Today, Digiday featured an article about the ongoing debate of apps vs. mobile Web. It is not a new issue on the mobile platform and, one could argue, not even a new issue in the tech world. Native apps for … Continue reading
While oriented primarily to marketers, much of this year’s Conversational Marketing Summit was about the intersection of marketing and technology on the Web. Here are a couple of powerful themes that emerged during the jam-packed 2-day event. Continue reading
I’m pleased to announce Federated Media Publishing’s first open-source contribution. cronviz: Visualize your cron jobs. It’s 3 AM. Do you know where your cron jobs are? Use case You have a problem: something’s causing performance issues on the application server between … Continue reading
Building semantic technology is one thing, and scaling it is another. Here’s a case-study on scaling up the automated scraping of search results pages. Continue reading
What’s the difference between a gourmet chef and an engineer who tries to cook something for dinner? What’s the difference between a Jack-of-all-trades and an AI expert? Read on… Continue reading
Ever wonder how Federated Media Publishing got its start? Well, you’re in luck. John Battelle, Founder and Executive Chairman of FMP, just posted about it on the Signal blog. Check it out.
There’s an admission I’ve heard from all the people I know who practice applied artificial intelligence, i.e., those who actually build real products and applications out of AI components, and it’s this: putting AI into the real world is just as much an art as it is a science. Continue reading
Here’s my real-life story of how data retention can save your property and help put a criminal behind bars. I’ll include some tips on how you can protect your home and your possessions via good data practices, like I did. … Continue reading
The second annual Clojure/conj came to a close last November. I was able to attend and wanted to share some impressions of the conference in general and a couple of the more inspiring talks in particular. I’ll be happy to … Continue reading
Like many data-centric companies, we use Hadoop to routinely process large data sets on an hourly and daily basis. While Hadoop offers a great model for scaling data processing applications through its distributed file system (HDFS), Map/Reduce and numerous add-ons including … Continue reading