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DataSift is in the exciting position of creating just such a firehose eating, data chomping machine. You see, DataSift has bought multi-year re-syndication rights from Twitter, which grants them access to the full Twitter firehose with the ability resell subsets of it to other parties, which could be anyone, but the primary target is of course businesses. Gnip is the only other company to have these rights.
 Source: highscalability.com
 
 
 
 
 
Is the coming together of older celebrities for youth oriented brands a mismatch of sorts? Or do conflicting brand personalities have no connection with a brand’s success?
 Source: pitchonnet.com
 
 
 
 
 
Imagine a world where the rich and the poor are “too something” to fail—too big, too small, too important, too weak, too fixed, too impotent—whatever. Conceive of a world where it is illegal to renovate, refurbish, raze or plow under the old and replace it with something new. Envisage a world where it is against the law to reallocate capital and labor. If you can conjure all this, you will glimpse a picture of the anti-growth world we are fast approaching in 21st-century America.
 Source: forbes.com
 
 
 
 
 
Russell (AKA Jak Sprats) has been pondering, considering, and implementing distributed databases for many years. In a recent email conversation he shared 44 of the lessons he has learned from developing the infrastructure for high performance / highly scalable systems. Some are well known, some are debatable, and some obviously result from a deep experience that is worth learning from:
 Source: highscalability.com
 
 
 
 
 
An estimated three lakh modular kitchens get installed each year, but barely a handful of them get designed by a professional who is certified to do so. The reason is simple, there is no industry standard to follow regarding design or installation practice. In the absence of an authorised body of design that takes into account Indian conditions, the majority of retailers remain unaware about the importance of design to the kitchen user.
 Source: sourcinghardware.net
 
 
 
 
 
Sometime back Wido Menhardt, the chief executive of Philips Innovation Centre (PIC) had said, Philips India, like other Indian arms of MNCs, was about sales, with super sharp focus on high quality and low cost. PIC was less about cost reduction and more about innovation. He has been trying to bring the two closer.
 Source: forbesindia.com