March 26, 2008

MapReduce vs. SQL Talk

As previously posted on our Y!DN blog, Bill Boebel, CTO of Mailtrust, gave a MapReduce vs. SQL Talk on Monday the 25th. (Mailtrust is the email division of Rackspace, a large hosting provider.)

Stu Hood, one of Mailtrust's software engineers wrote about MapReduce at Rackspace back in January, detailing how they use Hadoop for processing "several hundred gigabytes of email log data" every day. We have his presentation here for your viewing:

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March 19, 2008

Introducing - Pipe Badges!

Did you ever want an easy way of putting Pipes output onto your website or blog? Watch Yahoo! Pipes' Paul Donnelly talk with Jeremy Zawodny on the new badges available now:

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March 14, 2008

Conference Conversations- ETech: David Orban, OpenSpime.com

OpenSpime is a project of WideTag Inc, a technology infrastructure company providing hardware and software solutions for an open Internet of Things. Jeremy talks with one of it's founders, David Orban:

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March 12, 2008

Conference Conversations- ETech: Dale Dougherty, O'Reilly

Dale Dougherty is the editor and publisher of MAKE, and general manager of the Maker Media division of O'Reilly Media, Inc. He also organizes Maker Faire. Watch our conversation:

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March 11, 2008

NetSquared.org

Non-profits and NGOs thrive on relationships – which means the social web holds tremendous potential to transform their effectiveness and impact. This is where NetSquared.org comes in, by helping build the strategic capacity, knowledge and skills non-profits need to put these powerful new online tools to work achieving positive changes. Their mission: To spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations.

To learn more, watch this video:

Net2 was created by TechSoup, a project of CompuMentor.

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March 10, 2008

Conference Conversations- ETech: Aaron Fulkerson, MindTouch.com

While at ETech, we caught up with some attendees at our Yahoo! booth. Jeremy Zawodny chats with Aaron Fulkerson from MindTouch.

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March 5, 2008

Fire Eagle Launches

Tom Coates took the stage at ETech in San Diego to announce the developer release of Fire Eagle.

Fire Eagle is a system that brokers location information. It is designed to help users safely share information about their location with sites, services and people on the Internet.

Want to easily make your site react to a user's location? Or maybe you've found a way to capture someone's location and want to find cool things to plug it into?

Tom explains the thinking behind the project and how it works.

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March 4, 2008

GSP West 2008: Social Networks & The NEED for FEEDS

A panel discussion at GSP West with Ian Kennedy (MyBlogLog), Bret Taylor (FriendFeed), Kevin Marks (Google) and David Recordon (Six Apart) on the rollout of shared activity streams as part of the latest revolution in social networks .

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March 3, 2008

Announcing the MyBlogLog API

Yahoo!'s Ian Kennedy explains some of the capabilities of the new MyBlogLog API at the Graphing Social Patterns conference in San Diego. Developers can leverage the identities people share via MyBlogLog to create new forms of communities via the methods now exposed publicly. He walked through a few examples, including Kent Brewster's 'Blog Juice' bookmarklet, Raven's embedded social network and its WordPress plug-in, and a new hack that can surface the activity of people you encounter in physical space via a bluetooth client.

You can watch the video here:

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