Google Software Engineer Explains MapReduce Concept

Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer, and in a personal blog post this week explained the concept of one of Google’s programming models: MapReduce, which splits a task onto many computers on Google’s server farm (server farm, or single super computer, depending on how you look at it) to be quickly crunched.

Bringing Web Ideas to Life

It's funny, it's so easy these days to become enamored and enthusiastic about a "web project" that you tend to quickly underestimate its technical plausibility. For this I blame you, web 2.0.

Scoble’s Videos from Davos

Hey, I am a sucker for a good name drop. But I take you further than just writing a blog post saying something like “I met Vinod Khosla.” I turned on my cell phone and let you interview him and others. The BBC caught me doing this and wrote me up. Here are the videos I did today.