The LeapFrog Tag Reading System
Here is one of the reasons why my team and I have been so busy for the last few months: The Tag Reading System. Check out the packaging, installation on Mac, and how it works!
Children can use Tag as an aid when learning to read. They can tourch the Tag reader anywhere on a page to hear stories or individual words aloud, or to play interactive games. Tag works with Mac and Windows (sorry, Tux!) for updating its content. Very cool, easy to use, and with great sound quality for a device designed for "little hands".
MapReduce Part II and the Dioscuri Project
Build a MapReduce system using the same off-the-shelf, robust, open-source components already running at your company and that your engineering team already mastered. Do you want to quickly implement large indexing jobs, protein folding software, or financial trend analysis? Build a MapReduce system with tools that already exist in your production clusters!
There are two articles about MapReduce out in the wild now, with a third one coming soon:
- MapReduce II - May 2008
- Why Should You Care About MapReduce? - February 2008
This MapReduce implementation is the foundation of the open-source Dioscuri Project.
