Category — SEM
Hadoop Founder Leaves Yahoo! for Cloudera
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Doug Cutting is leaving his job working on Hadoop at Yahoo! to work on Hadoop at Cloudera, a Silicon Valley Startup. Cutting founded Hadoop, an open source framework designed to break up large sets of data in order to make them more easily manipulated. Yahoo! obviously uses Hadoop, but other companies such as [...]
August 13, 2009 No Comments
Twitter Suffers More Downtime, Attacks
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Twitter went down again, and a message on their
Status page points to another attack:
Update (12:17p): We’re back up and analyzing the traffic data to determine the nature of this attack.
Yesterday, Twitter was dealing with malware affecting user accounts. And of course, last week’s
DoS attacks exposed just how vulnerable Twitter is.
August 13, 2009 No Comments
Delicious Founder Regrets Yahoo! Sale, Launches Twitter Tool
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Ben Parr over at Mashable dugg up the news (no pun intended) on Delicious founder Joshua Schachter regretting ever selling Delicious to Yahoo! He said:
I wish I had not sold it to them. The cash and freedom do not even come close; I would rather work on a big, popular product.
With all due [...]
August 13, 2009 No Comments