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Greenplum, the analytics division of EMC, has announced new software that lets data analysts explore all their organization’s data and share interesting findings and data sets Facebook-style among their colleagues. The product is called Chorus, and it wraps around EMC’s Greenplum Database and Hadoop distribution, making all that data available for the data team...
Favo.rs looks a lot like LinkedIn and Facebook. There’s a central news feed, a home navigation button in the upper left-hand corner of the screen, a centrally located search bar and notifications. Users gain a reputation through earning points. Favo.rs brings in a gamification element with four status levels (rookies, participant, advocate and benefactor)...
The latest attack on the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) shows that the tech industry is getting smarter and more tactical in its fight against the legislation that aims to prevent piracy by shutting down web sites and forcing Internet service providers (ISPs) and content hosting companies to remove content if there’s even...
We last wrote about the Random Hacks of Kindness operation a year ago. Twice a year, a group of programmers gather together for an intense weekend in 28 different cities around the world to benefit some good causes and write some code. Last weekend was the fifth such occurrence, with about a thousand different...
In December of 2010, Fabulis, a social network for gay men turned into Fab.com, a daily deals site for gay men. Then, this spring, Jason Goldberg, Fab’s CEO turned the ship in yet another direction, dropping its niche demographic to become a top destination for quality designed objects at below retail prices. With a little help from viral...
Scheduling is not only something that I don’t like doing, it’s something I’m really bad at doing. When you have a lot going on at once, it’s a real pain to stop and think about when you have time to fit something else in. Sometimes I joke that I have to schedule time to...
If you own an iPad, there’s one chance out of ten that Flipboard is installed one your device (see our post). And it doesn’t stop here: demand for its new iPhone app is so high that the service has crashed. But even popular products need additional features, and Flipboard is working on one which...
Pay-to-pitch deals are typically pretty controversial. Critics say the argument against them is simple: If your startup is any good, journalists and potential investors should be happy to hear about it — not asking for money in exchange for listening to your pitch. But right now, some of the most reputable names in Silicon...