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How FatCloud Is Bringing NoSQL To The World of Microsoft

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One of the startups in that area--born out of a.NET development organization here in Los Angeles--is FatCloud (www.fatcloud.com), which develops a NoSQL database which ties directly into Microsoft''s SQL Server database. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo! And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know). I was simply BLOWN AWAY by the quality of innovation by 3rd-party Twitter developers. Just ask MySpace.

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Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved

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I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a great leader and seem to be having this conversation a lot lately about Facebook, Yahoo!, Take Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo! I never worked at Yahoo! But his role as “Chief Yahoo!&# But his tenure as CEO (and frankly the whole culture of Yahoo!