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Data hero: visualization startup cloud based analysis

Posted on April 29, 2013June 25, 2013 by timbatchelder

Visualization startup Datahero opens its doors and delivers data analysis for the masses
Derrick Harris, gigaom.com

When I first met Datahero Co-founder Chris Neumann a year ago, I was pretty excited about what he claimed his new company was going to do. Essentially, he told me, it was going to offer a simple, cloud-based data analysis and…

Visualization startup Datahero opens its doors and delivers data analysis for the masses http://flip.it/NwDD6 http://flip.it/MVf6l

Visualization is the future: 6 startups re-imagining how we consume data [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
It’s a beautiful thing when free data meets free analytics (gigaom.com)
Seeking Simplicity’s Sweet Spot (cloudave.com)
Big Data Analysis Takes a Big Bite Out of HPC Workloads: IDC (eweek.com)
Thomas Davenport on Creativity in Quantitative Analysis (pafnuty.wordpress.com)
How signals, geometry, and topology are influencing data science (strata.oreilly.com)
Marketers, Seeing A Changing Landscape, Recognize Need For Data Analysis Skills (monsieurdigital.wordpress.com)
Big Data Reveals Weather-Related Shopping Patterns (informationweek.com)

IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell

Posted on January 13, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder

IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell, Within The Next Five Years
By Clay Dillow, popsci.com

The computing giant’s annual list of technology predictions for the next five years foresee computers that can taste, see, smell, hear, and touch.

At the end of each year, IBM releases its “5 in 5”—five technology predictions that IBM…

RT @christoferguson: And can destroy all humans RT“@PopSci: In the next five years, we’ll have computers that can feel and smell, says IBM. http://flip.it/MeQSR” http://flip.it/ClfUn

Business Model Innovation (risingwiththecloud.wordpress.com)
IBM’s Robot Sidekick to Aid Field Engineers (greateribm.wordpress.com)
IBM acquires UrbanCode, maker of software update tools (newyork.newsday.com)
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today (1948!) (adafruit.com)
Guest Lecture: Chris Welty (IBM Research), 18 March 2013 (13:30 – 15:15) (thesocialweb2013.wordpress.com)

Google cloud music match is free

Posted on December 19, 2012April 18, 2013 by timbatchelder

Google’s cloud-based music-matching service has arrived… and it’s free
Cyrus Farivar, arstechnica.com

This is what Ars editor Cyrus Farivar sent to Google Play this morning.Cyrus FarivarGoogle has announced its own music-matching locker service, but unlike Amazon’s Cloud Player and Apple’s iTunes Match, this new service is free. Google Play, in th…

RT @arstechnica: Google’s cloud music service has arrived… and it’s free http://flip.it/2AIUi by @cfarivar http://flip.it/N7PRf

“Stop the Cyborgs” launches public campaign against Google Glass (arstechnica.com)
Google ‘to launch Spotify rival this year’ (telegraph.co.uk)
Setup and use the Google Music service in Ireland (themobilemouth.wordpress.com)
Top 11 Cloud Computing Services (techcular.com)

ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox

Posted on December 16, 2012June 1, 2013 by timbatchelder

Seed statue (Photo credit: Ben.Millett)

Alex Williams, techcrunch.com

Y Combinator company ZenPayroll launched its cloud-based payroll service today with $6.1 million in seed funding from Google Ventures and investments from the CEOs at Yammer, Box, Yelp and Dropbox. It is the largest seed round ever …

RT @TechCrunch: ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Bo… http://flip.it/x4MOH by @alexwilliams http://flip.it/jyMBM

ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox

ZenPayroll launches modern payroll service for accountants and bookkeepers (thenextweb.com)
ZenPayroll Launches Simple, Cloud-Based Payroll Service For Accountant And Bookkeepers (techcrunch.com)
ZenPayroll (YC W12) launches ZenPayroll for Accountants, making it easy for them to manage all their clients from one dashboard (ycombinator.com)
PayrollHero nabs $1m to expand its cloud-based payroll platform in Southeast Asia (thenextweb.com)
Dublin start-up Converser raises US$1.2m in seed funding (siliconrepublic.com)

Why your body is the next target for social technology

Posted on November 5, 2012March 31, 2013 by timbatchelder

Smart Body, Smart World: The Next Phase of Personal Computing
Sarah Rotman Epps, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, allthingsd.com

In the past half-century, computing has evolved from the mainframe to the desktop to the shoulder bag to the pocket, and now it’s taking over new frontiers: our physical bodies, and the physical environments that we inhabit. The ne…

http://flpbd.it/v6cob

Is MDM, as Forrester Research calls it, a “heavy-handed approach?” (itconnecter.wordpress.com)
Forrester’s top 15 emerging technologies to watch (zdnet.com)
Using Social Media in your Job Search (marketingcurry.wordpress.com)
The CIO Needs to Become a More Mature Position (thetibcoblog.com)
Forrester Research Calls Mobile-Device Management ‘Heavy-Handed Approach’ (cio.com)
Zachary Reiss Davis: Penny Arcade’s Influence on Tech products vs. Forrester Research (influencermarketingreview.com)
Forrester Research calls mobile-device management ‘heavy-handed approach’ (networkworld.com)
The NYT is doing something smart by using Twitter trends to target ads (paidcontent.org)
SXSW: Will collecting data on your body make you healthier? (cnn.com)

Measuring An Employee’s Worth? Consider Influence

Posted on October 1, 2012February 18, 2013 by timbatchelder

Measuring An Employee’s Worth? Consider Influence
By E.B. Boyd, fastcompany.com

The performance review of the future will include services like Salesforce.com’s Chatter and its Influencers feature, which measures how much weight you carry among your peers.

Today, your performance review is based on things like sales numb…

http://flpbd.it/xZePm

Salesforce.com Announces Timing of its Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2013 Financial Results Conference Call (virtual-strategy.com)
Driving engagement and a social business: it’s child’s play with gamification (blogs.techworld.com)
Medtronic Selects Indicee Analytics via Salesforce.com’s AppExchange (virtual-strategy.com)
Cornerstone for Salesforce: Optimizing CRM Investment (nextgeninsights.com)
FeedMagnet Platform Boosts Participation at Cars.com Annual Sales Event, Integrates Salesforce Chatter (prweb.com)
Salesforce.com Executive to Participate in Upcoming Investor Meeting (sacbee.com)
The Internet of everything (information-age.com)
Vala Afshar: The 10 Must-Have Sales and Marketing Business Tools (huffingtonpost.com)
At CES 2013, Salesforce tracks show buzz in the cloud (zdnet.com)
World Economic Forum, Salesforce.com and Accenture Deliver Real-time Social Media Insights to Participants of World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos (prnewswire.com)

Mac OSX Automator as a folksonomy builder

Posted on August 23, 2011August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder

Mac 101: Automator.

this tool allows you to tag content automatically to implemenent the folksonomy approach to file storage and search

Cloud Files vs. Cloud Drive (rackspace.com)
New Conference Paper: Folksonomies as Subject Access – a Survey of Implementing Tagging in Library Online Catalogs and Discovery Layers (infodocket.com)
Amazon Glacier: Back Up All Your Data for Pennies a Month (webmonkey.com)
When Documents in the Cloud aren’t (macworld.com)

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