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Johann Höchtl

Microsoft Research Watch: AI, NoSQL and Microsoft's Big Data Future - ReadWriteCloud - 0 views

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microsoft semantic web trinity cloud

shared by Johann Höchtl on 22 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Probase is a Microsoft Research project described as an "ongoing project that focuses on knowledge acquisition and knowledge serving." Its primary goal is to "enable machines to understand human behavior and human communication.
  • Johann Höchtl on 22 Mar 11
     
    MS, die sich im Open Data Bereich stark positionieren, war nicht bekannt als eine Unternehmung, die im Semantic Web Bereich tätig ist. Aber hinter den Kulissen wird anscheinend an etwas ziemlich großen gearbeitet.
Michael Sachs

Geht's euch "browsen" - Kommentare - derStandard.at - 0 views

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eGovernment Microsoft Österreich

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  • Michael Sachs on 02 Jun 10
     
    Österreich setzt beim "E-Government-Browser" auf Microsoft, alternative Anbieter werden nicht berücksichtigt
Parycek

Microsoft to open government-only dedicated cloud facility - 0 views

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cloud CloudComputing

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    Microsoft plans to launch a cloud-computing product specifically for the federal government, to be housed in a dedciated facility for the highest level of security.
Johann Höchtl

RHoK #1.0 - RHoK's First Global Hackathon « RHoK - 2 views

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  • Johann Höchtl on 25 May 10
     
    Ein hackathon zur Verknüpfung öffentlicher Daten um im Fall von Naturkatastrophen schneller reagieren zu können. Veranstaltet von Microsoft, Google, Microsoft, NASA, Weltbank und Yahoo!
Johann Höchtl

What Happened to Yahoo - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 12 Aug 10 - Cached
  • When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the next big thing.
  • What went wrong? The problems that hosed Yahoo go back a long time, practically to the beginning of the company.
  • Yahoo had two problems Google didn't: easy money, and ambivalence about being a technology company.
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  • The first time I met Jerry Yang, we thought we were meeting for different reasons.
  • we could show him our new technology, Revenue Loop. It was a way of sorting shopping search results.
  • It was like the algorithm Google uses now to sort ads, but this was in the spring of 1998, before Google was founded.
  • I didn't say "But search traffic is worth more than other traffic!"
  • Hard as it is to believe now, the big money then was in banner ads.
  • Led by a large and terrifyingly formidable man called Anil Singh, Yahoo's sales guys would fly out to Procter & Gamble and come back with million dollar orders for banner ad impressions.
  • By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto pyramid scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth.
  • The reason Yahoo didn't care about a technique that extracted the full value of traffic was that advertisers were already overpaying for it.
  • I remember telling David Filo in late 1998 or early 1999 that Yahoo should buy Google, because I and most of the other programmers in the company were using it instead of Yahoo for search.
  • But Yahoo also had another problem that made it hard to change directions. They'd been thrown off balance from the start by their ambivalence about being a technology company
  • Microsoft (back in the day), Google, and Facebook have all been obsessed with hiring the best programmers. Yahoo wasn't. They preferred good programmers to bad ones, but they didn't have the kind of single-minded, almost obnoxiously elitist focus on hiring the smartest people that the big winners have had.
  • The company felt prematurely old.
  • The first time I visited Google, they had about 500 people,
  • I remember talking to some programmers in the cafeteria about the problem of gaming search results (now known as SEO), and they asked "what should we do?" Programmers at Yahoo wouldn't have asked that.
  • In the software business, you can't afford not to have a hacker-centric culture.
  • Probably the most impressive commitment I've heard to having a hacker-centric culture came from Mark Zuckerberg, when he spoke at Startup School in 2007. He said that in the early days Facebook made a point of hiring programmers even for jobs that would not ordinarily consist of programming, like HR and marketing.
  • Hacker culture often seems kind of irresponsible. That's why people proposing to destroy it use phrases like "adult supervision." That was the phrase they used at Yahoo. But there are worse things than seeming irresponsible. Losing, for example.
  • Johann Höchtl on 12 Aug 10
     
    Paul Graham hat mit dem Verkauf seiner Shop Lösung an Yahoo 1998 Millionen von Dollar gemacht. Er ist Buchautor und respektierter Columnist. Ein Artikel von ihm, warum seiner Meinung nach Yahoo scheiterte und FB und Google erfolgreicht waren.
Johann Höchtl

Wikileaks publishes documents on plan to curb free software in the European Union - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 09 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Wikileaks (website) publishes documents that show a plan to curb the free software in the European Union.
  • This file shows that Jonathan Zuck, president of Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) –an organization with close ties to Microsoft–, and founder of Americans for Technology Leadership, had influenced the change of working documents of the European Union.
  • This publication shows how pressure groups influence or attempt to influence the decisions made by the European institutions, but in this case is particularly striking one of these groups trying to influence against free software (ACT) has close ties Microsoft,
Johann Höchtl

Google search index splits with MapReduce * The Register - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google's worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform that famously underpinned the company's previous indexing system. As the likes of Yahoo!, Facebook, and Microsoft work to duplicate MapReduce through the open source Hadoop project, Google is moving on.
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