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Top stories: February 20-24, 2012

Top stories: February 20-24, 2012

Data for the public good, the coming health IT revolution, big data in the cloud.

by Mac Slocum | @macslocum | +Mac Slocum | February 24, 2012

This week on O'Reilly: Alex Howard examined data's civic role, Dr. Farzad Mostashari discussed health IT and patient empowerment, and Edd Dumbill surveyed big data cloud offerings.

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Big data in the cloud

How do the cloud offerings from Amazon, Google and Microsoft compare?

by Edd Dumbill | @edd | +Edd Dumbill | February 22, 2012

Big data and cloud technology go hand-in-hand: but it's comparatively early days. Strata conference chair Edd Dumbill explains the cloud landscape and compares the offerings of Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

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Four short links: 14 December 2011

Four short links: 14 December 2011

PHP Virtual Machine, Archive Your Tweets Easily, Prioritize Your Links, VC Memes

by Nat Torkington | @gnat | +Nat Torkington | December 14, 2011
  1. The HipHop Virtual Machine (Facebook) — inside the new virtual machine for PHP from Facebook.
  2. PHP Fog’s Free Thinkup Hosting (Expert Labs) — ThinkUp archives your tweets and other social media activity for you to search, visualize, and analyze. PHPFog hosts PHP apps scalably, and I’m delighted to be an advisor. Andy’s made a video showing how to get up and running with ThinkUp in 3m. (This is impressive given how long I squinted at ThinkUp and swore trying to get it going on my colo box just a year ago)
  3. The Secret Lives of Links (Luke Wroblewski) — notes on a talk by Jared Spool. On the Walgreen’s site, 21% of people go to photos, 16% go to search, 11% go to prescriptions, 6% go to pharmacy link, 5% go to find stores. Total traffic is 59% for these five links. The total amount of page used for these 5 links is ~4% of page space. The most important stuff on the page occupies less than 1/20th of the page. This violates Fitts’s Law. Makes me think of the motor and sensory homunculi.
  4. VC Memes — the success kid is my favourite, I think.
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Why cloud services are a tempting target for attackers

Why cloud services are a tempting target for attackers

Jeffrey Carr on the significant and escalating risks of hosting data with cloud providers.

by Jeffrey Carr | @jeffreycarr | December 5, 2011

Before organizations embrace the efficiencies and cost savings of cloud services, they should also closely consider the security repercussions and liabilities attached to the cloud.

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