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The history of Hadoop: From 4 nodes to the future of data

Depending on how one defines its birth, Hadoop is now 10 years old. In that decade, Hadoop has gone from being the hopeful answer to Yahoo’s search-engine woes to a general-purpose computing…
SOURCE:gigaom.com
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1674 words)

The Long Good-Bye

Fifty years ago this month, striking printers shut down seven New York City newspapers. The strike would last for 114 days and helped to kill four of those newspapers. “This was an absolutely…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 30, 2012
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5834 words)

The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality

The new Google FieldTrip app probes the question: What digital information do you want to see overlaid on the physical world? A book in The Future.It is The Future. You wake up at dawn and fumble on…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 25, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2787 words)

No Filter: How Instagram Caused Hipstamatic To Lose Focus And Gamble On Social

When I ask Hipstamatic CEO Lucas Buick if he lost focus in the last year, he immediately responds, “Absolutely.” Since laying off roughly half of his workforce in August, Buick has had…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3820 words)

How Google Builds Its Maps -- And What It Means for the Future of, Well, Everything

An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps.Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2355 words)

A Sum of Parts: The Point of Points and The Gamification of Videogames

At a time when the hype (and disdain) around points, metrics, achievements, and gamification generally was at a high, Bulletstorm arrived with the most crass, blunt, in-your-face points and…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1047 words)

Technology and Human Nature

The European: Last month, Alan Turing would have turned 100 – and in recent years, he has been elevated from relative obscurity to computer science fame. What is so interesting and significant…
PUBLISHED: July 2, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3230 words)
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The Case for Facebook

Let's not let 10 days of share price fluctuation blind us to Facebook's unprecedented accomplishments. Consider this a skeptic's guide to the bull case for the social network. Reuters Facebook just…
PUBLISHED: May 29, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2821 words)

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PUBLISHED: May 14, 2012
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