All posts by Jeff Hyatt
IBM, Twitter Partner to Bring Social Data to Enterprises (eWeek)
Ever wonder what a business could do with all that data generated on Twitter every day? IBM sure has, which is why Big Blue has teamed up with Twitter to make it easy for businesse... More
The Next Next Big Thing (Smart Data Collective)
Last year’s buzzword king-of-the-hill “Big Data”, and this year’s new champion “Internet of Things”, share a very important central theme – lots of data. To be sure, ... More
DAM Experience Starts With User’s Expectations (Optimity Advisors Blog)
The practical contact points of the DAM are sometimes referred to as “touchpoints.” The more touchpoints there are, the faster and more effective an organization will be in man... More
NBCUniversal’s Evolving Media Empire Hinges On A Marriage Of Data and Premium Content (AdExchanger)
Krishan Bhatia, NBCUniversal: "We just completed an 18-24 month project [to] unify our internal platforms. The objective was to create a uniform advertising technology stack across... More
Qlik Acquires DataMarket For $13.5Mi (Reykjavík Grapevine)
DataMarket, a company specialising in analysis and visual representation of data, established in Reykjavik in 2008, has been sold to Qlik. Hjálmar Gíslason, founder of DataMarket... More
Admiral Taps Teradata for Big Data Analytics (ComputerworldUK)
The Cardiff-based firm, which has 3.9 million customers in the UK, chose Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance to provide end-to-end reporting, business intelligence and advanced analy... More
Grooveshark to Use Streaming Data to Book Live Events (CMU)
In its latest bid to convince the music community that it can be a help, rather than a hindrance, and with the record industry still out for blood, Grooveshark has now turned its a... More
How Asset Identification Can Transform the Digital Video Supply Chain (iab)
Video: Digital video asset data, decoding/encoding, and distribution processes are extremely fragmented with no standards or best practices in place. To achieve scale across all sc... More
Digital Watermarks Take the Publishing World by Storm (Good E-Reader)
Right now Watermarking is big in Europe and being the de’facto standard in the publishing arena, but now North Americans are starting to realize the potential. A watermark or soc... More
Metadata is TV Gold (Kannuu)
Each video viewed contains hundreds of different data attributes. Metadata is the in-depth descriptive information about the content piece that includes title, storyline, cast, ge... More
Big Data vs Consumer Buy-in: Why Successful Personalisation Needs the Human Touch (M&M Global)
Few of us can deny that Big Data is one of the many buzzwords that has made it into every CMO’s vocabulary. And this is particularly true of “found data” – the seemingly un... More
Rovi: Fanhattan Deal A Perfect Fit
By Chris Tribbey It was just this summer that video discovery company Fanhattan got its Fan TV set-top box to market, partnering with Time Warner Cable to offer subscribers an all... More
Microsoft Boosts Management Automation Features of Azure Hybrid Cloud Platform (Redmond Magazine)
A new feature called Azure Operational Insights will tie the cloud service and Azure HDInsight with Microsoft's System Center management platform. HDInsight, the Apache Hadoop-base... More
When it Comes to Structured vs. Unstructured Data, MarkLogic says You Can Have It All (SiliconANGLE)
The term NoSQL typically refers to a category of databases that address unstructured information more effectively than traditional relational models, but MarkLogic Inc. wants it t... More
Why the Product Information Supply Chain is Crucial for an Effective CPG Digital Strategy (CGT)
Omer Farooque, Riversand Technologies: The answer lies in understanding that much like the "Merchandise supply chain" there is a parallel and (since the digital revolution) equally... More
Why Interoperability is the Key to the Internet of Things Succeeding (ITProPortal)
The next step in the connected home goes beyond personal content, enriching the interaction between equipment while providing subscription content and unified experiences to the en... More
Converged Infrastructure for Big Data Storage and Analytics (EMC Isilon Blog)
It’s no secret that unstructured data is growing rapidly and poses significant challenges to organizations across virtually every industry segment to store, manage, secure and pr... More
The Sky is Rising: Data Shows Wealth of Opportunities for Digital Content (DisCo)
Internet-enabled access to content continues to drive growth in digital content consumption and availability, even in the wake of an economic downturn. Data collected in the repor... More
How Can the Media Industry Attract Much-Needed Data Scientists? (MediaShift)
Across industries, data scientists are the hot and scarce commodity to help organizations collect, clean, and analyze the growing sea of “big data.” Journalism has an acute nee... More