April, 2006

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Amazon Gets IM

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In order to get closer to their customers, humanize Amazon, increase sales, and stay modern, Amazon.com has decided to make all Instant Messenger (IM) handles of its employees public. This way Amazon.com customers will get unprecedented access to the talented engineers at Amazon to answer all their questions, or just to have an interesting conversation about a new book or that old sci-fi movie.

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Making successful decisions: Technology Purchase Influence Networks - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Social networks and search | Main | MeshForum 2006: Connecting networks » Making successful decisions: Technology Purchase Influence Networks Ross Dawson, April 18, 2006 1:20 AM US PT There can be few more important IT issues—for both large corporations and the vendors that service them—than making major technology purchasing decisions successfully.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[link] Leveraging Organizational Knowledge This blog focuses on how to leverage the knowledge held, created, shared in an organizational context; with the objective of fostering creativity and innovation for competitive advantage. Leveraging your organisational knowledge relates to Knowledge Management, organisational learning, human capital development, social media/networks strategy, multi-channels Customer Relationships Management (CRM) 03 April 2006 Consider the above “Strategic Capability”

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Keynote on the Future of Global Business at the Harvard Club in New York - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Newspaper headlines and search optimization | Main | The symbiosis of mainstream media and blogs » Keynote on the Future of Global Business at the Harvard Club in New York Ross Dawson, April 9, 2006 10:45 PM US PT This April 27 I’m doing a lunch address at the Harvard Club in New York City on The Future of Global Business, organized by Claxton Speak

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Performance and Scalability

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In the A Word On Scalability posting I tried to write down a more precise definition of scalability than is commeonly used. There were good comments about the definition at the posting as well as in a discussion at The ServerSide.

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On the Wire

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I don't want to turn this into a corporate announcement weblog, but I believe some of my new readers may be interested in this. Go check out Amazon Wire, a podcast about books, music, movies and those who create them.

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Massively multi-player sex games - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Online video heats up | Main | Newspaper headlines and search optimization » Massively multi-player sex games Ross Dawson, April 7, 2006 6:08 PM US PT Click on the image for a trial of Red Light Center, the most popular multiplayer 3D virtual sex game This is going to be big.

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