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Mike Briercliffe (@mikejulietbravo)

Twitter Bio:: Social Biz Architect at Next Dimension Media. IT & Comms Entrepreneur, Mentor, Speaker, Firestarter, Klout & PeerIndex lurk in 60's/70's. Well connected too.
Location:: London, Leeds, Seattle
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"Twitter killed my business." An inside look at the ecosystem crackdown

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One developer who has been creating custom Twitter applications for corporate clients says the network’s crackdown on use of its API makes him afraid for his livelihood, but could also damage the company’s long-term prospects if enough people like him start looking for alternatives.There’s been a lot of debate lately about how Twitter is closing down access to the network by outside services, and the impact that has on the broader ecosystem — something former CEO Evan Williams talked about with me on Twitter yesterday — but there hasn’t been much written about how that affects individual startups and developers who have built large parts of their

Data Is Useless Without the Skills to Analyze It

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Do your employees have the skills to benefit from big data? As Tom Davenport and DJ Patil note in their October Harvard Business Review article on the rise of the data scientist, the advent of the big data era means that analyzing large, messy, unstructured data is going to increasingly form part of everyone's work. Managers and business analysts will often be called upon to conduct data-driven experiments, to interpret data, and to create innovative data-based products and services. To thrive in this world, many will require additional skills.Companies grappling with big data recognize this need. In a new Avanade survey, more than 60 percent