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Are online communities commoditising our health information?

A few weeks ago I interviewed the founder of HealthUnlocked.  HealthUnlocked are an online community for patients looking for support and advice on their...

0 replies - 358 views - 05/13/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

The micro market crash, brought to you by social media

Just over a week ago, the U.S. stock market plunged in early afternoon trading with the S&P 500 losing $121 billion of its value within minutes. This...

0 replies - 365 views - 05/06/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Can our keywords reveal our eating habits?

Analysing the keywords we use when we search Google is not a new thing.  Google Flu Trends is the most popular example, using keyword analysis to...

0 replies - 554 views - 04/20/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

What is Social Business anyway?

It certainly sounds better than Human-Centered Data-Backed Agile Design, or the mouth-cluttering acronym that would accompany it. All the hoola boo around the...

0 replies - 482 views - 04/16/13 by Josh Dormont in Articles

Don’t think like your customers, get them to think like you!

Predictive analytics is big business now. Hand in hand with Big Data they represent one of the only ways to get to know your consumer market and...

0 replies - 661 views - 04/10/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

The technology conversation we’re not having

‘Integration’ is the conversation we’re not having. In Big Data is Distracting Us from the Real Conversation yesterday by TIBCO CTO Matt Quinn, the...

0 replies - 600 views - 03/31/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Webscale means having time-based architectures

In an interesting piece yesterday, GigaOM reported that Netflix has an architecture built around timelines. This struck home for a guy who spends a great...

0 replies - 1765 views - 03/30/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Enterprise social, big data and the relevance paradox

Information. We’re all grasping for it, we want it now, we want it all, and in a social and big data context we can have both. Same goes for the...

0 replies - 830 views - 03/09/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Big Data for Marketing: I Want my Real Time Dashboard

“Data is the new oil.” That was one of my favorite quotes from a conference I attended earlier this year. The businesses that can harvest and take...

0 replies - 1313 views - 03/01/13 by Michael Brenner in Articles

Bootstrap’s Top 10 Big Data Predictions for 2013, Part 1

Big data is one of the dominant marketing topics of 2013 and Bootstrap believes that every technology related company needs to define their big...

0 replies - 743 views - 02/21/13 by Bootstrap Mark... in Articles

Are NoSQL and Big Data Just Hype? Interview with MySQL Creator, Monty Widenius

Conducted by Dmitry Sotnikov, COO of Jelastic , Oracle Duke’s Choice Award Winner for Java & PHP Platform-as-a-ServiceLast week, we had...

0 replies - 4434 views - 01/24/13 by Julia Wunder in Articles

What is your social identity at work?

Social media is a ubiquitous part of the modern workplace. Despite some attempts to block access, the modern employee is hyper-connected as never before. ...

0 replies - 1065 views - 01/21/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Why Harnessing “Big Data” Is The Next Big Thing In eCommerce – Part 1

As programs, peripherals, apps, search engines, social media, censuses, smartphone chips, credit card purchase records, loyalty programs, competitive...

0 replies - 1208 views - 04/18/12 by Gilon Miller in Articles

Daily Dose: Google Enters the Social Network Ring with Google+

The long-awaited social networking project from Google was revealed yesterday, dubbed Google+. It is not clear from whether or not the social network is aimed...

0 replies - 18530 views - 06/29/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Big Data, Big Competition: LexisNexis To Release Hadoop Competitor

LexisNexis is set to launch open source data processing tools that supposedly outdo Hadoop, the current darling of the Big Data world. The new product line is...

0 replies - 16245 views - 06/16/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose