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Harris Interactive has a poll on the top respected companies. What I thought be interesting is out of these top rank companies where are the data centers in this midst.
The following compares are some of the big players in data centers and it is interesting to think about how data centers play a role in their business.
Amazon.com #1
Apple #2
Google #4
Microsoft #15
Dell #26
IBM #28
HP #34
Verizon #36
AT&T #39
Facebook #42
Apple and Google are some of the top data center topics to write about. Apple doesn't say a lot, but when they do, there is traffic all over the place.
Google is saying more than Apple with its photography and data center web site.
So, why does the media write so much about Apple and Google. Simple. Traffic.
Here is my traffic over the last few days when I wrote about Google data center photography.
This is one huge advantage Google has telling its data center story.
Some people religiously use LinkedIn. I kind of use it when it is convenient and don't actually use the LinkedIn website more than every other week. So, it's been a slow crawl to get up to 500+. Yesterday I hit 499, and I decided to let LinkedIn crawl my e-mail to look for connections that I haven't connect with. The list was 700+, and I whittled it down to 110 to connect with people who I know, but haven't' added them. The 500th connection was a good friend who I have know for over 20 years and we both worked at Apple and Microsoft.
Here is a stream of the past 24 hours of connections that I decided to add. I think this is most connections I have added in 24 hrs. Thanks for accepting my connect requests.
People have gotten used to Twitter. Depending on a service that is free leaves little recourse except to switch.
Out of the times Twitter could go down, the day before the 2012 summer olympics is probably one of the worse.
Twitter outage spreads around the globe
Social media site's second outage in 5 weeks
Associated Press12:13 p.m. CDT, July 26, 2012
People across much of the planet were having problems accessing Twitter on Thursday, a day before the 2012 Olympic Games are expected to cause a spike in use of the micro-blogging site.
The San Francisco-based company acknowledged the problem, saying in a statement that its engineers are "currently working to resolve the issue," although it didn't go into any further detail.
Visitors to the site were greeted with a half-formed message partially in code saying that "Twitter is currently down."
The fields where a reason for the outage and a deadline for restoring service were apparently meant to go were filled with computer code.
Sluggishness or outages were reported from countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.
Isn't it kind of funny to think that you retweet a twitter outage. :-)
THU
Twitter Site Issue 2 hours ago
Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.
Attending SXSW it can look like it is all about location.
SXSW: Location, location, location fuels mobile apps
A spate of location-based apps generates buzz at SXSW
By Cameron Scott, IDG News Service | Software Add a new commentMarch 13, 2012, 6:31 PM — Soon FourSquare won't be the only cool kid on the location-based apps block: A new wave of startups, including Highlight, Zaarly, TaskRabbit and Localmind, are generating buzz at South by Southwest by drawing on smartphone location data to deliver a range of social, commercial and informational experiences.
Highlight is a "social discovery" app that notifies users when they are near someone they don't know with whom they might share interests. It runs in the background, only requiring the user's attention when it has found a potential social contact.
A group of us got a chance to chat with GigaOm's Stacey Higginbotham and asked her as an Austin native what is hot at SXSW. Food and Health. Here is a post that Stacey threw up this morning on Open Data Standards for food.
This is cool: An open data standard for food
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An open data standard for food has emerged on the web. With such a tool, restaurants, food apps, grocery stores, the government and other interested parties can tell that arugula is also called rocket salad, no matter where on the web it occurs or what a restaurant menu or recipe app calls it. Right now, that’s an impossible task, which leads to inefficiencies in both consumer-facing apps and the supply chains of restaurants and grocery stores.
A group of folks concerned about sustainable foods have built the seeds of an open food database hosted on Heroku, with the code pertaining to it located at Github. The group, which gave an awesome panel at South by Southwest in Austin, consisted of a restaurateur, an urban gardening movement, someone from Code for America and someone who rates sustainable restaurants.
What is cool about this idea is what could be done if we had Open Data Standards for the components in data centers. Like how? Knowing the ingredients in a recipe is useful. Wouldn't it be great if you could get details on the components in any piece of equipment.?
He texted me after the panel to say that his primary concern was that the effort be cautious about how it tries to attribute things to restaurants. For example, while he might gain value from starting from such a database, his real value is the taxonomy his team has created around dishes. So, if one checks out catfish po’ boys on Tasted Menu, his app could use the Open Food data for the catfish or the breading, but his app will also note that the food is Cajun or Creole, fried, a sandwich and other things that will help real users figure out where they want to go and what they want to eat.
I don't know about you, but I am much more excited about the idea of open data standards than another location app.
