What is social media? How does it differ from traditional media? In my humble opinion social media includes all media forms that differ from the tradtional deliverables of traditional media houses (eg. newsprint from newspapers, glossy print from magazines, over the air radio from radio stations, over the air TV from TV stations). If that is so where do you place satellite radio and cable TV? Are they social media, because they are not in the group listed above? They could be, but I woul …

This group is open to all who are interested in the Quantified Self movement and related technologies.

We are a group of technologists interested in a wide variety of topics relating to Big Data Analytics.  Areas of immediate interest include Map/Reduce, No SQL Databases and elastic computing platforms.  Specific technologies of interest are Hadoop, Mongo DB, Cassandra and Amazon EC2. Come meetup if you are interested in these technologies or just want to meet local technologists to the Albany area!   John Poulin Albany Hadoop User Group Organizer

The Tech Valley Mobile Developers Network is a “network” of folks who have a serous interest in developing mobile apps under any platform/device/manufacture. We do not focus on any one phone or tablet vendor and work hard to hold meetings that will represent a vast majority of devices.