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FEBRUARY 1, 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. On Symfony2. Disclaimer. Iâ??ve got a couple disclaimers in writing this. 1. Iâ??m one of the primary authors of the Zoop Framework for PHP.
Fountainhead
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Saturday, February 19, 2011. Cloud Attributes Apply Across the Stack. My “aha” moment here at EMC came during my first week when I was asked to describe the generic attributes of cloud infrastructure. Here I was, in an organization that’s made billions on storage, and I was about to talk about cloud attributes solely from a compute perspective.Was I miss
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Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 5, 2011
New York Times today examines the interesting question of Why Some Twitter Posts Catch On, and Some Don’t , starting from the fact that frivolous hashtags such as #worstpickuplines get far more attention than commentary on current affairs such as ‘Mubarak’, and going on to look at a range of research on influence. The article quotes research which implies what I and a handful of others have been saying for quite a years now.
Social, Agile and Transformation
FEBRUARY 9, 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. Wednesday, February 09, 2011. Top 10 Reasons to Visit Your Offshore Teams.
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All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 February 2011 07:45 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Since a few days ago this weblog serves 100% of its content directly out of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) without the need for a web server to be involved.
A CIO's Voice
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
'The dynamics of getting a team to work together boils done to one simple truth – the team needs a common goal. Everyone on your staff needs to be competent, and everyone needs to trust each others. That’s why some managers can get things done with just a telephone and an email account; while others can have all the tools they could possibly need and still cannot get it the simplest task completed.
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I'm not lost, I'm wondering
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
Yesterday I participated in a Twitter party hosted by @TheOnlineMom * to discuss the questions: How much do we trust our kids online? Can we monitor them closely and build trust? The focus of the discussion was, as the topic questions hint at, how do we keep our kids safe? How do we protect them from all of the evils lurking out there waiting to swoop in and take advantage of them?
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
I have always been wary of the phrase ‘content is king’ and the kinds of people who say that, usually in self-aggrandisement. The rise of Apple iTunes has, with all the grace and elegance of a sledgehammer, amply demonstrated that it ain’t necessarily so. In an article on CNBC titled The New King: Context! , Nicholas Scibetta of Ketchum has reviewed the shift from the dominance of content to the prominence of context, including a reference to my recent article on the rise of co
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
The second of three new terms I learned in January (from my colleagues at Sametz Blackstone , a design firm with whom we're partnering) that captured my curiosity was " graceful degradation ," another way of saying (per Wikipedia ) "fault tolerance." However, it's a very particular kind of fault tolerance. Having been mostly focused on internal-facing applications of SharePoint in the past (team collaboration, intranets, business intelligence, enterprise content management, etc.), our team has
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation. By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2011 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). With the launch of AWS CloudFormation today another important step has been taken in making it easier for customers to deploy applications to the cloud.
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A CIO's Voice
FEBRUARY 18, 2011
'With the recent change in government in Egypt, I have been thinking of all the events that I have witnessed. While the list is not all encompasing, these are the events that stood in my life that I remember. Energy crisis of 1979. Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters. Y2k. Attempted assignation of Ronald Reagan. Attempted assignation of Pope John Paul.
Sean Daniel
FEBRUARY 10, 2011
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, February 10, 2011. How to Enable TimeMachine Backup for your MAC to your Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials or Windows Home Server 2011. Well, I don’t often dabble around with a MAC, I just can’t get used to the single mouse button and pressing a key on the keyboard for a simple context menu.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
'Why are human beings and governments so attracted to bright shiny objects such as smart phone apps? I’m sure there is a psychological malady in here somewhere – perhaps a “Bright Shiny Object Syndrome” (BSOS), which also might explain why some people passionately love geocaching and others are inveterate collectors of stuff and still others become compulsive hoarders.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 26, 2011
When we launched our Newspaper Extinction Timeline I noted that tablets similar to the iPad of today will cost less than $10 and given away for free by the end of the decade, a prediction that interviewers have frequently questioned me on since. . I have since realized that tablets are likely to be given away far earlier than this, probably first bundled with content subscriptions.
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FEBRUARY 14, 2011
"You can check documents out any time you like, but they can never leave." [With apologies to Don Henley and Glenn Frey]. OK, it's technically a bit imprecise, but it was the metaphor that popped into my head when I learned a third new term/concept in January at my colleague Chris McNulty's SharePoint Saturday Hartford presentation about Enterprise Content Management: "Content is King.".
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 23, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Free at Last - A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 23 February 2011 09:43 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). In a follow up to the last blog post I have removed the last two dependencies this blog had on running a server somewhere: comments are now served by Disqus and search is now handled by Bing.
A CIO's Voice
FEBRUARY 11, 2011
'For those of you that have not already checked out Oliver Widder ‘s site please do so. For those of us in technology (and for those who are not) you will get a kick from the humor. [link]. Filed under: Random Thoughts , ReBoot Tagged: Geek and Poke.
Sean Daniel
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Friday, February 04, 2011. Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 and Interaction with Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. I know I have talked before about Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 , and how it can help your Small Business with thin clients, old clients, seasonal employees and even reducing the number of machines in the office by getting one nice one.
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Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
It wasn’t long ago that one of the most solid and unquestioned assumptions of enterprise software was that users sat at a desk in front of a desktop (or sometimes laptop) computer. As such, maintaining a fleet of almost exclusively Windows-based computers was sometimes a larger task than selecting, developing, and running the enterprise software on which work was performed.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 9, 2011
Earlier this week I gave the opening keynote at the Sydney launch of Tibbr , the new social enterprise offering from TIBCO. I hope to have the video of my presentation up before long. Before the event I summarized some of the very positive commentary on Tibbr since the San Francisco launch two weeks ago. It’s now time to offer my own thoughts.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
Drawing on a new Pew Internet report on Social Media & Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults , The New York Times headline is: Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter. It’s a misleading headline, so let’s unpack it. First , blogs are not waning. All the major blogging platforms are growing. As noted in the article, Blogger’s visitors were up 9% last year, while WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg on his blog notes that WordPress is up 80 million views in the same period.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 20, 2011
Last week I was part of a panel on the SkyBusiness Technology Behind Business program discussing corporate social media policies, comprised of Peter Williams of Deloitte, Adrienne Unkovitch of Workplace Guardian, and myself. Here are some of the key points made during our discussion. * Example of Commonwealth Bank which introduced social media policies that impinged on staff’s personal rights, and quickly reversed them based on the response. * Executives have less control than they before.
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Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
The cover story on the current issue of MyBusiness magazine is on The Future of Business: Businesses to seek – or flee – in the next decade. It features ideas from three futurists: myself, Bernard Salt of KPMG, and Christine Christian of Dun & Bradstreet. Here are a few of the quotes from me they used in the article. I will do a separate post tomorrow that runs through some of my ideas on the specific industries that will grow and shrink in the coming decade.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
I recently gave a presentation to an internal team tasked with re-envisaging the intranet for a large corporation. I was impressed that they had brought together around 40 managers and executives from across the company to spend two days thinking in a very open format about what internal communication could and should be like, and how to create that.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
The very dynamic Adam Franklin and Toby Jenkins of Bluewire Media recently did a video interview of me, asking me about the trends driving how the web will shape business. Here is the video, with a summary of my headline points below. (Also see Bluewire Media’s original post of the video , which has my comments written up in greater detail.). What do you see the future of the web being for businesses?
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Download Chapter 10 of Living Networks on Liberating Individuals. Every chapter of Living Networks is being released on this blog as a free download, together with commentary and updated perspectives since its original publication in 2002. For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition.
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Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
Earlier today ‘satirical’ website DawnWires published a story titled Saudi King to buy Facebook for $150 billion to end the revolt: Goldman Sachs to advise. The article was published in the LoLNews category, and the bottom of it says “Sunday Humor… (Sunday Humor article at Dawnwires.com are meant to humor our readers. They may or may not be the truth.)&#.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 10, 2011
A couple of months ago I contributed to Ketchum’s Global Media Network meeting in New York, giving the opening keynote on the Future of Global Media , and participating in the follow-up panel on how to work with media in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, titled “Breaking Through BRIC: Understanding These Influential Global Media Landscapes”. Ketchum representatives from the first three of these countries presented on their markets, however since the Ketchum China team was committed to clie
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 9, 2011
I very occasionally send out email updates on what I’ve been up to and the most interesting content generated by our companies. I thought it was worth sharing the one I sent last week, as below. Please go to our newsletter signup page if you’d like to receive our future updates. Update and most popular frameworks: business models, predictions, media landscapes.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
The future of enterprise technology is a massively important theme, which impacts organizations, vendors, governments, and indeed society at large. Taking each of these perspectives provides a different view on how the space is evolving. One of the most interesting perspectives is from the very center of the fray: the IT department itself. It needs to deal with the minutiae of technological change as well as the macrotrends shaping organizations and their shifting place in the global economy.
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