Is the RDBMS doomed (yada yada yada) ?
Image by Snooch2TheNooch via FlickrI was speaking with Michael Stonebraker this morning. I mentioned that lately many have been referencing…
Who should Jean-Claude Trichet call?
How is private consumption developing in the US? Alan Greenspan, the former Fed’s chairman, once said that if he wanted…
Thin Slicing Your Way to Lower Profits
A hotel manager looks out in the lobby and notices a guest with a Hermes tie. Another is carrying a…
The Napoleonic Wars – Timely and Near Enough was Good Enough
In 1815, they didn’t have access to all the information we have today, but sometimes they had the right information…
BI FAIL #2
Seth Grimes of Alta Plana gives us a great example of business intelligence failure this week on the site USAspending.gov.…
Creating a Culture of Transparency
I was reading an article yesterday that got me thinking again about the culture shift that is necessary for a…
Google Apps: The Missing Manual
I’ve mentioned before that I run my small business, Crucial Point LLC, primarily by leveraging cloud computing capabilities. With this…
Project Gaydar: A Reminder That Privacy Isn’t Binary
There’s a nice article in the Boston Globe about “Project Gaydar“, a project to predict who is gay based on…
#22: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Who’s with you on…
T2: Judgment Day for Twine?
Nova Spivack, CEO and founder of Radar Networks, just released a preview (see above) announcing Twine 2.0, a semantic search…