December 2011 12
Big data, social data: which matters more?
Posted By : Adrian Chan

By all accounts, there’s a big data revolution on its way, and soon. New, distributed, and increasingly real time database and data warehousing solutions have made big data storage and querying more viable. Data collection,

December 2011 08
The secret sauce of social
Posted By : Adrian Chan

This is for anyone who enjoys thinking about what makes social media what it is, how it works, and why. In particular, it’s for user experience and interaction designers. But there are some morsels in

December 2011 07
Check out the new check in
Posted By : Adrian Chan

So Google is going to offer deals for check ins. No doubt this extends Google’s grip on merchant online advertising, providing for a new kind of offering as well as for a new means of