Big Data
How Platforms Lead to Big Data
The most successful companies today realize that data is critical to their success.
Tag: Google
Posts on this topic reference this über-powerful corporation and its products.
Platforms
Understanding Contemporary Platforms
How they differ from traditional technology marketplaces like eBay or Craigslist.
Big Data
Data-Based Design: Ignore at Your Own Peril
Highly technical design is becoming more data-driven, faster, and smarter.
Book Reviews
The Glass Cage
A look at Nick Carr's new book on automation.
Analytics
The Myth of the Big Data Switch
People who believe in immediate returns are sorely mistaken.
Platforms
Proprietary APIs: A New Tool in the Age of the Platform
A new arrow in the quiver.
Communication
Early Thoughts on Google Inbox
Is the squeeze worth the juice?
Big Data
Dataviz, Data, and Developers
Examining whether decisions today should begin and end with data.
Big Data
Big Data and Privacy: Have We Reached a Turning Point?
Maybe Zuck was wrong after all.
Big Data
Book Review: Dataclysm
Thoughts on Christian Rudder's text. Two words: Buy it.
Communication
Gmail: Were You Hacked?
A quick way to find out.
Big Data
Big Data: It Depends
Thoughts on the silliness of answering certain data-related questions.
Big Data
Android Fragmentation: A Dataviz on Platform Strategy
An interesting way of manifesting Android's Wild Wild West.
Big Data
On Data, Stories, and Persuasion
Examining whether decisions today should begin and end with data.
Big Data
The Case for Employee Data Self-Service, Part 1
This is the first post in a three-part series on data democratization.
Technology
The Future of Retail and the Cloud Wars
The race for cloud-computing dominance is heating up.
Big Data
Big Data in the Enterprise: Mostly Lip Service
My latest from InformationWeek on the adoption of Big Data.
Platforms
Evernote's Platform Struggles
As the company is learning, building a platform is much easier said than done.