Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I spent the day at the Ninemsn Digital Marketing Summit - possibly the first event I've been to this year where I wasn't a speaker. See my separate posts on Jeffrey Cole's presentation and notes from other presentations at the Summit. In the afternoon Dan Sheniak , Global Media Director at Wieden + Kennedy, talked about the future of the big idea in a world of fragmented media, liberally using examples from their recent work, notably for Nike and Old Spice.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

'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.

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A CIO's Voice

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

'How do you measure the performance of a CIO? There are 2 areas “Leadership and Management” and “Core Areas” that can be used. 1. Leadership and Management: Strategic Leadership. People Management. Mentoring. Personal Development. Training. Annual Initiatives . 2. Core Areas: System Infrastructure. Application Management. Support / Helpdesk.

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Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, November 11, 2010. Presentation Material from SMBNation. Did you manage to make it to SMBNation 2010? Were you in the jammed packed rooms for “Aurora” or “SBS7” Now that we have full product names , pricing and estimated release dates, it’s time to start talking about these great products.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits. By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Here are some the links I shared this week on twitter and facebook : Cloud Computing. Big news this week was of course the launch of Cluster GPU instances for Amazon EC2.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I had been reading up on Ubuntu (the operating system ) when I came across ubuntu!: An Inspiring Story About an African Tradition of Teamwork and Collaboration (the book ) at the library. It was obvious from the subtitle that this was not a book about the OS, but the title pulled me in to at least take a look. At first I thought it was a true story, perhaps an extended case study, since it was in the new non-fiction section.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

'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.

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A CIO's Voice

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

'Is there a rule of thumb for the number of IT staff to the number of end users? No. No two companies are the same. If that were the case there would be a hard and fast rule we all would follow. So comparing the ratios of man to machine will not determine the correct ratio. IT staffing ratios might come into play in larger companies. Efficiencies of scale coupled with segregation of job responsibilities allow larger companies to trend those ratios to some pretty high numbers.

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Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Monday, November 08, 2010. Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. Now that Kinect has stopped stealing all of our thunder around announcements (although I have to admit I can’t wait for mine, it looks awesome!), we can continue rolling out announcements in the Small Business space.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

So, your SharePoint Administrator just accepted his or her dream job, elsewhere. Or you had to reduce headcount and let him go…or she got hit by the green bus, won the lottery, "took two beers and jumped," etc. You get the point. Your SharePoint administrator is leaving in either a sudden or an involuntary manner, and you need to ensure that: You have continuity in your SharePoint operations, with minimal negative impact to SharePoint users.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

When I first learned about the Strange Loop developers conference here in St. Louis, I had a strong – you might say strange – urge to attend. Strange because I am not a software developer; it’s been a long time since I’ve done any serious coding. What caught my eye was how conference organizer Alex Miller ( @puredanger ) tied the ideas of one of my favorite books of recent years, Douglas Hofstadter’s I Am a Strange Loop , to The Loop here in St.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

My colleague Richard Watson , building on the success of his book Future Files , has now launched Future Minds , which explores how screen culture is changing the way we think today, and how it will shape our future. When I read the Contents and Overture to Future Minds, my first thought was that Richard and I should organize a public debate. In contrast to Richard's tone of caution I think there are immense opportunities in having our brains shaped by digital culture (though certainly also thin

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

'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.

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A CIO's Voice

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

'Creating a vision by Don Lewis. One CIO’s “lessons learned” in managing others by Peter Kretzman. Is Project Management a skill or a technique? by Eric D. Brown. Selfishness and The Paradox of Emotional Intelligence by Andy Blumenthal. Filed under: C-Level Executives , Career , CIO , CIO/CTO , IT Process , Leadership , Life and Technology , Management Tagged: Alignment , Chief Information Officer , CIO , CIO Leader , CIO role , corporate innovation , executive , IT executive , IT Management , I

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Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, November 02, 2010. Aurora and SBS7 have a new name! Announcing SBS 2011 Standard & Essentials. This morning over on the Official SBS blog , we announced the names of both Aurora, SBS7 and the Premium add-on. Both products have been hammered on pretty hard in the current beta , having been downloaded more than 9000 times to both partner and consumer community testers.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

[Flickr photo "road work ahead" courtesy of pumpkincat210]. This is always a very busy time of year, and 2010 is no exception. KMA is hiring and assimilating several talented professionals while continuing to create and deliver great content in our areas of expertise. Be on the lookout for us at a variety of upcoming events including: On Monday, 8 November, KMA's Chris McNulty joins KMA alumna Sadie Van Buren in an encore presentation of their excellent SharePoint Saturday session: "See Beh

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the Strange Loop conference last month, I met a couple of guys wearing Vibram Five Fingers shoes. They both highly recommended them, so I figured I’d give them a try. I went for the KSO model in black and orange (shown at right). I’ve been wearing my KSOs pretty much everywhere for the past week and can honestly say I love them. Here’s how Vibram introduces Five Fingers: Remember going barefoot as a child?

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Doyen of internet analysis Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley has provided some great data and insights in her presentation at Web 2.0 today. She has framed it around 10 questions Internet executives should ask themselves (and answer). The full deck is well worth going through - I have put that at the bottom of the post - but I wanted to highlight a couple of her slides on globalization of the internet and mobile.

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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Economy recession makes business process management a hot spot to grow: software vendors try to repackage themselves as BPM providers; Organizations intend to rejuvenate themselves through BPM solutions. Today’s BPM solutions layout the solid foundation to define, automate, control and monitor the business processes to improve the quality and reduce the cost, it intends to build up the responsive enterprise with firm control system tools; However, today’s BPM may not adapt to the new demand and

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A CIO's Voice

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

'Last weekend I suffered a spell of insomnia and decided to get out of bed, so as to not wake up my wife, and go watch television. I am a child of the 70’s, so I fondly remember waking up with my brother and running downstairs to watch Saturday morning cartoons. This was before remote controls, so my brother and I had carefully planned what shows to watch and who will turn the knob and the designated time.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

'Travelers' Info Map. Concrete and asphalt are everywhere in the Naked City or in any City for that matter. I was startled to learn that up to 50% of any City is paved or tarred over to provide space for transportation – autos, trucks, buses and trains. I certainly know about intelligent transportation systems (ITS). But streets can’t be very intelligent, can they?

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Wife, at Mall, just bought extra box of dishes for upcoming holiday family meals: "May I leave this box with you for a few minutes? I can't carry it though the Mall, and I parked all the way over at [xxx store].". Customer Service Rep (CSR) at retail store customer service desk: "I can ring you up over here.". Wife: "No, I already paid for it. Can you just hold it for me while I bring my car around?".

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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.

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Suddenly, and quite unexpectedly, programming from the Scripps Network – which includes channels such as Food Network and HGTV – disappeared from the AT&T U-verse lineup last Friday. This surprised just about everyone, since media reports earlier in the week seemed to indicate the two were working amicably toward a resolution of ongoing negotiations.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I'm at the NineMSN Digital Marketing Summit today, checking out what NineMSN , the Australian online joint venture between television channel 9 and Microsoft, is telling the marketing industry in Australia, significantly related to Microsoft's vision. . The biggest drawcard of the day for me was Jeffrey Cole of USC Annanberg School Center for the Digital Future, who I hadn't heard speak before.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The current issue of Australia Post's Priority magazine has a feature section on 'Blogging. Friend or Foe', comprising four brief articles offering different perspectives from a lawyer, an academic, a digital strategist, and myself as 'business advisor/ futurist'. Here's my piece: Recent data shows Australians spend more time engaging with social media than any other nation.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

I've written several times about internet bandwidth across countries and why it matters, including some interesting research back in 2007 correlating time spent on PCs with bandwidth and a more recent post on bandwidth and economic growth. Now Royal Pingdom has compiled a nice list of real connection speeds in countries around the world, using the largest content delivery network, Akamai , as the source, making this probably the most reliable data available.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I'm at the Woodwing Tour event in Sydney, where Alan Oakley, Group Executive Editor of Digital at News Limited is speaking on the topic of Tablets Change the Game. Below are live notes from Alan's presentation, showing some interesting perspectives on how News Limited thinks about tablets, underlining in particular their belief in this channel, and how it inexorably drives a converged newsroom.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I recently connected with Daniel Knox (@djkn0x) on Twitter - which is where it seems most of my connections are happening these days. Among other interesting entrepreneurial activities Daniel is playing with a new venture that does analysis of Twitter activity around events. To show me Daniel created a visual network analysis of the Twitter activity around Future of Crowdsourcing Summit (#foc10) that we ran a few weeks ago in Sydney and San Francisco.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I'm at the NineMSN Digital Marketing Summit today, seeing some great presentations, trying out new products like Kinect for Xbox and Windows 7 Mobile, and catching up with a few good folk. It's a big production at Sydney's Luna Park, with a great turnout from the core target community of media buyers, along with some agency and client executives. Below are a few quick notes from some of the sessions of the day.

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