Call-For-Speakers – Deadline: June 4
Save-the-date for the next PAW: Oct 19-22, 2009 in Washington DC Speaker proposals deadline: June 4, 2009 Join Predictive Analytics…
What Should I Say About Social Search?
I’ll be at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York next week, participating on a panel Tuesday morning to discuss…
Will Larry Turn Oracle-Sun Into the New AS/400?
If you’re interested in following the Oracle-Sun saga, there’s an excellent chance that you’ve seen the Reuters interview with Larry…
Clearest Introductions to Information Theory
I've previously written notes about an information theory betting "paradox" and Kelly's optimal betting fraction.Information theory formalized the duality between information…
Depression-busting Recipe for us Nerds
If the tight times are getting you down, I have a recipe I like to put together that just fills…
Hallmark Fights Back
A few years ago many online greeting companies popped up leaving the traditional greeting card retailers feeling a bit empty,…
More problems for Googlemail
Back on February 24th 2009, there was a major outage of Google’s on-line mail service, googlemail, or gmail as it…
People, Process & Politics: Data Governance
For those of us in high tech, it’s easy to fall into the trap of concentrating too hard on the…
Frank Buytendijk: passion makes performance indicators
Performance comes from Venus, says Frank Buytendijk, and managers comes from Mars. Frank himself flew from the Netherlands to show…
Playing With Wolfram Alpha
Woo hoo, I have preview access to Wolfram Alpha! I’ve only had a short time to play with it, but…