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In the following video Dmitriy Ryaboy, a Twitter Analytics Engineer and a former Cloudera Intern, explains how Twitter uses Hadoop and Pig. Enjoy the video and have a good weekend! Related articles How GE uses Hadoop to analyze big data (news.cnet.com) How GE uses Hadoop to analyze big data (news.cnet.com) Hadoop There it Was–Hadoop Summit [...]

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 [...]

On a six-minute interview on stage with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg states that if he’d start facebook again all privacy settings by DEFAULT would be PUBLIC. A very interesting approach which leads to the question if people want if all of their data is available publicly? I personally do not. Here [...]

Just found a nice video about twitter and it’s users called the Twittersphere. (via blogdrauf.de) Related articles by Zemanta Immorality and Twitter (scientificamerican.com) Getting sucked into Twittersphere… (localglobe.blogspot.com)