Sat.Aug 20, 2011 - Fri.Aug 26, 2011

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Why Steve Jobs’ resignation is a (relative) non-event as Apple becomes a living company

Trends in the Living Networks

I was just interviewed by ABC TV for tonight’s 7pm news about Steve Jobs’ resignation as CEO of Apple. My initial reaction is that is as close to a non-event as it could be. . It was absolutely major news when Jobs announced his first medical leave for a life-threatening disease. It underlined that he would not be at Apple for ever, and might not return to Apple from his leave.

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Video: Wicked, Wicked IT Strategy Problems

The Accidental Successful CIO

'[link]. Dr. Jim Anderson explains why there are some problems that an IT department just can’t solve — because they are wicked problems. Dr. Anderson identifies why traditional IT problem solving techniques won’t work with wicked IT problems and how you can determine if a problem is really a wicked problem. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: [link].

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: FedPlatform.org Focuses on a.

Cloud Musings

'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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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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The implications of the new broader, flatter distribution of music taste

Trends in the Living Networks

The distribution of music taste and consumption has shifted dramatically over the decade years, and will continue to evolve significantly in coming years. Back before a dozen years ago, radio and MTV exposed people to a limited range of music from label playlists, and the cost of records and CDs made it hard to experiment with new music. The first big change from that landscape was the widespread availability of online music downloads, which suddenly massively broadened the music libraries of th

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Obtaining a Domain Name in SBS 2011.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Friday, August 26, 2011. Obtaining a Domain Name in SBS 2011 Standard and Essentials. So my second video that I did with the HP/Microsoft Coffee Coaching is now live. This one is near and dear to my heart as it’s a program that I built almost from the ground up (admittedly I had a little help from my friends at the start).

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Planning For The Cloud: What Does A CIO Need To Know? (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Soon We’ll All Be In The Cloud, But Will CIOs Be Ready? Let’s face facts shall we? Cloud computing appears to be the real deal. It can no longer be considered just yet another IT fad. It sure looks like every company will be using cloud based computing resources eventually. Since this appears to be inevitable, what should CIOs be thinking about right now?

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Research: The acceleration of Australian banks’ use of social media

Trends in the Living Networks

Financial services is one of the most industries in which the use of social media is the most relevant, not least because customer service is a critical differentiator between highly commoditized offerings. While financial services and banking were traditionally highly relationship-based, the shift to online has significantly eroded those relationships.

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Qantas Business Radio: why crowdsourcing will drive the future of organizations

Trends in the Living Networks

This month’s Qantas Business Radio has a technology focus, including interviews with Nick Leeder , Managing Director of Google Australia, Simon Hackett , Managing Director of Internode, Peter Williams , CEO of Deloitte Digital, Charis Palmer , Editor of Technology Spectator, Ian Hogg , CEO of FremantleMedia Australia, as well as myself. There are some great insights in the various interviews, and if you’re not going to be on a Qantas flight you can listen to or download the interview

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Keynote: Creating the future of retail shopping precincts: The Power of Community and Uniqueness

Trends in the Living Networks

Tomorrow morning I will give the keynote at Mainstreet Australia conference on the topic of Creating the Future of Business. My slides are below. The usual caveat applies – the slides are designed to accompany my presentation and not to stand alone. Keynote: Creating the Future of Retail Spaces. View more presentations from rossdawson. While the title of the presentation is Creating the Future of Business, it has been tailored to the conference audience, so after a more general introductio

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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.