Catching Up On Readings: A Master Designer on Trech Trends

Designer Hartmut Esslinger, a major player in the creation of the design language that helped Apple change the face of personal computing, talks with Wired about what he expects over the next decade. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: The other thing that is vertical specific and what lots of companies are working on is the heuristics of these analytics. The applications you get out of the big data analytics depend on what you search for, what heuristics you build your models around, and what kind of learning algorithms are on it.

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Authors as Entrepreneurs: Bella Andre, Hugh Howey, Jasinda Wilder (Part 7)

Sramana: Do you maintain blogs as use those as a strategy for promoting your writing? Bella Andre: I do not blog at all. I don’t think I am very good at it and I would rather spend the time interacting on Facebook. Jasinda Wilder: I don’t blog either. Sramana: Let’s talk about the publishing industry

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What have you seen in the last five years that are major trends in this space? What are the drivers currently, and what do you foresee will be the drivers in the next two to five years? Shaun Conolly: I was in the application platform business with JBoss and Red Hat. I was

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Authors as Entrepreneurs: Bella Andre, Hugh Howey, Jasinda Wilder (Part 6)

Sramana: Another strategy that I have noticed appears in all of your success stories is the presence of series and interconnected stories. Are there other strategies that we have not discussed yet that you think are good secrets to your success? Hugh Howey: I can throw in a couple of things. First of all there

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Are there other use cases? Shaun Connolly: Let me tell you about the healthcare use case. What it does is show the sensor data use case well. In the healthcare industry we work with healthcare providers as well as university hospitals – the University of California Irvine Medical Center is one example. In

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October 17 – 192nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 192nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 17, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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Authors as Entrepreneurs: Bella Andre, Hugh Howey, Jasinda Wilder (Part 5)

Sramana: Hugh, in your case is Amazon’s algorithmic promotion driving the bulk of your following? Hugh Howey: I would say that my following has driven Amazon’s algorithms to drive my book to new people. It has to start with a readership which is word of mouth. One person has to read something they love, and

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