DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.; Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541 "Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" Key Findings: In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)

Confessions of a Ulitzer Addict

John Funnel on Ulitzer Earlier this year one of my staff attended a SYS-CON event and returned to the office a different person. Revitalised and motivated. I asked her what happened at the event to warrant such a transformation? What was her secret? Was it the New York Shopping experience? A business Romance or was it Devine intervention? She simply advised me to ‘check out Ulitzer. – Everyone who is anyone is on it’. She was not the first to introduce me to the innovation. Many of my peers had gone through such noticeable changes, It was like a weight had been lifted from their shoulders, that they now had a true portal to vent out their innermost thoughts. I was instantly intrigued by such recommendations. People, just like me, were using Ulitzer everywhere. So what had I been fighting against all this time? What was I avoiding? Eventually I succumbed to the in... (more)

Ulitzer Provides a Powerful Social Journalism Platform

I was reading a blog post entitled "Confessions of a Ulitzer Addict" by John Funnel this morning as I arrived in the office. Then Nancy forwarded me the following email she received from Joe Austin on Friday. Nancy was at the Jersey shore for a long weekend and she is going through her in box this morning. Joe has been a long-time Ulitzer author and has created a number of Ulitzer topics including Cloud Backup and Recovery Journal, Email Archiving Journal, GRC Journal, Green Storage Journal, Infrastructure On Demand, and SharePoint Archiving Journal. Here is Joe Austin's email to Nancy. Another late night development work at Ulitzer, Inc. headquarters, testing the platform on popular browsers and their most used versions From: Joe Austin Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:10:57 To: Nancy Valentine Subject: Quote for Ulitzer Hi Nancy, Here's a quote for the main Ulitzer site... (more)

Austin Was A Blast

Last night was our big MeetUp in Austin, and it was a blast. The guys from DadLabs made the video above, which somehow manages to both mock and honor the event at the same time. (They also helped us livestream our Web Grassroots panel, which at one point drew an online audience of 2,600 people). As you can see in the video above, the place was packed with folks from startups and stranger places. People came all the way from Dallas and LA to mingle in the startup crowd. I hitched a ride from the roundtable to the party from the Ice Cream Man in his truck, despite the fact that security asked him to leave the conference center we had been at for passing out free ice cream. In the end, everything was cool, though. Austin startups are a hardy breed. Since there are only a few venture capital firms in town, including Austin Ventures , which helped us put on the events, ... (more)

Search matchups

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You Don’t NEED To Know About Your Competitors Backlinks

Free Search Engine Optimisation Tips By Hobo. You Don’t NEED To Know About Your Competitors Backlinks While looking at your competitors backlinks can give you an idea of the content that attracts backlinks, and the type of sites that will link to you, if you’re actively adding content to your site, and building links in an intelligent manner over time, you don’t need to know a thing about your competitors backlinks to compete with them. And you don’t ever need to get the same backlinks as your competitors. If you’re adding content to your site or supplying a particular service, somebody out there will link to your site, or you can manufacture links yourself. It might even serve you better to go outwith your niche and get better backlinks from trusted sites. Sometimes all you need to know is: Your adding content to your site Which is useful to certain types of indiv... (more)

Why Vary Anchor Text In Linkbuilding Campaigns

Free Search Engine Optimisation Tips By Hobo. Why Vary Anchor Text In Linkbuilding Campaigns Someone asked me why should they vary anchor texts in linkbuilding. Imagine you could see Googlebot record your links as it finds them by spidering sites in real time. Even, consider, that’s your link profile recently generated. Hmmm. I wonder how hard it is for the brainiest people in search to pick out your natural links and ignore / devalue the rest -but can you spot the worthwhile manufactured link that might slip past? Unatural mass link aquisition might well be discounted or be totally ignored. I think it totally depends on the site you are getting the links from though. 5 trusted sites? Hell, don’t bother mixing that anchor text up at all. Most times you need a gun at a gun fight, but you have to do it smarter than the above in 2009. Note – This is a visualisation I us... (more)

Twitter, Linked In, Ning and Ulitzer: Easy Personal Branding Strategy

Social Media on Ulitzer I use all of these social media tools and although they haven't put me on my own island in the Caribbean yet, I'm very pleased with the combined results. 1. Twitter – It’s the fastest way to share that you have created something of value. As a bonus, Tweetdeck or CoTweet are good ways to manage your Twitter efforts and research. Huge audience with lots of active participants. There are a few shady characters on Twitter but just like being at Grand Central Station, you just step aside and keep moving. It doesn't mean you eschew the benefit. Micro-blogging is probably here to stay so it's a good idea to get up on good habits regardless of what future tools look like. 2. Linked In – It’s the professional network standard where people will find you. A terrific way to maintain knowledge of what former colleagues are doing now. You can also join gr... (more)

7 Deadly SEO Sins Of Web Design Companies

Free Search Engine Optimisation Tips By Hobo. 7 Deadly SEO Sins Of Web Design Companies I was intending to take a break for a while – and focus on some of the excellent seo jobs we have on at the moment. However…. We’re working with a web development company just now who wants to charge the client for the expensive bespoke CMS creating unique page titles. WTF? It’s 2009. My response was: They want to charge YOU for creating dynamic titles? You should be charging THEM for telling them how to build websites properly. A website design company is not responsible for getting you trafic to your site, but I wonder if they are liable or responsible for preventing you getting the traffic from Google you deserve, and Google wants to give you? After all you are paying a lot of money for a online shop for instance and Google tells people how to build a basic site it will like: ... (more)

Ulitzer vs. Ning

My original post in late June was based on two weeks of using Ulitzer and Ning.  I've added additional thoughts after two months of use. The obvious point for me is that the sites have two different objectives for the writers.  For Ning, the writer is trying to be involved in a niche social network from scratch.  For example, I have built my own social network for marketers and salespeople called BuyerSteps.  I created BuyerSteps as a way for other professionals to join in a conversation around the 21st century buyer.  So, Ning represents a way to build a community. In the case of Ulitzer, as a writer I am focused on getting readers from within an existing audience.  There are already thousands of readers coming to the Ulitzer site, so if they are interested in my topics such as marketing, they will find my articles as well as others.  Ulitzer allows the writer the ... (more)

Microstock Fotolia photo wordpress plugin

Just released the first microstock Wordpress plugin. The plugin automatically finds photos that are matching your actual blog post or site, within more than 6 Million Photos at Fotolia®. You can buy the picture directly from your blog composition page and automatically add to Media Library and into your draft post, with description and copyright notice. Microstock Photo Plugin is a Wordpress Plugin made to simplify the process of adding Photos from one of the major Microstock Agencies into Wordpres Blog Post or Sites. Amos Struck, creator and owner of the Plugin, editor of some of the biggest Microstock Pages in Germany (www.fotoskaufen.de and www.fotos-verkaufen.de), told us that they are working to add other microstock agencies to offer a more flexible tool. Features of the Wordpress Microstock Photo Plugin: Fully Intergrated into Wordpress Blog post or pages Auto... (more)