Overview
Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the Web 2.0 Conference in SF. It's a small conference (500 people or so) where a lot of web industry leaders get together and discuss the state of the industry and the next big thing. In fact, the term "Web 2.0" was first coined in 2004 at this very conference.
Each year there is a theme, and this year talks and sessions were concentrated around Big Data. There are amazing facts floating around about how there is more data produced in the last year than all of human history ...