Scaling mountains of data is becoming a necessary skill set in today’s business and consumer world.  Envisioning the systems behind this is ZL Technologies CEO Kon Leong, an inquisitive man with a provocative perspective.  Running a company that provides software solutions for enterprise’s unmanageable big data problem, Leong has an idea or two on how systems should be developed, implemented and scaled.

In today’s Snapshot Profile series Kong shares his ideal system for managing unstructured data, the importance of compounded knowledge in today’s enterprise and consumer spaces, and his favorite coding language–profanity.

Read full interview at siliconangle.com

While the social element of television is not new, Social TV is a relatively new concept used to describe the emerging generation of television services that integrate with other communication platforms like voice, chat and social media on the web. Social TV leverages the power of social networks to create a new type of highly interactive user experience…

This is the dawn of the age of women who know how to make us — other women, actual women, women who don’t consider Anna Faris sleeping her way through her little black book to be funny — laugh. Behold, our lineup of the most ballsy, talented crop of female comedy writers in Hollywood…

When are we going to see the next great House Party film? When are we going to laugh out loud at a movie that is hilarious and thoughtful, really celebrates a black perspective, and has an awesome soundtrack?… When we support and make it happen.

Instagram finally arrived on Android last week, much to the chagrin of a small minority of iPhone users. But while there are some wonderful apps available in the Google Play Store for both Android smartphones and tablets, there are still some notable ones missing. Here are just a few of the apps we’d like to see on the platform…

Springpad’s just dropped version 3.0 of their productivity suite, launching the public, collaborative notebooks I’ve been anticipating for some time. The update brings them one step closer to matching certain functions of Evernote while differentiating their tools around actionability, making for one extremely useful tool. I’ve taken to using Springpad on a daily basis, curating websites, notes, recipes, products, movies, tasks and events, and 3.0 combines their earlier goals around the socialized Facebook integration with an even broader discovery platform for sharing. What’s great about this release is it’s available simultaneously across all its access points, including the web, iOS and Android apps…

The question now is, what’s Facebook planning to do with Instagram? The company says Instagram will remain a separate project, but we all know that’s not likely to remain the case for long. Photo-sharing is something near and dear to Facebook, and this could be a great in-move for Facebook’s long term mobile strategy. As we saw with Facebook’s earlier acquisition of Path, a privatized take on mobile photo-sharing, Facebook’s clearly interested in developing mobile tools around photo networks, and for Instagram, it’s all about the data…

Sure, Google Maps is wonderful and can even give you an overhead map—all the people who play online games will know exactly where I’m going here—or a semi-transparent minimap. With augmented reality glasses you can do two things to allow people to find their way around and that’s a little-distracting map in your vision and an overlay on what you see that displays guidance…

Project Glass is another gadget capable of incorporating Google’s many apps and services, from Maps to Google+. And even though Google despises patent battles between rivals, they’re going to need a patent or two for these new glasses they’re working on. This may even be an opportunity to integrate their recent patent for picking up on background noise and other location-aware data, developing an entire AI system around Project Glass. Mobile gadgets are the entry point for the potential mass consumer adoption of AI, and can even solve the problems of behavioral targeting solutions that give us bad recommendations, says Expertmaker’s founder and CTO Lars Hard…