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I have just found this very interesting video dealing with the implementation of HBase and Pig in combination with Hadoop at Twitter: Related articles by Zemanta HBase Digest, March 2010 (sematext.com) Cassandra+Hadoop (slideshare.net) Hadoop, Hbase and Hive- Bay area Hadoop User Group (slideshare.net)

Grabeeter (@grabeeter) has just been launched and I think it is a very useful tool. Grabeeter enables you to grab your tweets which means that you are able to store your tweets on your local harddrive in a structured format (xml at the time). Using the Grabeeter Client you are also able to perform searches [...]

A very short answer is the following: “IBM is working to build a computing system that can understand and answer complex questions with enough precision and speed to compete against some of the best Jeopardy! contestants out there.” [IBM] A longer answer to this question is the following video explaining what I.B.M. Watson is in detail: [...]