Tag Archives: Places

Top 5 places to build a new data center

Future data center expansion will be happening in developing markets like China, Brazil and Argentina, but such locations may not meet the requirements of data centers today and the requirements that will be necessary in the future. In fact, these … Continue reading

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So much Hadoop in so many places

The big Hadoop news today is Hortonworks’ entre into the product space with a new distribution, but it’s just one company trying to sell big-data-hungry businesses on its Hadoop prowess with new products. Individually, none of these announcements are particularly … Continue reading

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Foursquare to relaunch Instapaper for places feature

Foursquare a little over a year ago tried launching an “Add to Foursquare” embeddable button for web publishers, which allowed users to save venues to their to-do list in Foursquare. The service died out after a few months after publishers gave … Continue reading

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Google Ventures-backed Nosh checks into Google Places

There is a seemingly endless stream of food/restaurant rating/check-in apps popping up all the time. All of them aim to help you find good food, and many of them do it very well. Nosh is among the newer faces in … Continue reading

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My Maps Becomes My Places

Google Maps updated the “My Maps” section, which now includes the places you’ve starred and rated. Mapplets are no longer available and custom maps aren’t popular enough to have their own section, so “My Maps” became “My Places”, a list … Continue reading

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