Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 19, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « FriendFeed has the potential to transcend social networks and catalyze collaborative filtering | Main | Industrial policy in the global media economy » Live on Today show: how the relationship between people and machines is becoming emotional Ross Dawson, March 19, 2008 6:06 PM US PT This morning I was interviewed on the Australian national breakfas

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2008

Today Amazon Web Services launched two new features in Amazon EC2 that are essential tools in building highly resilient applications: Elastic IP addresses and Availability Zones. In summary: Elastic IP addresses are associated with a customer account and allow the customer to do its own dynamic mapping of IP address to instance.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MARCH 9, 2008

[NOTE: I had written this article back in 2006 but could not publish it then. I can now do so and it is still very much relevant 16 months later!] It is bizarre how an acronym so widely used as "Web 2.0” can lack an unanimous definition. What most experts tend to agree on however is that Web 2.0 is made up of at least two key concepts (as noted by the journalist Phil Muncaster in ITWeek 02/Oct/06 issue- [link] ): "Improved user experience and collaboration.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

MARCH 26, 2008

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 28, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Live on Today show: how the relationship between people and machines is becoming emotional | Main | The many layers of collaborative filtering - news and entertainment comes to us » Industrial policy in the global media economy Ross Dawson, March 28, 2008 3:12 AM US PT Japan and Singapore are examples of nations that have had highly interventionist

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2008

While the past months have been relatively quiet there is now a period coming up with public events that will take me across a few continents. The period already started two weeks with a Distinguished Lecture at the School of Computer Science of CMU. I had a wonderful day meeting many academics to discuss the relevance of particular research subjects for companies such as Amazon.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 16, 2008

Today I finished processing my first set of High Dynamic Range images. HDR is where you take 3 shots of an object using automatic exposure bracketing, in this case at [-2, 0, +2]. Each of the images will have details of areas (highlight, shadows) that the others do not have.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 10, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Complimentary report: Executive Insights into Enterprise 2.0 from roundtable hosted by Future Exploration Network and IBM | Main | Is business yet to harness Web 2.0, or not yet willing to talk about it? » Why we will all have robot pets in the future Ross Dawson, March 10, 2008 8:29 PM US PT Robots have been perhaps the most-predicted and least-rea

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 18, 2008

On Thursday I'll be on stage at the Under the Radar conference for a fireside chat with Robert Scoble. The Under the Radar folks have asked for input into what questions Robert should ask me. The chat will be focused on cloud computing and related topics, so if you have questions, post them on their blog.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 12, 2008

I was going to pick up posting again and what better way to do that than to point to today's announcement by Usenix to open up the access to all of their conference proceedings. Compared to the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM, who still hide the published material behind the walls of their digital libraries, Usenix already had a very liberal one-year-members-only policy.

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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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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 11, 2008

One of the most common, and thanks to Wikipedia most visible, uses of a wiki is creating a participatory knowledgebase--a shared knowledge resource that is created and maintained by a distributed community. I've built quite a few of these, first at McKinsey, and in my current role at Socialtext. Here are three top-of-mind high-level best practices based on pitfalls I've seen some companies start to fall into: Structure by topic, not by organization.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 3, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Device convergence in our pockets | Main | How to save money running a start-up - tap talent dont squeeze it » Notes from the PR and New Media Summit Ross Dawson, March 3, 2008 8:12 PM US PT Im at the PR and New Media Summit in Sydney, organised by frocomm.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 3, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Trends in the Living Networks has been Slashdotted… | Main | Notes from the PR and New Media Summit » Device convergence in our pockets Ross Dawson, March 3, 2008 2:10 AM US PT An interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald titled Is that a computer in your pocket?

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MARCH 25, 2008

As I have repeatedly written on this blog, continuous innovation requires access to knowledge. So an organizational culture conducive to knowledge sharing will foster innovation as a direct result. James Todhunter (CIO of Invention Machine Corp.) wrote an article just published in CIO.com titled: " Fostering innovation culture in an unpredictable economy ”.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MARCH 22, 2008

ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) v2 , the now internationally recognized framework for IT Service Management, was published in 2000 and at the time only implied knowledge management in IT service delivery. Obviously, managers involved in implementing ITIL based services (like myself btw 2003 and 2007) would consider and attempt to cater for the required knowledge capture/retrieval/sharing/reuse.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

MARCH 16, 2008

A friend of mine sent out an email today saying he was upset that the Fed has stepped in to bail out Bear. My friend said he would have preferred to see the market find a natural bottom. My reaction: “A natural bottom&# ??? Are you crazy?!? Think about a real crash, a real war and the real humanitarian hell it produces. I was born in Zimbabwe.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MARCH 17, 2008

I found a very good article with the same title as this post by Nicholas G. Carr on Strategy-business.com (thanks to a post by Bertand Duperrin). Nicholas warns of the hype around Google's model to foster innovation and the belief that it is the direct reason of its amazing success. But it could very well be more the product of its success instead of the cause as Nicholas writes.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

MARCH 8, 2008

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MARCH 7, 2008

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MARCH 6, 2008

Found on CIO.com this great little knowledge sharing story in a context where it was least expected (among retail sales staff used to compete with one another): "Around the holidays in 2000, a Giant Eagle deli manager hit on a way to display the seafood delicacy that proved irresistible to harried shoppers, accounting for an extra $200 in one-week sales.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MARCH 5, 2008

On the PA Consulting website, I found this very interesting news article dated April 2007. It is about a research by Dr Carsten Sørensen of the London School of Economics (LSE) and PA Consulting Group (PA). This is the part I must highlight: "[.] The research found that IT is the enabler for innovation across the whole business. What we are starting to see is the forming of the 'inside-out' company, where interactions and relationships with stakeholders actually shape strategy rather than are s

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MARCH 3, 2008

On 22nd Jan, I informed you of Colleen Carmean's PhD work on new practices in design and support of shared knowledge environments, and that I was proud and delighted to be in the shortlist of KM specialists asked to participate in her research. Well, Colleen has now completed the synthesis of all the participants inputs and has now posted it in a wiki for all to see.

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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.

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

MARCH 10, 2008

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 2, 2008

Much has been made in the last 5 years about the democratization of publishing and how the line between publishers and consumers of content is getting blurred. It's an attractive way to describe the trend. (Hey, who doesn't like more democracy?) But I think it misdescribes what's really happening. The real paradigm shift in Web 2.0, I believe, is the blurring the line between publication and collaboration.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 28, 2008

If you look at adoption patterns at the enteprise level, wikis are an unusual technology. Most enterprise IT deployments are all about standardization and scale. A purchasing system reduces procurement costs by aggregating purchasing power across business units. A corporate finance system enables aggregation and standardization of accounting ledgers company-wide.

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