SPF13
DECEMBER 21, 2009
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Top Sites Running Drupal. Â . Image via Wikipedia. Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 15, 2009
For many years I have believed that our everyday interfaces with computers are deeply limited, and that creating more effective interfaces is central to our future. In my 2002 book Living Networks I selected Interfaces as one of the three key enablers that would bring the networks to life. Pranav Mistry of MIT Media Lab's SixthSense has made his mission integrating our gestures in the physical world with the digital world.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 22, 2009
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, December 22, 2009. The Most Important Job of the CIO.
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 16, 2009
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, December 16, 2009. Hosting & Cloud Computing: Numbers Dont Lie. Theres lots of chatter in the market today regarding the value of using outside data centers, hosting services and cloud computing. But listening to pundits/analysts trying to objectively predict true value left me hollow.
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All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 13, 2009
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. By Werner Vogels on 13 December 2009 03:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today we launched a new option for acquiring Amazon EC2 Compute resources: Spot Instances. Using this option, customers bid any price they like on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long their bid exceeds the current "Spot Price.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
DECEMBER 3, 2009
Is Google making us stupid , as Nicholas Carr and others have told us? I don’t think so. Instead, it is making us differently intelligent. Carr, et al are simply judging this difference, the new type of intelligence, against the old standards. In his article The War On Flow, 2009: Why Studies About Multitasking Are Missing The Point , Steven Boyd makes the point much more eloquently: If you use industrial era yardsticks based on personal productivity to try to figure out what is going on i
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Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 30, 2009
In his excellent book The Meaning of the 21st Century , James Martin asks when in human history you would most like to be alive. For me there is no question that it is now. The coming decade will be the most exciting in human history. The very challenging year of 2009 that we are preparing to bid farewell to helped to tear up the fairly linear progress of the first decade of the century.
Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
DECEMBER 2, 2009
This IBF blog post from Paul Miller about the coming of “Intranet 3.0” gives 3 very good examples of large corporate intranets pushing the boundaries of internal communication and collaboration. Although I am not a fan of these meaningless numeric names such as Web 2.0 or Enterprise 2.0 (I’ve even seen Web 1.5 being used!) the eight Intranet 3.0 trends listed can - when combined - represent no less than a workplace revolution.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
DECEMBER 30, 2009
'The Year 2000 Bug. It was just ten short years ago that many of us were preparing to celebrate New Year’s Eve – by working all night! Anyone over 30 probably still remembers all the information technology work that went into preparing for Year 2000. I’m going to dredge (!?) up some of my memories in the next few paragraphs, but if you have memories or stories of that frightening December 31, 1999, evening, I invite you to leave them as a comment to this blog entry.
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 3, 2009
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features. By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today a powerful new feature is available for our Amazon EC2 customers: the ability to boot their instances from Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store).
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.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
DECEMBER 9, 2009
The Simple, Ridiculously Useful Guide to Earning a Living from Your Passion. Something to share with my high school - soon to be college - age sons as they plot their path through life.
SPF13
DECEMBER 20, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution. Many other organizations both large and small have found it to be a perfect platform for managing their website including some Fortune 100 companies. I decided to compile a list of some of the more notable organizations running drupal. This list is not exhaustive, but intended to demonstrate top site powered by drupal.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 21, 2009
To anticipate what will shape 2010, we need to understand the TENsions that will define the opening year of the TENsions decade. The TENsions that are most prominent will evolve during the course of the decade. However the accelerating pace of change means that TENsions will inevitably define the decade, in myriad forms. These are the 10 TENsions for 2010, the opening year of the TENsions. 1.
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Chief Seattle Greek Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2009
'GEM Team with Mayor. On Monday night, December 8th, the Seattle Police Department started to use Microsoft Exchange/Outlook for electronic mail. This culminated moving more than 11,000 City of Seattle employees, over 12,400 e-mailboxes, and 900 BlackBerrys from an older e-mail technology to the Exchange 2007 product. All of it “translucent to the user” I’ve previously blogged about project management, and specifically identifying and reducing risks in large technology projects
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 3, 2009
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). We have expanded the AWS footprint in the US and starting today a new AWS Region is available for use: US-West (Northern California).
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
DECEMBER 8, 2009
Inefficiencies are what make you special - (37signals). But a lot of the things that could be labelled as inefficiencies are actually what steer your product away from being a commodity. When you cut out anything that isn’t efficient, you wind up with a cookie cutter product. Now that’s not to say you want your business to be riddled with random inefficiencies.
SPF13
DECEMBER 11, 2009
Why use it It’s super easy to use It has tons of snippets It’s pretty well compatible with TextMate snippets for easy portability Dynamic variables, for all the times you use the same string multiple times It’s really easy to define your own snippets It’s better than anything else out there, trust me I’ve tried them all Sometimes a video works better to explain things. check out this video snipMate.
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Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 13, 2009
For a number of years I’ve talked about how we are effectively reaching a world infinite content, and the implications of that. That is becoming more real by the day, as in an economy increasingly driven by search and links, people find new ways to generate content that participates in this new information infrastructure. I wrote last year about Philip Parker, who created programs that have automatically generated 200,000 books by aggregating and structuring content on the web.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
DECEMBER 1, 2009
'Bill Schrier: Mac or PC? Oh gee, I think I’ve become a Kurmudgeon. Or maybe a naysayer. Or maybe just a Buttoned-Down Corporate IT Technocrat. Or maybe, and this is most frightening of all, PC – and I don’t mean “politically correct” – but rather the character played by John Hodgman in the “Get a Mac” advertisements. .
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 8, 2009
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, December 8, 2009. Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). Lots of talk about cloud computing, IT operations, virtualization and more.
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
DECEMBER 2, 2009
Harold Jarche » Success depends on who we work with. The Creative Economy requires more independent workers (like musical productions?) with the following traits that can not be commoditized: * Initiative * Creativity * Passion It seems that successful creative work groups need to be just cohesive enough with some additional “friction” from new members in order to keep the passion and creativity flowing.
SPF13
DECEMBER 15, 2009
Imagine if Apple, Disney, Microsoft, etc had chased every oppotunity that they came across. One thing is certain, you wouldn’t recognize their name today. Each of these companies was successful because of extreme focus around a central vision. As Bill Cosby said. “I don’t know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.” Bill Gates achieved monumental success with Microsoft, and attributes “focus” as the key to his success.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 22, 2009
Continuing my series of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest in 2009, here is my selection of 10 posts on Enterprise 2.0 and organizational effectiveness. 1. Why ‘critical mass’ is intensely relevant to Enterprise 2.0 user adoption. What the diffusion curve means for Enterprise 2.0 adoption initiatives. 2. Enterprise 2.0: Competitive differentiation occurs at the intersection of technology and culture.
Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 3, 2009
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Thursday, December 03, 2009. What Could Save Media Businesses.
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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
DECEMBER 5, 2009
I thought of reposting my list of cultural traits that identify an organization where the corporate culture is not conducive to knowledge sharing and therefore creativity and innovation. This list combines the 16 from this post and 4 from this one. And here is a challenge to anyone reading this: Do you know one medium or large company with an internal culture not bearing a single of these 20 traits?
SPF13
DECEMBER 15, 2009
In 2007, All Things Digital held a fascinating interview with both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The interview runs long and is spread out over multiple clips. I’ve only included the first handful here. Watch the rest on youtube. It’s clear that they have a reasonably good relationship and clearly know each other well. They have a genuine and sincere respect for each other.
SPF13
DECEMBER 13, 2009
Drupal is a very powerful content management solution. It powered an earlier version of this website as well as zoopframework.com. Drupal is a relatively easy to use system, but there are a few key concepts that you really need to understand in getting started. I often find that webcasts are fantastic resources for instruction. I recently helped a non-techie friend setup a drupal site and was surprised at how many (really bad) drupal videos existed online.
SPF13
DECEMBER 10, 2009
One task that should be part of every IT managers is performing reference checks on potential vendors. A vendor reference check goes beyond the sales pitch to reveal the true nature of a product or company. If you’re not performing reference checks you are susceptible of falling prey to a slick sales pitch with nothing but trouble behind it. Vendors only provide the customers they are certain will give a glowing endorsement.
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