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Google Has A Trojan Horse To Disrupt TV: Really, Really Big Data

It's a huge year for TV's future. Yet for all the excitement about Web-first soap operas, data-driven programming and the disruption of broadcast, the Internet TV "inflection point" that 2013 has become is just the beginning.

District Attorney And Major TV Network Sued Over Stupid Reality Show

The most tragically stupid decision was greenlighting a reality show about lawyers. No one cares about watching real-life lawyering. That’s why Nancy Grace exists — to boil salacious cases down to sound bites so viewers don’t have to watch real lawyers.

Jawfish Games Launches Its Real-Time, Multiplayer Platform For iOS, Android

Jawfish Games, a Seattle-based startup run by a former professional poker player and the engineering team that built the Fult Tilt Poker site, launched a gaming platform that can host more than 100,000 simultaneous players in real-time tournaments across iOS, Androi

Hadoop: What It Is And How It Works

You can't have a conversation about Big Data for very long without running into the elephant in the room: Hadoop. This open source software platform managed by the Apache Software Foundation has proven to be very helpful in storing and managing vast amounts of data cheaply and efficiently.

Why the 'Star Trek Computer' Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed

psykocrime writes "The crazy kids at Fogbeam Labs have a new blog post positing that there is a trend towards advanced projects in NLP, Information Retrieval, Big Data and the Semantic Web moving to the Apache Software Foundation.

Anthony Weiner ad: Ready to be NYC mayor and keep privates off Twitter Paul Harris

In his new ad, Weiner stresses his work championing middle class causes and has plenty of scenes with his wife

Is it really comeback season in America? After the stunning political rebirth of disgraced South Carolina ex-governor Mark Sanford, Anthony Weiner is certainly hopeful of his chanc

New York Times Tells Startup It Can't Even Mention The NY Times

Another day, another story of a ridiculously overaggressive legal move by a big company. This time it's the NY Times, which turned its bogus nastygramming skills on a startup called Scroll Kit.

Link-o-Rama

There have been a number of articles and interviews published over the past two weeks about my efforts to help Bert Blyleven get elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. As much for my personal reference as anything else, I am linking to these stories below in chronological order.

TomTom pairs with TrafficLand to provide live roadside footage to devs

TomTom is looking to beef up its location based services portal by joining forces with TrafficLand to bring real time traffic video to its developers.

Why Your App Design Doesn't Have To Be All Thumbs

Luke Wrobleski, a respected designer who sold a company to Twitter and more recently founded Polar, an app maker, thinks it's time to reconsider mobile design principles.