"Mining the Social Web" author Matthew Russell on the questions and answers social data can handle.
by Mac Slocum
| @macslocum | 3 March 2011
Matthew Russell, author of "Mining the Social Web" and a speaker at the Where 2.0 Conference, discusses the tools and the mindset that can unlock social data's utility.
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A new data conference will be co-located with OSCON in July.
by Sarah Novotny
| @sarahnovotny | 2 March 2011
This year, data comes of age at OSCON. We're announcing a new conference on data tools and infrastructure, to be co-located with OSCON in July 2011.
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Coordination, analysis and innovation provide an IT advantage.
by Jonathan Reichental, Ph.D.
| @reichental | 2 March 2011
We're guaranteed that the needs of the IT jobs marketplace will continue to change, but if each of us is ready to acquire new skills, a career in IT will remain one of the most lucrative and exciting of the professions.
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Simon Rogers on how The Guardian addressed unstructured WikiLeaks cables.
by Jenn Webb
| @JennWebb | 2 March 2011
The Guardian's Simon Rogers talks about how his team of journalists extracted details, meaning and stories from an unstructured mass of WikiLeaks cables.
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Google used Rich Snippets to create a new recipe engine.
by Jenn Webb
| @JennWebb | 1 March 2011
Google's new Recipe View mines structured data from the underlying code of web pages to produce results.
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BlueCava can identify specific Internet-connected devices and how they're used. Is this the future of tracking?
by Julie Steele
| @jsteeleeditor | 1 March 2011
BlueCava lets businesses identify devices that are coming to their websites. In this interview, BlueCava CEO David Norris discusses fraud prevention, privacy, and the state of reputation technology.
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