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Atbrox spin off launches new media search engine

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Amund Tveit

Our spin off startup company – Gravemaskinen AS – just launched a new media search engine in cooperation with Journalisten.no (magazine for Norwegian media professionals). Some of the features include: faceted’ish suggest search realtime aggregation of search results for statistics … Continue reading →

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An example of using F# and C# (.net/mono) with Amazon’s Elastic Mapreduce (Hadoop)

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Amund Tveit

This posting gives an an example how F# and C# can scale potentially to up to thousands of machines with Mapreduce in order to efficiently process TeraByte (TB) and PetaByte (PB) data amounts. It shows a C# (c sharp) mapper … Continue reading →

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2nd International Workshop on Mapreduce and its applications

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Amund Tveit

If you are interested in Mapreduce (/Hadoop), I would like to recommend participating or submitting your paper to the 2nd International Workshop on Mapreduce and its applications (MAPREDUCE’11). The mapreduce workshop is held in correspondance with the The 20th International … Continue reading →

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Programmatic Deployment to Elastic Mapreduce with Boto and Bootstrap Action

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Amund Tveit

A while back I wrote about How to combine Elastic Mapreduce/Hadoop with other Amazon Web Services. This posting is a small update to that, showing how to deploy extra packages with Boto for Python. Note that Boto can deploy mappers … Continue reading →

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Predicting Startup Performance with Syllables

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Amund Tveit

1. How to name your startup? It seems to me that few syllables (typically 2) are usually much better performing names (with several exceptions though) than others. My personal theory is that it is about rhythm and pronunciation energy. 2. … Continue reading →

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