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Technology: Web Applications Prefer NoSQL Databases

By Dick Weisinger

Is there any coincidence that after Oracle’s acquisition of Sun and the Open Source MySQL database that many large web sites are abandoning MySQL?  Web properties Reddit, Twitter and Digg have migrated from using MySQL to a technology that is

Social Media: Businesses Adopt SM as Popularity Increases

By Dick Weisinger

Social Media use is growing fast. A Nielsen survey showed an 82 percent jump in usage of Social Media sites like Twitter and Facebook in December 2009 from the previous year. The average Internet user spent about 5.5 hours per

Technology: Dealing with 'Big Data'

By Dick Weisinger

The amount of data that companies and individuals are creating is growing incredibly quickly.  Some organizations have managed to collect massive data sets.  O’Reilly refers to these huge data sets as ‘Big Data’ — data sets that are in the

Technology: Is eMail Dead?

By Dick Weisinger

The Wall Street Journal has declared that we are approaching the end of the ’email era’.  They see Social Networks as the replacement to email communication, and they base their conclusion on data that shows that social networking is growing

Google: Structured Data is Hard

By Dick Weisinger

We talk a lot about how hard it is to unlock the data stored in spreadsheets, powerpoints, and text documents — unstructured data.  Generally the assumption has been that searching for data stored in structured database tables is easy and