is palpable.

Brenda Lee "I'm Sorry" (youtu.be/BGLR25EJtfE) JK--Song poignancy comes from feeling Lee's controlling a sob & cooing apology close-up

Patsy Cline "She's Got You" (youtu.be/UtkFmCY9IZ0) JK--One of the most perfect, simple, elegant, powerful heartbreak songs ever.

YouTube has become my personal jukebox. I'm freeloading on it constantly now. As y'all can see/hear.

RT @Ruth_A_Buzzi: Forgiveness doesn't help the person who hurt you. .... Forgiveness helps the forgiver. Do it for you.

Loretta Lynn & Jack White "Portland, Oregon" (youtu.be/VuC_l3ymXhM) JK--Now-classic pairing of artists U wouldnt associate w/Portland

Was a good week. The #Oracle #bigdata appliance release was biggest story in my space. It's 1.0 appliance. Kick the tires, customers!

Nice 2 see they're going 2 chisel fuller context into MLKJ quote on statue. Should also chisel in other activists. KIng didnt achieve alone

Actually, VA gov McDonnell, a conservative Republican, doing good job running our state. He and Dem ex-gov Kaine should run 4 pres in 2016

10h

The only thing that Gingrich has ever said that I agree with is that Romney is the GOP's Dukakis in this election cycle.

21h

Steve Miller Band "Living In The USA" (youtu.be/uS0zvlbitKw) JK--An early semi-hit. Miller was Wisconsin native in SF. CannedHeat-ish

21h

Santana "Jingo" (youtu.be/lzISn9Q6P9c) JK--1969. Live. Some dude's farm in upstate NY. Don't ask me how they got there. Magic carpet?

21h

Quicksilver Messenger Service "Fresh Air" (youtu.be/1EacQEhrbBQ) JK--1971. Live. At closing of the original Fillmore.

21h

Grateful Dead "Friend of the Devil" (youtu.be/b9SKxL9CnW0) JK--What I liked most about the Dead was Garcia's country-inflected voice

21h

Moby Grape "Ain't No Use" (youtu.be/kAPN_vbengU) JK--Haight-Ashbury sound was essentially electrified country-folk.

21h

Country Joe & The Fish "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" (youtu.be/f4WeqP2G6pI) JK--Love that unmistakeably Haight-Ashbury sound.

21h

Roxy Music "Avalon" (youtu.be/gA0GGFh0ilo) JK--These former glamrockers, who launched Eno & Ferry, delivered perfect romance song

21h

Bryan Ferry "Slave To Love" (youtu.be/UH1CMCtV4to) JK--Ever-suave coal miner son is slave 2 love. Robbd cradle. Best 2 U & new bride!

21h

Elvis Costello "Shipbuilding" (youtu.be/IuPrrdRzlxc) JK--The man's most excellent torchsong composition & performance. Lovely voice!

21h

Elvis Costello "New Amsterdam" (youtu.be/XZFcHF-wjBA) JK--My fave from his track-packed 4th LP "Get Happy!"

21h

Elvis Costello "Welcome to the Working Week" (youtu.be/nSRg9GPfFgE) JK--Great sharp intro to his awesome first LP, "My Aim Is True."

22h

Weekend "Hazel" (youtu.be/tv7JFOLVQe8) JK--Completely different group. Current new artist. Fine forward motion "hazel hazel hazel..."

22h

Weekend "Sleepy Theory" (youtu.be/KlTvmcKwyr0) JK--My hair stood on end. I thought bit.ly/ds3IMR was speaking directly to me.

22h

Weekend "The End Of The Affair" (youtu.be/KbhmsEW0pXc) JK--In '82 when met REM, had Wknd poster, P.Buck signed "Jim we dig Wknd too"

22h

R.E.M. "Gardening At Night" (youtu.be/rl5TdBcAUts) JK--Live. R&R HoF induction. First song off their 1st EP. I met them in '82.

22h

R.E.M "Bang & Blame" (youtu.be/8FNfB6WfwM4) JK--I hear both "B" words as onomatopeias, a la Roy Lichtenstein pop art: "BANG!" "BLAM!"

22h

R.E.M. "Cuyahoga" (youtu.be/-jSn7pOzFsg) JK--Georgia band did what, to my mind, is the greatest Ohio song.

22h

"TV's Colbert Hands SuperPAC Over To Stewart" (n.pr/yjDTYO) JK--That's my personal zen moment for the day.

22h

I love the word "January." It just has a beautiful roll on the tongue.

13 Jan

#ff @bitterer @curtmonash @claudia_imhoff @colinjwhite @databaseguru @danvesset @davidloshin @richardwinter @datagenius

13 Jan

#FF @merv @maslett @bigdata @rogerm @bevelson @howarddresner @dmenningervr @ibmbigdata @TonyBaer @jhurwitz

13 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Dumb by Nirvana from In Utero JK--Paraphrasing Mark Twain, better 2 B struck dumb than open mouth & show how dumb U R

13 Jan

Vetting unfamiliar or unproven ideas. Why do we "vet" them? Do we suspect that they're sick puppies?

13 Jan

U think Twitter constrains yr expressive powers? Think how S. Hawking has harnessed cheek-twitch as only muscle 4 communic8 complex thoughts

13 Jan

Had inquiry with customer exploring data virtualization bleeding-edge for transactional message bus in #bigdata #cassandra platform w/ BLOBs

13 Jan

"Future of TV: You'll Be More Involved" (bit.ly/zJGHBH ) JK--No thanks. Dont want anyone 2 think I'm 2 blame 4 midseason schedule

13 Jan

Obama elev8ng Small Business Admin 2 cabinet status. If GOP takes over, will create Big Business Administration to rep core constituency

13 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash JK--"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." I'm sure the inmates had no clue till he told them.

13 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Tusk by Fleetwood Mac from Tusk JK--Wonderful outlier among classic Mac hits. Was Mick the drum major on this?

13 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp This Is the Day by The The from Soul Mining JK--Label rejected original title "This This Is Is The The Day Day."

13 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Destroyer by The Kinks from Give the People What They Want JK--1981. Rhythmic variation on Doors "Hello I Love You"

13 Jan

In Icelandic alphabet, here's how the extraterrestrial-voiced chanteuse/artiste spells her full name: Björk Guðmundsdóttir

13 Jan

"IBM creates data storage at atomic level" (cnet.co/y3VgAB) JK--Absolutely no truth 2 rumor they'll price storage on $ per quark

13 Jan

@hkisker You a "bad guy"? That 's exact opposite of reality & not at all what I'm implying, Holger. You're an awesome tiger analyst, sir!

13 Jan

The Rascals "People Got to be Free" (youtu.be/Hfhk2WxfV2c) JK--I started singing this spontaneously for no reason.

13 Jan

Always love doing vendor briefings with @hkisker . He grills vendors from his perspective as former longtime vendor product mgt professional

13 Jan

"Oracle updates TimesTen in-memory database, aims at SAP HANA" (bit.ly/AbR2s8) JK--Also position TimesTen as pivotal to "Exa-Stack"

13 Jan

#HP hosts #EDW on #IBM #Netezza for specific SaaS vertical market offerings (e.g., healthcare). "Replatforming" that to #Vertica

13 Jan

Much of #HP enterprise info solutions/services roadmap revolves around tighter integration of #Vertica & #Autonomy

13 Jan

#HP has partnerships with #Microsoft (PDW, Fast Track, etc.) & #SAP (HANA) on analytic appliances. Plus they have #Vertica & its appliances

13 Jan

Taking briefing from #HP on enterprise information services . Me & @hkisker

13 Jan

Let me just say that seeing Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins reminds me that as a kid I had a wee bit of a crush on her.

13 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp 13 by Elliott Smith frm Thumbsucker JK--Big Star cover. Friday the 13th. Chim chim cheree youtu.be/VX4Ppm-cPZI

13 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Skinny Love by Bon Iver from For Emma, Forever Ago JK--2008. But feels like timeless folk song. Even on first hearing

13 Jan

Spam from "International Association of Successful Individuals." Who, obviously, are so successful they have spare time to waste on nonsense

13 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Dour Percentage by of Montreal from Paralytic Stalks JK--Twee, fruity, and arty combo. Take 'em in small doses.

13 Jan

Jim takes his sweet morning one sweet task at a time.

12 Jan

Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter "The Dreaming Dead" (youtu.be/NjodSVtV5rE) JK--Seattle folk-rocker with scratchy sexy deep voice

12 Jan

Harvey Danger "Little Round Mirrors" (youtu.be/8vdw4e4b940) JK--2006. Emotion-deep gem frm Seattle group bst known 4 "Flagpole Sitta"

12 Jan

The Guess Who "Albert Flasher" (youtu.be/sY-G8MNlCAU) JK--1971. Luv it. Radio played a lot back then. Havent heard in 35+ years. Why?

12 Jan

The Guess Who "Shakin' All Over" (youtu.be/K__-YQpjC8s) JK--1965. Pre-Burton Cummings. Original singer Chad Allan. Covering 1959 hit

12 Jan

Bachman-Turner Overdrive "Let It Ride" (youtu.be/j83xviHVmGg) JK--Propulsive guitar & tight vocal arrangement drove this rocking hit.

12 Jan

Rick Derringer "Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo" (youtu.be/Kj5_P999UMo) JK--McCoys leader changed surname from Zehringer, nailed 1973 hit

12 Jan

The McCoys "Hang on Sloopy" (youtu.be/hGuPc01Dn7c) JK--1965. Written about singer named Dorothy Sloop. Official rocksong of Ohio!

12 Jan

Righteous Brothers "Little Latin Lupe Lu" (youtu.be/VNV2ppwuM98) JK--Faux bros nailed this fun hippy-shaking rocker with pure panache

12 Jan

Gerry & The Pacemakers "You'll Never Walk Alone " (youtu.be/8smO4VS9134) JK--One of those climbing-motion melodies tough 2 sing right

12 Jan

Pink Floyd "Fearless" (youtu.be/uCgQuj8v2gg) JK--Read the lyrics (bit.ly/xwD10y). Excellent poem. I never noticed till now.

12 Jan

Pink Floyd "One Of These Days" (youtu.be/2NnGfpsVJyk ) JK--Animated clip from 1973 of space-rock mind-blower from "Meddle" LP

12 Jan

@JacquelynHoward Actually, the "ha-doop de-dupe" motif plays in my head as this song: Lusine "Two Dots" (youtu.be/4iIvRXCV9lk)

12 Jan

"Ha-doop de-dupe Ha-doop de-dupe Ha-doop de-dupe Ha-doop de-dupe Ha-doop de-dupe" running thru my head. Must get breath of air.

12 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Doorstep by tUnE-yArDs from W H O K I L L JK--Hmm..vaguely suggests postmodern Singing Nun deconstructing "Dominique"

12 Jan

I'll work out at the club tonight but not in the class. Feels like one of those evenings where I need to tone the inside of my head. Solo.

12 Jan

@ragtag Hmmm..."The Lucky Punks" sounds like a great name for a band.

12 Jan

Dirty Vegas "Days Go By" (youtu.be/cfo60JaBZZk) JK--Sudden urge to hear this. Not sure why.

12 Jan

Sun is shining today. Got much-needed precipitation yesterday. Not snow, but our parched winter soil doesn't really care.

12 Jan

Google's "I'm feeling lucky" option. I expect Clint Eastwood to make cameo appearance there as Dirty Harry (youtu.be/FnMLGkj91Og)

12 Jan

"2012: A Tablet Odyssey" (bit.ly/zqeE2U) JK--Darn. Story doesnt play "Thus Spake Zarathustra" while apes hurl bones @ monolithc iPad

12 Jan

"Taliban: Talks not harmed by urinating Marines" (on.msnbc.com/wUm0xC) JK--Headline that screams "read 1st paragraph, at least"

12 Jan

"Smoking pot doesn't hurt lung capacity" (on.msnbc.com/wJ92o5) JK--Poppycock! Breathing any smoke into your lungs is ILL--advised.

12 Jan

Customer data visualization for 360-degree view. You must still have customer visualization is traditional sense of seeing them face2face

12 Jan

"State Dept.: Govts cant fight social media" (bit.ly/AdS6fb) JK--Oh they can fight it. Then they'll hav 2 fight people in the streets

12 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Age of Consent by New Order from Power, Corruption & Lies JK--Exhilarating synth & guitar back-forth blows me away

12 Jan

Me & #TIBCO #Spotfire webinar "Adv Analytics in #CRM : Key 2 Cross-Chann Efficiency & Engagement" Feb 2, 11est Register bit.ly/xrjOj8

12 Jan

U don't dare put yer big-shot athlete on steroids. That's doping. But U must put your #BigData analytics on steroids. That's "'(ha)dooping"!

12 Jan

#GSTAT a very interesting #NextBestAction vendor. Focus: automation & governance of model build&deploy. Works w/3rd party data mining tools

12 Jan

"Oracle reveals pricing for....Exalytics" (bit.ly/yPpSnW) JK--Pricing incomplete without Oracle TimesTen & Oracle BIEE pricing

12 Jan

Taking briefing from #GSTAT, a Tel Aviv-based CRM #NextBestAction solution vendor with strong model automation & governance

12 Jan

Interviewed by @chriskanaracus of #IDG re #Oracle announcement of TimesTen 11g R2

12 Jan

#Oracle is starting to refer to its range of "Exa-Stack."

12 Jan

"Oracle updates its TimesTen in-memory database" (zd.net/zo8PkC) JK--Key to #Exalytics & #Exalogic for fast analytics & transactions

12 Jan

Wishing DJ Shani of #kexp a great future down in San Francisco. You've been an awesome DJ and a relaxing on-air personality.

12 Jan

RT @HadoopNews: Oracle fills another gap in its #BigData offering zite.to/zXDw6P JK--Great insights by @TonyBaer

12 Jan

Feels like GOP now eating its own entrails by criticizing Romney for his mercenary business track record.

12 Jan

Yes, the #Hadoop Wave is due for pub real real soon.

12 Jan

Astronomers say most stars in Milky Way galaxy probably have at least one planet apiece. LIfe must be incredibly common.

12 Jan

New report: "Early Adopters Embrace Hadoop For Operations And Customer Analytics" (bit.ly/xaePZI)

11 Jan

Paul McCartney "That's Alright, Mama" (youtu.be/tDWfOSKccLM) JK--Sir Paul faithfully channels the King of Rock N Roll's first hit.

11 Jan

John Lennon "Stand By Me" (youtu.be/O4_ghOG9JQM) JK--On this cover, I sense he's imagining Harry Nilsson covering Ben E. King.

11 Jan

George Harrison "If Not For You" (youtu.be/s8P65y8iuNc) JK--Sweet cover of Dylan song that works better than Bob's original.

11 Jan

Ringo Starr "You're Sixteen You're Beautiful (And You're Mine)"(youtu.be/8ainB6qnWBI) JK--Cover's as good as Johnny Burnette original

11 Jan

Part of the reason I can't work up much enthusiasm for "social TV" is that I'm tired of TV, generally. Also, I watch it in private cocoon.

11 Jan

Customer asked if #BI products can access #Hadoop directly. I said sure: #Pentaho & #Jaspersoft . Also, some startups provide Hdp-centric BI

11 Jan

@ted_friedman #Hadoop #HDFS #BigData Yeah. Funny thing about nonsense name "Hadoop" is seems to apply to everything & nothing in particular

11 Jan

Bo Diddley "Say Man" (youtu.be/HIWgNKUMlzM) JK--1959. Great taunting back-forth rap btwn Bo & Jerome Green, his maracas man.

11 Jan

The Monkees "Zilch" (youtu.be/HLbazvnN7Cc) JK--The Prefab Four used this short-sharp word-fugue to mess with audience heads.

11 Jan

I prefer my laptop to my tablet for high-powered tweeting & YouTubing.

11 Jan

Used Google Earth to explore Windsor, England from space. The Queen has a lot of deer. The Thames has the biggest damn swans I've ever seen.

11 Jan

RT @msretail "trying out #Hadoop On #Azure bit.ly/wDc6iS #bigdata " JK--Would love to hear your experience.

11 Jan

Leslie Owens & I double-teamed on a late-day inquiry. Her text analytics chops far deeper than mine. I mostly listened to her. Good stuff.

11 Jan

Try sketching the entire #Hadoop ecosystem in someone's mind with words alone in a 30-minute advisory call. Try not confusing people. Try.

11 Jan

Sonya & I hung together today, shot the breeze, chilled. I even shared some fatherly "wisdom" drawn from my career. For what it's worth.

11 Jan

Yet another customer today equates #Hadoop solely with #HDFS. Still have some educatin' to do.

11 Jan

10,000 Maniacs "Don't Talk" (youtu.be/9IMSsMVpQ7c) JK--In this one, the band and Natalie are egging each other on to intense heights

11 Jan

Green Day "Basket Case" (youtu.be/NUTGr5t3MoY) JK--Their earlier stuff really was better. Listen again.

11 Jan

Elvis Costello "(I Dont Want To Go To) Chelsea" (youtu.be/DjYTgwDizbk) JK--Declan in his best snotty faux BuddyHolly persona.

11 Jan

Siouxsie & The Banshees "Mittageisen (Metal Postcard)" (youtu.be/CB2mLDJdn5A) JK--Live version of punk classic from "The Scream" LP.

11 Jan

Wah! "The Seven Thousand Names of Wah!" (youtu.be/y5IXAFC0LhU) JK--Blazingly powerful English ealry 80s post-punk guitar outfit

11 Jan

Tuxedomoon "Crash" (youtu.be/igBic6FPzg4) JK--San Francisco electronica group frm early 80s. I remember playing this vinyl constantly

11 Jan

@markmadsen Yes. Which leads to many of their passionate concept-heavy affairs producing stillborn baby businesses.

11 Jan

@markmadsen That's a mis"conception" (haha). Incubators specialize in cloning past biz models until they dilute the gene pool to exhaustion.

5 Jan

Why is it that whenever I say to Dave "I am going to probe Uranus" he locks himself in the pod and refuses to come out?

11 Jan

Teaching my girl hard-won wisdom of recognize when task impossible within immovable constraints. Don't worry. Disengage. Don't martyr yrself

11 Jan

"CES Shows the Future of Television" (bit.ly/xm42Op) JK--So you can watch your washing machine? Preferable to basic cable crapola.

11 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants by Wild Beasts from Limbo, Panto JK--2009. Sounds like Tiny Tim fronting Coldplay

11 Jan

Feels like I've been saying "read it closely" my entire life. Or at least since 3rd grade. When I got glasses. And began my focus on writing

11 Jan

There are no typos in previous tweet. Read it closely. "Post-Post" means present experience always embeds full past. "Post-past" no more

11 Jan

We're living in a Post-Post World. Entire past has come back to occupy present, thanks to FB Timeline, Long Tail, etc. We're never post-past

11 Jan

@markmadsen I'll believe a corporation qualifies as a person when we start conceiving them in vitro.

11 Jan

So far, I've got at least 8 public speaking engagements in my immediate future. At least. By "immediate," I mean 1st half of 2012.

11 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Mistadobalina by Del Tha Funky Homosapien JK--Samples Monkees "Zilch" from "HQ" '67 (youtu.be/HLbazvnN7Cc)

11 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Business Time by Flight of the Conchords from The Distant Future JK--Very good & very funny song.

11 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Hanging On by Active Child from U Are All I See JK--Song feels tailor-made 4 walking thru gorgeous relaxing snowfall

11 Jan

I'm already following Yoko on Facebook. Might as well follow Bjork.

11 Jan

RT @DaydreamTweets: Video Premiere: Damien Jurado’s “Nothing Is The News” (bit.ly/x1UbKb) JK--Great song. Check this out.

11 Jan

Gesture-controlled in-car navigation & entertainmnt is getting buzz. We need to control gesture-flamed cross-car road-rage. Got app 4 that?

11 Jan

Internet access isn't a basic human right. Or, rather, should B lower down in list of rights. Let's start w/universal affordable healthcare

11 Jan

"IBM Closes on Acquisition of Platform Computing" (bit.ly/wKrdLl) JK--Deepens their #Bigdata #Hadoop portfolio w/ strong cluster mgt

11 Jan

Dear Local Pizza Joint: Thanks for the free pizza slice for my November birthday. No thanks for the free coupon that expired 2 months ago.

11 Jan

Thinking of changing my phone greeting to "Jimbo here!" just to start off on a chummy, cordial foot.

11 Jan

During years we drove to/from Charlottesville, always took note of pleasant pastures where some of bloodiest Civil War battles occurred.

11 Jan

Waiting room. Back issues of Time magazine. Cover story on "The Rise of Rick Perry." I never read Time. I note shallowness of their coverage

11 Jan

Martha Stewart is 70? Amazingly well-preserved.

11 Jan

Wonder Bread. Have competitors ever cracked the secret code that helps empty carbohydrates build strong bodies 12 ways?

11 Jan

RT @Ruth_A_Buzzi: In urgent bid 2 save Hostess Twinkie company, Home Depot has offered 2 buy inventory and repackage Twinkies as insulation.

11 Jan

Laughing is so insanely essential to cardiovascular health.

11 Jan

A phrase that never fails to make me chuckle is "How ya like them apples?"

11 Jan

"ORCL #bigdata Appliance brings focus 2 bundled approach" (bit.ly/yz1Dcm) JK--Industry rolls out repeatable #Hadoop #NoSQL solutions

11 Jan

#Oracle pricing on new #bigdata appliance comes to $694/TB raw storage, an order of mag cheaper than #Exadata. How will they make money?

11 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Jules and Jim by Nada Surf from The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy JK--Great new one from evergreen indie band

11 Jan

I have no attention deficits or disorders that can't be fixed by simply being given a space in which to breathe & zone.

10 Jan

Clyde McPhatter "A Lover's Question" (youtu.be/MzYZtuFpbLY) JK--Gr8 50s hit almost certainly much in-demand make-out song in its day

10 Jan

Yma Sumac "Malambo No. 1' (youtu.be/Eon7GcYCIFs) JK--Kay, her weird screechy range dukes it out w/ Ubu singer David Thomas' caterwaul

10 Jan

Pere Ubu "Dub Housing" (youtu.be/Seif2hB88jM) JK--Kay, if you're clicking 2 this via FB, here's my pet infatuation, like yr Yma Sumac

10 Jan

The Magnetic Fields "I Think I Need a New Heart" (bit.ly/zFZyYG) JK--Incredibly infectious clip-clop tick-tock popsong rhythm

10 Jan

Jens Lekman "The Opposite Of Hallelujah" (youtu.be/x4K90J59LQ4) JK--Acerbic & bouncy with fairly awesome pop hooks & evocative lyrics

10 Jan

Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah" (youtu.be/h_m-BjrxmgI) JK--Recent pop hit is only a short step from "Teenager in Love."

10 Jan

Dion and The Belmonts "Teenager In Love" (youtu.be/0kw6w9CPTjw) JK--Classic white doo-wop three-way harmonizing. I sing Dion's part.

10 Jan

The Rascals "Lonely Too Long" (youtu.be/1HXVtmPUawE) JK--NYC Italian-American soul-rockers who made deeply passionate hit gems

10 Jan

Tommy James & the Shondells "Crystal Blue Persuasion" (youtu.be/7M0r1iSeiHU) JK--Michigan rockr who evolved into Christian hippie-pop

10 Jan

Paul Revere & the Raiders "Indian Reservation" (youtu.be/kVwEwdIIZD0) JK--Seriously cool cause song showed these guys no teenyboppers

10 Jan

Jan & Dean "Dead Man's Curve" (youtu.be/ukunx21UHCA) JK--Very same deathtrap on Sunset Strip almost killed Mel Blanc in early 60s

10 Jan

Del Shannon "Hats Off to Larry" (youtu.be/Xk_FR3341bA) JK--Michigan dude with one of the bossest pop falsettos in early rock n roll

10 Jan

Johnny Rivers "Summer Rain" (youtu.be/Xa9vWVEYojg) JK--Love how this guy spun pop gold w/ distinctive voice & classy arrangements

10 Jan

Three Dog Night "Shambala" (youtu.be/xnyh6i9NvmE) JK--Loved how these guys chose great material & infused it w/gospel & hippie bliss

10 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Alam Maya by Jalan Surabaya JK--Indonesian DJ/MC group named for Jakarta street market where get vinyl samples.

10 Jan

Apparently, this year's star athlete is someone named "Tebow."

10 Jan

Will keynote on #CRM customer intimacy and multichannel conversation mgt at Canadian Mktg Assn Analytics conf next Wed in Toronto

10 Jan

Will do #CRM analytics webinar with #Tibco #Spotfire in early Feb. Stay tuned for details.

10 Jan

#Oracle now can duke out #Bigdata appliance market vs. #EMC #Greenplum. No other #EDW incumbents have promised #Hadoop appliances.

10 Jan

#Oracle has no immediate plans to package its #Bigdata #Exadata #Exalytics #Exalogic appliances as blades in unified chassis architecture

10 Jan

#Oracle did little customer beta testing prior to GA of #Bigdata appliance. But, with #Cloudera did ample integration test in devel process

10 Jan

#Oracle says they will implement open-source #Hadoop via #Cloudera partnership, with no intent 2 exacerbate distro wars thru proprietaries

10 Jan

Took my post-announcement briefing from #Oracle on their #BigData #Hadoop appliance w/ #Cloudera in the box

10 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Fire in Cairo by The Cure from Boys Don't Cry JK--Song taught me to spell all three difficult words in its title.

10 Jan

Lemme see. #BigData "3 Vs" in Bahasa Indonesia. "3 Ks": volume =kebesaran velocity=kecepatan variety=kemacaman. Betul?

10 Jan

"The #BigData Effect" (youtu.be/KD_g6byn83s) JK--Excellent panel discussion addressing data-scientist skills gaps. From last month

10 Jan

Data-science teams. Like any fact-based knowledge-generation analyst community, must iterate thru data models & thru their collab org models

10 Jan

@ggruber66 #Oracle #Apache #Hadoop Do I expect them? No. The question is: Will they?

10 Jan

"Apache Launches Hadoop 1.0" (bit.ly/AB17YO) JK--Milestone was 6 years in the making.

10 Jan

"Awk! Paradigm! Paradigm! Awk!"

10 Jan

If I had a pair of dimes for every time someone said "paradigm" I'd be in paradise with a parrot I'm naming Perry Tom.

10 Jan

Data-science productivity requires scalable arch of sharing exploration & collab 4 rapid churn thru more data variables models & scenarios

10 Jan

@FransFH Thanks Henny. By the way, I love that spa you run in Bogor. The tiny fish nibbling my feet in the pond were a vacation highlight!

10 Jan

C'mon Facebook, hurry up and let me delete the simple Indonesian phrase I just fucked up. Aduh!

10 Jan

@FransFH Om mu coba berbahasa Indonesia sederhana saja.

10 Jan

@ted_friedman Tentu saja!

10 Jan

Senang makan kue coklat pisang. Enak!

10 Jan

Interviewed by @jaivijayan of #Computerworld re #Oracle #Cloudera Big Data Appliance announcement.

10 Jan

Sunny now & low 50s expected today. Still have remnants of yesterday's lovely light snow on the lawn.

10 Jan

People who think my coverage of vendors is "cheery" are not actually paying attention to the detailed "howevers" in every Wave.

10 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye from Making Mirrors JK--My favorite new song.

10 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp I Heard Your Voice in Dresden by Elvis Perkins in Dearland JK--2009. Thrilling. Listen youtu.be/hzRxutma7pc

10 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp All My Little Words by The Magnetic Fields from 69 Love Songs JK--Stephin Merritt writes drop-dead gorgeous melodies

10 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist: Penguin Cafe Single by Penguin Cafe Orchestra from Music From the Penguin Cafe JK--1976. Chamber-pop instrumental combo.

10 Jan

"To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data" (bit.ly/z703kO) JK--Calls for "model-based knowing."

10 Jan

"Oracle rolls out big data play with aggressive price" (zd.net/xFYsPg) JK--$450K/full-rack w/ 648 TB raw stor, 864GB RAM, 216 cores

10 Jan

Curious whether #Oracle has contributed any original IP to its Big Data Appliance & whether it will open-source any of it to #Apache #Hadoop

10 Jan

Was grooving over breakfast 2 NPR podcsts of Broadway musical nature. TerryG intrvw'd Parker/Stone re "Book of Mormon" & Colbert re Sondheim

10 Jan

Glad I caught the #Oracle #Cloudera news first thing in the morning. I'm sure I'll be asked about it constantly today.

10 Jan

So #Hadoop distro wars stay focused on core #Apache distro , w/ #Cloudera #MapR #IBM #Greenplum the leading, mostly opn-src alternatives

10 Jan

Good to see that #Oracle hasn't exacerbated the #Hadoop distro wars by rolling out its own. Partnering w/ #Cloudera to incl CDH in appliance

10 Jan

Essentially, #Oracle the 4th #Hadoop hardware appliance partner w/ #Cloudera , after #NetApp #Dell #SGI

10 Jan

#Oracle announced GA of full-rack #bigdata #hadoop appliance, OEMing #Cloudera, integr8ng Cloudera distro & tools, & incl open-source R

9 Jan

Prince getting conceptual on us again. Changing his name legally to "The Artist Formerly Known as 'The Artist Formerly Known as "Prince"'"

9 Jan

Freaked out at headline re "after birth by Beyonce." Relieved to find "after birth" a prepositional phrase. Would've been disgusting noun

9 Jan

Great dinner at Bonefish Grill with our friends Kay & Suranto, Nick & Roberta. Suranto is ever the Renaissance Man. Levitation yoga?

9 Jan

Got a lovely little layer of snow out there. Our wine shipment arrived. I'm grooving and imbibing.

9 Jan

CES coming right after holidays feels like KidInCandyStoreFest a week after Halloween. I already have bellyful of gadget hype. Gonna spew.

9 Jan

Middle-age sag. U gotta fight against it. Even 24-year-olds tend toward SAGnation & still stay fit & trim. How he hide it? Damn good actor!

9 Jan

"How Google and Apple will control TV" (bit.ly/wdRGMH) JK--Great. The geeks take over all media, force-feed us "Mythbusters" 24x7

9 Jan

Didn't see anything terribly exciting in new techs today. Didn't think interesting thoughts on my own either. Did today even happen?

9 Jan

"Spock Meets the Woz" (bit.ly/wBh7H2) JK--If they did a Vulcan/Geek 3-way hybrid with Chas Bono, it'd be the "Spazz."

9 Jan

Taking briefing from #CustomerEffective, a Microsoft Dynamics CRM partner. Me and @waband

9 Jan

May the historical record note that, on this day, 1-9-12, in eastern Fairfax County we got our first SNOW of actual winter. Big fluffies!

9 Jan

Peter Paul & Mary "I Dig Rock & Roll Music" (youtu.be/jdX5Ly9WBT0) JK---"The radio won't play it unless I lay it between the lines"

9 Jan

Coyne? Wayne? Well, him too.

9 Jan

RT @jameskobielus @kexpplaylist #kexp The W.A.N.D. by The Flaming Lips JK--Love massive bottom, fuzz guitar, handclaps, & Coyne @nonash88

9 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The W.A.N.D. by The Flaming Lips from The W.A.N.D. JK--Love massive bottom, the fuzz guitar, hand claps, & Coyne

9 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Steady, as She Goes by The Raconteurs from Broken Boy Soldiers JK--Broken boys soldier on better when have steady she

9 Jan

@tinamonod #big #data Please reach out to me through pleclare at forrester dot com. He handle such requests for our participation

9 Jan

Whew...I definitely feel better.

9 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp I Feel Better by Gotye from Making Mirrors JK--Great soul. A bit like Cee-Lo.

9 Jan

I have degree in economics & never understood what this specific thing called "capitalism" refers to. Always feels like ideological strawman

9 Jan

RT @GOALmgr "Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature. ~Jean Baitaillon" JK--Yikes! Will God serve us w/subpoenas in afterlife?

9 Jan

There is no totally dark side in human endeavors. Light shines from all directions, encounters objects everywhere, casts shadows & glare.

9 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp King Rides By by Cat Power from King Rides By (New Version For Manny Pacquiao Charity Video) JK--Cool reggae-dub

9 Jan

The only thing more annoying than a marketeer trying to do rap/hiphop in an ad is a flak trying to write funny verse in style of Dr. Seuss.

9 Jan

"Capitalism in crisis." Dumb headlines like that say nothing. Free markets are always in crisis: disruptors threaten standing of incumbents

9 Jan

"7 Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives" (onforb.es/s8AhMh) JK--Hubris. Also cause of successful to flameout spectacularly

9 Jan

"7 Data Management Ah-Ha Moments" (bit.ly/z2lvKb) JK--What are these "moments"? Article just an unfocused mess of data mgt concerns

9 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Such Great Heights by Postal Service from Give Up JK--Luv Ben's use of great phrases like "That frankly will not fly"

9 Jan

Got my space heater cookin' with me down here in my basement office.

9 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Get Back (feat. Billy Preston) by The Beatles from Past Masters JK--Paul had the bluesiest voice of the four of them

9 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Fever by Horace Andy from Skylarking JK--1996. Great ska always makes me feel bouncy & buoyant.

9 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Ten Years Gone by Led Zeppelin from Physical Graffiti JK--Their best blend of Brit-folk, blues, & metal, IMHO

8 Jan

Read a lot of magazine back issues tonight. Vanity Fair was fairly vain.

8 Jan

Jim Noir "Don't You Worry" (youtu.be/zYNZNjXY5j8) JK--Crank this baby to 11 for the most amazing spatially separated & balanced mix

8 Jan

Air "Surfing On A Rocket" (youtu.be/siJlPtWkmzw) JK--2004. French electronic duo with excellent melodic chops.

8 Jan

Kasey Chambers "Not Pretty Enough" (youtu.be/qdflARH06dY) JK--2001. Australian country-western singer-songwriter with Tennessee twang

8 Jan

Gotye "Somebody That I Used To Know" (youtu.be/ccvqSF5JHdc) JK--Australian artist worth watching for. Voice vaguely Sting-like.

8 Jan

School of Seven Bells "Half Asleep" (youtu.be/Nk1nwiH8ZoI) JK--Video shows spooky beauty of paired voices & faces of twin sisters.

8 Jan

GO HAIL TO ON WISCONSIN AND BLUE VALIANT VICTORS//All of my alma/maters matter. I often/mutter their mottos.

8 Jan

It's weird how much of my life flashes before my eyes during yoga deep breathing. I wish it wouldnt. Must go deeper into the timeless moment

8 Jan

At our usual hangout. Already did the newspaper reading, the yoga, the shopping, the putting the trash out, the prepping for week to come.

8 Jan

Hardcopies of family and personal photos. Used to be ubiquitous. Becoming quite rare.

8 Jan

I still prefer physical keys, on laptop or messaging phone, for my core stream of original tweet-thoughts. Touchscreens more for retweeting.

8 Jan

Occupy Generation. I like that phrase more than "Gen X/Y," "Millennials," etc. Implies gener8nl shift of political nature. Also, not mktg BS

8 Jan

Youth-skewed Occupy generation, to extent they gain real electoral power in coming decade, R ones 2 do dirty work of SocSec fiscal retrench.

8 Jan

Aging Baby Boomers in power in US protect Social Security old age payouts & military pensions to the brink of national fiscal collapse.

8 Jan

As economy improves, GOP prospects in 2012 depend on Hail Mary pass that involves fresh overseas conflict so they can depict weak Obama.

8 Jan

I am looking forward to the demise of cable TV so I don't have to pay for basic package that includes nonsense like televangelism & Fox News

8 Jan

WashPost ran excellent column outlining how incredibly limp Mayor Gray's performance has been in office. Feels like the position is vacant.

8 Jan

Reading Diamond's insightful analysis of Easter Isl ecological depletion, those stone faces feel like illustration of Shelley "Ozymandias."

8 Jan

Jared Diamond book "Collapse." Most chilling analysis is about how Easter Islanders, thru deforestation, stranded their dying civilization.

8 Jan

I'd like to see a Seussian update to Dante's Inferno called "Oh The Places You'll Burn."

7 Jan

"F-commerce"? Isn't that what they have the "xxx" domain for? No? Then what F-word you talkin' 'bout? Facebook? Oh. Not F***book? Never mind

7 Jan

Google tribute to the late cartoonist Charles Addams' 100th birthday breathed some life into my otherwise moribund day. Boo!

7 Jan

You can tell Fox News is getting impatient waiting 4 clear GOP frontrunner 2 emerge. They're eager 2 promote nominee in fair & balanced way

7 Jan

Looking forward to year ahead in #Hadoop . In 2012, it will grow more stable, standardized, ubiquitous, & boring. Deeper into comfort zone.

7 Jan

Jared Diamond, who lives in LA, says its traffic is nowhere near as congested as, say, Bangkok, but that it's on slippery slope thataway

7 Jan

Tom Waits. He actually has a soft, diffident--albeit scratchy--speaking voice. In interviews, he reveals subtle, agile mind of a true artist

7 Jan

Steve Martin has had totally cool career. A many-modal artist who is equally distinctive as standup, actor, author, art patron, & musician

7 Jan

Interesting thing about Cheech & Chong. Neither of those actors is burnout in total loser sense. Both have decent post-breakup careers.

7 Jan

Santorum says contraception is "dangerous." I suspect he's not assessing relative health impacts to women of pill vs. IUD etc.

7 Jan

Life is a pressure cooker. Hopefully, you're harnessing it to cook up something good. Must control the release of steam.

7 Jan

A more holistic approach to #CRM next bst action & experience mgt would home in on customer lifetime optimization: make every moment special

7 Jan

ChristianMingle.com touts helping "find God's best match for you." Don't recall Old Testament book of algorithms & analytics.

7 Jan

Should be a law that all failing firms amalgamate into one massive enterprise that's too big to fail. Besides, misery loves companies.

7 Jan

Ah, the nostalgic chemical romance of olden emulsion photography. The mysterious darkroom. The image emerging in the developer pan.

7 Jan

Does anybody truly mourn fax machines? The most diabolical paper-jamming devices ever invented.

7 Jan

Paul Simon "Surfer Girl" (youtube.com/watch?v=wmjj5O…) JK--Nice solo live rendition on acoustic guitar of Beach Boys classic.

7 Jan

GigaOM: 10 cloud startups to watch in 2012 (goo.gl/mag/scO2F) JK--Discusses data science #bigdata startups Kaggle & Zillabyte

7 Jan

Xconomy: Boston: Cradle of Liberty and Data Startups (goo.gl/mag/kS3CX) JK--Discusses NoSQL startups Cloudant & Basho.

7 Jan

I am a self-appointed unpaid proactive continuous brand ambassador on social for only one brand: #kexp

7 Jan

Learning new stuff is life's greatest pleasure.

7 Jan

"A New Kaggle Contest for ..." (goo.gl/mag/gkrit) JK--Kaggle. Think of Netflix-like challenges as a sustainable business model.

7 Jan

"Why Firefox Isn't Doomed" (goo.gl/mag/GBcRe) JK--I use Firefox as my primary browser. It autoloads my face pages in neat tabs.

7 Jan

"A Note on Paper: The Human Interface" (goo.gl/mag/v4EAf) JK--My philosophy exactly. It's medium where I wrestle notes into analyses.

7 Jan

So-called "social readers." I consider them as adding to social noise level. My style is to tweet capsule reviews & weekly "stuff" digests

7 Jan

Yes, I'm up way past my bedtime. Yes, I'm tired.

7 Jan

Guesstimating size/growth of next best action mkt almost as difficult as "SOA" and "Big Data" market sizing. Scoping is essential.

7 Jan

I pointed out to client that NBA mkt has 3 segments: app-embedded functionality, stand-alone infra/solutions, & prof svcs.

7 Jan

Client today seemed to think I've estimated growth in next best action solution market. Once I scope it more discretely, I'll guesstimate

7 Jan

Anybody who's ever seen me, heard me speak, or reads my tweets may think my mind's anything but calm. But in musical sense, calm is my tonic

7 Jan

I got a facial massage this week. The masseuse pointed out its benefits in relieving stress headaches. I pointed to benefits of calm mind.

7 Jan

Hey @thetroynelson , you're a young man. I'm in my 50s & I can tell U that aches & pains aren't necessarily age-related. Often, it's posture

7 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp From the Devil Himself by Viva Voce from Get Yr Blood Sucked Out JK--Album title is great grabbing lyric of this tune

7 Jan

The best way to relieve pressure is by taking effective action, which I define as "at least one step in the right direction."

7 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp So Cold by Dodos JK--A bit of the psychedelia with the sticks thing goin' on & then some acoustic guitar bliss

7 Jan

Listening to super-cool DJ @thetroynelson do the late-night shift spinning a cool variety on #kexp

7 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Yer Stoned Italian Cowboy by The Go frm Howl on Haunted Beat U Ride JK--Sorta like Zappa hanging w/Buffalo Sprngfield

7 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Outlaw Blues by Bob Dylan from Bringing It All Back Home JK--Love the riotous country-boogie of this Dylan tune

6 Jan

Here's the most important yoga pose: savasana (corpse). Just lie there, entirely motionless focusing on your breath alone. Just lie there.

6 Jan

One of basic rules in responsible yoga is to disobey your teacher if your body tells U the teacher is a bad example. You are your own master

6 Jan

Idiots who do headstands in yoga or arching bridges to show how damn flexible they are in yoga are a poisonous example. Don't follow them.

6 Jan

"How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body" (nyti.ms/yuNYS0) JK--If you don't respect your body's limits, yes. Be aware of them. Don't show off.

6 Jan

#Hadoop won't swallow the #EDW. They'll eat each other's tails. A more perfect ring of #bigdata analytics

6 Jan

I actually worry about who I left out from any week's follow-fridays. Sorta makes me not want to send them out. I hate being excluded.

6 Jan

Julie London "Cry Me A River" (youtu.be/ByUOFV5TusE) JK--Tom Wait mentioned this as influence in his interview on NPR. He luvs melody

Stuff that slipped through the cracks January 3-6 2012

2012-01-06T19:15:00.000-08:00

10 Things That Are Killing RIM

2011: The Year Facebook Killed Google
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3371070/5553367/274168/0/

What We Hate Most About Traveling

The Next Big Thing(s) in Tech
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3373077/5553367/274460/0/

Computer Space and the Dawn of the Arcade Video Game
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3373077/5553367/274463/0/

Amazon Builds World’s Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer

How to delete every Facebook wall post, wipe your Timeline

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/how-to-delete-every-facebook-wall-post-wipe-your-timeline/1999?tag=nl.e539

Bracing For BYOD

Predictive Analytics with Data Mining: How It Works

Data Science Skepticism

http://www.information-management.com/blogs/-10021703-1.html

CLOUD COMPUTING TRENDS THAT WILL SHAPE THE 2012 CLOUD PROVIDER MARKET
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15931304/2433922

CUSTOMERS EXPRESS HOPES FOR, CONCERNS ABOUT SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15930198/2433922

Windows Phone Road Map Details 'Tango,' 'Apollo'

2012: Data is Everything

Pondering a Quieter Web in 2012

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=466&doc_id=237293

Google+ Closes December On Crest Of Social Wave

When Will the Data Model Be Ready?

9 Trends Reshaping Risk Software

Microsoft Research delves into economics

DARPA wants to give dead, in-orbit satellites new life

Scientists Restore 125-Year-Old Audio With 3D Optical Scans

http://www.pcworld.com/article/247172/scientists_restore_125yearold_audio_with_3d_optical_scans.html#tk.nl_dnx_t_crawl

Salesforce.com Steps Past CRM, Into Social Marketing

Practice What You Preach

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Hadoop v1.0

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces21

Google acquires 200-plus more IBM patents

Where the tech workers are (map)

Google+ Closes December On Crest Of Social Wave

In-vehicle infotainment software architecture: Genivi and beyond - Part 1

http://www.eetimes.com/design/embedded-internet-design/4233756/In-vehicle-infotainment-software-architecture--Genivi-and-beyond---Part-1?cid=NL_EmbeddedInternet&Ecosystem=embedded-internet-design

Amazon Elastic Cloud Computer Cuts Cost of Supercomputer Access

IBM Eats Its Own Social Dog Food

Microsoft's cloud roadmap for 2012: What's on tap

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-cloud-roadmap-for-2012-whats-on-tap/11522?tag=nl.e019

Tablet relevance in comparison to the netbook timeline

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tablets/tablet-relevance-in-comparison-to-the-netbook-timeline/573?tag=nl.e019

The three biggest tech blunders destined to happen in 2012

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/hiner/the-three-biggest-tech-blunders-destined-to-happen-in-2012/9988?tag=nl.e101

Best Tech Predictions Of 2012

http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/232301064?cid=nl_IW_btl_2012-01-03_html&elq=f7b54fe7075d4e9b80089826ded8eb40

Hadoop solidified for production duty

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223127/Hadoop_solidified_for_production_duty?source=CTWNLE_nlt_datamgmt_2012-01-04

Apache Hadoop Reaches Milestone: Release 1.0.0

http://hortonworks.com/apache-hadoop-reaches-milestone-release-1-0-0/

Top 12 Cloud Trends Of 2012

Microsoft Azure In 2012: Watch Out Amazon?

Hadoop challenger works to add developers

Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012

Twitter to open source Android security tech
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7796719/7006275/545800/0/

10 Best Practices Learned from 2011 Tech Market Chaos and Stupidity

Social Media Analytics Revolutionizing Marketing Campaign Management

A BPM Prediction for 2012

Top 10 Health IT Predictions For 2012

How Social Media Changes Technical Communication

Big Data: Why All The Fuss?

Microsoft Azure In 2012: Watch Out Amazon?

Do Clinicians Need Their Own DWI Rule?

It's official: Yahoo appoints PayPal chief Scott Thompson as chief executive

Yahoo's new CEO Thompson: Five big challenges

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203471004577140841495542810.html?mod=djemTECH_h Kodak Preparing for Chapter 11 Filing

IBM acquiring software testing vendor Green Hat

'Incredibly realistic' Jobs doll set for Feb release

4 hot Microsoft technologies coming in 2012

10 essential data center appliances

Social Employees Becoming Brand Stewards

BIG DATA, MOBILE IT, CLOUD DROVE FAST-MOVING 2011, SET STAGE FOR 2012
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15955735/2433922

Can Yahoo's new CEO Thompson harness big data, analytics?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/can-yahoos-new-ceo-thompson-harness-big-data-analytics/66160?tag=nl.e539

Will Your New CIO Be a CMO?

MDM Hits a High Note

The End of Social Media Groups?

Google Kills Author Search, Redirects Users to Google+

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?doc_id=237373&f_src=itgazette

Human Capital Management Heads Cloudward

Windows Azure Leads the Data Revolution

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN THE CLOUD: IS SAAS BI IN YOUR FUTURE?
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15957398/2433922

'Big data' analytics surges into the BI software market

http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/photostory/2240113289/Top-five-biggest-business-intelligence-BI-software-stories-of-2011/1/Big-data-analytics-surges-into-the-BI-software-market?track=NL-544&ad=858886&asrc=EM_NLN_15957402&uid=2433922

Year in review: 'Big data' gets big chunk of news in 2011
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15957405/2433922

Oracle's Downward Spiral

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/74110.html

10 Storage Predictions For 2012

Unpredictability and Uncertainty versus Stability

A BPM Prediction for 2012

CES 2012: The End of an Era
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74107.html

The App Economy's Special Ingredient: APIs

Software whiz Ray Ozzie re-emerges with startup Cocomo

Just 1% of Users Consume Half of the Entire Mobile Data Downlink Capacity

Microsoft Details Windows 8 Reset, Refresh Upgrades

Top 10 Information Management M&As

Big data: we have the technology, but do we have the people?

So, What's Your Algorithm?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203462304577138961342097348.html?mod=djemWMP_h

Warning signs of the dysfunctionally busy worker

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/management/morning-manager/warning-signs-of-the-dysfunctionally-busy-worker/article2292363/

Top 10 storage trends in 2011: solid-state technology, cloud, big data make a mark
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15967952/2433922

Big Data Plans: You Need More Than One

MDM In 2012

7 Data Management Ah-Ha Moments

Rumors Suggest Yahoo Should Acquire Netflix

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=01200000KZZO&nl=2&full_skip=1