All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 15, 2006
On the A9 Developer weblog there is an article today on he SiteInfo feature that was until now only available when you used the A9 Toolbar. They now have developed a Firefox extension that will give you the same functionality. Normally the siteinfo tab gives you the Alexa information about a site: traffic ranking, reviews, etc.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 13, 2006
About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Positive word of mouth | Main | The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - Introduction » Peer-to-peer banking Ross Dawson, February 13, 2006 1:19 PM US PT A new peer-to-peer bank, Prosper.com , is launching in the US, attracting articles in both the New York Times and BusinessWeek, with the latter titling the story “ The eBay of Loans ”.
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Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 17, 2006
About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Peer-to-peer banking | Main | The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services – #1 Client Sophistication » The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - Introduction Ross Dawson, February 17, 2006 8:17 PM US PT Around six months ago, I wrote a White Paper for the enterprise software company Epicor titled “ The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Servic
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 19, 2006
About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - Introduction | Main | 10 Trends for 2006+ » The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services – #1 Client Sophistication Ross Dawson, February 19, 2006 2:02 AM US PT [link] Download the complete White Paper: The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services Continued from Introduction.
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Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 28, 2006
About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « A conversation with my newsagent | Main | Organizational network analysis goes mainstream » Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - #6 Globalization Ross Dawson, February 28, 2006 3:38 AM US PT Download the complete White Paper: The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services Continued from #5 Modularization.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 23, 2006
About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Doing microfinance well | Main | The future of blogging » Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - #4 Transparency Ross Dawson, February 23, 2006 6:57 PM US PT Download the complete White Paper: The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services Continued from Connectivity.
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All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 20, 2006
Halley Suitt, now CEO of Top Ten Sources, has a way of talking me into doing things where I actually have no time for. This time it was giving her a list of my top ten weblog feeds. This is an impossible task as I don’t think there is such an absolute list, but try and explain that to someone who runs a company called Top Ten Sources.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 10, 2006
I have to admit that one of the reasons for my “January Recommendations” posting was to experiment with the Amazon.com associates program. Associates earn up to 10% of the purchase if they drive traffic to Amazon.com and the customer actually places an order. Not that I was expecting to make any money of this, but I was interested in seeing what the experience is for an associate if s/he needs to create a collection of links, and how good the tools are for tracking the results.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 8, 2006
Modeling systems has always been part of the toolkit of the computer scientist. We often try to bring systems back to simple queuing models to understand throughput and latency questions, and then use those results to predict resource usage and drive allocation. Can one actually be confident that such a simple model can accurately reflect reality?
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 7, 2006
Today the Senate hearings on Net Neutrality took place. The details of the testimonies are online. I believe that everyone who has a vested interest in seeing business and service innovation continue to flourish on the internet should be concerned about the proposal for access-tiering introduced by the last-mile broadband vendors.
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.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 6, 2006
Because of my absentmindedness last year I forgot to point to another writer that has joined the public Amazon/A9 weblog family: In december Claire Giordano of opensolaris fame joined A9 as director of product management. Please visit Claire's Alternate Version of Reality.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 3, 2006
The programs for 2 conferences with mainly operating and distributed systems contributions are online now: 1st EuroSys Conference, April 18-21, 2006, Leuven, Belgium 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI’06), May 8-10, 2006, San Jose, CA With 58 papers between the two conferences the systems research field appears to be very healthy.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 2, 2006
In case you didn't know; I am Dutch. If you would have heard me speak you probably would have guessed that tidbit of useless information. In the past months I have received a number of criticizing comments that I am not keeping up with the all the developments in the Netherlands in terms of computing and ecommerce.
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Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 1, 2006
About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « David Maister and marketing as a conversation | Main | Mass media is “nearly obsolete” for some buyers » Moving beyond zero-sum thinking Ross Dawson, February 1, 2006 8:52 PM US PT John Hagel has a very interesting piece on zero-sum thinking - the idea that there if one person wins, another must lose.
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