Fountainhead
DECEMBER 21, 2010
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, December 21, 2010. Hosting/Cloud Index outperforms NASDAQ Nearly 4x. Exactly a year ago, in 2009, I started looking into whether the market for Hosting and Cloud Computing could be measured in the stock market - with my first Blog on the topic.
SPF13
DECEMBER 9, 2010
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Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 13, 2010
It is traditional at the turn of the year to look forward at what is to come. We have crystallized our thinking on the year ahead and the decade of the 2010s in a new 3-page visual landscape. You can download the pdf of the framework by clicking on any of the images. The full text of the ExaTrends and the Zeitgeist themes is below. Note on ExaTrends : Given the exponential pace of change of today we are far beyond a world of MegaTrends.
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 5, 2010
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service.
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Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 4, 2010
'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.
A CIO's Voice
DECEMBER 13, 2010
'Dear Santa: I have worked hard this year. I have met my budget and finished all my projects ahead of schedule. I have made great strides in aligning IT with the business. I have tried to be really good by being the best CIO I can. So Santa, this year, I would like the following: Developers that don’t live in their own world. You must have the same issue with your elves?
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SPF13
DECEMBER 8, 2010
GitHub Code Viewer 2 is a plugin for wordpress that will automatically pull a file from github and place into any post using a shortcode [github_cv url=‘$url’]. It caches the code locally (in db), so it’s quite fast and can be even faster when combined with wp_super_cache or w3c_total_cache. It will re-request the code from github every 24 hours (by default, but it’s configurable) so the code in your post will always remain up to date.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 16, 2010
TechCrunch has reported (and close-as-dammit confirmed) that Yahoo! will close down Delicious. If so, it's close to a tragedy. Social bookmarks have been one of the defining aspects of Web 2.0. As described in our Web 2.0 Framework , sharing in very simple ways can create value for many. It is a simple step to take the bookmarks you are doing anyway, and make them visible along with your tags to describe them.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
DECEMBER 31, 2010
“Do you really think George bothered to ask for f ing permission?&#. This was Kevin Spacey’s response to a question from the audience during the Q&A following the St. Louis premiere of George Hickenlooper’s movie “Casino Jack&# at the St. Louis Film Festival. This specific question was related to getting legal clearance for the music used in the film, but it reflected a general theme of the evening as friends and family honored George – a high school classmate
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 9, 2010
'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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A CIO's Voice
DECEMBER 21, 2010
'Lessons from Old Backups by Mark Brewer. Wikileaks Positive Side Effect for IT by Mike Schaffner. Predictions 2011 by Peter Birley. Holy Grail of IT, Operating Expense vs Capital Investmen t by Oh I See (CIO Inverted). One CIO’s “lessons learned” in managing others by Peter Kretzman. Which IT project comes first – Legacy or Sexy? by Eric Brown. 500 Meetings a Day by John D.
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 13, 2010
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, December 13, 2010. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. An Explosive Technology, But Dont Treat as a Standalone Product. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about.
SPF13
DECEMBER 17, 2010
There’s an old adage “Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Two”. This situation is called a magic triangle. You can have two and only two, if you try for all three you will compromise all three. Fools often try, losing everything. In the world of software development, another magic triangle exists. You can pick any two of the three, but not all three, so figure out what’s truly important.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 7, 2010
SmartCompany recently featured an excellent article on The next 10 social media trends , which received considerable attention and was syndicated through a number of other outlets. I was quoted in the article talking about social shopping and mini-blogs. Here are a few further thoughts on social shopping. I have written another post on the rise of mini-blogs.
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All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 9, 2010
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Big Just Got Bigger - 5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 09 December 2010 11:30 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today, Amazon S3 announced a new breakthrough in supporting customers with large files by increasing the maximum supported object size from 5 gigabytes to 5 terabytes.
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 30, 2010
'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.
A CIO's Voice
DECEMBER 29, 2010
'CNN just published their list of the biggest tech failures of 2010. The 10 biggest tech ‘fails’ of 2010. Filed under: Life and Technology , Technology Review Tagged: 3d tv , Apple , facebook , Google , itunes ping , nexxus one , technology.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 1, 2010
The Australian government is gaining momentum in its Government 2.0 initiatives, marked today by the launch by the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) of a handy Government 2.0 Primer. The Report of the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce was submitted in December 2009. Although the Taskforce chairman Nicholas Gruen had earlier noted that Australian Government 2.0 initiatives were significantly behind countries such as the US and UK, the report and the government response
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Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 14, 2010
Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s : BIO DESTINY. Now that biological and genomic technologies are largely driven by information technologies, they are on the same exponential trajectory. Medicines personalized to the individual, genetic modification of our children, drugs to increase intelligence, and life extension will all become commonplace.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 21, 2010
Our recently launch Map of the Decade triptych comprised three parts: the Map of the Decade , details on the ExaTrends of the Decade , and the 11 themes of the Zeitgeist for 2011. I think may have been a mistake to put the Map of the Decade and Zeitgeist themes in the one document, as many only see the front page and don't get to the Zeitgeist themes, and they come from quite different perspectives (1 year as against 10 years).
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 1, 2010
A few weeks ago I gave the opening keynote at the annual conference of the Regional TV Marketing association, held in Byron Bay, Australia, on the topic of Creating the Future of Media. As I started preparing my keynote I realized that many of my usual messages about media fragmentation and re-aggregation weren’t the most relevant to this audience, and certainly not what they wanted to hear.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 14, 2010
I was recently asked to do an interview for the Turkish version of CNBC eBusiness magazine on crowdsourcing. I'm not sure whether the article will appear online - I'll share it if so. In any case here are the answers I gave the interviewer: 1) The term "crowdsourcing" first coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wire Magazine article. Does "crowdsourcing" is a new way of saying "open innovation"?
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Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 7, 2010
SmartCompany recently featured an excellent article on The next 10 social media trends , which received considerable attention and was syndicated through a number of other outlets. I was quoted in the article talking about social shopping and mini-blogging. Here are a few further thoughts on mini-blogs. I have written another post on the rise of social shopping , including 7 examples.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 20, 2010
I'll try to fit in a few summary posts from the year before I head off for holidays. To kick off here are our favorite infographics that we've launched this year, in chronological order. Click on the images for the original posts. Quite a few of these got a lot of attention! Crowdsourcing Landscape. Used mobile phones yield 1000 times more gold than gold ore.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 14, 2010
This is the now the 12th year that I and some of my friends are running the Self-Employed and Entrepreneurs Xmas Drinks in Sydney. It began when I and many of my friends didn't have the glamorous and social (i.e. more than one person!) Christmas parties of the employed, so decided to celebrate together. So, if you are self-employed, an entrepreneur, or work for a micro-business or start-up we'd be delighted if you joined us.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 13, 2010
One of the most surprising things about Wikileaks is that it took this long for the massive shift to transparency to have an impact on this scale. The trend to transparency has long been evident, and sites to facilitate leaks have been around for many years now. The inevitability of a transparent world has long shaped my thinking about the future. In my 2002 book Living Networks , the final chapter was on the future of a networked world.
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Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 22, 2010
Continuing my sequence of top posts from this year, today I have selected the 10 most popular and interesting posts on social media I've written this year. 1. We are fast learning how to create "enhanced serendipity". Reflections on the meaning of serendipity and why it essential we strive to enhance it. "Serendipity is one of the most beautiful words in the English language.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 16, 2010
Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s : COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE. In a world of infinite information and diversity of opinion we will not drown, but harness our dormant potential to be more together than we are individually. Crowdsourcing platforms and aggregators of insight will be part of the planks that create the reality of a global brain, expressing our destiny.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 11, 2010
Yesterday I did an interview on ABC News about Wikileaks and its implications. A few of the points I discuss are: * The extraordinary social polarization emerging from the Wikileaks debate. * How many people feel strongly enough about the issues to provide support to the cyber-attacks defending Wikileaks, a first for hacker attacks. * The existing long-term trends to transparency have finally crystallized in Wikileaks and the political and social response of today. * Wikileaks cannot be closed d
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 2, 2010
German magazine Screen.TV recently asked 7 prominent media figures for their views on the future of TV: "What will you watch on television in ten years, and what do you imagine your TV will look like?". My response in the original English is below (and here in the German translation ). I was in the august company of (click on the links to see their opinions translated by Google from the German). - Jane Barratt, President, Young & Rubicam. - Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia. - Chuck Deckeris,
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