Musings

2009.03.17

ZFS

Sun Lustre

a scalable, secure, robust, highly-available cluster file system

JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit

Used for demo: Code4Lib Attendees

2009.03.18

Hadoop

Used on Yahoo’s home page, by FaceBook

“It’s a really big hammer,” said Christophe Bisciglia, 28, a former Google engineer and a founder of Cloudera. “When you have a really big hammer, everything becomes a nail.”

“Yahoo is estimated to have spent tens of millions of dollars developing Hadoop, which remains open-source software that anyone can use or modify.”

“Microsoft became a Hadoop fan when it bought a start-up called Powerset to improve its search system.”

“Eyealike, a start-up, relies on Hadoop for performing facial recognition on photos while Fox Interactive Media mines data with it. Google and I.B.M. have financed a program to teach Hadoop to university students.”

“Autodesk, a maker of design software, used it to create an online catalog of products like sinks, gutters and toilets to help builders plan projects.. The company looks to make money by tapping Hadoop for analysis on how popular certain items are and selling that detailed information to manufacturers.”

“These types of applications drew the Cloudera founders toward starting a business around Hadoop. “

“The company has just released its own version of Hadoop. The software remains free, but Cloudera hopes to make money selling support and consulting services for the software.”

2009.04.15

Google App Engine for Java

Allows developers to build Web apps using standard Java technologies.

2009.04.23

SearchMonkey

A framework for creating small applications that enhance Yahoo! search results with additional data and structure, such as images, key/value pairs, and additional links

Nodalities Magazine: Anatomy of a SearchMonkey

Lots of quotable explanation in this article

2009.04.23

HEART

Heart (Highly Extensible & Accumulative RDF Table) will develop a planet-scale RDF data store and a distributed processing engine based on Hadoop & Hbase.

2009.04.27

Semantic Web Tools

Comprehensive collection of tools and applications for the Semantic Web. It is maintained by Mike Bergman with help from the Semantic Web Company.

Simile Exhibit

Lets you easily create web pages with advanced text search and filtering functionalities, with interactive maps, timelines, and other visualizations.

2009.04.28

AGWebView

Web Browser Server for AllegroGraph Triple Stores

Gruff

A Grapher-Based Triple-Store Browser for AllegroGraph

2009.05.01

Ivan Herman’s Blog