I had discussion with Jim Fowler, the CEO of JigSaw, a couple of weeks back where he walked me through their new offering, Data Fusion, that JigSaw announced today. Data Fusion is a data-as-a-service offering that allows Salesforce.com customers to buy…

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A recent paper by Mike Stonebraker and others compared relational and columnar database in a parallel configuration with MapReduce. The paper concludes that MapReduce is an easy to configure and easy to use option where as the other data stores, relati…

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Amazon’s design tweaks to its review system has resulted into $2.7 billion of new revenue argues Jared Spool. Other people have also picked up this story with their analysis. I am wary of absolute revenue numbers tied to a feature to derive lost opport…

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I was at the Web 2.0 expo in San Francisco last week. It was not very different from the previous year except that I could see the impact of slow economy – shrinking attendance, less crowded booths, and “Hire Me” ribbons. Tim O’Reilly’s keynote was int…

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