I'm a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I'm perfect.
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Loading ...Posted in Blogroll, News, Photos, Random Thoughts, Tech at 11:02 am by Liv 
Just logging into LinkedIn today I saw they announced their Q1 2012 revenue — now the numbers themselves are impressive, but what caught my attention was the brilliant starting slide of their presentation: the very people who made LinkedIn get to this stage:
Absolutely brilliant! Well done, LinkedIn!
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, Photos, Random Thoughts, Tech at 11:53 am by Liv
This is a long-forgotten photo — which in all honesty, I did intend to publish during Ad:Tech San Francisco, as that’s when this bottle came to life. (And from what I know it provided refreshments for many of the attendants too!)
Being at Ad:Tech San Francisco with Cognitive Match, couldn’t help taking a picture of one of these bottles, before they went. Some good refreshment one would say (whether for your ads or yourself 
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(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Posted in Blogroll, News, Random Thoughts, Tech at 8:32 pm by Liv
I’m broadcasting this on all channels at the moment, just so I can get the attention of the guys in Carbonite and hopefully get this feature added to their (otherwise excellent!) software. So if you’re a Carbonite user and you find this feature I’m asking for is worth anything, would love some feedback on this post — I’m not gonna ask you to sign a petition 
but safety is in numbers sometimes, so if it’s a few of us hopefully it will make a convincing case for Carbonite to slot this in.
As a user of Carbonite, hopefully you know what this is all about (I know this is providing a bit of advertising for them, but I feel I do need to provide a bit of context here too): it’s a backup/restore solution; you select which directories to back up and the software copies them transparently for you “in the cloud” when files are changed.
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Posted in Blogroll, News, Tech at 9:22 pm by Liv
I thought I’d post this on my blog as well since this seems to get a lot of attention nowadays (it certainly seems to get a lot of visitors!).
I just started a new open-source project on SourceForge.net — I know you github fans will jump at my throat for using sf.net and not github, but I’m being pragmatic here: I’m still learning my git commands and way of operating, whereas I’m very comfortable with subversion so rather than spending countless hours each day trying to figure out how to merge in changes in git, I thought I’d go with what I know and spend my time on actual coding rather than admin! Makes sense?
Anyway, the reason for this post is because I need some help with the project (as it’s always the case with open source) so I thought I’d raise awareness to my readers of this — who knows? one of you guys might lend a helping hand?
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, News, Photos, Random Thoughts, Tech at 6:05 am by Liv
Today I have been one of the dumbasses who end up typing the URL of a web page in the Google search box and hitting ENTER without thinking.
I was trying to open up Cognitive Match‘s web page @ www.cognitivematch.com — and through the above mistake I got Google to search instead for www.cognitivematch.com. Oh well, I guess I didn’t have enough coffee in me, Google probably figured that out (based on the unique user tracking cookie I have in my browser no doubt, geo-IP targetting, time of day and all the other factors) so kindly offered me the first result to be Cognitive Match, as to be expected; it even offered me a link to our company LinkedIn page (nice!):
It has to be said it was only at this point I have realised the mistake So as I was just about to click on our web page, curiosity got the better of me and I thought I’d scroll to the bottom to see what else has the big G found about Cognitive Match. And here’s a gem of Google occasional fuck-up — right at the bottom, where it gets to “Pages similar to www.cognitivematch.com“:
I had to scan the results again: so we got Dawn Capital (that makes sense, it’s been allover the press they were the investors behind us all the way through), Alex Kelleher, our CEO, and his blog, we have then at the bottom a post on TechCrunch about us getting our Series A investment from Dawn Capital, but the interesting bit is the 3rd page “similar” to www.cognitivematch.com : Pentaho!!! WTF???
I mean back in prehistoric times, when dinosaurs roamed still the Earth and we were trialling out various analytics platforms, we have evaluated Pentaho — going past the commercial blur we were given, we figured out pretty quick this would NOT scale out in an online environment with TB of information being built every week. So we ditched the thing — it never went anywhere!
So I set off to investigate this more! And here’s the culprit: http://www.pentaho.com/customers/ — this page here still (wrongly!) claims that Cognitive Match is one of their customers! We are nowadays Hadoop-based, we’re working with the likes of BitYota, we have our in-house data mining team and you are still hanging on to the Cognitive Match brand???? Based on that alone I’d be tempted at this stage to think that maybe most of the other Pentaho “customers” are in the same situation as us? I mean, how many of those customers there do still use Pentaho? Guys, come on, you’re not doing yourselves any favours!
And even more, you cause Google to fuck up their results
I Got All The Birds!