By R "Ray" Wang on February 28, 2012
Revisiting the Three V’s of Big Data It’s time to revisit that original post from July 4th, 2011 post on the the Three V’s of big data. Here’s the recap: Traditionally, big data describes data that’s too large for existing systems to process. Over the past three years, experts and gurus in the space have […]
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By Michael Fauscette on May 3, 2011
Groupon’s IPO is potentially valued up to $25 billion and it’s subscriber base is doubling once a quarter, LivingSocial raised $400M in venture funding, Scoutmob nails $1.5M in it’s first funding round, FourSquare hits 3M daily check ins and Facebook…
Posted in Business | Tagged crowd factory, deals, Facebook, Foursquare, google, Groupon, living social, location based, marketing |
By Michael Fauscette on January 28, 2011
I read that Facebook just started testing a new feature called “Buy With Friends”. It seems that the feature, which only works today with virtual goods inside games, let’s users get discounts on items that their friends buy. When a user makes an in-app purchase of a virtual product using Facebook Credits they are offer […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged commerce, Convergence, Facebook, Facebook Credits, Foursquare, Internet of Things, livingsocial, location based, mobile, PayPal, shopping, Social, Social network, social shopping, Virtual good |
By Michael Fauscette on January 17, 2011
The process of coming up with predictions each year is an interesting one. It involves a lot of brainstorming and idea pitching of course, and in the end quite a few ideas end up on the "cutting room" floor. Now…
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged 2011 Predictions, ad, AR, context, Facebook, Foursquare, google, Groupon, hyper-local, local, location based, mobile, Social, YELP |