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Curt Monash meets with Ebay’s Oliver Ratzesberger and gets us numbers on two of the world’s largest data warehouses in the world. Look at these Ebay stats! Metrics on eBay’s main Teradata data warehouse include: >2 petabytes of user data 10s of 1000s of users Millions of queries per day 72 nodes >140 GB/sec of … Continue reading eBay’s enormous data warehouses
That would be the user generated content conference in February 2009 in California. I will be speaking at the conference and I am looking forward to it. I am surrounded by user generated content: open source software in the software space, wikipedia, flickr and creative commons, ThinkBig, just to name a few. I am looking … Continue reading It is personal
Every once in a while we get an email from someone who has played with our lab technologies and built something fun and exciting. Last month I received an email from my good friend Patrick and since then it has been sitting in my inbox begging for attention! I am such a delinquent when it … Continue reading Multicolr Fun
That’s the Toronto Technology Party we are planning! In Toronto, on Tuesday Monday December 16 15. Of course this is a last minute thing, but we are used to it; we bring you DemoCamp, Mesh and all sorts of Toronto geek gatherings so we are used to putting our heads together and getting things done. … Continue reading HoHoTo
From business week: “For anyone who hasn’t been paying attention to the software industry lately, I have some bad news. The open-source business model is broken.” Well to some extent that’s true but open source has brought incredible innovation and collaboration in the software industry … it just needs a bit of fixing. Continue reading OpenSource
We have our own brand of software development at Idee and that will need a much longer post than the time I have today for this drive by blog post: this is an oldy but a goodie: Martin Fowler on (agile) software development. Continue reading Software development
Wired: Can Open Source Hardware Work? Continue reading Open Source Hardware
Nathan from Flowing Data has a great post about resources to visualize data. And have you seen this 24 hours airplane traffic video? Mind blowing! Continue reading Tools for visualizing data
Kevin Kelly on the next 5000 days of the web: we are all connected. This reminds me of the conversations Paul and I have been having about an image registry; but that’s for an other blog post. Great talk. Continue reading The next 5000 days
This idiot’s guide to posting comments on the internet from The Onion made me laugh out loud! Have a read for yourself, here is an excerpt: "Later this evening, I intend to watch the video in question, click the ‘reply’ link above the box reserved for user comments, and draft a response, being careful to … Continue reading Commenting: the idiot’s way