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January 2011 Archives

Wednesday, 26th January 2011

Cloud Computing

5 Tips for Creating Cost Effective Windows Azure Applications

Paraleap is a company that optimizes the compute power for Windows Azure customers with a service coming out of beta today called AzureWatch. It's the type of service we expect to see more of as companies move infrastructure to the cloud. Here's why:

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Conduct Social Media Sentiment Analysis Research with SMART@zmeb

Yesterday SMART@znmeb (SMART stands for "social media analytics research toolkit"), a SUSE Linux appliance created by Ed Borasky, added sentiment analysis to its set of features. The toolkit now includes texttir, a sentiment analysis package created in the statistical programming language R. SMART@znmeb includes other open source tools that…

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10 Mobile Trends for 2011

In its annual mobile technology report, Forrester Research has outlined the trends it expects to see in the coming year. Technologies like 4G and LTE, Near Field Communication (NFC), barcodes and augmented reality will see increasing amounts of hype in 2011, and the use of mobile/social/location combinations will soar, the report says. But for…

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Localeaks: A Drop-Box for Anonymous Tips to 1400 U.S. Newspapers

Although the mission of WikiLeaks is to "open governments," it's done quite a lot to make us think about how to open journalism as well. We've seen a number of new whistleblower sites crop up - OpenLeaks and Rospil, for example - as well as major news organizations - Al Jazeera, and perhaps even The New York Times - investigate ways to…

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Egypt Blocks Facebook, Google - Anon Retaliates

Egypt has followed yesterday's block of Twitter with reported intermittent blocks today of Facebook and on Google tools and services. Although too much can be made of social media's role in political activities, it certainly is not unimportant in the Egyptian uprising. The young, digitally literate Egyptians have made good use of them to bring…

Social Curt Hopkins comments

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