ICANN's gTLD application system back on line

Yesterday ICANN put its gTLD application portal back up, after taking it down on April 12 due to a security hole.  The system reportedly already holds 2091 applications with an additional 214 registered applicants that haven't submitted anything yet.

I'm guessing that we'll see "unveiling day," when ICANN publishes the list of who applied for what strings, about a month from today.  That will be a super interesting moment in the internet's history, and I for one will be glued to my monitor while I check out who applied for what.

Tim Callan invited article on Big Data in ZDNet

Last week I presented an invited article on ZDNet's Big on Data blog by Andrew Brust.  As a cool tidbit, the say it went live if you searched Google News on the phrase "big data," it was the first result.

Tim Callan article in LP Magazine

Dig my new invited article in LP Magazine.  The article discussed how stores can combine Loss Prevention (thus the LP acronym) and in-store analytics into a single system to drive increased profitability.  And if you hurry up you can see my smiling face on the magazine's home page.