Analytics-as-a-service: Understanding How Amazon.com Is Changing The Rules

Analytics-as-a-service that supports dynamic requirements requires some serious heavy lifting and complex infrastructure. Enter the AWS cloud. The cloud offers some interesting value 1) on demand; 2) pay-as-you-go; 3) elastic; 4) programmable; 5) abstraction; and in many cases 6) better security.

Analytics-as-a-Service: Understanding how Amazon.com is changing the rules

Backlink: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2011/08/analytics-as-a-service-how-amazon-changing-rules.html

Understanding The Nym Wars

Here's a pair of great (JWZ) posts (Kevin Marks) on the Nym Wars, in which Googlers, net users, and sensible people try to convince the G+ team that it's insane to tell people that they must socialize using their "real names," and to then try to adjudicate what a "real name" is. Both link out to the canonical essays produced to date on the subject, such as EFF and boyd, and add a lot of good context.

Understanding the Nym Wars

Backlink: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/UBgDGLD3HTM/understanding-the-nym-wars.html