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RT @pashasadri: Polyvore made it to the NYTimes! http://bit.ly/iyEe0 (congrats pasha).

Jul 27, 2009 5:59 PM

Is Facebook's Ad Manager down for anybody else? I am getting a blank page! http://www.facebook.com/ads/manage/

Jul 24, 2009 4:03 PM

I am at US citizenship ceremony in SF, 1297 new citizens from 100 countries. Biggest countries are China, India, Philippines and Mexico.

Jul 15, 2009 2:52 PM

Oath of Allegiance Ceremony in San Francisco http://flic.kr/p/6Fam3j

Jul 15, 2009 2:11 PM

RT @mjasay: [SaaS] is in sharp contrast to...enterprise software....[which] is essentially inflicted on users by management http://bit.l ...

Jul 15, 2009 10:12 AM

Soon everybody will have to get one of these to get a job in the computer industry :) http://flic.kr/p/6DG5Pi

Jul 10, 2009 9:08 PM

RT @peteskomoroch: @hackingdata @jpatanooga thinking I'll do a "big data" cookbook section on datawrangling.com #deathbyseo - (do it :) )

Jul 10, 2009 7:46 PM

RT @hackingdata: what a terrible company: systap.com - they send cease & desist to anyone using words "big data", pay engineers, not lawyers

Jul 10, 2009 5:00 PM

RT @Werner: LOL - Cloud Wars http://bit.ly/kZT7P - Cool, I get to be the Dark Lord at the fully operational #AWS BattleStation (via @acroll)

Jul 10, 2009 3:15 PM

Hilarious -> RT @anutron: Excellent jobs for this economy: http://tr.im/rMsP and http://tr.im/rMsN (via @philz42) #funny

Jul 10, 2009 11:52 AM

Congrats @mikeolson for @Hadoop car license plate, super cool :) - RT @mikeolson: http://twitpic.com/9w20w - New tags on the ride @cloudera

Jul 10, 2009 10:24 AM

Congrats to @cutting for being elected to the @TheASF (Apache SW Foundation) board of directors: http://tinyurl.com/mqrvmy

Jul 9, 2009 10:54 PM

RT @mjasay: "Just about everything is more interesting than enterprise sw...& just about nothing pays as well"

Jul 9, 2009 9:31 AM

RT @phunt: ZooKeeper 3.2.0 is official! http://tinyurl.com/nvrub7 Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release #hadoop #zookeeper #asf

Jul 9, 2009 9:03 AM

RT @timoreilly: OH: There's an old Bruce Sterling quote that I've always liked: "Real futurists have children."

Jul 8, 2009 10:31 PM

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awadallah Soon everybody will have to get one of these to get a job in the computer industry :) [ http] - 7/10, 9pm from Flickr

awadallah Congrats @mikeolson for @Hadoop car license plate, super cool :) - RT @mikeolson: [ http] - New tags on the ride @cloudera - 7/10, 10am from txt

awadallah Congrats to @cutting for being elected to the @TheASF (Apache SW Foundation) board of directors: [ http] - 7/9, 10pm from txt

awadallah RT @newsycombinator: Most of your ideas will never take shape, and that's ok [ http] - 7/9, 1pm from txt

awadallah RT @mjasay: "Just about everything is more interesting than enterprise sw...& just about nothing pays as well" - 7/9, 9am from txt

awadallah RT @phunt: ZooKeeper 3.2.0 is official! [ http] Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release #hadoop #zookeeper #asf - 7/9, 9am from txt

awadallah RT @timoreilly: OH: There's an old Bruce Sterling quote that I've always liked: "Real futurists have children." - 7/8, 10pm from txt

awadallah RT @cote An interview with @hackingdata [(http]) - all about hadoop and @cloudera, even down to hardware setups. - 7/8, 9am from txt

awadallah @chad_walters most companies make money from customers buying their product, I am tired from the product->users->advertisers money triangle - 7/6, 11pm from txt

awadallah (Very true) RT @mcuban: "You are not the customer of companies like Google or FB. You are the product. The advertisers are the customers." - 7/6, 12pm from txt

awadallah @anutron stop teasing us :) (re: I like vacations without agendas) - 7/3, 2pm from txt

awadallah RT @BreakingNews JUST IN -- Sources close to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin tell MSNBC that she is "out of politics for good." - 7/3, 2pm from txt

awadallah Congrats RT @chaddickerson: RT @lizwald: @etsy gained 415,454 followers in 261 days [ http] - global rank is 174 - 7/2, 2pm from txt

awadallah @markmadsen: but @colinjwhite failed to mention Cloudera even once in that article, not sure if that was intentional [ http] - 7/1, 8pm from txt

awadallah RT @mejoff: In Borders in PA. Lot's o shiny @Hadoop O'Reilly books just in. - 7/1, 5pm from txt

awadallah RT @ash_patel: Twitter your flickr - now live [ http] - 6/30, 11pm from txt

awadallah Funny RT @peteskomoroch: When reading email about Pig & #Hadoop, gmail ads include "Lipstick On A Pig?" and "Finger Wound, Amputation?" - 6/29, 2pm from txt

awadallah RT @mikeolson: Congratulations to @meetutkarsh! PigPen paper [ http] wins the best paper award at Sigmod 09! #hadoop @cloudera - 6/29, 1pm from txt

awadallah RT @metcalfc: Working through the Hadoop book. I'm pretty impressed. @tom_e_white did a gr8 job. Its a pleasure to read [ http] - 6/28, 1pm from txt

awadallah RT @matt_massie: Setup a Twitter account @gangliainfo for info about #ganglia [ http] - 6/27, 11pm from txt

awadallah Amen^2 RT @mjasay: Amen. RT @johnolilly: You know what I'd rather CNN cover than Michael Jackson? ANYTHING. We are such a dumb society. - 6/26, 5am from txt

awadallah @peteskomoroch, @timmsc: Twitter is probably turning off some features due to MJ overload, they do that sometimes. - 6/25, 8pm from txt

awadallah Good Quote from Benioff: "Customers don't care what vendors say, they care what each other say". Very true in enterprise world #structure09 - 6/25, 8pm from txt

awadallah Unfollow structure09 - 6/25, 10am from txt

awadallah #velocityconf Rich Wolski during cloud panel: "Dynamism is difficult to manage, dynamism of money is *really* difficult to manage". - 6/25, 1am from web

awadallah Who elianewigzell - 6/24, 7pm from txt

awadallah @ash_patel (regarding yslow) just a label at bottom of page doesn't mean it is open source, need public repository, assigned committer, docs - 6/24, 1pm from TwitterBerry

awadallah RT @cloudera: Splittable LZO Compression for Hadoop: [ http] - guest blog post by Chris Goffinet (@lenn0x) from Digg. - 6/24, 10am from txt

awadallah RT @matt_massie: Really cool visualization tool for #ganglia [ http] src at [ http] - 6/24, 12am from txt

awadallah @pswam lol, then there is still hope for cloudera :) (regarding: Speedera did well) - 6/23, 10pm from TwitterBerry

awadallah #velocityconf: Google's page-speed is obviously a remake of Yahoo's yslow, sad to see a fork instead of them collaborating on one compre ... - 6/23, 11am from txt

awadallah @matt_massie with his father's day gift (spongebob made out of a wine bottles container) [ http] - 6/22, 4pm from Flickr

awadallah @cloudera: Hadoop Summit Roundup from Cloudera. New Tools, Y!'s Distro, Developer notes, HBase update, and more: [ http] - 6/22, 4pm from txt

awadallah Kevinweil thx for congrats - 6/18, 10am from txt

awadallah http://twitpic.com/7keij - We need the "garbage collector" to do another pass! - 6/16, 1pm from TwitPic

awadallah RT @tlipcon: "Hadoop has enough ports open that I think it qualifies as a cheese" - Allen Wittenauer of yahoo :) - 6/16, 11am from txt

awadallah Nice Jeff Bezos quote: "The trick to being an entrepreneur is to know when to be stubborn and when to be flexible." - 6/15, 8pm from web

awadallah http://twitpic.com/785k3 - Hadoop committers day at Cloudera HQ. - 6/12, 2pm from TwitPic

awadallah http://twitpic.com/76495 - @tlipcon among "giants" during #nosql panel session. - 6/11, 8pm from TwitPic

awadallah http://twitpic.com/76408 - @tom_e_white autographing his book for fans at #hadoopsummit09 - 6/11, 8pm from TwitPic

awadallah RT @chad_walters: VPork (Jon Travis): [ http] #nosql (benchmark key-value dbs) - 6/11, 5pm from TwitterBerry

awadallah RT @hackingdata: bonus talk at #nosql: jonas karlsson on google #wave indexing and backend - 6/11, 4pm from txt

awadallah RT @chad_walters: Q: "What about C++?" (joking reference to Doug's preso) Chris: "C++ is great but then you have to write it" #nosql LOL - 6/11, 3pm from TwitterBerry

awadallah #nosql @jchris: "how many of you started your coding careers by opening an html document and messing with it", almost nobody raises hand :) - 6/11, 3pm from txt

awadallah RT @matt_massie: Enjoying reading Tom White's book, Hadoop the Definitive Guide [ http]. V. well written. - 6/11, 3pm from txt

awadallah RT @HenryR: excellent slides from @tlipcon's #nosql talk today: [ http] - great survey of design issues in non-relational DBMSes - 6/11, 2pm from txt

awadallah #nosql Cliff Moon (Powerser) "Merkle Trees allow us to find tree differences in O(log N) time" - 6/11, 1pm from txt

awadallah #nosql Cliff Moon (Powerset): regarding Dynomite delete "deleted data can come back from the dead on its own" - 6/11, 1pm from txt

awadallah #nosql Avinash: "Lessons: Lots of failure modes, proper system-level monitoring, simple design, add complexity only when absolutely needed". - 6/11, 12pm from txt

awadallah #nosql Avinash (Facebook): "I don't think Cassandra is well documented, especially the failure detector part is not" - 6/11, 12pm from txt

awadallah #nosql Avinash (Facebook): "Key to low latency is to convert random writes into a batch sequential write whenever possible" - 6/11, 11am from txt

awadallah #nosql Avinash: "Whole idea of pluggable data-store underneath distributed key-value stores is *useless* since you lose control of layout" - 6/11, 11am from txt

awadallah #nosql Avinash (Facebook): "Consistent hashing is the key for enabling scalable distributed key-value stores." - 6/11, 11am from txt

awadallah #nosql Jay Kreps (Linkedin): "Our priorities: Performance/Scalability, Works/Reliable, Community, Consistency, Flexibility/Extensibility ... - 6/11, 11am from txt

awadallah #nosql @tlipcon is giving a nice overview of design decisions for DNRDBMSes and their pros/cons (W/R consistency, data layout, hashing, ... - 6/11, 10am from txt

awadallah #nosql @tlipcon "3D data model = (key for row, column in row, timestamp for history)" - 6/11, 10am from txt

awadallah #nosql Yahoo has been saying they'll open source PNUTS for more than a year, stop saying it, just do it. - 6/11, 10am from txt

awadallah @tom_e_white: "we need to do better (as a community) about creating overlapping solutions" commenting on Pig supporting SQL like Hive. # ... - 6/10, 6pm from txt

awadallah Doug Cutting: "Avro to be released in early summer". #hadoopsummit09 - 6/10, 6pm from txt

awadallah Alan Gates (Yahoo): "Pig will be bilingual, accepting SQL and Pig Latin, benefits: UDFs work in both, users/admins have one system to ma ... - 6/10, 6pm from txt

awadallah @tom_e_white: "May be I am being picky, but hadoop still has many rough edges that need to be ironed out" #hadoopsummit09 - 6/10, 6pm from txt

awadallah RT @kevinweil: I was initially skeptical about oozie/hws... starting to come around. #hadoopsummit09 - 6/10, 5pm from txt

awadallah @acmurthy: "I have my own supercomputer (4000-node hammer hadoop cluster) which I sometimes share with @owen_omalley". #hadoopsummit09 - 6/10, 5pm from txt

awadallah Alan Gates (Yahoo): PIG-823 for metadata about files, PIG-833 for columnar storage and adjustable compression (both not limited to Pig). ... - 6/10, 3pm from txt

awadallah RT @phunt: eharmony says that 200+ ppl on the service get married every day #hadoopsummit09 - 6/10, 2pm from txt

awadallah #hadoopsummit09: Jean-Daniel Cryans (Openplaces) "Zookeeper integration with HBase eliminates the single-master single-point-of-failure ... - 6/10, 1pm from txt

awadallah #hadoopsummit09: Jonathan Gray (Streamy), HBase latency is significantly better, Streamy is migrating all their rich media production se ... - 6/10, 1pm from txt

awadallah #hadoopsummit09: Christophe Bisciglia: "@cloudera releases: Sqoop, EC2 AMI for HDFS over EBS, rpms/devs for Hadoop 0.20 distro and Yahoo ... - 6/10, 12pm from txt

awadallah #hadoopsummit09: Jinesh Varia, in response to how to send AWS TBs of data, "Amazon is good at handling shipments, just mail us the drive ... - 6/10, 11am from txt

awadallah #hadoopsummit09: Juan Carlos Soto (SUN), "With the cloud, new tagline is: The Network is *YOUR* Computer". - 6/10, 11am from txt

awadallah #hadoopsummit09: Juan Carlos Soto "Sun's VDC uses OVF, Open Virtualization Format". - 6/10, 11am from txt

awadallah #hadoopsummit09: @tom_e_white "Hadoop: The Definitive Guide" (aka our Bible) is being freely distributed at summit, make sure to get you ... - 6/10, 10am from txt

awadallah #hadoopsummit09: Rod Smith announces "Project M2". Collect unstruct data in2 Hadoop, enrich it then spreadsheet-like UI allows u to inte ... - 6/10, 10am from txt

awadallah #hadoopsummit09: Rod Smith: volume of enterprise data (struct & unstruct) doubles every 2-3 years (*excluding* rich media). - 6/10, 10am from txt

awadallah I am at #hadoopsummit09 all day today, catch me if you there. - 6/10, 8am from txt

awadallah RT @timoreilly:Wordnik is "dictionary 2.0" - even includes real time usage from twitter: [ http] (via @laurelatoreilly) - 6/9, 9am from txt

awadallah Nice SMS from my mom from Egypt: "It was so nice that Obama came to visit Egypt. Mom" - 6/4, 2pm from web

awadallah correction: regarding my previous tweet, SCADS is no longer built on top of Cassandra, it now has its own storage using Berkeley DB. - 5/28, 1pm from web

awadallah #hadoop /.ed for setting new sorting records [ http] - 5/17, 10pm from web

awadallah Hadoop computes the 1,000,000,000,000,001st bit of π [ http] - 5/13, 8pm from web

awadallah Nice quote for @cloudera: "Our biggest problems were solved within 2 days" and "I don't have to follow the hadoop mailing lists anymore" - 5/12, 3pm from web

awadallah RT @owen_omalley: Arun Murthy and I (Owen) used Hadoop to sort a petabyte in 16.25 hours, terabyte in 62 seconds. [ http] - 5/11, 3pm from web

awadallah Wisdom from @ericries talk @cloudera today: "Stop working on stuff that doesn't matter" - 5/5, 7pm from web

awadallah New blog post by Brian Bockelman about High Energy Physics and how Hadoop is used to archive data from the LHC [ http] - 5/4, 4pm from web

awadallah The Essentiality Criterion for online services: [ http] - 4/30, 10am from web

awadallah Cool screencast by @philz42 on how to configure #eclipse for #hadoop. - 4/21, 5pm from web

awadallah Blog entry on installing @Cloudera's #hadoop RPMs using #puppet [ http] - 4/9, 5pm from web

awadallah @gobansaor how did you find out the different language versions inside Elastic MapReduce? I am not able to login to master at first place. - 4/3, 11am from web

awadallah Congrats to Amazon Web Services for launching Elastic MapReduce (Hadoop), [ http] - 4/2, 9pm from web

awadallah Photo of @cloudera founders in a nice @hadoop story at the New York Times: [ http] [photographer wanted to put us in a box :)] - 3/16, 9pm from web

awadallah RT @tlipcon started @cloudera today, he comes from @AmieStreet, Brown CS grad, where he developed a novel algo for the Netflix Competition. - 3/13, 6pm from web

awadallah I have a new nephew (Adam), score now is: Amr: 4 kids, Emad (my brother): 3, Dina (my sister): 1. I am the eldest though :) - 2/13, 10am from web

awadallah Aaron Newton joins the @cloudera team, @anutron is a clientside development guru, authored MooTools book, checkout [ http] - 2/1, 5pm from web

awadallah @mikeolson thanks, looking forward to the cloudera funding press release :) - 2/1, 11am from web

awadallah @mrflip you did well, don't leak the questions :) - 1/31, 7pm from twitterrific

awadallah Diagnosoft raises $4M and hires new CEO, one day this technology will save your life :) [ http] - 1/29, 10pm from web

awadallah I *love* the logitech MX Revolution Mouse, the mouse wheel is amazing, it auto-switches between precision step mode and free spin mode. - 1/26, 11pm from web

awadallah @elatable I really liked the design UI visualizations in iron man, very well done. Starke's mansion is also super cool looking. - 1/17, 11pm from TwitterBerry

awadallah Matt Massie joins Cloudera. Matt is the father of Ganglia [(http]) the world's most deployed open source grid monitoring system - 1/17, 4am from TwitterBerry

awadallah White paper on reliability of the hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) [ http] - 1/16, 7pm from web

awadallah An excellent recap of what 2008 meant for Hadoop [ http] - 1/6, 11am from web

awadallah Read about the new features released in Hadoop version 0.19 [ http] - 12/31, 11am from web

awadallah @johnbattelle Just got the BB Bold this week, love it, only qualm is better email sync integration with ymail and gmail (ie folders support) - 12/29, 10am from TwitterBerry

awadallah Blog post recounting my Pilgrimage trip: [ http] - 12/19, 11pm from web

awadallah At airport OMW to Saudia Arabia for my first Hajj (Pilgrimage), super excited to see the Kaaba (House of God, built by Prophet Ibrahim). - 11/30, 10am from TwitterBerry

awadallah @stlhood I tried the demo, very neat indeed. - 11/11, 4pm from web

awadallah What happened to Obama's brother in Cairo? [ http] - 11/5, 6pm from web

awadallah @joeduck was she holographic in the studio in front of them or just super-imposed for the screen we see? not clear. - 11/4, 6pm from web

awadallah Twitter, also, predicts an Obama win: [ http]. Go Obama. :) - 11/4, 5pm from web

awadallah Facebook lexicon predicts Obama win [ http] - 11/2, 12pm from web

awadallah @spullara congrats for releasing YQL and YAP. - 10/28, 6pm from web

awadallah @jungledave congrats on acquisition, that said, I think you should have kept at it on your own :) - 10/28, 6pm from web

awadallah @johnbattelle I am not buying from Dell again due to some sleazy interest rate charges they hit me with earlier this year w/o warning. - 10/24, 12am from web

awadallah Cloudera Hadoop Tips blog is now live [ http] - 10/23, 6pm from web

awadallah @johnbattelle we use yammer for private groups :) - 10/20, 8pm from web

awadallah Cloudera is looking for a js/ajax superstar, will only hire from our immediate network of contacts (Friends or FoF), ping us if interested. - 10/18, 11pm from TwitterBerry

awadallah My new startup: [ http] - 10/13, 8pm from web

awadallah @timoreilly nope, those dubai towers are backed by real cash, they have a nutty cash surplus from oil that they need to convert into assets. - 10/11, 12am from TwitterBerry

awadallah Lessons I learned while growing at Yahoo! [ http] - 10/2, 10pm from web

awadallah Ramadan is over, food, here I come :) - 9/30, 9pm from TwitterBerry

awadallah For a green company the VMworld speed raceway party was not very green, I guess because Greene isn't there any more :( - 9/18, 12am from TwitterBerry

awadallah I am at VMworld 2008 for next three days, catch me if you there. - 9/16, 1am from TwitterBerry

awadallah My thoughts on Virtual Mobile Infrastructure versus Virtual Desktop Infrastructure [ http] - 8/19, 4pm from web

awadallah Is there a Firefox plugin that shows how much cpu% is each of the tabs inside firefox consuming? sometimes I want to close such tabs. - 8/1, 1pm from web

awadallah I am in Mayorka on Egypt north coast, west of Alexandria. I didn't visit Egypt in summer for last 12 years (always came in xmas), beautiful. - 7/23, 2am from TwitterBerry

awadallah @spullara what is so cool about 10gen? - 7/21, 12pm from web

awadallah I migrated all my links from myweb2 to delicious. I liked myweb2, but it timed out a lot recently, especially its web badge and rss feed. - 7/17, 2am from TwitterBerry

awadallah Kathleen Lewis (Delta Airlines) had a change of heart after I showed her parking stub timestamp, gave me free makeup flight on airfrance. - 7/16, 8am from TwitterBerry

awadallah After waiting in line for 1.5hrs, at checkin desk, with 30min left, Delta Airlines (Kathleen Lewis) sends me back home, 4 kids cry in Egypt! - 7/16, 6am from TwitterBerry

awadallah Did folks forget that blackberry had apps for a long time now? I have TwitterBerry, G Maps, Y OneSearch Voice, Y Go, Facebook, and Opera. - 7/14, 2pm from TwitterBerry

awadallah Finished MGS4, invested (wasted) 38 hours over 4 weekends, totally worth it, what an amazing peice of work. Hideo is a master game designer. - 7/13, 8pm from twhirl

awadallah I imported 1500 links from myweb into delicious, but they are now all private, how do I switch them to shared in one swoop (not 1 by 1). - 7/10, 11pm from twhirl

awadallah Just stopped following Guy Kawasaki, he tweets too much, all over the place, no consistent theme, low SNR. sorry guy. - 7/8, 10pm from twhirl

awadallah is twitpic just equal to flickr + tinyurl? - 7/8, 4pm from twhirl

awadallah @jyarmis totally, plus they can whip up a good search using lucene in a few weeks, or can they? - 7/8, 9am from twhirl

awadallah Is Terradata falling in the SGI trap? large scale databases are becoming a commodity, they need to learn how to sell cheaper :) - 7/8, 12am from web

awadallah @Furrier I recommend you get Metal Gear Solid 4 w/ps3, been playing it lately and super impressed with effort they put into making it. - 7/7, 12pm from TwitterBerry

awadallah Idea for blkbry/iphone: I want to check if there are new msgs without taking out of my pocket, plz add button which causes vibe if new msgs. - 7/6, 9pm from twhirl

awadallah Search is big, lots of startups pitching to get just 1% marketshare, but can they ever penetrate? [ http] - 7/6, 6pm from twhirl

awadallah @steverubel compare them to pownce though [ http] - 7/6, 11am from twhirl

awadallah @ericcolson think of it as a public asynchronous IM conversation, or a micro-blogging tool, or a status update tool :) - 7/5, 8pm from twhirl

awadallah I would like to be able to connect my blackberry to a projector for showing presentations, it is only thing I carry laptop around for still - 7/5, 7pm from web

awadallah @iancr what is incredible is that we are still using it :) - 7/5, 6pm from twhirl

awadallah @joelaz so essentially tumblr is some where between normal blogging and twitter! - 7/5, 6pm from twhirl

awadallah @joelaz what is special about Tumblr? looks like just a blogging tool? - 7/5, 6pm from twhirl

awadallah When listening to books on an mp3 player, I would like it to turn off auto if I fall asleep (except if I am driving, then it should zap me). - 7/4, 7pm from twhirl

awadallah I especially liked 2 presos from structure'08, "Platform Revolution" by Jon Yarmis, and the "Fortune 5 million" by Zach Nelson (NetSuite) - 6/27, 11am from TwitterBerry

awadallah I am at the Sun Open Source BI Summit in Menlo Park Sun Campus, catch me if you there. - 6/26, 9am from TwitterBerry

awadallah Love the MGS4 sunny eggs, they CG looks super delicious. - 6/26, 12am from web

awadallah I think I finally get twitter, it is IRC2.0, I had account for sometime, but will start giving it a serious try now. - 6/25, 11pm from web