Great start for the month from geek & poke:
Original title and link: Is There Anything You Are For? (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)
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Friday, June 1, 2012
Update to LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy
We’d like to let our members know that a week from now, on June 7th 2012, we’re planning to update our Privacy Policy and User Agreement to provide you greater control over your data with further clarity on our terms.
Here are a couple of key areas the updated Policy will encompass:
- We have shortened the time we keep personally identifiable information obtained through our plug-ins and our off-site advertising to 24 hours.
- We have enhanced member privacy controls by making your public profile settings determine what information can be accessed outside of LinkedIn by search engines and third parties.
Ensuring more privacy and control over your personal data remains our highest priority. We’ll be updating this post with links to the latest version of our Privacy Policy.
Stay tuned for more information in the weeks to come.
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Stars come out on Twitter for awards fun
MTV Movie Awards
Sunday, June 3rd at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 9pm PT on MTV
When you watch an awards show, you’re bound to hear “Of course, I’d like to thank my fans!” — and on Sunday night, those words will have new meaning, powered by a Tweet.
The MTV Movie Awards is offering its first-ever live social voting category for one of the night’s coolest categories: Best Hero. All votes are being cast by fans, and only through Twitter. MTV has created special voting hashtags for you to pick your favorite heroic character. They’ll tally the Tweets with each hashtag and announce the results live during the show.
Cast your vote here, or by tweeting:
CMT Music Awards
Wednesday, June 6th at 8pm ET/ 7pm CT/ 8pm PT on CMT
Movie stars don’t have a corner on awards fun! On Wednesday June 6th, the biggest country stars will head to the CMT Music Awards, and they want to bring you along. Follow the action with the great lineup of artists who will be live-tweeting the show:
And of course — we’d like to thank our fans.
Posted by Grace Chu Lee, TV Partnerships Team (@gracelee)
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Sunday, June 3rd at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 9pm PT on MTV
When you watch an awards show, you’re bound to hear “Of course, I’d like to thank my fans!” — and on Sunday night, those words will have new meaning, powered by a Tweet.
The MTV Movie Awards is offering its first-ever live social voting category for one of the night’s coolest categories: Best Hero. All votes are being cast by fans, and only through Twitter. MTV has created special voting hashtags for you to pick your favorite heroic character. They’ll tally the Tweets with each hashtag and announce the results live during the show.
Cast your vote here, or by tweeting:
- #votepotter to vote for Harry from “Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2”
- #votekatniss to vote for Katniss Everdeen from “The Hunger Games”
- #votethor to, well, vote for Thor from “Thor”
- #votecaptain to vote, yes, for Captain America from “Captain America”
- #votejenko to vote for Jenko from “21 Jump Street”
The rest of the conversation leading up to and during the show will be at #movieawards. You can find the nominees on this list, and follow their big night.Thanks! RT @fatmaalhabtoor: I voted for Best Cast #movieawards 21 jump street @channingtatum Awesome crew!! mtv.com/ontv/movieawar…
— Channing Tatum (@channingtatum) May 24, 2012
CMT Music Awards
Wednesday, June 6th at 8pm ET/ 7pm CT/ 8pm PT on CMT
Movie stars don’t have a corner on awards fun! On Wednesday June 6th, the biggest country stars will head to the CMT Music Awards, and they want to bring you along. Follow the action with the great lineup of artists who will be live-tweeting the show:
You can also keep up with the #CMTawards hashtag and the folks on this country music list to get even more access to everything that goes down at the show. Here’s a preview of what’s in store:
- Lauren Alaina (@Lauren_Alaina)
- Jake Owen (@jakeowen)
- Kellie Pickler (@kelliepickler)
- Darius Rucker (@dariusrucker)
- Thomas Rhett Akins (@ThomasRhett)
- Edens Edge (@edensedge)
- The Farm (@TheFarmMusic)
- Jana Kramer (@kramergirl)
- Cody Alan (@cmtcody)
- Evan Farmer (@EvanFarmer)
- Katie Cook (@TheKatieCook)
- Steve Austin (@steveaustinBSR)
- Ronnie Dunn (@RonnieDunn)
- Little Big Town (@LBTmusic)
Awards shows are such a fun time to be on Twitter. You can follow all the unpredictable outcomes (and unpredictable antics) right alongside the stars and all the other viewers, and get unparalleled behind-the-scenes access. We’re excited to tune into both of these shows next week, and see what all of you have to say as they unfold.RETWEET to WIN!Wanna see #RedSoloCup live & up close?I've got 2 PARTY PIT tix for #CMTawards on 6/6.#tobykeith #beersago @FollowCMT
— Toby Keith (@TobyKeithMusic) May 24, 2012
And of course — we’d like to thank our fans.
Posted by Grace Chu Lee, TV Partnerships Team (@gracelee)
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Forrester: “Iceberg, Dead Ahead!”
IT is becoming out of touch and risks seeing a greatly diminished role in the enterprise. That’s on of the conclusions from “Business Execs Increase Direct IT Spend to Support Systems of Engagement” from Forrrester. In his post “IT department ‘re-arranging deckchairs on the Titanic’ as execs bypass the CIO,” TechRepublic’s Steve Ranger blogs that business execs impatient for change are leading the charge.
IT chiefs that don’t raise their game when it comes to innovation will see their authority undermined within the next three years as execs hire their own staff to build new tech services, bypassing the IT department and creating a two-tier system according to a report by Forrester Research. The IT department could end up looking after the legacy infrastructure while the exciting development work is done by teams in business units.
I certainly saw this in the early days of the cloud. While many of the cloud’s chief attributes were love letters to IT (no maintenance, predictable costs, easy management), many of the early adopters were line-of-business execs who wanted to deploy a system fast with no heavy lifting. In salesforce.com’s case, the app was CRM. Sales execs liked the productivity and transparency gains, but they loved the idea of a low monthly fee and a easy development, deployment and maintenance that asked little of the IT department. But IT execs were often wary of infrastructure that they could not independently monitor and modify. If they didn’t own it, they didn’t want to be responsible for its performance.
The perennial squeeze on IT budgets, growing complexity of on premise systems, and building confidence in the cloud have helped allay those concerns.
But there still is a gap that exists between business an IT, a gap that threatens to relegate IT to the role of overseeing legacy systems, according to Forrester. That gap is rooted in perceptions of performance
When business and tech execs were asked to rate IT’s capabilities, in every case IT rated itself higher than the business did. Only 39 per cent of execs thought IT consistently delivered projects on time and on budget, something Forrester described as “the basic building block of IT’s credibility”.
Marketing and R&D chiefs also gave the IT department a failing grade because it does not help them to innovate, and the analyst house warned: “Given the pace of technology change and the business’ need to improve products and services and deal with rising customer expectations, this leaves IT at risk of being bypassed for services firms and consultants.”
Here’s a look at that perception gap in detail. The graphic is a bit mind-boggling but it drives home the point that IT rates itself more highly on key attributes than business execs rate IT.
Of course, we don’t know if this perception gap is rooted in reality, but already, Forrester notes, businesses are increasingly getting their own IT budgets to control independently of central IT.
The final word of the estimable Larry Dignan? “Add it up and it’s clear that we’re going to see more business alignment therapy sessions ahead.” Well said, Larry.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 1, 2012
It's HighScalability Time:
- Yottabytes : What NSA knows about US; 214ms : ping between San Jose and Fez; $42M : MongoDB is funding scale!; 20K : lines of THX sound code
- @adrianco: My takeaway from the MongoDB talk at #gluecon is that Mongo is implementing eventual scalability in the next version
- The death of the general purpose computer is causing strange events like Facebook making their own smart phone. Adam Smith said we all benefit when our neighbors get richer, it creates a bigger pie. We are heading back to the mercantalist notion of a zero sum game. Google is also racing to the bottom Google Product Search To Become Google Shopping, Use Pay-To-Play Model. Zero sum thinking always leads to war. Just sayin.
- Stuxnet, sometimes you just can't keep it in your pants and Pandora always complained that lid was never on very tight. Bad Prometheus.
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Starting tomorrow, join the fight against AIDS with (RED) while picking up your morning coffee!
foursquare is about helping people make the most of where they are.
Sometimes that’s about meeting up with friends and sometimes it’s about finding a new place. Starting tomorrow, though, it’s about helping create an AIDS free generation. In partnership with (RED), for the ten days of their new campaign (RED)Rush to Zero, a check-in will mean a dollar goes towards the fight for an AIDS-free generation. It’s our largest non-profit check-in campaign to date.
The (RED)Rush to Zero campaign is an initiative to raise funding and awareness to help end the transmission of HIV from moms to their babies by 2015. Every day 1,000 babies are born with HIV. By 2015, we believe that number can get close to zero. It’s a huge milestone in the fight against AIDS.
From June 1 – 10, Starbucks will donate $1 when you check in to any Starbucks in the US or Canada, up to $250,000! (RED) partners Bugaboo and Penfolds will also make donations for checking in at places like Bugaboo Stores, Peppermint, LTD., Rabasa, and Bonefish Grill. Find out where to check in here.
When you check in, you’ll unlock the (RED)Rush to Zero badge and $1 will be donated to The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Now, go grab some coffee and join the fight against AIDS!
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Starting tomorrow, join the fight against AIDS with (RED) while picking up your morning coffee!
foursquare is about helping people make the most of where they are.
Sometimes that’s about meeting up with friends and sometimes it’s about finding a new place. Starting tomorrow, though, it’s about helping create an AIDS free generation. In partnership with (RED), for the ten days of their new campaign (RED)Rush to Zero, a check-in will mean a dollar goes towards the fight for an AIDS-free generation. It’s our largest non-profit check-in campaign to date.
The (RED)Rush to Zero campaign is an initiative to raise funding and awareness to help end the transmission of HIV from moms to their babies by 2015. Every day 1,000 babies are born with HIV. By 2015, we believe that number can get close to zero. It’s a huge milestone in the fight against AIDS.
From June 1 – 10, Starbucks will donate $1 when you check in to any Starbucks in the US or Canada, up to $250,000! (RED) partners Bugaboo and Penfolds will also make donations for checking in at places like Bugaboo Stores, Peppermint, LTD., Rabasa, and Bonefish Grill. Find out where to check in here.
When you check in, you’ll unlock the (RED)Rush to Zero badge and $1 will be donated to The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Now, go grab some coffee and join the fight against AIDS!
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