And finally, Act 3… I presented much of the background in my two previous posts (here and here). So lets get down to business… First, a quick recap: Data growth is out of control — there’s too much stuff stored…
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Interesting move by Microsoft…
By now you’ve probably heard that the big Softies are ponying up $240M for just 1.6% of Facebook. I’ll save you reaching for the calculator — that puts Facebook’s valuation in the $15 BILLION range. Quite a few folks are…
The Credit Crunch, Entrepreneurism and how GM Card will try to exploit YOU…
Several folks have mentioned that they like hearing about the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur. So straight from the trenches… here’s a charming tale of just how much GM Card are a bunch usurious, unscrupulous, disingenuous pirates that…
Maybe I’m a Robot Spam Machine…
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m finding the implementation of "Captcha" on some sites to be increasingly painful. In case you don’t know, captchas are those little images you run in to that contain skewed text, the idea being that…
Information R/evolution…
I guess I’m late to the blog-party on this one, so you may already have seen it. But this video is a fantastic backgrounder on much of how we see the world of data and information at disruptorMonkey. The video…