SPF13
JANUARY 27, 2011
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. The perfect.vimrc vim config file. I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration.
Fountainhead
AUGUST 9, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, August 9, 2011. Cloud Is Not The End - Its The Means. Once you get a new tool, you ask: What can I build that I couldnt before? Cloud computing, at its core, is an operational transformation - mostly focused on infrastructure.
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Cloud Musings
OCTOBER 2, 2011
'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 12, 2011
I think one of the most valuable aspects of our newly-launched book Getting Results From Crowds is the analysis of Crowd Business Models. While crowdsourcing is clearly a fantastic way for organizations large and small to get access to unparalleled resources and scale their operations, it is also increasingly central to many companies’ business models.
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.
A CIO's Voice
DECEMBER 5, 2011
'All organizations seek knowledge. Knowledge is the information gathered and stored by its people. Quality knowledge is not possible without access to all sources of knowledge held by an organization. All companies face the challenge of ‘knowing’ what information it holds and of being able to access that same information instantly. Organizationally, a company holds this knowledge information in three forms: Paper – Traditional Information.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 17, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3.
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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
JUNE 18, 2011
I had the great pleasure to attend this week's U.S. Open Championship golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland. All in all, it was a remarkable experience on many levels: . the immense skill displayed by the players (as of this writing, Rory McIlroy was running away with the tournament), the beauty and challenge of a U.S.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
MARCH 25, 2011
'I guess you can teach an older CTO (me!) new tricks. I was pleasantly surprised by a Code for America “inception event” on March 17th. The event was the kickoff – really the kickoff of the second half of our “game” (project) to create open source software which will help Seattle and Philadelphia and other cities’ neighborhood leaders … well … “lead” Every City and County has neighborhood activists – people who care about their blocks and their communities – a
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 19, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, December 19, 2011. Steve Jobs in 1980. and Cloud + Big Data Today. In 1980, Steve Jobs gave a talk (YouTube) about the early days of Apple. Its fascinating because it describes events that lead up to the first commercially-available Apple computer, and presaged the movement toward "canned" programs (commercial software) rather than everyone writing programs themse
Fountainhead
JANUARY 24, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, January 24, 2011. Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing Didnt). Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. Back then I started with Cassatt, one of the first companies trying to automate infrastructure components in the data center.
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Fountainhead
DECEMBER 15, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, December 15, 2011. Predictions: What You WONT See in IT For 2012. While everyone is jumping in with 2012 predictions (Tis the season) I want to impress on everyone that a dose of sobriety is in order. IT vendors - and even analysts - are understandably eager to see new technologies and operating models (cloud) adopted quickly.
Fountainhead
APRIL 24, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Sunday, April 24, 2011. Clouds Transformation: The Softer Side. After having spoken to numerous customers and vendors, its clear to me that cloud computings operational transformation necessarily triggers structural changes in the IT organization - as well as in the rest of the enterprise.
Fountainhead
OCTOBER 20, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, October 20, 2011. IT Leadership: Two Days with Leading CIOs. Im writing this at Logan airport as I fly home after two full days in Boston, attending EMC’s IT Leadership Council. At it, senior EMC staff were able to spend nearly two full days with a room full of IT leaders from some of the world’s largest and most respected companies.
Fountainhead
AUGUST 30, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, August 30, 2011. IT-as-a-Service: Models for Consumption, Operations, Technology. In a week where products surely dominate the news (its VMworld, in case you live under a rock) I want to share some non-product insights Ive made while working with EMCs IT group regarding running IT as a Service.
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SPF13
JULY 13, 2011
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Where have all the good databases gone? Perhaps youâ??ll recognize these words, â??About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing.
SPF13
JUNE 20, 2011
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Creating a Symfony2 Console Command. One of the weaknesses of PHP as a languages has always been itâ??s ability to write proper command line utilities.
Trends in the Living Networks
MAY 31, 2011
One of the key facets of the rise of the reputation economy is that reputation and influence can increasingly be measured. The rise of tools that measure people’s influence in social media channels, such as PeerIndex , Klout , and Twitter Grader , is just the beginning of a far broader shift to metrics of influence and reputation. We have compiled a list of the most influential people in Australia on Twitter as measured by PeerIndex , which is based on a combination of authority, activity,
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 27, 2011
The rise of news on tablets such as the iPad is one of the defining themes of our times. This was foreseen by some, even down to the language that we use. The following video, created by Knight-Ridder in 1994, describes their vision of the future of tablet newspapers. Some things they got absolutely right. The size and format of their device looks very similar to the iPad.
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Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 9, 2011
This is significant. While talk doesn’t necessarily lead to action, a significant shift in capitalism could be coming. On Wednesday US SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro sent a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight Committee. The letter is embedded at the bottom of this post. Many have focused on the potential from the current SEC review to relax limits on shareholders for private companies, notably the rule that if a private company has 500 investors or more it has to disclose
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 6, 2011
While Twitter started in the US, it is now a global activity. Below, courtesy of Twitter Grader’s Top Cities , is the list of the current top 100 cities in the world on Twitter, based on the total number of users who put that city in their location setting. We have color-coded it to make it easier to see the distribution: North America : 52 (of which 5 in Canada).
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 14, 2011
You may have seen the marvellous news that Iceland is crowdsourcing its new constitution. Draft clauses are put up on the Internet for people to comment on below, or on the Council’s Facebook page. Council meetings are open and streamed live, video interviews with council members are posted on YouTube, and they interact with citizens on Twitter.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 30, 2011
Going beyond human interaction with (quasi) intelligent machines, we are now beginning to explore interactions between (somewhat) intelligent machines. One of the concepts of the Singularity is that machines will before long be able to teach themselves and each other, to the point where their interactions and conversations are incomprehensible to our puny minds.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 29, 2011
The internet can be characterized very simply. Billions of people are looking for interesting and useful information, and millions of companies are trying to make money by people finding their content, through search engines and increasingly on social media. This has led to the rise of companies such as Demand Media, which last week listed on New York Stock Exchange to be valued at $1.5 billion , more than the New York Times.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
I have long said that table tops will embed video and that we will use every possible means to interact usefully with computers. Software and device vendor ExoPC has announced EXOdesk, a computer interface that will be laid on your desk, offering digital keyboards, a variety of colorful keypads, sortable RSS feeds, and even a piano, as shown below. Mashable says it is due for release next year at a price of $1,299, making it not much more than a big screen.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 1, 2011
We are at the cusp of a new phase of robotics, where some of what has been promised to us for decades will come to fruition. An example of this is the iCub , a humanoid baby robot that can learn, emulating human cognition and development. This is the field of ‘developmental robotics’: creating robots that can learn and develop their capabilities over time.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
This morning I am giving the external keynote at a closed conference for senior client executives run by a major professional services firm. They know the technical content they are presenting is rather dry so my role is to provide a highly engaging kick-off to the day (spouses are invited too) which is also practical and useful for attendees. As is quite often the case these days, my client asked me to combine two of the topics from my general list of speaking topics , bringing together the ide
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Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 24, 2011
Personal branding is one of the big themes today, for a number of reasons. As I wrote in five key trends in how influence is transforming society , one of the dominant forces is that reputation is shifting from the corporate to the individual. People build relationships and place trust in individuals more than organizations, changing how (the best) companies organize themselves and engage externally.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 22, 2011
The iPad has changed my life. It feels like I have been waiting for it since I became conscious. However the iPad alone doesn’t do the job. It is the iPad together with a wireless keyboard that has transformed my life. Two years ago tomorrow I wrote a blog post saying It is totally INSANE that you cannot use an external keyboard on an iPhone. For some completely inane reason Apple crippled the Bluetooth on the iPhone so it couldn’t be used for external keyboards.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 28, 2011
Nate Silver , the political statistician extraordinaire, has turned his attention to publishing. His interest is honed by the fact that his blog is now hosted on the New York Times, which is currently implementing a paywall. He has done an analysis of the most influential publications , consisting of a simple review of how frequently publications’ names appear in Google News and Google Blogs followed by the word “reported&# , to give a representative sample of how often publications
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 25, 2011
My friend and fellow futurist Gerd Leonhard , who runs The Futures Agency (which I am part of), was recently in Sydney for a speaking engagement. We took the opportunity to record a series of conversations on the future. Here is our conversation on the future of money. The key points we make are: * The world of money is opening out in a big way today. * Facebook credits are becoming an important alternative currency. * Cash will phase out for digital payments. * The rise of Bitcoin is important
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