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By the way, the majority of the code that powers our platform is open-source: check out Ironfan at http://github.com/infochimps-labs/ironfan and the full suite at http://infochimps…

The foursquare venue comes in from the firehose, so we have information on venues that have seen recent checkins. Thus the coverage (though imperfect) is best for venues that are m…

Much easier to configure and install. * You get Pig, Wukong and Dumbo out of the box. Don't learn Java hadoop, use one of those. * Standardized setup which really helps if you have…

DrawnToScale, Infochimps and Cloudera are having a [Hadoop on Chef on Cloud] hack day this Monday before the Hadoop Summit. Holler (@mrflip) if you're interested in the hack day, o…

A testament to the #ruby community: http://bit.ly/whymir In 2 days _why's projects all recovered and 15/23 have new maintainers. Ongoing progress will be posted at http://whymirror…

http://github.com/whymirror/poignantguide/tree/master

I've merged yours to be the head of whymirror/camping, and made you admin. Thanks for carrying the torch!

I've set up a mirror of re-forks of his repos at http://github.com/whymirror This isn't anything super-scientific, I just forked the first google hit for site:github.com "fork of w…

This is great stuff. Will get it into infochimps on the next update.

There's largely no such thing as "closed source" data. Many of the restrictions people claim on publicly distributed data are bogus: you cannot claim copyright on a comprehensive c…

Hey! That's me &co., yay. Our goal is to build the best free repository of data on the web, like a 'flickr for datasets' or the almanac to wikipedia's encyclopedia. There's some si…