December, 2007

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ERP: automating processes | Enterprise 2.0: enabling knowledge work - 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 « Adapting consumer Web 2.0 for use in the enterprise | Main | Web 2.0 creating value in organizations: Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum - Sydney, Australia » ERP: automating processes | Enterprise 2.0: enabling knowledge work Ross Dawson, December 13, 2007 3:24 PM US PT There has been some very interesting discussion over the last week about enterprise

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Eventually Consistent

All Things Distributed

I wrote a first version of this posting on consistency models in December 2007, but I was never happy with it as it was written in haste and the topic is important enough to receive a more thorough treatment. ACM Queue asked me to revise it for use in their magazine and I took the opportunity to improve the article.

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It was about SOA all along! Chapter 4

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[Continuation of my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: " Mashup Corporations. The End of Business as Usual ”]. Chapter 4 is about how SOA can transform the relationships with your suppliers. I will quote from the book how a Vorpal supplier defines these SOA-driven relationships it has built with it's customers (p.57). He is responding to one of Vorpal's manager who noted that the collaborative meeting they just had was unusual in style: " Yes, we've noticed [this change] as soon as w

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: Office 2007 in "Classic Mode"

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker Home Archives Profile Subscribe About KMA About Categories Articles Books Business Intelligence Collaboration Current Affairs Events Google Apps Knowledge Management Microsoft Office Off Topic Products Project Management Science Search SharePoint Social Media Technology Industry This Blog Web 2.0 Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 Web/Tech Weblogs Add me to your TypePad People list Subscribe to this blogs feed See how were connected « Some Sear

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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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How to make Facebook secure for organizational use: no more excuses! - 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 « We are discovering our “latent humanity” by how we share and communicate on the Internet | Main | How to survive Christmas parties: A practical guide to festive conversations » How to make Facebook secure for organizational use: no more excuses!

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Trends in the Living Networks: Presentation: Transcending commoditization in professional services

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The acceleration of open business: 2007 is the turning point | Main | Keynote: The Potential of Enterprise 2.0 - Six Lessons for Success » Presentation: Transcending commoditization in professional services Ross Dawson, November 29, 2007 3:08 AM US PT On December 5 I am giving a “View from the Top” online presentation to US and European members of t

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The convergence of the Internet and TV: how will it happen? - 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 « Corporate Australia (finally) engages in Web 2.0 and virtual worlds | Main | Strategy in a networked world for professional service firms » The convergence of the Internet and TV: how will it happen? Ross Dawson, December 11, 2007 2:04 PM US PT Several media executives have asked me about the convergence of the Internet and TV over the last couple o

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And the Winner is.

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Today we had a wonderful day with the finalists of the 900 contestants in the AWS Startup Challenge, all seven proved themselves worthy of winning the ultimate price. The finalists were: Brainscape Commerce360 Justin.tv Milemeter Ooyala WeoGeo Go to the startup challenge vote page to see videos of each of these companies and to see the voting results.

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Marc

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Sadness. Marc Orchant, the ulimate optimist, is no longer with us.

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It was about SOA all along! Chapters 2 & 3

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[ cont. from previous post about my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: "Mashup Corporations. The End of Business as Usual”]. After reading chapters 2 & 3, I realised that I should clarify something important. When I state that my writings on this blog were about SOA all along, I mean that SOA is probably the best value-adding, customer-facing, tangible web-based implementation (that I know) of a knowledge leveraging strategy.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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It was about SOA all along! (Chapter 1)

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[ cont. from previous post about my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: "Mashup Corporations. The End of Business as Usual”]. Here are my thoughts after reading chapter 1 of the book " Mashup Corporations. The End of Business as Usual ”. This book illustrates its arguments with the help of a tale of a fictitious company Vorpal going through the process of implementing SOA.

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Bootstrap VCs out of Business

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

What’s the second worst thing that can happen to a VC? They invest in something that fails. What’s the worst thing that can happen to a VC? They fail to invest in something that succeeds. In the world of Web applications, every day the VC’s biggest fear gets more and more real. It is a real eye opener for me to see how fast revenues at Joyent are growing.

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It was about SOA all along!

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

I was recently introduced to Andy Mulholland by a mutual friend. After reading some recent articles on his blog I quickly realized I had to read his latest book about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) titled: " Mashup Corporations. The End of Business as Usual ”. I ordered it on the famous mashup-rich website Amazon and started reading it yesterday.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: Some Searches Are More Equal Than Others

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker Home Archives Profile Subscribe About KMA About Categories Articles Books Business Intelligence Collaboration Current Affairs Events Google Apps Knowledge Management Microsoft Office Off Topic Products Project Management Science Search SharePoint Social Media Technology Industry This Blog Web 2.0 Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 Web/Tech Weblogs Add me to your TypePad People list Subscribe to this blogs feed See how were connected « What do t

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Facebook is Stronger than Ever

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

I have been tracking the fuss over Facebook’s beacon ad network. The Enterprise Irregulars had a big debate about it. “ The new face of Evil &# That is just silly! Facebook tracks your activities. So does Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Microsoft. Actually any company with an ad network. Facebook is a business. It plans to generate huge revenue from advertising.

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Heâ??e nalu

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North Shore. 10 Days. See you next year.

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The Knowledge Challenge (for Consulting/outsourcing firms)

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

My latest contribution on Thinkingstreet.com : [link] Peter-Anthony Glick.

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How to survive Christmas parties: A practical guide to festive conversations - 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 « How to make Facebook secure for organizational use: no more excuses! | Main | Away on holidays – Happy New Year! » How to survive Christmas parties: A practical guide to festive conversations Ross Dawson, December 21, 2007 9:15 PM US PT As we move into Christmas season, many people will find themselves in social situations they may not want to be in

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Trends in the Living Networks: Review of Day One of Enterprise 2.0 conference – Sydney 3 December

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Keynote: The Potential of Enterprise 2.0 - Six Lessons for Success | Main | Corporate bloggers set up council to share and promote best practices » Review of Day One of Enterprise 2.0 conference – Sydney 3 December Ross Dawson, December 5, 2007 6:02 AM US PT A quick review of Day One of IIRs Enterprise 2.0 conference.

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It was about SOA all along! Chapter 5

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[Continuation of my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: "Mashup Corporations. The End of Business as Usual”]. With the family reunion of the Christmas break, I have only managed to complete Chapter 5. In my defence, it is probably the most important chapter of the book judging from the powerful messages it conveys. The following chapters seem to be only about some of the consequences of taking on the challenge defined in this chapter: " Creating a Program of Service Enablement ”.

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