ENTRIES TAGGED "data service"
True data liberation with IFTTT and Google Drive
Web services combine to give us our data, and help us use it.
From smartphones and continuous data comes the social MRI
Dr. Nadav Aharony used phone sensors to explore personal behaviors and community trends.
OpenCorporates opens up new database of corporate directors and officers
The online corporate transparency data platform is providing more insight for data journalists.
OpenCorporates, which aggregates open data about businesses, has launched a new taxonomy of corporate directors and officers. In this interview, Chris Taggart, the founder of OpenCorporates, shares more details about the data and the business model behind his open data venture.
Data for the public good
From healthcare to finance to emergency response, data holds immense potential to help citizens and government.
The explosion of big data, open data and social data offers new opportunities to address humanity's biggest challenges. The open question is no longer if data can be used for the public good, but how.
Top stories: January 23-27, 2012
Finding the real pirates, Microsoft's plan for Hadoop and big data, and thoughts on a theoretical Amazon store.
This week on O'Reilly: Mike Loukides offered a different take on the piracy debates, Edd Dumbill looked at Microsoft's Hadoop-driven plan for big data, and we learned why Amazon retail stores aren't out of the question.
Strata Week: Cloudera founder has a new data product
Odiago hints at the future of Hadoop-based services, Hortonworks shows off its products, and big data comes to edu material.
Cloudera's founder launches Odiago, a new data startup. Elsewhere, Hortonworks reveals its suite of Hadoop products and services, and Knewton and Pearson bring big data to education content.
BuzzData: Come for the data, stay for the community
A Canadian startup aspires to be the GitHub of datasets.
BuzzData looks to tap the gravitational pull of data, then keep people around through conversation and collaboration.
Inside Google+: The virtuous circle of data and doing right by users
Key points from a Google+ discussion between Tim O'Reilly and Bradley Horowitz.
Data liberation and user experience emerged as core themes during a recent
discussion between Tim O'Reilly and Google+ VP of Product Bradley Horowitz.
T-Mobile challenges churn with data
T-Mobile's architecture helps it put data to use across the business.
Mobile service provider T-Mobile uses a federated architecture and virtual data zones to empower innovations in regional marketing, churn management and customer care.
3 ideas you should steal from HubSpot
HubSpot has found the sweet spot between data, education and customer loyalty.
HubSpot's location (near Boston) and its target market (small businesses) may keep it under the radar of Silicon Valley, but the company's approach to data products and customer empowerment are worthy of attention.
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