Sat.Jan 05, 2013 - Fri.Jan 11, 2013

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My New Business Intelligence Blog

Howard Dresner

Dear Friends, Since last year I began supporting a new Business Intelligence blog on the Sandhill.com website , called "Dresner's Point". Each week (or so) I'll post my synthesis and commentary on the previous week's #BIWisdom Tweetchat. If you're not familiar with our weekly TweetChat, it occurs on Friday's at 1PM ET. Each week I am joined by Business Intelligence and information management experts (e.g., providers, customers, vendors and other analysts) to discuss important topics related to B

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Improving Twitter Search with Real-Time Human Computation

Edwin Chen

(This is a post from the Twitter Engineering Blog that I wrote with Alpa Jain.). One of the magical things about Twitter is that it opens a window to the world in real-time. An event happens, and just seconds later, it’s shared for people across the planet to see. Consider, for example, what happened when Flight 1549 crashed in the Hudson. [link] - There’s a plane in the Hudson.