As someone or many have mentioned in What is ‘Web 3.0,’ and should you care?, Web 1.0 was about making information available. Web 2.0 was about connecting, communicating, collaborating, social networking, individual and group publishing, blogging, crowd-sourcing and the transformation of traditional media.
In the 2.0 period, we started to see the rise of cyber currency, [...]
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Got a Mac and want to have a bit of iPhone application programming fun? Check out this Stanford course, CS 193P: iPhone Application Programming. While you are at it, check out Stanford on iTunes U.
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After running some tests on Amazon CloudFront globally, our team’s conclusions have landed me a date with the CloudFront Operations Manager. In a nutshell, our test results concluded:
We were testing using CF/S3 to deliver content faster to customers in geographic regions different than our server. One would expect the downloads to be (noteworthy) faster [...]
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Oh, how I am laughing today. FIrst, I was rolling on the floor about online salami attacks at E-Trade and Schwab, now kindred-spirt blogger Marc Adler at Citigroup has me laughing with his recent CEP marketing hype:
You know that it’s been a good week for CEP when the Times starts covering it. - Marc
Anyway, [...]
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Here is one of my favorite news stories of the week, Guilty Plea for Man Behind Creative E-Trade Scam.
In this funny story, Michael Largent, 23, of Plumas Lake, CA, wrote a simple Internet script that opened more than 58,000 online accounts at places like E-trade and Schwab. Largent used fake names to automatically open [...]
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Like many of you, I have been reading some of the hype about WolframAlpha as if this new website is a potential Google killer. Where in the world do these fools come from? Anyway, I admit that I had to try it out for myself.
First of all, WolframAlpha is not a search engine, it is [...]
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AWS has announced the public beta of three new features for Amazon EC2: Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring AWS cloud resources, Auto Scaling for automatically growing and shrinking capacity based on demand, and Elastic Load Balancing for distributing incoming traffic across Amazon EC2 compute instances.
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Following up on KMeans Clustering Now Running on Elastic MapReduce, Stephen Green has generously documented the steps that was necessary to get an example of k-Means clustering up and running on Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce (EMR) on the Apache Lucene Mahout wiki.
Mahout on Elastic MapReduce by Stephen Green
As a side note, there has been considerable [...]
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