2006

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Working Backwards

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In the fine grained services approach that we use at Amazon, services do not only represent a software structure but also the organizational structure. The services have a strong ownership model, which combined with the small team size is intended to make it very easy to innovate. In some sense you can see these services as small startups within the walls of a bigger company.

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Being in two places at the same time - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The social nature of Search 2.0 | Main | Mobile traffic data will pressure local radio » Being in two places at the same time Ross Dawson, July 21, 2006 5:02 PM US PT I really like this. A Japanese researcher has created a lifelike doppelganger robot of himself , which he uses to do lectures at a university an hour’s drive away from his home, thus s

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: User Interface -- Clean and Simple

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker Home Archives Profile Subscribe About KMA About Categories Articles Books Business Intelligence Collaboration Current Affairs Events Google Apps Knowledge Management Microsoft Office Off Topic Products Project Management Science Search SharePoint Social Media Technology Industry This Blog Web 2.0 Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 Web/Tech Weblogs Add me to your TypePad People list Subscribe to this blogs feed See how were connected « Successfu

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: I am Time Magazines “Person of the Year” (*) !

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[link] Leveraging Organizational Knowledge This blog focuses on how to leverage the knowledge held, created, shared in an organizational context; with the objective of fostering creativity and innovation for competitive advantage. Leveraging your organisational knowledge relates to Knowledge Management, organisational learning, human capital development, social media/networks strategy, multi-channels Customer Relationships Management (CRM) 18 December 2006 I am Time Magazines “Person of the Year

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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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Open innovation in collaborative filtering - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « IBM drives open business | Main | Changing investor disclosure could transform the world of blogging » Open innovation in collaborative filtering Ross Dawson, October 2, 2006 4:15 PM US PT Netflix has just announced a $1 million prize to whoever can improve the accuracy of their movie recommendation engine.

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Graphs as Art

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If done well a graph representation of data can reveal a lot of information about the structure of the data. And with particular care graphs can even become art. Sala has achieved this by building a very nice graph representation applet for web pages. If you visit this posting you’ll see some really cool graph representations.

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Amazon in Scotland

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I have been easing my way back into Amazon life by visiting the Amazon Development Center Scotland (ADCS), located in the outskirts of Edinburgh. Before joining Amazon I was always skeptical whether distributing development could actually work. The overhead in communication, lack of quality personal contact and handling time-zones always seemed like barriers that were too high to overcome, and I have seen many cases fail.

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The Final

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Zidane is a brilliant player, so it is sad to see his international career end this way. It was a very bizarre moment in an otherwise rather open match. Italy ruled during the first half, but the French had control over the second half and the extra time. Again Henry showed that he is not the cold killer he should be.

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Sports Book

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Whenever I end up in Vegas I am continuously amazed by the magnitude of the way things are implemented here and at the same time the superficiality of it all. Normally I take a stroll north or south of the strip to ground me and get back some sense of reality.

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What Are The Odds

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I am on the road this week (I am speaking at Oracle GMM, Garner Enterpise Architecture & Supernova). The first stop is in Las Vegas. This is on the sports board in Vegas: Personally I think the Argentinians look a lot more on fire than the Brasileiros. Of course I am not rooting for either team.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Growing (up) is hard

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Building systems that can guarantee performance and availability while scaling up to handle exponential growth in datasets and user requests is still very much a Dark Art. It is an art we master quite well by now at Amazon but it took a lot of growing pains to get to this level of sophistication.

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The Grocery

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Another great new store launched today: Amazon.com Grocery An Amazon store filled non-perishable grocery items all eligible for Prime and Super Saver Shipping. An important new feature was launched alongside of it: Shopping Lists. This is like a wish list but you can use it for repeat purchases, different quantities and more.

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Amazon Gets IM

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In order to get closer to their customers, humanize Amazon, increase sales, and stay modern, Amazon.com has decided to make all Instant Messenger (IM) handles of its employees public. This way Amazon.com customers will get unprecedented access to the talented engineers at Amazon to answer all their questions, or just to have an interesting conversation about a new book or that old sci-fi movie.

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Generating SiteInfo with MT

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On the A9 Developer weblog there is an article today on he SiteInfo feature that was until now only available when you used the A9 Toolbar. They now have developed a Firefox extension that will give you the same functionality. Normally the siteinfo tab gives you the Alexa information about a site: traffic ranking, reviews, etc.

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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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Trend map for 2007 and beyond - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Speaking about corporate innovation and the future of business | Main | Happy holidays! Off to Japan… » Trend map for 2007 and beyond Ross Dawson, December 18, 2006 10:11 PM US PT Given it’s festive season now, it’s probably time for a bit of fun.

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Peer-to-peer banking - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Positive word of mouth | Main | The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - Introduction » Peer-to-peer banking Ross Dawson, February 13, 2006 1:19 PM US PT A new peer-to-peer bank, Prosper.com , is launching in the US, attracting articles in both the New York Times and BusinessWeek, with the latter titling the story “ The eBay of Loans ”.

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The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - Introduction - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Peer-to-peer banking | Main | The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services – #1 Client Sophistication » The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - Introduction Ross Dawson, February 17, 2006 8:17 PM US PT Around six months ago, I wrote a White Paper for the enterprise software company Epicor titled “ The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Servic

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What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Leda Bella Dawson is born | Main | Keynote on relationships in technology services » What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms Ross Dawson, August 21, 2006 12:22 AM US PT The Sydney Morning Herald has just released an article titled Social networkers get mobilised , which examines how social networking is s

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Social networks, data mining, and intelligence - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Speaking at the Network Roundtable | Main | Talking about MySpace Generation » Social networks, data mining, and intelligence Ross Dawson, May 12, 2006 4:09 AM US PT The uproar over the phone calls records collected by the National Security Agency to search for terrorist activity is actually a network phenomenon.

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Making successful decisions: Technology Purchase Influence Networks - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Social networks and search | Main | MeshForum 2006: Connecting networks » Making successful decisions: Technology Purchase Influence Networks Ross Dawson, April 18, 2006 1:20 AM US PT There can be few more important IT issues—for both large corporations and the vendors that service them—than making major technology purchasing decisions successfully.

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Organizational network analysis goes mainstream - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - #6 Globalization | Main | Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - #7 Commoditization » Organizational network analysis goes mainstream Ross Dawson, March 4, 2006 4:37 PM US PT This week’s issue of BusinessWeek features a great article on organizational network analyis (ONA) called The Office Chart That

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The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services – #1 Client Sophistication - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - Introduction | Main | 10 Trends for 2006+ » The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services – #1 Client Sophistication Ross Dawson, February 19, 2006 2:02 AM US PT [link] Download the complete White Paper: The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services Continued from Introduction.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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A Word on Scalability

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Scalability is frequently used as a magic incantation to indicate that something is badly designed or broken. Often you hear in a discussion “but that doesn’t scale” as the magical word to end an argument. This is often an indication that developers are running into situations where the architecture of their system limits their ability to grow their service.

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OOTO August 2006

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I have been off the grid in the old world and will remain so until the end of the month. If you are waiting for responses to emails, postings, approvals or comments; have patience.

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Sagan's Billions

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Today is the 10th anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death. There is a world-wide event going on today to remember this master of science. I like to believe every one has stories of how Sagan impacted their lives, at least those in my generation. I remember this guy fascinated me, because he spoke so passionately and caring and full of amazement about science, much more than any teacher I had ever had.

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The odds of getting a PS3 or Wii for Chrismas

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As you have probably have heard by now Amazon is making Sony Playstation 3 (20 GB & 60 GB models) and Nintendo Wii available to existing Amazon customers who sign up via a special edition of the Amazon Customers Vote. A random draw will then decide who will get the change to buy these ridiculously scarce game machines.

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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The promise and challenges of South Africa - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Open source spying and blogging for intelligence agencies | Main | Journalists get outsourced too » The promise and challenges of South Africa Ross Dawson, December 9, 2006 2:29 AM US PT I’m currently in Johannesburg, just back from two days in a game park, where one of my clients was holding a board strategy offsite.

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The Web 2.0 Revolution: keynote speech - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The relevance of knowledge management today | Main | Sydney goes for municipal WiFi » The Web 2.0 Revolution: keynote speech Ross Dawson, November 29, 2006 4:08 PM US PT I recently did the keynote for an event on Web 2.0 marketing run by Hothouse , a very interesting web house with major clients including News Corporation, Toyota, and Yahoo!

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The relevance of knowledge management today - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « How capitalism is broken and the shift to real-time reporting | Main | The Web 2.0 Revolution: keynote speech » The relevance of knowledge management today Ross Dawson, November 19, 2006 4:34 PM US PT This Friday I’m doing a lunch presentation titled Knowledge, Networks, and Social Media in Melbourne to the KMLF (originally known as the Knowledge Ma

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How capitalism is broken and the shift to real-time reporting - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The cost of online advertising sales and media globalization | Main | The relevance of knowledge management today » How capitalism is broken and the shift to real-time reporting Ross Dawson, November 17, 2006 9:29 PM US PT Just back home from a very intense couple of weeks of work and travel, and finally able to comment on the call to action by the

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the