All Things Distributed

JULY 21, 2007

2.223 million pre-orders on our sites world-wide. 1.4 million on Amazom.com alone. These orders trickled in over the period of 5.5 months, but from a distributed systems perspective today is the day as these orders go en-masse from pre-orders to orders, being charged and delivered. It is one smooth operation. The planning for single day delivery is truly impressive, especially on the supply-chain, transportation and fulfillment side where we need to do this without impacting the regular delivery

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 30, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Are virtual worlds an over-hyped waste of time for marketers? | Main | Knowledge management shifts to new ways of thinking » Global comparisons: Why bandwidth drives Internet participation Ross Dawson, July 30, 2007 3:21 PM US PT One of most interesting snippets in the Future of Media Report 2007 was a chart showing the relationship between bandwidt

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

JULY 27, 2007

[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) 27 July 2007 The Cultural Challenge Dear all, I have not

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

JULY 24, 2007

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 « WPC 2007

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2007

I was putting together a short panel presentation on the role of a Chief Technology Officer in corporate innovation and I once again realized that there is quite a bit of confusion around the role of the CTO. The first thing that always comes up when you want to discuss the role of a CTO is that there is no well established definition of what a CTO actually does.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2007

When I was building one of my first teams at Amazon, one that had to work on some really advanced distributed systems technology I put up a job description on this weblog. I was certainly pleased with the responses. Last year at a conference I heard from some of my former academic colleagues that they were using this description to educate their students abput where they were lacking in knowledge or experience.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 10, 2007

I omitted the Dynamo reference from the previous collection, but now that the SOSP program is live: Guiseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swami Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall and Werner Vogels, “Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store”, to appear in the Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Stevenson, WA, October 2007.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 6, 2007

I recently gave a few talks in which I gave some reading advice to the audience and I promised to follow-up with posting the links here. The first article is the interview of Michael Stonebraker by Margo Seltzer in the May/June edition of ACM Queue (unfortunately the article is online yet, but this link seems to work thanks to Peter O’Kelly).

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 2, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The IPTV landscape | Main | Update on Future of Media Summit 2007 » The rapid progress of personalized advertising and the changing role of creative Ross Dawson, July 2, 2007 4:20 AM US PT Yahoo! has just announced a new product, SmartAds, that enables advertisers to create customized advertisements on-the-fly to be relevant to the individual viewer

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 1, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Technology innovation and making the leap from smaller markets | Main | The rapid progress of personalized advertising and the changing role of creative » The IPTV landscape Ross Dawson, July 1, 2007 3:30 AM US PT SmartInternet CRC , which was one of our partners for our Web 2.0 in Australia event, has recently released a very interesting report tit

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