Yahoo! Labs Announces 2011 Big Thinkers Series

Yahoo! Labs Announces 2011 Big Thinkers Series: "

Yahoo! Labs brought the brightest minds to campus in 2010 with talks ranging from decision making using behavioral economics, to innovation corruption and creating a data platform for evolving world markets.

Check out the exciting year ahead for the Yahoo! Labs Big Thinkers Series.

Chris Anderson

Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine

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New Year Resolution 2011

Life with a beautiful exception. We all have crossed some phases in life which are more or less same, but our experience changes our thinking and our thinking mature us for a particular belief. "I am fine with what I am" is the most commonly used abusive word can ever use. Catering 5+ years of my life in hard core IT, I want to re-define my approach. All I wanna be, is just more logically and calculative while articulating my thoughts and I want this to put in my DNA which I should carry everywhere I go. Thats my new year resolution, thats my dream to be a person of materialistic approach.

Oh Hello VPN-Cubed 2.0

Oh Hello VPN-Cubed 2.0: "VPN-Cubed 2.0 has arrived. Why 2.0? This release is a direct result of over two years of interaction with our customers understanding the specific requirements of use-cases from various industry verticals and geographies. VPN-Cubed 2.0 represents a major step forward adding functionality like the new Manager Firewall and API compatibility (more on those later).

As Pat outlined in his User Cloud posts (Part 1 Part 2), cloud computing (of course I'm talking IaaS), is a multi-layer environment with distinct separation of concerns between the physical providers, virtual providers, and the cloud users. VPN-Cubed focuses on the cloud user or cloud tenant. The model for traditional network devices is the big metal boxes we have worked with all these years. On the flip side, virtual networking, driven by the needs of enterprise application topologies, is a new use-case and implementing it takes some real lateral thinking. Virtual networks can be anywhere, anytime and they provide critical control functions for enterprises in the increasingly agile and often anonymous world of virtual/cloud infrastructure. VPN-Cubed 2.0 is the enterprise-ready networking solution for the User Cloud.

What's new in 2.0?
Below are some of the user experience improvements in this release. We have also updated the IPsec subsystem in the Datacenter Connect Editions.

Manager Firewall

We have added firewall capabilities at the Manager level to control traffic into and out of the VPN-Cubed Overlay Network. This adds an additional layer of security and control to your cloud deployments. The Manager Firewall is controlled via the Manager UI using IPTables syntax.

Manager API

The API provides programmatic access to the Manager and the overlay network. Configuration steps previously done via the Manager UI can now be performed via the command line or by script. See the Scriptable Overlay Networks post for more information on how the API can work with Context-Cubed.

The API tool can be downloaded (ZIP TAR) on the VPN-Cubed Edition pages along with documentation (Cloud Only Datacenter Connect).

Increased Access to Logs

Links to the logs is now provided via the UI making it easier for users to perform required monitoring and maintenance.

External Ping

Datacenter Connect Editions now come with an External Ping capability for configurations where a nearly permanent IPsec tunnel is required. The External Ping function sets up a continuous ping from the Manager to a destination behind the datacenter-based extranet device. The ping serves to keep the tunnel up by continually sending tunnel traffic.

Topology Naming

Many of our customers have complex deployments with multiple Managers and multiple overlay networks. Topology naming allows alpha numeric naming of individual topologies and Managers displayed on the Manager UI.

All new features are explained in the updated configuration documentation available for download in each Edition's launch instructions section on the website. Visit the VPN-Cubed homepage to see which Edition is right for your use-case.

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HP, Intel and Yahoo! Attract Additional Contributors to Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Test Bed

HP, Intel and Yahoo! Attract Additional Contributors to Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Test Bed: "

PITTSBURGH, Pa., September 27, 2010 – HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today announced that four new organizations will join Open Cirrus™, a global, multiple data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research. The announcement coincides with the 4th Open Cirrus Summit hosted by Carnegie Melon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh in cooperation with HP and Yahoo!

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Anger Management: Using Sentiment Analysis to Manage Online Communities

Anger Management: Using Sentiment Analysis to Manage Online Communities: "

Last week, Yahoo! Labs scientist Elizabeth Churchill and Pomona College's Sara Owsley Sood presented their paper, Anger Management: Using Sentiment Analysis to Manage Online Communities', at the Grace Hopper conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Below is a list of the coverage in Scientific America and WIRED.

Anger Management for Online Trolls

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Yahoo! Scratches the Surface of the Internet

Yahoo! Scratches the Surface of the Internet: "

Originally aired on KGO-TV (ABC) on August 11, 2010

By David Louie

Search engines like Google or Yahoo! know a lot about what you search for, but they also are learning a lot about you. Yahoo has several hundred research scientists on the prowl. ABC7 went to see what they are up to.

As good as search engines are, there is an important question that cannot be answered with a few keystrokes.

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Yahoo! Wants to Blind the Competition With Science

Yahoo! Wants to Blind the Competition With Science: "

Originally Published on Wired.com on August 17, 2010

By Ryan Singel

Imagine a world where your favorite webpage doesn’t even exist until you go there, and then it’s exactly what you hoped it would be, and it makes you viscerally happy. Prabhakar Raghavan is thinking about just that, and as the chief scientist for Yahoo! he’s actually in a position to make it possible.

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