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Social Tech Census    .

This is a quite useful and also interesting site and effort. Kudos the creators and maintainers!

So let’s get real about Big Data. What enterprises really care about is putting data to use, and that requires the ability to ingest diverse sets of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data and then put it to use in real time. The right tools for these jobs are Hadoop and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, two of the hottest job skills in the industry, and less RDBMS and proprietary data warehousing technology.

via Why Big is Blinding Us to the Real Value of Big Data – Innovation Insights.

Apple – Open Source.

After a kernel panic probably due to a mid-2010 MacBook Pro use of NVDIA’s GeForce GPU (the discussions are revealing), I dove into the traces, but to relatively little avail: a motherboard exchange is recommended. But in working through the output and the linkages, I came across the nicely updated page listing the open source installs and code Apple uses.

(BTW, the listing here is useful for contributors, which is good, but think about how this listing of community code differs from that coming from artisanal car makers, like Pagani, where they identify not only each part and its provenance, I think, but also the craftsman. That is: when is open source just another claim to value? You know: designed in California, made around the world…. vs. Designed and Made by You.)

Shortest Internet censorship debate ever :: RysioBrag.

Why Netflix is one of the most important cloud computing companies – Network World.

New Internet Monitor report: “Rationing the Digital: The Policy and Politics of Internet Use in Cuba Today” | Internet Monitor.

The Serval Project.

The Second Great Depression | Foreign Affairs.

Douglas Engelbart – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Release Your Software · GitHub.