Tech Take-Aways from the 2012 CM Summit
While oriented primarily to marketers, much of this year's Conversational Marketing Summit was about the intersection of marketing and technology on the Web. Here are a couple of powerful themes that emerged during the jam-packed 2-day event.
Open source announcement for cronviz: a tool to visualize your cron jobs
I’m pleased to announce Federated Media Publishing’s first open-source contribution. cronviz: Visualize your cron jobs. It’s 3 AM. Do you know where your cron jobs are? Use case You have a problem: something’s causing performance...
Automatically generating Web page scraper templates
Most Web developers are aware of tools that scrape data from Web pages, including from Search Engine Results Pages (SERP’s), but such tools usually have a big drawback: they require you to painstakingly model the page structure of each target...
The art of building AI-powered applications (Part 2)
What's the difference between a gourmet chef and an engineer who tries to cook something for dinner? What's the difference between a Jack-of-all-trades and an AI expert? Read on...
A brief history of Federated Media
Ever wonder how Federated Media Publishing got its start? Well, you’re in luck. John Battelle, Founder and Executive Chairman of FMP, just posted about it on the Signal blog. Check it out.
The art of building AI-powered applications (Part 1)
There’s an admission I’ve heard from all the people I know who practice applied artificial intelligence, i.e., those who actually build real products and applications out of AI components, and it’s this: putting AI into the real world is just as much an...
Here’s my real-life story of how data retention can save your property and help put a criminal behind bars. I’ll include some tips on how you can protect your home and your possessions via good data practices, like I did. …
Highlights of the 2011 Clojure/conj
The second annual Clojure/conj came to a close last November. I was able to attend and wanted to share some impressions of the conference in general and a couple of the more inspiring talks in particular. I’ll be happy to …
Apache ZooKeeper: Part 1: A convenient service for your servers
Like many data-centric companies, we use Hadoop to routinely process large data sets on an hourly and daily basis. While Hadoop offers a great model for scaling data processing applications through its distributed file system (HDFS), Map/Reduce and...
“Bloggers have to eat.” I remember John Battelle saying that the first time I sat down to have a conversation with him. It was part of his conveying to me why he was inspired to found Federated Media Publishing (FMP). …
7 wireless security facts to protect your Wi-Fi network
Think your wireless network is safe? You may have succumb to one or more very common Wi-Fi security myths. With these wireless security facts, you can get on the right track to make your home or office network safer.
Federated Media Publishing has made some major changes during the past 12 months. But something bigger and more fundamental is at hand.
Conversation Targeting: How it’s different
Conversation Targeting – a new ad product we launched recently, to much success -- is based on some strong semantic technology. However, it’s probably not what you think it is.
Conversation Targeting: How it’s different
Conversation Targeting – a new ad product we launched recently, to much success -- is based on some strong semantic technology. However, it’s probably not what you think it is.
