Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Online bringing people together: Brooklyn Bridge Photowalk | Main | Newsgator implements APML: the value of standards in an open world » Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050 Ross Dawson, October 14, 2007 8:44 PM US PT When people talk about the future, they usually point to all the new things that will come to pass.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2007

In two weeks we’ll present a paper on the Dynamo technology at SOSP, the prestigious biannual Operating Systems conference. Dynamo is internal technology developed at Amazon to address the need for an incrementally scalable, highly-available key-value storage system. The technology is designed to give its users the ability to trade-off cost, consistency, durability and performance, while maintaining high-availability.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Read the following article in CIO Today: [link] It starts with this unfortunately correct quote from an Accenture executive: When it comes to collaboration, many companies have a long way to go. "We are early in the cycle, maybe the second inning," says David Smith, head of the human performance practice in North America for Accenture, a global consulting and technology services firm.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 16, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Implementing Web 2.0 is critical for attracting talent to legal and professional firms | Main | Microsoft teams up to improve its Enterprise 2.0 offering » Professional services are the future of the economy Ross Dawson, October 16, 2007 10:58 PM US PT When I was in Singapore recently to deliver a keynote for a client , I was interviewed by Radio Si

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OCTOBER 23, 2007

If we would just forget about discriminatory traffic management (e.g. based on deep packet inspection) life on the network would be pretty simple, even under overload conditions. A lot has been written about this already but Wes really nails it in his summary.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 23, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « This is just the beginning of social networking for professionals | Main | Official: Give staff Facebook ‘or risk losing them’ » Delivering Tomorrow’s Newspaper: The view from 2020 Ross Dawson, October 23, 2007 2:40 AM US PT This is something you just have to see.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Institutional Yes is a Harvard Business Review interview with Jeff Bezos about the way strategies are developed at Amazon. I have written before about how the relentless customer focus translates into driving architecture and design using the “working backwards” approach. The interview with Jeff gives you more insight on the impact of customer focus on overall strategy and how it drives a culture of experimentation.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 4, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « APML gains momentum – this could transform the personalization of advertising | Main | Fifth anniversary of Trends in the Living Networks blog! » Why Web 3.0 is a meaningless term Ross Dawson, October 4, 2007 7:48 AM US PT A couple of months ago when I was spending a few packed days of meetings up and down the 101 in Silicon Valley, several people a

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 3, 2007

There is a lot of positive feedback about the Dynamo paper but I noticed that something I wrote in introducing the paper is being misunderstood. This was my fault, I wrote it too strongly. What I meant by internal-only is that Dynamo is not directly exposed externally. However, Dynamo and similar Amazon technologies are used to power parts of our Amazon Web Services, such as S3.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Video interview on Enterprise 2.0 by Melcrum/ KM Review | Main | Why Web 3.0 is a meaningless term » APML gains momentum – this could transform the personalization of advertising Ross Dawson, October 2, 2007 1:45 PM US PT I’ve written before about attention profiling as one of the major trends in the online world.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 1, 2007

My old friend Steve Vinoski is back online. Steve was with Iona for many, many years, working as the main architect on many of their Middleware technologies. Steve left Iona this spring to work for a start-up in the Boston area. But Steve became really famous for this drawing, which he used to express his opinion about my keynote at Middleware 2004.

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OCTOBER 26, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The State of the Nation in Australian emerging technology | Main | The emergence of the naked start-up – why are entrepreneurs behind corporations in creating the open economy? » Sir Martin Sorrell: WPP mimics Google and Microsoft, driving the PR industry Ross Dawson, October 26, 2007 6:24 PM US PT Yesterday I heard Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Gr

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 16, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Newsgator implements APML: the value of standards in an open world | Main | Professional services are the future of the economy » Implementing Web 2.0 is critical for attracting talent to legal and professional firms Ross Dawson, October 16, 2007 4:18 AM US PT A recent article in Lawyers Weekly magazine titled Firms warned to embrace Web 2.0 opens a

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 13, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Fifth anniversary of Trends in the Living Networks blog! | Main | Online bringing people together: Brooklyn Bridge Photowalk » Bill Amelio, CEO of Lenovo, and Ross Dawson interviewed on global sourcing Ross Dawson, October 13, 2007 9:17 PM US PT Mark Jones of The Scoop , a recently launched podcast series from the Australian Financial Review and MIS

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