Kevin Chiu

So, you’ve created your amazing Web 2.0 network-effect-harnessing website and you’ve got a bunch of user-generated data sitting around? Let me introduce you to my little friend, MapReduce.

14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands…

The 2-year old original:

Me and Matt at MIT for Roflcon.

The Clowd, a phrase that seems to be a mashup by Seth Godin between “crowd” and “cloud,” represents the near-future widespread use of distributed data processing and natural media correlation techniques.

One of the natural media correlation techniques that I think has influenced Seth is Photo Tourism, otherwise known as Microsoft Photosynth, a project I was fortunate enough to be a part of.

I thought it was some kind of joke, but apparently, Google’s TISP project is a reality. Broadband through the sewers!

(Ok, it’s not by Google, but still…)

Youtube just got an update. They’ve had high quality mode for a while now, but the statistics tab is something I’ve never seen before. It could use a more minimalist design (do the gradients really help here?), but overall, I think it’s an improvement.