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MARCH 7, 2011
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Getting Started with Symfony2. In a follow up to my popular post on Symfony2 , the open source PHP framework we use at OpenSky , Iâ??
Fountainhead
MARCH 24, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, March 24, 2011. A Community Cloud: Real-World Example. When I first heard the term "Community Cloud" I shuddered. I thought: Just what we need. another cloud definition. But I had a peek at one yesterday speaking with an established services customer (who must remain anonymous for the moment).
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Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 1, 2011
We are at the cusp of a new phase of robotics, where some of what has been promised to us for decades will come to fruition. An example of this is the iCub , a humanoid baby robot that can learn, emulating human cognition and development. This is the field of ‘developmental robotics’: creating robots that can learn and develop their capabilities over time.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 28, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Music to my Ears - Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. By Werner Vogels on 28 March 2011 02:50 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon.com announced new solutions to help customers manage their digital music collections. Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player enable customers to securely and reliably store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, tablet, Mac
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Cloud Musings
MARCH 6, 2011
'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.
Social, Agile and Transformation
MARCH 8, 2011
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, March 08, 2011. Agile Process Improvement Using. Agile!
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A CIO's Voice
MARCH 8, 2011
'One of the few analyses that are overlooked in most IT departments is a comprehensive risk assessment. A risk assessment should identify, analyze, and weigh all the potential risks, threats and hazards to a company’s internal and external business environment. . The process of identifying risks/threats, probability of occurrence, the vulnerability to each risk/threat and the potential impact that could be caused, is necessary to prepare preventative measures and create recovery strategies.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 22, 2011
The iPad has changed my life. It feels like I have been waiting for it since I became conscious. However the iPad alone doesn’t do the job. It is the iPad together with a wireless keyboard that has transformed my life. Two years ago tomorrow I wrote a blog post saying It is totally INSANE that you cannot use an external keyboard on an iPhone. For some completely inane reason Apple crippled the Bluetooth on the iPhone so it couldn’t be used for external keyboards.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 2, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. By Werner Vogels on 01 March 2011 10:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan.
Cloud Musings
MARCH 29, 2011
'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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Sean Daniel
MARCH 29, 2011
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials & Windows Home Server 2011 RTM! Wa hoo ! Another set of great products out the door from the Windows Server Solutions team. Both Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011 have released to manufacturing!
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
MARCH 7, 2011
When I got to the airport restaurant, there was a short line of people waiting to be seated. Everyone waiting in this line was a party of one. Frustrating, since as I looked around the restaurant there were plenty of empty seats and table space. But not very many empty tables. As you can probably guess, many of those that were seated were also parties of one.
A CIO's Voice
MARCH 15, 2011
'I have reached the end of my one year as a freshman CIO. Having been in IT, managing projects and IT departments for the past 12 years those 3 letters in my title carries the burden of either succeeding or failing miserably. In my case, the last year has been a success. I was hired to guide my firm through strategic changes. Having the depth of knowledge of working in start-up environments and working through a few M&As, I was able to transform a weak department and set it on a path towards
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 28, 2011
Nate Silver , the political statistician extraordinaire, has turned his attention to publishing. His interest is honed by the fact that his blog is now hosted on the New York Times, which is currently implementing a paywall. He has done an analysis of the most influential publications , consisting of a simple review of how frequently publications’ names appear in Google News and Google Blogs followed by the word “reported&# , to give a representative sample of how often publications
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All Things Distributed
MARCH 24, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. By Werner Vogels on 24 March 2011 10:31 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. I have been to the conference almost every year and it is getting better every time.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
MARCH 27, 2011
I am working on a separate post about attrition and knowledge management, and was reminded of a favorite story from CompuWorks , a partner of KMA’s who specializes in training. They were discussing with a client the value of having employees well-trained in the latest version of Microsoft Office, and the attendant increase in productivity it would bring.
Sean Daniel
MARCH 29, 2011
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Intel vPro Add-in. As we announced SBS 2011 Essentials RTM this morning , I thought it would be interesting to also highlight a really cool add-in that allows you to not only view your computers, but if you have the Intel vPro chipset, you can also control power management of your PCs, right from your console with t
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
MARCH 25, 2011
'I guess you can teach an older CTO (me!) new tricks. I was pleasantly surprised by a Code for America “inception event” on March 17th. The event was the kickoff – really the kickoff of the second half of our “game” (project) to create open source software which will help Seattle and Philadelphia and other cities’ neighborhood leaders … well … “lead” Every City and County has neighborhood activists – people who care about their blocks and their communities – a
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A CIO's Voice
MARCH 11, 2011
'Over the weekend I was watching Wall Street-Money Never Sleeps. Gordon Gekko takes a young Shai Labeouf under his wing and teaches him the ways of the Street. I always wanted a Gordon Gekko type of character in my life. A corporate titan. A “mover and shaker” who can open doors and influence people. Who knows where I would be in life. I thought I had found such a rain maker a few years back.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 7, 2011
The current edition of Fast Thinking magazine has a feature article titled ‘Know Future’ on “the future of futurists&#. It looks at the history and background of the profession and goes on to interview a number of prominent futurists. It quotes me: Ross Dawson says becoming a futurist is pretty straightforward. “You can claim you are a futurist and people either believe you or they don’t.”.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 28, 2011
Last weekend I was musing about the elements of success in a connected world. Something clicked, and I was able to pull out of it a visual representation as below. For my keynote tomorrow morning on Building Business in a Connected World I will just run through this diagram together with commentary on how to approach each of the key elements. Click on the image for full size.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 14, 2011
I am writing this in the air over the Rockies, flying back from a scenario planning workshop I ran for a client yesterday. Over the last dozen years that I have been running scenario planning projects I have observed that corporate interest in scenario planning is cyclical. The time horizons that executives think in tend to be driven by the health of their business, the recency of prominent unanticipated events such as the global financial crisis or Middle East upheaval, and visibility of challe
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Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 28, 2011
The Institute of Public Affairs of Australia (IPAA), the professional association supporting senior Australian public service executives, is not prone to rash statements. Thus it is very encouraging to see its new policy paper, The Future Course of Modern Government , provide some pointed insights and recommendations on how to create the government of the future.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 28, 2011
Tomorrow morning I am giving the keynote at City of Port Phillip’s inaugural Breakfast Briefing session for the year in St Kilda, Melbourne, on the topic of Building Business in a Connected World. Here are event details and registration. Below are my slides for the presentation, which is almost entirely based on our Success in a Connected World visual framework launched earlier today.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 23, 2011
Chapter 5 from Living Networks , on Distributed Innovation – Intellectual Property in a Collaborative World , is still immensely relevant today. We are still relatively early on in working out the implications for innovation of distributed value creation. Here is a section towards the end of the chapter which provides 5 recommendations on managing innovation in a networked world.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 7, 2011
Almost five years ago now I wrote a post titled Being in two places at the same time which described how Professor Ishiguro, a Japanese roboticist, had created a robot replica of himself so he could give lectures at his university without enduring the commute from his home. The robot, named Geminoid HI-1 to emphasize that it was his twin, mimicked his expressions and movements.
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Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 27, 2011
Last week LinkedIn reached a significant milestone: 100 million users. On the occasion LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman sent out an email to the first 100,000 users thanking them for being early adopters. The email included the recipient’s member number, which are given in order of signing up. You can look it up yourself in your LinkedIn profile URL; it is the number after “id=”.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 8, 2011
I am sitting in the lounge at Sydney airport, about to fly to San Francisco. It is the ease of the iPad that allows me to put up this post on the fly. I came straight to the airport from a media panel organized by Cisco to follow up on their Connected World research study. Below are the notes I managed to catch on my iPad as we spoke. The panellists were: Senator Kate Lundy , Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 19, 2011
In the early 1990s I worked for several years in Japan as a financial and business journalist. The first article I ever wrote beyond the world of business was on an issue that I felt was very important: the dangers of Japan’s nuclear program. I have been searching for the article for the last week, and eventually found it last night. The article (embedded and full text below) was published on June 30, 1992 in The Bulletin, at the time Australia’s leading newsweekly magazine.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 30, 2011
Today at the excellent SydStart event is the official launch of Pushstart , adding to the increasingly rich network of support available to tech start-ups in Australia. There are two key elements to Pushstart: a mentor matching service , bringing together a pool of currently over 50 mentors with start-ups through the year, and a Start-Up accelerator , which will offer a small amount of capital, mentoring, and some physical space for a 3 month program.
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