Sat.Jan 28, 2012 - Fri.Feb 03, 2012

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Do you want to live forever?

Trends in the Living Networks

For any student of potential disruptive technological advances, life extension inevitably looms as one that could completely change the condition of humanity. While there is heated debate about whether the current proposed approaches to life extension being proposed have any merit, there is no question that major advances are possible in the field. For the last two centuries, life expectancy has increased by very close to 2 years for every decade that has passed.

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MongoDB for Genealogy at RootsTech 2012

SPF13

After an enjoyable time at the SORT conference in 2011 I was invited to come back to SLC to present at the RootsTech Genealogy conference. The two hardest data types to model are e-commerce and genealogy. There really just isn’t any good way to do it in a relational database. MongoDB is the answer Genealogy developers have been looking for for a very long time.

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Video: Does A CIO Need To Have An MBA Or Is There Another Way?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'[link]. If you really want to become or remain a CIO, the question comes up as to if you need to go on and get an advanced degree. We’ve all heard a great deal about getting an MBA, but would a specialized Master’s degree do just as well? Dr. Anderson looks into exactly what goes into a specialty Master’s degree and way you might want to consider getting one.

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Technology Magazines and Why they Bore CIOs

A CIO's Voice

'One of the habits I picked when I was flying between New York and London was reading magazines. This was before there was an iPad and laptop batteries never quite lasted 8 hours. I found myself before every flight, browsing the local airport newsstand. Recently my wife and I have been traveling on some long-haul flights and again I found myself browsing.

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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 future of radio will be a personal mosaic of global and local audio

Trends in the Living Networks

On Tuesday I was interviewed as part of a 30 minute panel discussion on ABC Queensland on the future of radio. The podcast of the program is here. It was a wide ranging discussion, and we covered a lot of territory. At the conclusion of the program, when we were each asked to give our vision for the future of radio, I described what I see radio becoming.

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Nutanix Sales Kick Off and Mad Men Spoof

Nutanix

We had a great Sales Kickoff last week. In preparation for it, Marketing created a quick video for our sales team as a fun way to start.

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The many and varied risk factors in Facebook’s IPO

Trends in the Living Networks

My favorite part of reading S-1 IPO filings is always the risk factors. They are seemingly endless, as the company tries to cover its ass for all the things that might conceivably go wrong. But they are often very insightful in pointing to the real issues facing the company. To save you reading it all, here is a highly selective summary of just a few of the interesting risk factors Facebook points to in its IPO filing : If we fail to retain existing users or add new users, or if our users decrea

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52% of Americans did mobile phone research while in stores over the holiday season

Trends in the Living Networks

The cross-over between physical and online retail is not just for innovators and techies. It is the way people shop. In a 30 day period spanning Christmas, 52% of Americans who have mobile phones (and who cares about the rest? ) used mobile phones to help them make buying decisions, according to research from Pew Internet. This is very significant. One of the biggest threats to physical retail stores is that shoppers do price, service, and delivery comparisons while in the shop.

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The headache (and opportunity) of managing your company’s online reputation

Trends in the Living Networks

In a world of instantaneous information flows, managing company reputation is ever more fraught. An interesting article in Techworld titled How to manage your online reputation goes into the issue, describing how pharma firm GlaxoSmithKline had one of its trademarks hijacked by a dodgy company. The piece goes on: “Reputations are more visible – and more vulnerable – than ever before,” says futurist Ross Dawson, who cites reputation as one of the key themes for 2012.

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Facebook’s IPO and its plans for China and global domination

Trends in the Living Networks

Yesterday I was interviewed by Radio Australia in a piece titled Facebook IPO filing reveals China plans. Their website includes a podcast and transcript of the segment. Below are the parts where I spoke. BAHFEN : The question I put to Ross is…what do these excerpts from Facebook’s IPO filing say about its intentions, with regard to China?

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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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ABC TV: Facebook’s IPO, Apple’s cash pile, and RIM’s woes

Trends in the Living Networks

I was interviewed last night on ABC’s The Business in a broad-ranging discussion about Facebook’s IPO, Apple’s cash pile, and Research In Motion’s future. Click on the image to watch the interview on the ABC website. I’ll add some more comments on these very interesting topics shortly.

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VDI Series: Part 4 – Manageability

Nutanix

Manageability, an often under-represented facet is key in making a VDI deployment successful.

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Dr. Jim Anderson To Speak At 16th Annual Pink Conference

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Dr. Jim Anderson has been asked to deliver two speeches at the 16th Annual Pink Conference. The role that Blue Elephant Consulting plays in the IT industry has been recognized as being a thought leader and the organizers of the Pink Conference have asked Dr. Anderson to share some of his insights with the conference attendees. Dr. Anderson will be delivering two speeches at the conference in Las Vegas on Monday, February 20th.