http://sanjay.mathur.ws thoughts on cars, technology and business. and whatever else strikes me today :-) Sun, 20 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sanjay.mathur.ws/index.php/2012/05/20/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2012-05-20/ http://sanjay.mathur.ws/index.php/2012/05/20/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2012-05-20/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000 Sanjay http://sanjay.mathur.ws/index.php/2012/05/20/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2012-05-20/

I'm going to the Big Data event today at the MIT/Stanford @VLAB. See you there! http://t.co/M28biTbA #

At the VLab BigData event with @MishaShemyakin @Rohit2b and @paulkarayan #

James Phillips, cofounder of Couchbase: Focus, Simplify, Adjust (to succeed). Ask him directly about his mistakes. #

MOABO? RT @bespokeinvest: More and more stock sentiment readings we follow are now as low as they were at the low in March 2009. Crazy. #

I remember when Mike Franklin first called it Amalgamated Insight Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Truviso http://t.co/vTX0Dh13 #

How much venture funding raised by these top 10? The Top 10 tech startups best positioned to strike engineering gold http://t.co/rqW8GLec #

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@steveos European Auto Works in Sunnyvale is good. Used them many times. Honest, accurate on estimates. #

Build cloud aware apps on open platforms – Four Reasons Why I Hate the Term 'Cloud' | Cloudline | http://t.co/bHRyOp6O http://t.co/r4m6Y5IZ #

At the Accel Big Data Conference @stanford. Impressive turnout. #accelbdc #

I'm at Welcome http://t.co/egN28Hiv #

Doug Cutting: expensive to move data in and out of the cloud, so you end up leaving all of your data in the cloud. #accelbdc #

Doug Cutting: Creating Trevni so there is a native column-oriented storage format for the Hadoop stack. https://t.co/7a8Ina2u #accelbdc #

Jay Parikh/Facebook: Can develop products faster because of democratized and central access to different vertical silos of data #accelbdc #

All the data analytics and storage tools in the world won't help you if you fundamentally don't have good questions to ask #accelbdc #

John Ousterhout/Stanford on RAMCloud: when is the last time someone wasn't interestd in 100x perf improvmnts? http://t.co/x2TcVbfR #accelbdc #

@jstogdill congrats on the new gig! Very cool. #

If you’ve been doing what you’re doing for years . . . you are in a rut. Many people refer to these ruts as careers http://t.co/A15evNEF #

Didn't know genomic data was being used so extensively – Perfect Milk Machine: How Big Data Transformed Dairy Industry http://t.co/a18iteSq #

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Straight outta Stanford, Bina wants to remake genome analysis http://t.co/cOkotJzj #

MSFT is changing RT @lewisshepherd MS developed supernodes w/in secure DCs. Doesn't alter Skype’s P2P architecture http://t.co/bAGB1ekW #

"Print media dying" is interesting in the abstract till it's a publication you like. I'll miss @eurotunermag in my mailbox. #

@krmc wait was that me?! #

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Jackie Robinson's debut changed the game — and the nation – Richard Rothschild – http://t.co/wvHHAfNI http://t.co/sFDntWcG #

Jun 19 is a popular day for conferences in SF: Gamification (http://t.co/ThNrSpQl) Cloud (http://t.co/sUiRSMTe) Mgmt (http://t.co/U5I0UGiE) #

My takeaway: don't schedule Thursday as a deadline 7 Ways an Indian Programmer Says “No” via @accelerance http://t.co/SSnvuTKR #

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Jackie Robinson's debut changed the game — and the nation – Richard Rothschild – http://t.co/wvHHAfNI http://t.co/sFDntWcG #

Jun 19 is a popular day for conferences in SF: Gamification (http://t.co/ThNrSpQl) Cloud (http://t.co/sUiRSMTe) Mgmt (http://t.co/U5I0UGiE) #

My takeaway: don't schedule Thursday as a deadline 7 Ways an Indian Programmer Says “No” via @accelerance http://t.co/SSnvuTKR #

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Modern day Macbook Air battery operating at 1991 energy efficiency would last for 2.5 sec – http://t.co/I7gYNwgD (via @TechReview) #

@specialsin changing it to what? #

@specialsin go for it your brand is you #

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Audi is filming for an advert at 5th and King in SF. The camera is mounted on a Mercedes SUV http://t.co/m84jb7u5 #

Ok I was wrong. It's a Cadillac commercial and they are using Audi and Mercedes for filming. So confusing #

Make car repairs easy by mechanic coming to you? Go #Drexel alum in startup success! http://t.co/bMsmJb54 #

Great observation- ProdMgrs success can be invisible: the absence of confusion & unhealthy politicking http://t.co/olKzzavw via @RichMironov #

Didn't know the genesis of OpenStack, fascinating: Secret History of OpenStack, Free Cloud SW Thats Changing Everything http://t.co/oArfjcEB #

Heard this on the radio, definitely gets your entrepreneurial adrenaline pumping @nprnews Rare Mix Created SV Culture http://t.co/Lw2UdIGb #

So many clouds to choose from – RT @derrickharris: There’s a new open source cloud in town. Meet Apache CloudStack http://t.co/dk8bh58g #

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Ummm, I'm scared of snakes: #Titanoboa the 40-foot-long snake that changed prehistoric science http://t.co/Qs02Nw8M via @SmithsonianMag #

@antonyfalco I said read the article not watch the videos. You are so gen x with your attention span #

Fantastic photographers blog about construction of the freedom tower in NYC: http://t.co/AiZApgeO #

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In what seems to be an (un)scientific test, 1/3rd of Prius drivers broke crosswalk laws love it: RT @patricknorton http://t.co/hhk5hIEo #

@labsguy it wasn't Count Dooku after all http://t.co/kvCYMf4x #

How do you supercharge algorithmic trading? By spending $1.5B on a trans-arctic cable run! RT @ExtremeTech http://t.co/TkgHHvuz #

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@swordinfish #Cloudforce sure thing, I'll be there most of the day #

@nsmith107 and here I was thinking this was a Sith attack (Duqu = Dooku) #

Context switching is expensive, even for people. Stay focused. RT @HarvardBiz The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time http://t.co/o8OThLkQ #

Headed off to #cloudforce see you there! #

Salesforce impresses me with their conference setups and production values. Great setup today. #Cloudforce #

@craigkerstiens the world association of zoos and aquariums? I didn't know you were so interested in aqua life. #

@craigkerstiens sweet let me know when the next one happens #

Burberry CEO: you have to be connected to all of your customers – I agree and let your customer pick the channel of their choice #Cloudforce #

@krmc thanks for the compliment keith #

@antonyfalco org equivalent to tech debt = healthy self-sustaining culture #

@antonyfalco there was a strategic ! missing. Tech debt = not healthy #

@antonyfalco then I'd be Goldman trading mortgage backed securities or the bitcoin equivalent #

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