Snaps Lets You Mashup And Share Branded Photos, Raises $2.3M From S2K, And Google And Vevo Execs. Instagram has yet to make a formal push into using its platform for paid advertising and marketing purposes (although its co-founder is certainly putting out some signals for what it might do when it goes there).
But in the meantime, Snaps — a startup, platform and app based around a photo network for spreading viral brand messages by way of photo mash-ups — is building out a standalone business targeting this very area. Today, the New York-based company is announcing an angel investment of $2.25 million, with a notable group of investors backing it. They include S2K; Ben Barokas, the co-founder of Admeld (acquired by Google for $400 million) who is now GM of marketplace development for Google; and Jonathan Carson, Vevo’s chief revenue officer. Carson is now also Snaps’ chairman of the board, along with another new appointment, Andy Levitt as president.
Book review: Tableau 8 – the official guide by George Peck. A while back I reviewed Larry Keller’s book The Tableau 8.0 Training Manual, at the same time I ordered George Peck’s book Tableau 8: the official guide.
It’s just arrived. The book comes with a DVD containing bonus videos featuring George Peck’s warm, friendly tones and example workbooks. I must admit to being mildly nonplussed at receiving optical media, my ultrabook lacking an appropriate drive, but I dug out the USB optical drive to load them up. Providing an online link would have allowed the inclusion of up to date material, perhaps covering the version 8.1 announcement. Tableau is a data visualisation application, aimed at the business intelligence area and optimised to look at database shaped data. Colleagues have noted that analysis in Tableau looks like me randomly poking buttons in the interface. The Gin Blog » Bloom Gin. Launching TeXchange, the UK-Israel Tech Exchange Programme. Le Site Officiel des World Series Of Poker Europe. Business Intelligence Terminology 101. Introduction Turning data into information and information into knowledge for the purposes of insight and fact-based decision support is the purpose of business intelligence.
When delving into business intelligence for the first time, there are some important terms to understand. Deanna Dicken walks through some of the basic terminology needed to get you started. BIDS is short for Business Intelligence Development Studio. This Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is Visual Studio 2008 with some additional project types for building SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) solutions. Cube At the heart of multidimensional databases (see OLAP below) are cubes. Data Mart A data mart is typically a smaller, more focused version of a data warehouse (see below). For instance, you might create a data mart to analyze the operational processing times by step and product for a single business unit. Business Intelligence Definition and Solutions CIO. What is business intelligence? Business intelligence, or BI, is an umbrella term that refers to a variety of software applications used to analyze an organization’s raw data.
BI as a discipline is made up of several related activities, including data mining, online analytical processing, querying and reporting. Companies use BI to improve decision making, cut costs and identify new business opportunities. BI is more than just corporate reporting and more than a set of tools to coax data out of enterprise systems. CIOs use BI to identify inefficient business processes that are ripe for re-engineering. With today’s BI tools, business folks can jump in and start analyzing data themselves, rather than wait for IT to run complex reports. Although BI holds great promise, implementations can be dogged by technical and cultural challenges.
What kind of companies use BI systems? Restaurant chains such as Hardee’s, Wendy’s, Ruby Tuesday and T.G.I. Continue Reading.
Growth Rate of the Internet [Infographic] Internet Usage Statistics – Global Internet Traffic Amazon’s story began in the Spring of 1994 when Bezos was struck by the amazing annual growth of Internet usage.
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Bezos who was working as a senior vice president for the New York Hedge Fund: DE Shaw, the youngest SVP at that time saw a huge opportunity at that time and began to explore the idea of creating a business that would tap into that growth. You can read more on that story here If you think the internet is slowing down, this infographic below from the folks at Mashable designed by Cisco explains the internet usage statistics, and it shows that it ain’t slowing down at all.
Global internet traffic is expected to quadruple by the year 2015, according to Cisco, “the number of network-connected devices will be more than 15 billion, twice the world’s population, by 2015″. According to Cisco report, the global IP traffic growth is driven by four primary factors, according to Cisco. Bookmark & Share About the Author. TEDxSF on USTREAM: . (Build 20110413222027) Ustream © Search Log in / Sign up With Facebook (faster) Log in or sign up with Facebook See what your friends like and watch, get awesome recommendations Instant login, no passwords or With email or username Forgot your password? Don’t have an account? Go live! Find more broadcasts Expand Video TEDxSF Follow Following Unfollow 164 followers Flag this content Please select your reason for flagging this video as inappropriate from the dropdown below. If you are a copyright owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of one or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please do not flag this content but instead report alleged copyright violations on our DMCA notice form.