I’m glad to announce that Get Encouraged is now freely available on github. The code is available here: http://github.com/mmzyk/getencouraged/tree/master Thanks to More Better Labs for allowing me to open source the code, since it was originally written for them. Get Encouraged is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.  Please download and play away.  […]

Yahoo has announced they are now using Hadoop, an open source implementation of MapReduce, for processing search data, and they’ve also announced impressive performance gains because of it. While investigating this story I also came across mention of IBM using Hadoop for it’s cloud computing initiative. I think these related stories point towards the future […]