Daily Archives: February 19, 2008

GPS device + data feeds + social = awesome service

One of the most interesting market directions in recent months in my mind is the way the concept of a location service is evolving. People are using location as a vector to bring information that matters directly to them. A … Continue reading

Posted in apis, dash, discovery, geo, georss, gps, location, pipes, platform, startup | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Open source grid computing takes off

This has been fun to watch. The Hadoop team at Yahoo! is moving quickly to push the technology to reach its potential. They’ve now adopted it on one of the most important applications in the entire business, Yahoo! Search. From … Continue reading

Posted in grid, jeremy zawodny, mapreduce, open source, scale, search, video, yahoo | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment