A Netflix Prize win is nigh: How they did it
Breaking news: On Friday, Netflix Prize team “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos” passed the mark, qualifying for the $1,000,000 prize. The team…
Are Spammers Taking Over Twitter?
Until recently, I’ve noticed the occasional incdent where a Twitter “trending topic” was socially engineered by a spammer, usually by…
Outsourcing drivers in today’s climate: large companies want to globalize, mid-sized companies seek expertise
We wanted to share some recent dynamics from our new survey of outsourcing adoption intentions in mid-2009. While the onus…
Online to Offline conversion – A real estate web site
(This post is part of a series on the state of multichannel metrics today, one year after the book came…
OGI Conference: Recommended for enterprise CTOs in the federal space
The next big Gov2.0 event is the 21-22 July 2009 Open Government & Innovations Conference (OGI). The list of speakers…
Worthy Data Quality Whitepapers (Part 1)
In my April blog post Data Quality Whitepapers are Worthless, I called for data quality whitepapers that are worth reading.…
“Our Customers Don’t Use Stuff like Facebook and Twitter”
I’m not pointing fingers or ranting today, I’m just sort of perplexed. Three times this week I spoke to marketing…
Search Innovation: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
It’s unusual for HCIR to make it into the mainstream business press, so I was delighted when Pete Barlas reached…
NYT charts Michael Jackson’s pop hits
The New York Times has an interesting graphic today charting the late Michael Jackson's musical career. The chart superposes the Billboard…
R 2.9.1 released
As announced by Peter Dalgaard this morning, the latest update to R, R 2.9.1, has been released on schedule. If…