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๐Ÿ 2023 BTCC ๐Ÿ 2021 Vice-Champion British GT ๐Ÿ† ๐Ÿ 2020 Ginetta SuperCup ๐Ÿ 2018 Ginetta GT5 Champion ๐Ÿ† Founder, DataSift + Infosum

Basingstoke, UK
Joined April 2007
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The market needs to move on from reliance on Cookies - embracing the having a logged in audience needs a platform that is compliant for handling PII #notadmp
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We launched our Discovery solution yesterday that will enable #agencies , #brands and #publishers to move away from reliance on cookies. Check out the article from @Digiday on @immediate_media use of Discovery!
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Why the iPad is Destroying the Future of Journalism http://retwt.me/1Qolc < this is a #mustread
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The amazing @LandoNorris had a look around my new @customerracing GT3 ahead of 2022 campaign in @BritishGT and may have left behind something special that will be visible for any in-car footage. If that's not worth 0.1s a lap I don't know what is! #mclaren #landonorris
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NoSQL Databases: What, When and Why http://bit.ly/g6wdQC < a must read by @lorenzoalberton ( @datasift chief architect)
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Delighted to have @jsrworld as my co-driver again after we won twice together last year on our way to second in the GT4 pro-am points. #mclaren #mclarencustomerracing #britishgt #gt3 #mclarengt3
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NEWS - Moving up to the big league! Iโ€™m sticking with Fox Motorsport to race this @McLarenGroup 720S GT3 in the @BritishGT Championship this year. Canโ€™t wait to get started. #britishgt #mclaren #foxmotorsport #mclarengt3 #gt3 #mclarencustomerracing
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CognitiveLogic Raises $3M To Help Enterprises Pool Big Data While Keeping Privacyย Intact via @techcrunch
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14 years
Most thorough writeup of TweetDeck acquisition by @louisgray http://bit.ly/ig7NCH
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In Defense of WebSummit http://t.co/QOMxpDhWva
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If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
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Realtime Datamining at 120,000 Tweets Perย Second http://t.co/nLH4U45Y #datasift #bigdata
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This weekend we are holding a very special Crazy Cart Championship with New and Old @BTCC drivers - including @PaulONeill29 commentating (and racing) + The Public get to have a go! ๐Ÿ’ช Donington Park 30th March -
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. @chloeredbud asks the most important question for the industry, how do you make it simple to buy an audience at scale outside of Facebook + Google. Cannot happen without removal of data silo's #infosum #rampup19
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9 years
Continuing the Entrepreneur Journey via @DataSift
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In need of large realistic dummy datasets for product testing? Check out our latest product @databakeio #StartBaking
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DataSift founder raises $3M for new privacy-focused analytics startup via @siliconangle
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13 years
Anyone who runs a UK website (+uses cookies) read this now -> http://bit.ly/jBSin6 (cc @mikebutcher )
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I believe that SEO (the term) is here to stay - but what it means will fundamentally change http://bit.ly/hsWeEp (cc @cdixon )
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DataSift Architecture: Realtime Datamining at 120,000 Tweets Perย Second http://t.co/nLH4U45Y
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@aripap @InfoSum @marketingcloud Bringing out the big guns now - vote #infosum and save Baby Yoda #adtechmadness #starwars
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[BLOG UPDATE] Twitter Contract http://t.co/gicj4mPzur
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DataSift launches two new ways for anyone to mine and filter social data http://t.co/elafoQ4I
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11 years
I give Hadoop 2 years before people realise finally that they need software that solve problems not databases that just complicate matters
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We won best Enterprise business at the #Europas2014 http://t.co/tyW8nhHQGn
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How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluatesย CEOs http://t.co/FpUj2aYS via @bhorowitz
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14 years
My answer on Quora to: Why have "personalized news" startups failed? http://qr.ae/78Em
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Want every Twitter link resolved + title fetched? http://t.co/UFSACkhO #datasift
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I am taking back over as CEO of DataSift http://t.co/Pvb78iGSU1
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Social Identity matching across networks has no future - many players doing it (breaking every T&C's + every privacy law)
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13 years
Great article from Wired about YCombinator -> http://bit.ly/l7NGsB
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12 years
I build High Availability Platforms so Cloud is not for me http://t.co/KpWqyokx < #epic post by @NetworkString
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11 years
Applying SQL to Hadoop is like ripping out the engine of a Ferrari and putting in a go-kart engine. #bigdata #gonewrong
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14 years
11 Essential WordPress Plugins To Get Your Blog In Motion http://bit.ly/czCcPv < TweetMeme is No.6
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Diagram to help you think about 1st -> 3rd party data in publishers / this is the future of bringing the PII data stack together but needs real privacy governance #ATSL19
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Why Big Data is now such a big deal http://t.co/QhunHqok via @guardian
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DataSift: There Is No Change To Our Relationship With Twitter After Gnip Acquisition http://t.co/9gjJbyMQgA via @techcrunch
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9 years
. @ruskin147 but Facebook Topic Data is now the No.1 Data Source for Social Analytics - given 1.4 billion users + rich demographics
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6 years
Great job @British_Airways - you leak my data and then offer me 'free' ProtectMyID service from Experian that then allows them to resell my personal data #notcool cc @BBCRoryCJ
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Our Blog post -> DataSift Partners with Facebook to Bring Facebook Topic Data to Marketers http://t.co/jPk32pw5Lj
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A Fast, Open-Source, Batch-Updatable, Distributed Key-Value Store http://bit.ly/gZzIYR
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The API at the Root of Your Business http://t.co/c2ZAe6e8
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11 years
Sorry - but not everyone should learn to code - the world is already full of bad programmers
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HTTP Streaming Versus PubSubHubbub http://bit.ly/eisLwI
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What Motivates Programmers -> http://bit.ly/bwPy1x (150,000 hits and growing)
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Creating a 1st party centralised store of Identity ( #hashed or not) to combat loss of #3rdparty cookies is never going to be a compliant solution #ATSL19
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11 years
Data Science Is Dead http://t.co/lnYnm1lArD < a must read - ML + automation is the future
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Easy share infographic of the technology that Twitter customers will be losing out on http://t.co/Mdm7uZKPjY
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A journey into optimizing Hadoop jobs http://t.co/vV67pe8O #DataSift
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This is my presentation for Strata http://t.co/3wYgLGra #datasift
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The ultimate wine and cheese pairing map ๐Ÿ˜‹ #interactive #dataviz
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. @ruskin147 a short term goal for Twitter which is revenue - but one which will come back and bite them
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. @Flipboard is Disruptive in more ways than you think http://bit.ly/byJyEV
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We still don't have a social network that allows insertion of #metadata via an API - this is a #massive opportunity still
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"this is going to hurt you more than it hurts me" - the button we used to shutdown the Firehose Today http://t.co/1AsUO0TzXL
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@PaulONeill29 Did someone say Clio Cup ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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@mckaywrigley Having programmed for 40 years - Language, code style, methodologies, debugging - none of it matters, two rules - think 5 steps ahead of what this solves, accept it wonโ€™t be right until 3rd attempt
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Does Data as a Service (DaaS) have the Potential to become the Next Big Thing? http://t.co/kbTH5hz6Ib
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Future of Social Business Intelligence http://t.co/G7DjgPOQna < great thought leadership from @abc3d
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. @pmarca automation / detection of abuse using Machine Learning is possible - just no money going into applying it
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More on our partnership with Facebook on TechCrunch: http://t.co/XeFalZ7Atx tip @Techmeme
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I said I had two bits of news - and the second one is even bigger! @LandoNorris snuck out of the MTC to come look at the car and talk about the season ahead. I tried to get him to take @jsrworld seat but he seemed to think he had a packed schedule ๐Ÿ˜‚ #f1 #landonorris #McLaren
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Just recorded a demo of @datasift doing something no other search engine can do http://bit.ly/aR6T1B
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What can blockchain do in AdTech that cannot be built without it - answer โ€˜nothingโ€™ #atsl18
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My answer to How do Datasift and Gnip compare when accessing historical Tweets? http://t.co/Kqd2Aqc6
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Microdata: HTML5โ€™s Best Kept Secret http://bit.ly/bJu3lI
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Tweetmeme announces DataSift โ€“ โ€œYahoo Pipes for Twitterโ€ http://bit.ly/9rIJYH
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The Arrogant VC: A View From the Trenches (full length version) http://t.co/jdJSpN05
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Do I need SQL or Hadoop #flowchart #bigdata
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Classify Social Data With DataSiftโ€™s DIY Machine Learning http://t.co/EOv5Nvtp9N
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DataSift Launches New Features to Help Non-Technical Staff Analyze Big Data http://t.co/pMDi7MWp via @betakit
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Spare Me From โ€œProduct Guysโ€ http://t.co/HSFu241e
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To be clear - A tech company is something that makes money from selling technology - JustEat = sells food delivery, Wonga = Loan Shark
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content farms will NOT survive - search will become 'follow' and SEO will become SGO (social graph optimisation)
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Big Data = No Insights http://t.co/fH1jlndEBW < because the tools are too complex and infatuated with size of data rather than understanding
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How Google sets goals and measures success http://bit.ly/btxYhB
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from little retweet buttons to a huge data ecosystem - great ride with @rsarver @dougw @ev @biz @jack @dickc #moretocome
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Announcing our Twitter Partnership http://bit.ly/fJeZQ5
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by gods gmail is powerful - "(is:important AND in:inbox) OR l:^ss_cr" - this now gives me a multi-inbox with priority + my starred items
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the @datasift Alpha is now officially GO -> http://bit.ly/cctl4g
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Flickr sold for $35m
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Steve Jobs takes iPad into the Dragons' Den (UK TV) http://bit.ly/fECIlC < #brilliant #apple #ipad
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Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity http://bit.ly/iCslx2 (for those not previous seen it)
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drives me crazy that people attribute some god like โ€˜verificationโ€™ based upon โ€˜journalistโ€™ saying something rather than just โ€˜normalโ€™ people
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My @WebSummitHQ talk is going to be on โ€œWhat Makes a Good programmerโ€ - and 95% of it will surprise you
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Lean startup - have we all realised yet that it was meaningless as it just defined only a small subset of companies
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This is a *must* read for anyone who wants to understand how VC funds operate http://t.co/UbXyjJEZ
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10 Core Architecture Pattern Variations for Achievingย Scalability http://t.co/ZqlQJ2nG #bigdata
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If you believe in a better decentralized future for data privacy, transparency and high quality measurement then please vote for us! #adtechmadness
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Can @Comscore measure up to buzz-worthy @InfoSum ? #adtechmadness
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10 years
Ok, sick of this - just to be clear, JustEat + Wonga are NOT FUCKING Tech companies
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Want a 90% drop in your site visitors? Yes folks, you too can implement EU cookie law! http://bit.ly/mthVrd #toldUso
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Twitter Historic Data in 5 Simple Steps http://t.co/XPVZNvnC #NOAPI
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Smartcar Vs Ferrari http://t.co/V9ec3QAn
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How easy is it to get on-demand NLP for social data? http://t.co/XdlkUH2D #datasift
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