But more than that, this is an important time in computer science, and unlike many previous technical revolutions, this one is happening completely in the open. Like the integrated circuit before it, MapReduce is producing a paradigm shift that opens broad opportunities to produce new kinds of products from our massive collective backlog of data to help people in new and unprecedented ways. At LinkedIn we’ve amassed the world’s premiere data-set on the labor of professionals, and it is the mission of LinkedIn Analytics to leverage that deeply meaningful data to provide insight and value to our users. At LinkedIn Analytics data processing is both personal and meaningful, as the features we create enhance the working lives of tens of millions of people.

The Integrated Circuit solved the Tyranny of Numbers and unleashed Moore’s law, enabling a computerized, networked society. It did so with the considerable overhead of patent licensing and litigation. MapReduce is solving the Tyranny of Threads, enabling any company to process data at scale in parallel to extract real value from our most abundant and underutilized resource: information. It is doing it in the open, through free and open-source software, through the Apache Foundation, Hadoop and its sub-projects. We’ve gotten more efficient organizationally this time around.

This is what happens when you blog after midnight and you haven't eaten all day, so you write unintelligable goo and then try to glue it together, but it won't quite stick.

When Pigs Fly: Apache Pig, Open Source and Understanding Systems

Chris Klaus founded Intenet Security Systems in 1994, while he was a sophomore at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Chris’s product, the Internet Scanner, offered well being to companies connecting to the internet as the world wide web emerged, and it did so under a freemium model.  Beginning as a side project in his dorm room where $1,000 checks started showing up, Chris asked a professor where he could find a good lawyer for his business, and that lawyer introduced him to Tom Noonan.  Chris dropped out of Tech to pursue the business full time, John Imlay and Sig Mosely invested, and Internet Security Systems grew rapidly in an emerging market.  ISS’s rapid growth culminated in its initial public offering on NASDAQ in march of 1998 and in an acquisition by IBM for $1.3 billion in October, 2006.

If you guys know of any additional nodes/edges, please shout them out :)

Atlanta's Security Cluster: Spotlight on ISS

Good times making Al Gore... errr, Paul Graham really pissed, by suggesting that Y Combinator did not invent the internet.

Me: DARPA birthed the Internet. YC birthed reddit. I guess the jury is still out.

PG: In fact, it's hard to find much that you've said that isn't false.

Paul Graham Is a Meanie

A GaTech professor does a detailed analysis of the factors required for startup formation.

atlpaperMay19th.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Been playing around with Drew Conway's scripts he demo'd at the bay area R meetup at linkedin last week - saw it here.

Files to do this yourself are here.

Information on the libraries: Igraph twitteR ggplot2

Installation (for OS X):

- Install latest Mac OS X R build 2.10
- Install latest tcltk
- In R, execute: install.packages("igraph"); install.packages("twitteR"); install.packages("ggplot2");

Have at :) Beware the API limit.

Oh, the MS zoomable thing.

Social Map of #ASW3 Hashtag on Twitter (Atlanta Startup Weekend 3)

Ninety-percent of Silicon Valley's start-ups fail not because of faulty product, but because they don't tap the right market and they don't know their customer. Well-seasoned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank drafts a new model for plotting the path between good idea and market success.

If you're even tangentially interested in startups, it is vital that you listen to everything Steve Blank says.

Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Steve Blank, Serial Entrepreneur - Retooling Early Stage Development

1) Load apache logs, limit by 10

2) Load apache logs, limit by 100

3) Load apache logs, filter by method == 'GET', group by referer, get a count, order by count desc, limit 20 and export to excel.

If it ain't in Excel, it ain't real to most people. This lets you crunch big data down into Excel accessible scopes, using Hadoop, via Apache Pig.

Cloud Stenography Demo

Open Coffee: Come one, come all - entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, startup job-seekers: Open Coffee at Tech Square Starbucks on July 28th at 5PM.

Please: no service providers. You'll find most of the crowd are quite poor, and you'd just be wasting your time.

http://www.opencoffeeclub.org/

This is a good place to go if you've ever thought about starting a company.

Open Coffee at Tech Square Starbucks (Tuesday July 28, 2009) - Upcoming

The problem here is that Google is setting the platform that we are supposed to develop for a year or more before it exists. That IRRITATES the hell out of me. It is the same kind of egotistical douschebaggery Microsoft used to pull: pre-launching products to gain control before contributing anything.

Watching the Wave introduction video... when I see that semi-euro, T-shirt wearing trim-bearded fuck up there on that stage with his falsely elegant peppy smart talk planning a 'boating trip', and the scripted passing back and forth with 'the best project manager in the world,' I see one thing and one thing only in my mind: Ballmer's sweaty bitch tits bouncing as he stomps and screams, vibrating to the tune of "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!"

At least Ballmer had the good sense to be ugly, which gave him an odd kind of dignity.

Hacker News | Google's Microsoft Moment

I'm not sure Google's new Chrome OS announcement is that big a deal, or that the eventual product that gets released will actually have that much impact, but it's a useful milestone in marking Google's evolution towards becoming an older company with a distinctly different culture than they used to have.

This is, for lack of a better term, Google's "Microsoft Moment". This is the point when the difference between their internal conception of the company starts to diverge just a bit too far from the public perception of the company, and even starts to diverge from reality. At this inflection point, the reasons for doing new things at Google start to change.

The problem here is that in combination with Wave, Google is setting the platform that we are supposed to develop for a year or more before it exists. That IRRITATES the hell out of me. It is the same kind of egotistical douschebaggery Microsoft used to pull: pre-launching products to gain control before contributing anything.

Watching the Wave introduction video... when I see that semi-euro, T-shirt wearing trim-bearded fuck up there on that stage with his falsely elegant peppy smart talk planning a 'boating trip', and the scripted passing back and forth with 'the best project manager in the world,' I see one thing and one thing only in my mind: Ballmer's sweaty bitch tits bouncing as he stomps and screams, vibrating to the tune of "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!"

At least Ballmer had the good sense to be ugly, which gave him an odd kind of dignity.

I think I prefer this stagecraft http://bit.ly/pwGXs to this stagecraft http://bit.ly/15aSar because Google's culture of arrogance is starting to disgust me.

Google's Microsoft Moment - Anil Dash