Sat.Apr 07, 2012 - Fri.Apr 13, 2012

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New personal site powered by GitHub Pages : spf13.com

SPF13

'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. New personal site powered by GitHub Pages. At 10gen we had new headshots taken recently. I think mine came out great.

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Exploring crowd business models

Trends in the Living Networks

For me, the most interesting part of my new book Getting Results From Crowds is Chapter 22 on Crowd Business Models (which you can download here ). I knew that after getting the book out a major direction for me would be delving deeper into the wonders of crowd business models. I’m now beginning to do some more exploring, together with lots of other people.

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Why Throwing Leaving Employees Under The Bus Is A Bad Idea (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Under the bus is no place for your former employees to be. There you are, a CIO trying to run an efficient IT department. All of sudden — wham! One of your key IT employees comes and tells you that he or she is leaving. Time to go back the bus up because you’ve got another soon-to-be-former employee who deserves to be thrown under it. Or maybe not.

Strategy 100
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Mick's IT Blogs: Customizing the ZTIBiosCheck.wsf file for MDT/SCCM

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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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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spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution

SPF13

spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good starting point for anyone intending to use VIM for development running equally well on Windows, Linux, *nix and Mac. The distribution is completely customisable using a ~/.vimrc.local and ~/.vimrc.bundles.local Vim RC files. Unlike traditional VIM plugin structure, which similar to UNIX throws all files into common directories, making updating or disabling plugins a real mess, spf13-vim 3 uses the Vun

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Le Crowdsourcing en France: une opportunité de créer le futur

Trends in the Living Networks

Je suis enchanté de faire une présentation à Paris 3 mai avec Boostzone Institute. Dominique Turcq de l’institut et moi avons discuté depuis longtemps de notre intérêt commun qui est le futur du travail et des organisations. Je vais parler du “Crowdsourcing”. Mon nouveau livre Getting Results From Crowds vient de paraître, et en mai-juin je fais des keynote et des ateliers sur le sujet à Sydney, Amsterdam, Cologne, Londres, Bruxelles, New York et San Francisco , entre autres.

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Mick's IT Blogs: List Installed Windows 7 Updates

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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New personal site powered by GitHub Pages

SPF13

At 10gen we had new headshots taken recently. I think mine came out great. I took this opporitunity to play with GitHub pages and update [link] You should goto [link] and checkout my new personal page. If you like it, fork it. The entire page is here [link] it being a derivative of [link].

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Competition! Win free pass to Sydney workshops on how to grow your business using crowdsourcing

Trends in the Living Networks

We are kicking off our global series of crowdsourcing workshops on Monday 16 April in Sydney , with a morning workshop on Getting Results From Crowds and an afternoon workshop on Crowd Business Models. In the following weeks I will be running crowdsourcing workshops in Cologne , London , Paris , Brussels , and New York , followed later in the year by San Francisco and other leading cities.

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Expanding the Cloud ? Introducing Amazon CloudSearch - All.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing Amazon CloudSearch. By Werner Vogels on 12 April 2012 12:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon Web Services is introducing Amazon CloudSearch , a new web service that brings the power of the Amazon.comâ??s search technology to every developer.

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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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Entrepreneurship becomes global: the top 25 startups hubs in the world

Trends in the Living Networks

The Startup Genome project setup a year ago to gather comparative data on startups around the world. Its Startup Compass allows entrepreneurs to compare statistics on their companies with others in their locality and around the world. A post on Techcrunch provides a great summary of some of the data gathered in the almost 12 months since the launch of the project.

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No reputation measures is the critical flaw in the JOBS crowdfunding bill

Trends in the Living Networks

The JOBS crowdfunding Act is a great step forward, but the potential of the entire scheme is undermined by the lack of reputation measures. This is my first opportunity to write about the historic passing on Thursday of the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act that allows equity crowdfunding in the US. I have covered the early moves towards equity crowdfunding in the US that resulted in this bill and included a chapter on the topic in Getting Results From Crowds.