Sat.Oct 22, 2011 - Fri.Oct 28, 2011

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The global state of the mobile industry

Trends in the Living Networks

Mary Meeker, formerly of Morgan Stanley and now of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers , continues to do her annual presentation at Web 2.0 Summit , providing an unparalleled compilation of research about the global internet industry. There is a lot to digest in the 65 slides of the presentation, so I thought it was worth pulling out some of the more interesting ones on mobile.

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What Microsoft did wrong with Windows Phone OS (or why it's not.

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. What Microsoft did wrong with Windows Phone OS (or why it’s not ready for the enterprise). by Brian Katz on October 28, 2011 · 1 comment. My previous post talked about a lot of the good that I see in Microsoft’s work to create a Mobile Phone OS but with everything that they set forth they still had very disappointing sales.

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Three Dimensions to Shape the Great Questions

Future of CIO

The answer from yesterday is not as critical as the questions about the future. We’ve been living in such a dynamic world, change is the only constant, actually even change itself has been changed and expedite. The world is transforming from personal computing into digital computing, from globalization into globality, from knowledge limitation to information explosion, the answer about yesterday is not as critical as the questions about the future.

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A New Building Block

Nutanix

I’m privileged to be involved with disruptive technologies very early on, sometimes at a stage when it may be hard to fully see the impact.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Book research: Looking for case studies/ leading practice in using crowdsourcing

Trends in the Living Networks

I am in the final stages of completing a book on how to use crowds and crowdsourcing effectively, which I am co-authoring with Steve Bynghall. We are using brief case studies liberally through the book, however we need a few more to flesh it out. We’d love to hear from you if you have been using crowdsourcing tools or approaches extensively enough to have learned useful lessons, and believe you have valuable insights to share from your experience.

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Windows Phone 7 and why it doesn't suck! - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Windows Phone 7 and why it doesn’t suck! by Brian Katz on October 26, 2011 · 0 comments. Now let’s be honest, Microsoft didn’t do itself any favors with their foray as a modern mobile phone OS baker. They started with a name that was so long you never knew if you were saying it right and then proceeded to shorten it at least twice that I know of.

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A New Building Block

Nutanix

I’m privileged to be involved with disruptive technologies very early on, sometimes at a stage when it may be hard to fully see the impact.

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CIOs Need To Know Who Is Implementing The Company's Digital Strategy (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Which Way Should Your Company Be Going On The Digital Highway? As a CIO it can be all too easy to feel overwhelmed by the decisions that you have to make: mobile devices, clouds , security, arrrgh! The CIOs that I’m working with are looking for clear directions on what they should be spending their time on. My advice to them is that they need to pick a few key questions that are closely tied to the overall business.

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The future of Chief Marketing Officers and leadership

Trends in the Living Networks

Last week I attended a breakfast organized by IBM for a small group of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and influencers, hosted by its Australian CMO Mark Willson. IBM had recently launched its global CMO study , showing what CMOs are thinking about marketing today and in the future. At the breakfast it gave us a sneak preview of the results from the Australian respondents to the study.

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How tablets are changing how we consume news

Trends in the Living Networks

Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has just released some great research on how people use tablets (still mainly iPads) to consume news. The infographic below summarizes the findings – click on the image to go through to the original full-size version. The very short summary is that those who own tablets usually access news on their devices, they access more news than before, and that substitutes for other news sources.

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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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Six thoughts on the Klout scoring changes

Trends in the Living Networks

Today influence ratings service Klout significantly changed its rankings. Last week Klout CEO Joe Fernandez announced there would be changes , saying “a majority of users will see their scores stay the same or go up but some users will see a drop”. It seems that was not correct, and rankings levels have been revised such that most people’s scores go down.

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