ROUNDUP

Links to interesting articles on the web, focusing on cloud computing and new, innovative ideas:
 
Big Data and the 4 Vs: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Variability
Links to a post on My NoSQL. The blog is a good place to learn about concepts for web-scale, big data technologies, e.g. uses of new databases like MongoDB. Here, it provides a brief overview of key drivers for adoption of Big Data. 
Source: My NoSQL
 
Calls for legislation to protect privacy
Everyone of us leaves behind a trail of data when using the Internet or a mobile phone. Politico has a story about increasing demands for regulation and new laws to protect privacy in the US. 
Source: Politico
 
Now’s the time for a Web 3.0 right to privacy
I think we need to rethink the bounds of our right to privacy. Not to regulate technology or industries — I actually think government should tread cautiously on that front — or to limit how authorities can access our information, but to protect us from each other.
Source: GigaOm
 
Data super friends: can social media and enterprise applications team up?
Interesting write-up of the roadblocks that keep corporate IT from using social media models more and better. Quote: "Few companies have successfully integrated social media data into their business applications or analysis like this because it’s just not easy."
Source: GigaOm