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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 [...]

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 [...]

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)

The next video is about twitter’s growth by the unexpected use of the service. Very intersting video! This video I found on the gorgeous TED Talks. Enjoy watching. (via TED) Related articles by Zemanta TED Conferences app (textually.org) Ted 2009 (q-ontech.blogspot.com) TED conference accepting nominations for TED fellows (boingboing.net) Curious about Twitter? (nylady.edublogs.org)