Grab bag: Opening Facebook, monetizing Hadoop

So this is kind of game changing: you can now make content available outside of your pool of friends on Facebook. Like, to all users. So if you want to read what I’m writing on Facebook, and you don’t want to friend me, I could just make my posts public to all users. Kind of cool.

Cyberwarfare as proxy wars–interesting thesis.

With lots of large commercial enterprises banking on Hadoop, I wonder what’s next for this open source package?

Worth a listen, for sure.

Any hack involving both IKEA and Lego is a good idea.