Machine Learning: How do you explain Machine learning and Data Mining to non CS people. The Next Big Thing. While Facebook prepares to go public, Apple Pings into the void, LinkedIn focuses on resumes & recruiters, Myspace circles the drain, Twitter becomes more complex, Pinterest distracts, Google+ goes around in circles, and Instagram loses focus, the next big Interests & Passions network is being built... under the radar. Amazon, with their public/private highlights/notes from Kindle readers is creating a knowledge & interests ecosystem that will aggregate what the world is interested in, and what the world finds important... and what the world wants to buy more of. And, of course, they are making it social, by connecting to many of those they will eventually replace (mentioned above). It is not just the also-bought data that matters (which books bought by same customer), it is what we specifically find interesting and useful in those books that reveals deep similarities between people -- the hi-lites, bookmarks and the notes will be the connectors.
Meet the Urban Datasexual | Endless Innovation. Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook | Technology. Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the world wide web, has urged internet users to demand their personal data from online giants such as Google and Facebook to usher in a new era of highly personalised computer services "with tremendous potential to help humanity". Berners-Lee, the British born MIT professor who invented the web three decades ago, says that while there has been an explosion of public data made available in recent years, individuals have not yet understood the value to them of the personal data held about them by different web companies. In an interview with the Guardian, Berners-Lee said: "My computer has a great understanding of my state of fitness, of the things I'm eating, of the places I'm at. My phone understands from being in my pocket how much exercise I've been getting and how many stairs I've been walking up and so on.
" "It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies. Building Scalable Big Data Solutions Part 2 – Analyzing Media. Don’t Be Evil but Don’t Miss the Tech Train.