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@al3xandru That's a fair point. In SEO, though, one could argue you just need to be seen. I assume content is still king.
@al3xandru Saas is small per user (e.g., web pages), big in aggregate. That's where the value lies. On-prem and SaaS not mutually exclusive.
Steering clear of the iceberg: three ways we can fix the data-credibilty crisis in science gigaom.com/2013/05/24/ste… by @sci3a
Steering clear of the iceberg: three ways we can fix the data-credibilty crisis in science
gigaom.com — As I detailed yesterday, science has a data-credibility problem. There's been a rash of experiments that no one can reproduce and studies that have to be retracted, all of which threatens to undermine the health and integrity of a fundamental driver of medical and economic progress.
BYOD is for amateurs. Try bring-your-own-laboratory gigaom.com/2013/05/23/byo… < the iPhone as a spectrophotometer
BYOD is for amateurs. Try bring-your-own-laboratory
gigaom.com — Smartphones never cease to amaze me. I'm still impressed by how productive I'm able to be on my Android device no matter where I am (often to the chagrin of my wife), and I'm still surprised every time I see someone pull out a Square when it comes time to pay (like happened last night at Fat Choy in Las Vegas, a way-off-strip place you should totally check out if you're in town).
Big data at work: 12 stories about reinvention gigaom.com/2013/05/23/big… < our best coverage of how big data matters and how to do it
Big data at work: 12 stories about reinvention
gigaom.com — Big data has become something of a buzzword. Everybody talks about it, but its impact can be elusive. How is big data really changing the way companies and other organizations function? These 12 stories highlight that transformation: from helping health insurers keep better tabs on patients, to changing how cars are made, to easing traffic congestion on busy freeways.
This is interesting. Google crowdsourcing model-training for semantic search. searchengineland.com/googles-hunger… @sengineland
Google’s Hunger For Structured Markup
searchengineland.com — Google is keen for structured markup - to put it mildly. In the not-too-distant past, I wrote about Google's Data Highlighter for event data, a tool which allows webmasters to indicate structured data for events without having to actually mark up the site's HTML code.
@technogator Very funny. They're clearly more like shopping mall operators :-) So says @mthiele10 and he oughta know.
WibiData gets $15M to help it become the Hadoop application company gigaom.com/2013/05/23/wib… < Ambitious goal from Cloudera co-founder
WibiData gets $15M to help it become the Hadoop application company
gigaom.com — Startup WibiData has raised another $15 million and wants to turn the lessons it has learned in the field into generic software that can let anyone build predictive applications on Hadoop.
Anyhow, twas fun. Gotta run.
But good or bad, you have to execute everywhere else.
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