In the ongoing $1 billion legal lawsuit between YouTube and Viacom, a federal judge has recently ordered the Google to turn over records of all users and videos ever viewed on YouTube. Privacy concern aside, thats 12 terabytes of information.
Well, it sounds enormous ? but what exactly do 12 terabytes-worth of information look like?

Google would gain back a lot of respect if they did just that. Also, Viacom has said that they are open to getting the information that wouldn’t require the exposure of usernames/emails but take that with a grain of salt. Don’t…

Theres one thing about Facebook that most people still seem to have wrong: that its a walled garden. Quite the contrary, the Platform allows for full data portability and has since its inception. It actually isnt a walled garden at all. The problem is that this knowledge is buried deep within the FB documentation, a place few developers have wan

Basically, get creative. Its almost silly how many cool things can be done here. Is there any way to leverage group, page, or event data? Check this out: http://bigsight.org/city/nashville_tn/events. This is a display of the events that I…

Their science is impressive, but their timing is dead on. It doesnt quite seem fair that California has been blessed with the perfect growing climate for some of the worlds best agriculture (and of course, wine) but saddled with a water shortage. To help, Fruition Sciences have turned the science of hydration monitoring into an art.

Using a proprietary technology, Fruition Sciences is able to monitor real time viticulture information and deliver the statistics via a web-based application to the winemakers instantly. The ability to monitor the current vineyard status in…

Rogers announced service plans for the iPhone 3G in Canada today. iPhone 3G combined voice and data plans start at $60 and will be available starting July 11th.”As the wireless provider voted number one in wireless satisfaction(x), Fido is thrilled to offer a variety of well-priced voice and data pl…

“As the wireless provider voted number one in wireless satisfaction(x), Fido is thrilled to offer a variety of well-priced voice and data plans making iPhone 3G accessible to as many of our customers as possible,” said…

Computerworld’s annual list of best IT workplaces is out for 2008. The list of 100 companies is based on responses from over 30,000 IT employees, with finalists were selected for diversity, training, career development, retention and benefits. Use the interactive map to find your next employer.

Map Instructions Mouse over a red circle to see which city it represents.Click once to zoom in and see that city's Best Place(s) to Work.Click on the link to get more information about an employer.To zoom and pan, use the controls at…

A massive list of the information that Google collects about us. However good Google's intentions, their having this much data is still worrying

My first reaction is to say that I agree but as I posted above, what harm do you foresee if they hold your credit card info? Do you save your info with Amazon, ebay, iTunes, or any other site? I can think of at least 4 different sites that I…

GREAT ESSAY: “Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.”

But faced with massive data, this approach to science — hypothesize, model, test — is becoming obsolete. Consider physics: Newtonian models were crude approximations of the truth (wrong at the atomic level, but still…

The robot is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agencys (DARPA) Chemical Robots (ChemBots) program that seeks to build soft, flexible, mobile objects that can identify and maneuver through openings smaller than their static structural dimensions

DARPA goes on to say nature provides many examples of ChemBot features including mice, octopi, and insects, that readily traverse openings barely larger than their largest hard? component, via a variety of reversible mechanisms. These…

Internet scams, phishing, identity theft and other attacks that exploit your personal data are always a threat when you shop online, set up an email account, use a credit card, manage an online bank account or carry your Social Security card. There is hope, however, for fighting these threats, and you can start by taking back control…

Even if you don't maintain a conspicuous online presence, there are other threats and scams that you should be wary of. Learn how to protecting your Social Security number and other personal data.

The idea behind Glassdoor is simple: You tell me your salary, and Ill tell you mine. The stealth startup, which raised $3 million from Benchmark Capital last March, just went live. The site collects company reviews and real salaries from employees of large companies and displays them anonymously for all members to see.

The use of self-reported survey data is an established protocol for putting together survey reports. But it’s used in part to ease the process of collecting information so that enough data can be collected to have something…

You delete an important file, somehow it skips your Recycle Bin altogether, and for all practical purposes, it's disappeared into the ether. But before you hit the big red panic button, there's a very good chance that your file is still alive and kicking somewhere on your hard drive'you just need to know how to find it.

Ack! The computer ate my term paper! We've all been there at some point. You delete an important file, somehow it skips your Recycle Bin altogether, and for all practical purposes, it's disappeared into the ether. But before you hit the…

On a technical level, to “sync” a file and to “save” it are the same thing. But in terms of user experience, there's a world of difference between the two actions. So here's why I'd rather save to the cloud than sync across the LAN.

When I come home from a trip, I want my network to say, "hey, it's the MacBook Air. Let's see what's new on its hard disk, and what changes has Jon saved to different files." And then I want my network to…

Which article is the closest (in number of links) to all the others? Find shortest paths between wikipedia articles.

150GB of XML (after it's uncompressed) is far too much data to run any sort of analysis over. It also contains a pile of useless information, for example I didn't care about the content of the articles, only which other articles…

Google is said to operate a global network of about three dozen data centres with, according to some estimates, more than 1m servers. To catch up, Microsoft is