Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Amazon Web Services Upgrades to Hadoop 2.2.0

  [caption id="attachment_13565" align="aligncenter" width="500"] AWS faces a growing amount of competition.[/caption] Amazon Web Services has updated its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) with access to not…
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  Google Plus Growth Accelerating, Google Claims

  [caption id="attachment_13560" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google Plus.[/caption] Google claims that some 300 million people are active on its Google Plus (often written as Google+) social n…
• Google’s Encrypted Search Could Cost It Ad Clients

  [caption id="attachment_13542" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Some advertisers don't think this is quite good enough.[/caption] Over at Business Insider, a new article suggests that Google encr…
• Sandy's Lesson: Preparedness is Key

  [caption id="attachment_13532" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Rockaway Beach, right after Sandy.[/caption] This time last year, hurricane Sandy rumbled up the U.S. East Coast, devastating broad…
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  The Big Moat: How Amazon, Netflix and Google Stay Giants

  Earlier in 2013, Slate writer Matthew Yglesias summarized Amazon in a way that quickly went viral, as it reconciled the company’s popularity with its willingness to eschew profits in a particular…
• Why Is Google Testing Banner Ads in Search Results?

  [caption id="attachment_13461" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google's homepage: ad-free, but for how much longer?[/caption] Violating a self-imposed ban on cluttering its search-results pages…
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  'The Everything Store': Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon

  [caption id="attachment_13454" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Amazon's page for a book about Amazon's rise. Meta![/caption] Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos regarded Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as a rival…
• Tim Cook to Microsoft: We’ll Just Destroy Your Business Model

  [caption id="attachment_13372" align="aligncenter" width="618"] At the Apple event, Tim Cook makes fun of his company's rivals as "confused."[/caption] Apple CEO Tim Cook and his executives had a…
• Wikipedia and the War on Sockpuppets

  Wikipedia editors are actively engaged in a wide-ranging battle against PR firms attempting to edit the crowdsourced encyclopedia’s entries to reflect their clients’ best interests. Over the past…
• 'Minecraft': Small Story of a Big Game

  [caption id="attachment_13302" align="aligncenter" width="618"] That's a whole lot of blocks.[/caption] Markus “Notch” Persson is the famous indie-game developer behind Minecraft, which is also t…