Friday, July 30, 2010

Stuff I’m persisting in a big ol’ Hadoop cluster here in my hot little hand July 26-30 2010

The state of enterprise architecture: Vast promise or lost opportunity?


IBM breaks down the silos - Part 3, Systems of Systems


XML pioneer Bray pitches functional programming for concurrency


IBM Unveils Next-Generation Mainframe


Is 'go away' the best response to complaints about user-generated content?


Wikileaks Plunges Political World Into Turmoil


Vendors push social media analytics, but some question the technology's readiness
http://go.techtarget.com/r/12093537/2433922


Eye on Oracle - Bad news on Oracle-Sun hardware continues
http://go.techtarget.com/r/12093230/2433922


Social Business Intelligence: The Knowledge Management Connection


Drupal Gardens getting ready to bloom


XML pioneer pitches concurrency programming


Why $35 Tablet Will Never Exist

http://bit.ly/aZrAfh

CouchDB brings peer-based data replication


SAP Reports 16% Growth in Software and Software-Related Service Revenues for the Second Quarter http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4332174&access=EH


The Predictive Power Of Social Media

http://sns.ly/YDB42


Big Data: The Early Days Are Over


Facebook, Twitter Influence Purchases


SAP Reports Strong Growth, Completes Sybase Deal


Bump 2.0 Adds Instant FaceBook And Twitter Friending


Goodbye, Contemplation... Hello, New Digital Mind


Dealing with incompetent peers is tricky business


Next step for Wikileaks: Crowdsourcing classified data
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6615126/7006273/306802/0/


Yahoo building new software infrastructure for media products


SAP reports revenue up 12%, earnings up 15%


KEY CONSIDERATIONS FOR EVALUATING CPM SOFTWARE AND VENDORS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/12104035/2433922


SAP Reports Q2 Sales Surge, Wraps Up Sybase Acquisition


IBM's Next-Gen 'System of Systems' Mainframe

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70486.html


SAS Helps Companies Make Sense of Social Media Comments


Expert Analysis: A Case for Socialization of Data


IBM breaks down the silos - Part 4, Reuse, Token Licenses and Conclusion


Oracle's New Identity Management Suite Adds Sun Technology


Microsoft posts record revenue, thumbs nose at Apple


Open Geospatial Invites Comment on the MovingObjectSnapshot Standard
Staff, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Announcement
http://xml.coverpages.org/MovingObjectSnapshot-Review.html
http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=846054


Wolfram Alpha widgets bring computation engine to any website

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/wolfram-alpha-widgets-bring-computation-engine-to-any-website/37196?tag=nl.e539


Oracle Updates SOA Suite 11g


Web 2.0 Security Requires Vetting Third-Party Content


The Internet, 1,000 Faster


SAP Ranked the Leader in the Business Intelligence Tools Market, Outpaces Market Growth in Financial Performance and Strategy Management Applications http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4333707&access=EH


EMC releases new midrange deduplication array


Is Social BPM Really a Ground Breaking, New Phenomenon?


Global CIO: Larry Ellison Looms Large Over Put-Down Of Oracle President


The Best-Paid CEOs Of The Decade: Ellison #1


The Social Network Half a Billion Love to Hate
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/70477.html


BUYER'S GUIDE: CHOOSING AND UNDERSTANDING MDM SOFTWARE
http://go.techtarget.com/r/12113542/2433922


Decision Management, Possibly the Last Frontier in BI


Social Business Intelligence: The Knowledge Management Connection


The Vegetarian Enjoys Steak – Open Source R Meets Proprietary Spotfire


The Problem with Total Cost of Ownership


WikiLeaks & the End of Secrecy


Gartner throws some cold water on SOA-cloud link


Why Android won


Analysts define business value and imperatives for cloud-based B2B ecommerce trading communities


Amazon-Facebook Deal Could Lead To Social Shopping

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=130008NWKKAC&nl=2


Using Imprecise Location for Emergency Context Resolution
http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-ietf-ecrit-rough-loc-02.txt
http://xml.coverpages.org/emergencyManagement.html#ietf-ecrit


Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Transitions to OASIS
Staff, WS-I and OASIS Announcement
http://xml.coverpages.org/WSI-OASIS-Transition.html

See also the WS-I web site: http://www.ws-i.org/


Is the IT Pendulum Winding Down?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/70498.html


Is America ready for NBC's Outsourced?


Could open source tools make Facebook the next AOL?


Social Media Analytics vs. Social Network Analysis


Time to end the 'disposable geek' mentality


Roper agrees to buy Cloud SCM vendor iTradeNetwork for $525M

Kin and Android: A tale of two phones


Mitch Wagner: Blogging gets new life


Reputation, Interrupted


7 Steps to Enhance Product Data Quality


The Facebook Data Torrent Debacle: Q&A
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1136257/5553367/103691/0/


Google Gets Playful With Facebook Rivalry
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/70506.html


Future tech: Retro visions revisited


CATALYST CONFERENCE: IS THE NEW BI ABOUT LESS AUTOMATION -- OR MORE?
http://go.techtarget.com/r/12136795/2433922

IBM Acquires Advanced Data Compression Technology Developer