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The dirty secrets of Speed

Published February 26, 2017 by Carlos Veira

The dirty secrets of SpeedThe dirty secrets of Speed

Digital Transformation is a buzzword these days. It is so for good reasons. Many businesses today face fierce pressures from competitors leveraging web scale technologies and digital business models. Many others must also adapt to younger customer bases that are particularly sensitive to engagements via digital means. In this context, Digital is no longer an instrumental item to the business, but a defining one.

Technology has always had the ability to speed things up. We have been hearing this forever and, precisely because of this, we all tend to normalize our perception about speed and minimize how relevant it can be.…

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Spotting influencers and VIPs in LinkedIn with PowerShell – Part 2: “The Dark Side”

Published March 21, 2014 by Carlos Veira

Spotting influencers and VIPs in LinkedIn with PowerShell – Part 2: “The Dark Side”Spotting influencers and VIPs in LinkedIn with PowerShell — Part 2: “The Dark Side”

What we have seen on our previous post may seem interesting and powerful. Essentially, what we are doing is opening the door to creating local datasets with personally identifiable information coming from our Social Networks. That's a pretty big deal. Therefore, there are a couple of things that we need to understand before going forward.

Privacy, Law and Ethics

Usually, on Digital Media, whenever you can access some information is because you have rights and permissions to do so. However, I would like you to consider the difference between “can” and “should”.…

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The Limits of Shared Hosting

Published July 27, 2012 by Carlos Veira

SharedHostingLimits-201207-0Have you ever wondered which is the real difference among different offerings besides the fact that your applications run on a shared server? In fact, most of the times, this seems to be a tricky question because most service providers describe the boundaries and limits of their services based on the following common parameters:

  • The resource type and quota: storage, bandwidth, mail boxes, mail lists, FTP accounts, database instances, etc.
  • The underlying platform: Windows (IIS/Apache) or Linux (Apache) under whichever version.
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Security & Privacy on Personal Mashups

Published September 13, 2009 by Carlos Veira

It is not new that there is an explosion of services around the web that can play a role in a user-based mashup. I won't count them all, because this will change after this note has been written. If you don't know what I'm talking about, just have a look to the Services connected by ShareThis or Ping.fm.

Many of these services will raise their own privacy questions/concerns. But, anyway, your questions may fall into these two categories:

  1. How this Service Provider will manage my data.
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