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Open source algorithm helps spot social media shams

Network World

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University say they have developed an open source algorithm that can help spot social media frauds trying to sway valuable community influence. Yelp, Amazon and TripAdvisor fake reviews are also available for sale, misleading consumers about restaurants, hotels, and other services and products.

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Federal Big Data Community Convenes 6 Feb at Apache Hadoop Forum

CTOvision

Location : The Hotel at Arundel Preserve. Opening Remarks. Adjourn/ Networking Social. Adjourn/Networking Social. Adjourn/Networking Social. As CSO, Mike is responsible for Cloudera’s product strategy, open source leadership, engineering alignment and direct engagement with customers. Hanover, MD.

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Ugh! There's an App for That!

Phil Windley

Once in Munich, venturing out of the hotel had its own surprises. Fortunately, we have open-source technology, with multiple commercial providers , that can provide interoperable credentials. The lesson of the internet was not that it was the cheapest, easiest way to build global network. We had CompuServe for that.

Travel 101
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Why Companies Accepting Bitcoin as a Payment Method

Galido

He once wrote on a computer program: “ Governments are good at cutting off the heads of centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks are holding their own so that it’s very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint.” After a few minutes the transaction is verified by a miner and stored in the network.

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EMCworld 2015 How Do You Want Your Storage Wrapped?

Storage IO Blog

EMC covered my hotel and registration costs to attend the event in Las Vegas (thanks EMC, that’s a disclosure btw ;) and here is a synopsis of various EMCworld 2015 announcements. Back in early May I was invited by EMC to attend EMCworld 2015 which included both the public sessions, as well as several NDA based discussions.

Storage 40
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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

The company has used AWS to build an IT innovation zone, based upon open source products, which is being used to launch new innovations for customers like E-Mobility and E-thermostat products with a very fast time-to-market.

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OpenStack Summit 2015 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

As is quite often the case at conferences like this, the wireless network is strained to its limits, so I may not be able to publish this liveblog until well after the keynote ends (possibly even later in the day). This is a liveblog of the Day 1 keynote at the OpenStack Summit here in Tokyo, Japan.