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If followers can sponsor updates on Facebook, social advertising has a new horizon
— This week, I found that one of my Facebook updates received significantly more attention that others I've posted. On the one hand, it was a share of an important New York Times story focusing on the first time a baby was cured of HIV.
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DARPA and Defense Department look to a more open source future
— As the United States military marches further into the age of networked warfare, data networks and the mobile platforms to distribute and access them will become even more important. — This fall, the (retired) …
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With GOV.UK, British government redefines the online government platform
— The British Government has launched a beta of its GOV.UK platform, testing a single domain for that could be used throughout government. The new single government domain will eventually replace Directgov, the UK government portal which launched back in 2004.
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“Revolution in the Valley,” revisited
— It's one thing to look back on a project with the power of hindsight and recognize that project's impact. It's quite another to realize a project will be profound as it's still playing out. — Andy Hertzfeld had that rare experience when he was working on the original Macintosh.
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Inside Google+: The virtuous circle of data and doing right by users
— Tim O'Reilly and Google+ VP of Product Bradley Horowitz took a deep dive into Google+ and a host of adjacent topics during a webcast yesterday. A full recording of their conversation is embedded at the end of this post …
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At the eG8, 20th century ideas clashed with the 21st century economy
— The scene was set, the players chosen. Amidst the gorgeous environs of the Tuileries Gardens next to the Louvre in Paris, an immense pavilion and grand dais would host a global conversation on the growing role …
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).