Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 2, 2009
Tomorrow morning I'm doing a presentation to the top executive team of a very large organization on the next 20 years. Most of what I will cover will be general societal, business and technological drivers as well as specific strategic issues driving their business. However as part of stretching their thinking I'll also speak a about the Singularity.
Fountainhead
AUGUST 24, 2009
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, August 24, 2009. Products for Cloud Ops vs. Traditional Ops. Most in IT agree that cloud computing - while not a technology - does impact how technology is used within IT, and also implies a change in how IT operations will manage infrastructure.
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SPF13
AUGUST 24, 2009
Image via Wikipedia No question about it, choosing a good hosting partner is one of the most important decisions a CTO / CIO can make, especially in a.com company. I recently had to choose a hosting partner for the new portero.com. Since the space changes so rapidly the last provider you used may no longer be the best fit for you now. Here’s 10 criteria you need to evaluate when analyzing a hosting partner.
Social, Agile and Transformation
AUGUST 18, 2009
'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, August 18, 2009. On Top of the Business World. Well, a bit of 24 hours a fame as Ive been honored as the Business Exchange featured user today and am featured on the Business Week home page.
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All Things Distributed
AUGUST 25, 2009
At this 3rd anniversary of the launch of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), it is amazing to see the impact this service has had on the industry. It is truly disruptive technology and its impact has reached far beyond a pure technology offering as the benefits of the cloud have changed the way we view IT Infrastructure.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
AUGUST 29, 2009
The title of this post is the key question posed by the "Metropath(ologies)" exhibit at the MIT Museum , one of Boston's best-kept secrets. I had the chance to try out an on-line component of this exhibit called " Personas ," an installation that comments beautifully on both the power and fallibility of data-mining. When you enter your name into Personas, a computational process kicks off that assembles a "seemingly authoritative personal profile," beautifully presented as follows: It's not mea
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Fountainhead
AUGUST 17, 2009
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, August 17, 2009. Whats your "data center complexity factor"? After speaking with IT users, analysts and vendors, Ive tried to draw-up a "map" of some of the most common data center management tools directly related to operations, and how they layer across typical infrastructures.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
AUGUST 3, 2009
Earlier this year, I came across Michael Rubin ’s book Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution at my local St. Louis County Library branch. What an unbelievable find of a book. In some great stories, and lots of detail, Rubin tells the early history of what has become the LucasFilm empire, not to mention the birth of Pixar and the evolution of digital film-making that can be found on any new Apple Macintosh computer.
Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
AUGUST 2, 2009
Yesterday, I watched a TV program produced by the Open University on the history of Maths. It started in China where Mathematics as a discipline really started. A book was written in about 200BC explaining among other things how to resolve equations. Then it moved on to India a few centuries AD where truly important advances were made such as the 9 Indoo numbers (ancestors to the Arabic numbers we use today), the creation of the number 'zero' and the first method for resolving complex equations
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 13, 2009
Ingrained in the DNA of the Amazon Technologist is a single-minded focus on the needs of our customers. The Amazon development process is even called "Working from the customer backwards". Essential in this process is a good understanding of what the customers need in terms of new services, new features for existing services, or different approaches to things that we are already doing.
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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
AUGUST 29, 2009
The title of this post is the key question posed by the "Metropath(ologies)" exhibit at the MIT Museum , one of Boston's best-kept secrets. I had the chance to try out an on-line component of this exhibit called " Personas ," an installation that comments beautifully on both the power and fallibility of data-mining. When you enter your name into Personas, a computational process kicks off that assembles a "seemingly authoritative personal profile," beautifully presented as follows: It's not mea
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 24, 2009
I was just asked "what is a social media expert"? Marshall McLuhan is still the oracle. Here is one of my favorite quotes from the master. "Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
AUGUST 26, 2009
'On August 25th I had a chance to participate in a workshop at the Federal Communications Commission discussing what should be in the National Broadband Plan. The FCC is charged by the President and Congress to create that plan by February, 2010. To that end, they are conducting a series of workshops to gather input. The workshops are the standard fare of a government sausage-making machine.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
AUGUST 29, 2009
Brier Dudley's blog | Geeks, writing and the future: a Neal Stephenson interview | Seattle Times Newspaper Blog. Neal Stephenson is one of my favorite writers, and Anathem is my favorite book of his (followed closely by Cryptonomicon). He has a lot to say in this interview with the Seattle Times.
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Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 14, 2009
While online technologies have transformed the media along many dimensions, one of the most important ways of understanding this is in how the news cycle has changed. In the old days news was broken on real-time channels such as radio and TV, reinforced and pushed out to a broader audience through newspapers, discussed again in chat shows, and sometimes had life added to the news with updates or responses.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 16, 2009
We continue our Influence research series, paving the way for in-depth insights and breaking new ground on the topic at Future of Influence Summit 2009 in San Francisco and Sydney. Duncan Watts is one of a handful of scientists instrumental in developing the study of networks as a key scientific discipline. He tells his story in his book Six Degrees , which begins by recounting how he found a subject for his Ph.D in mathematics in biological phenomena, which turned out to be based on networks, a
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 16, 2009
There has been a lot of talk lately that the VC model is broken - here is a small selection of what has been being said recently on the topic: Forbes : Venture Capital's Coming Collapse. EarlyStageVC : Traditional Venture Capital Sure Seems Broken - It's About Time. VentureBeat : The VC model is broken. Fred Wilson : Is The "Traditional Venture Capital Model" Broken?
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 11, 2009
How many Twitter followers do you have? One of the reasons Twitter is important is that it is introducing the concept of assessing people's degree of influence. A person's number of Twitter followers is increasingly being taken as a proxy for their influence. If the only thing you know about someone is that they have 5,000 Twitter followers (or 50), you can make some preliminary assumptions about their influence.
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As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 19, 2009
Last night media futurist Gerd Leonhard , Richard Watson , author of Future Files: A History of the Next 50 Years , and I caught up for dinner. Gerd is in Sydney for the first time for a couple of events, including The Insight Exchange’s Creating Value With Content on Tuesday ( see the event review ), and Richard happens to be in Sydney amidst a hectic global speaking schedule.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 20, 2009
Ellipse by Imogen Heap is my current new favorite album - absolutely delightful! Very generously given away by Imogen a few days ago on her website , and also available as an embed, as below. Have a listen! I discovered Imogen Heap when listening to the Kate Havnevik channel on Last.FM - Kate 's music is lovely. Their music is indeed very much in the same vein.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 18, 2009
We continue our Influence research series, paving the way for in-depth insights and breaking new ground on the topic at Future of Influence Summit 2009 in San Francisco and Sydney. See the Future of Influence Summit blog for the full series. Earlier this year Bernardo Huberman and colleagues at HP’s Social Computing Lab did an analysis of Twitter networks, resulting in the article Social Networks that Matter: Twitter under the microscope.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 17, 2009
Leading up to the Future of Influence Summit held on August 31/ September 1, we will release a ranked list of the Top 50 Most Influential Media Industry Journalists in the world. The list will analyzed and created using the platform of influence ratings startup Repyoot. However we need to provide a list of candidates to be analyzed for the ratings to be generated.
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Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 26, 2009
One of the most exciting topics of Future of Influence Summit next week is exploring the business models for influence and reputation. This is an issue which is better addressed in San Francisco/ Silicon Valley than anywhere else, and we have an extraordinary panel lined up to address the topic of Business Models for Influence and Reputation at 2:20 – 3:10pm Pacific Time.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 23, 2009
You (or your favorite charity) can benefit from your influence! To find out how, read on…. One of the key themes of Future of Influence Summit , on next week in San Francisco and Sydney, is ‘business models for influence and reputation’. There are many angles to this particular topic, including: * Will it be possible for individuals to effectively monetize their influence and reputation?
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 17, 2009
CMSWire has just published a nice review of my Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Report. Here is an excerpt from the review: Ross Dawson has written a report on Enterprise 2.0 that should be a valuable tool for any organization implementing or thinking about implementing Web 2.0 tools in their enterprise. Called Implementing Enterprise 2.0: A practical guide to creating business value inside organizations with web technologies , Dawson take a close look at the implications and considerations of incorp
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 10, 2009
At Future of Influence Summit at the end of this month many of the most prominent people in the influence space will get their heads around where the space is going. Given what I’ve been seeing and hearing over just the last few months, it is clear that an important part of this is the sweet spot where influence meets advertising. A good overview of the space and two of the leading players in the space – 33Across and Media6Degrees - is provided in a recent article in New York Times titled The On
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Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 6, 2009
UK telecom regulator Ofcom has released a major study on use of telecommunications in the UK, out of which some interesting statistics on use of social networking have come. It's not surprising to see the substantial rise in social networking in the 25-54 year old age bracket. Adults have "got it" and piled on board to network online with friends and for work.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 30, 2009
Throughout all our events, including among others Future of Media Summit , Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum , and now Future of Influence Summit , our intention has been to have top-level participants who are themselves creating the future, and generating useful insights from interaction with their peers. This is not supposed to be about the audience coming to hear wisdom from those on the platform.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 5, 2009
For the last years I have only got to Europe irregularly - my intent has been to focus on USA and Australia, however I have been getting fairly frequent speaking and consulting work in Asia and the Middle East as well. I will be in Istanbul on 21 October to do the opening keynote at Marketing&Management Institute's Digital Marketing Summit, and am exploring some possibilities to do public workshops or in-house strategy sessions in Brussels and Helsinki before or after then.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 25, 2009
In finding the quote from Marshall McLuhan on professionals and amateurs I used in my last post, I dug up a file I created a dozen years go with some quotes I was collecting. Here are just a few that are still worth bearing in mind today: “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind”. - Winston Churchill. “It is hardly possible to overrate the value… of placing human beings in contact dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are famili
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