Thought Leaders in Big Data: Derek Rodner, Vice President of Product Strategy, Agilence (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Could you tell me a bit more about how this works from a technological perspective? “Tying an event down to the millisecond level in a video” – how do you do that? Derek Rodner: That is actually our special [approach]. In addition to being the only player in the retail operations big data

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Derek Rodner, Vice President of Product Strategy, Agilence (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Your approach sounds unique. I hear a lot of stories about customer analytics, but you are talking about operations, and that is quite different. The best way to illustrate what happens with using your technology are use cases. Feel free to pick whichever customer you have permission to talk about and take us

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Derek Rodner, Vice President of Product Strategy, Agilence (Part 1)

Derek Rodner is the vice president of product strategy at Agilence, an industry-leading company in retail big data. In this interview Derek talks about the implications of more widespread use of big data on retail video surveillance and security systems, and about future trends in the industry. Sramana Mitra: Hi, Derek. Could you please start

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Deal Radar 2008: Revver

Revver is a video sharing site that hosts user generated content. It was founded by Steven Starr, Ian Clarke and Oliver Luckett in 2004 and went live in 2005. Clarke and Luckett left the company in a management shakeup in 2006.

Deal radar 2008: Veoh

San Diego-based Veoh is an internet television service where users can find and watch major studio content, independent productions and other user generated videos. Founded in 2003 by Dmitry Shapiro, who is also the company’s Chief Innovation officer, Veoh began its full beta service in early 2006.

Deal Radar 2008: VideoEgg

VideoEgg is a web based publishing service that allows users to format and publish video content from any device onto the web. Three Yale students?Matt Sanchez, Kevin Sladek and David Lerman? started VideoEgg in 2005 to build an easier way to edit, post and share videos online. The three had won a Yale sponsored contest

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Deal Radar 2008: hi5 Going Strong

Last week we took a look at Xanga and today we will take a look at hi5, another popular social networking site. hi5 has an Alexa traffic rank of 8. hi5 is more popular globally than it is in the US. It is the number one site in Peru, Dominic Republic, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Portugal,

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Deal Radar 2008: Xanga Losing Steam?

Xanga is a free Web-based service that hosts weblogs, photoblogs, videoblogs, audioblogs, and social networking profiles and is popular around the globe. It is packed with features and is one of the easiest ways to get a blog up and running. It also has a real community feel to it. Xanga Setup Wizard has made

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