SPF13

JANUARY 14, 2010

'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. REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest. Someone asked me a question today â??Why would anyone choose SOAP ( Simple Object Access Protocol ) instead of REST ( Representational State Transfer )?

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Web Services Internet Architecture Resources 279

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.

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Cloud Data Center Virtualization Enterprise 183

CIO Musings

JULY 5, 2010

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Monday, July 5, 2010. A Play I Liked - RENT - Firehouse Theater. We went to Firehouse Theater on Broad Street (Richmond, Va) Friday night to attend "Rent".

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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.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 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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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 11, 2010

'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, August 11, 2010. How To Get a Team to Think Agile.

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SPF13

JUNE 25, 2010

'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. Ultimate Vim Config. I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the Ultimate Vim Config.

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SPF13

JANUARY 14, 2010

Someone asked me a question today “Why would anyone choose SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) instead of REST (Representational State Transfer)?” My response: “The general rule of thumb I’ve always heard is ‘Unless you have a definitive reason to use SOAP use REST’”. He asked “what’s one reason?” I thought about it for a minute and honestly answered that I haven’t ever come across a reason.

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SPF13

DECEMBER 18, 2010

'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. Software Development's Magic Triangle. Thereâ??s an old adage â??Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Twoâ??. This situation is called a magic triangle.

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SPF13

DECEMBER 9, 2010

'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. WP GitHub Code Viewer. 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’].

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 1, 2010

For the last few years Richard Watson of NowandNext has created annual trend maps based on city subway maps. This year he has been more ambitious, creating a highly detailed map with five time zones, ranging from 2010-2015 out to 2035-2050. For the previous three trend maps (shown at the bottom) I collaborated with Richard and we co-branded them with Future Exploration Network, however time pressures this year meant that I haven't directly contributed to the 2010 map.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 24, 2010

A couple of weeks ago I flew to Perth to participate in a scenario planning project for a mining company. As I struck up conversation with the person next to me, it turned out we would both be presenting and contributing to the same workshop. I was kicking off the two-day workshop with a broad presentation on the future of business, while Damien Giurco, Research Director at University of Technology Sydney's Institute for Sustainable Futures , would speak later on 'Cities as the mines of the futu

Mobile 167

Mobile Analysis Report Research 167

Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 11, 2010

When I started writing my book Living Networks in early 2002 I thought that it was important to demonstrate that the concept of 'living networks' was not just a metaphor, but a reality: we, together with the networks that connect us, are literally a new life form. To show this I drew on the literature on autopoiesis , which was proposed as a new way of understanding the nature of life, and wrote a lengthy introduction to the book.

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SPF13

AUGUST 26, 2010

'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. Selling on OpenSky. As anyone who reads my blog or follows my tweets knows, Iâ??ve been working for a new startup called OpenSky since February 2010.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 12, 2010

Madston Black , a top-tier leadership development consultancy, recently engaged me to do some executive briefings on the future of business as part of some of leadership programs they are running for major Australian organizations. For two of their major client leadership development programs, Madston Black also brought out Professor Ron Heifetz , Founder of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, to run workshops.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 6, 2010

The opening words of Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog in 1968 were: "We are as gods and might as well get good at it.". Indeed, the late 1960s were a time of vast optimism for many, based not just on the belief that ancient social strictures could be thrown off, but also that by use of new technologies we could liberate ourselves. The 1970s and then 1980s disabused people of the notion that revolution had truly arrived, as so little of the potential seen in the full flowering of new ideas see

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SPF13

JUNE 24, 2010

I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the Ultimate Vim Config. It is well organized and documented taking full advantage of Tpope’s pathogen for a excellent clean and modular configuration. The Ultimate vim config contains the perfect.vimrc file combined with an excellent set of plugins all easily managed thanks to pathogen and git.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I spent the day at the Ninemsn Digital Marketing Summit - possibly the first event I've been to this year where I wasn't a speaker. See my separate posts on Jeffrey Cole's presentation and notes from other presentations at the Summit. In the afternoon Dan Sheniak , Global Media Director at Wieden + Kennedy, talked about the future of the big idea in a world of fragmented media, liberally using examples from their recent work, notably for Nike and Old Spice.

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Video Media Social Examples 161

Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 22, 2010

Some very interesting data just out from Nielsen on social media usage. The headline is that people in developed countries are spending 82% more time on social media than they were one year ago. However the data point that struck my interest most is that. Australia is #1 globally in usage of social media. This is a real news. For many years I was bemoaning the slow uptake of social networks in Australia.

Media 159

Media Social Network Report 159

Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 30, 2010

At the end of every year media call on futurists to ask them what to expect in coming years, reflecting the appetite from their audiences for future thinking. One of the best ways to feed this desire is with infographics, distilling ideas into an accessible visual representation. For the last four years a Trend Blend has been produced to close out the year.

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Trends Social Course Media 159

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.

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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.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 28, 2010

Speedtest.net is my go-to resource for Internet speed testing, whether it's checking whether there are service problems, or making sure that event venues where we have video over IP links to speakers around the world have sufficient bandwidth. One of the great additions to the service is a compilation of all their data to show bandwidth speeds around the world.

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Comparison Trends Internet Resources 156

Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 1, 2010

As the world of media moves beyond its traditional boundaries, media operators need to broaden their thinking about potential revenue sources. In a connected world, the possibilities transcend the classic advertising, sales and subscription models. In my recent article Creating the Future of Media: 4 Driving Forces, 4 Strategic Issues, 4 Essential Capabilities in Media Titles magazine I wanted to point to some of the possibilities.

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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-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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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 24, 2010

On Thursday I am giving the closing keynote at Newspaper Publishers Association Future Forum conference in Sydney. I gave a sneak preview of some of what I will be covering, leading to a wide variety of coverage including in The Australian , by Roy Greenslade in The Guardian , on The Inquisitr , and on Mumbrella (including a rich discussion). I will also be doing some interviews on ABC radio tonight and tomorrow.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 24, 2010

Crowdfunding is one of the more interesting (and important) neologisms of the last few years. It takes the idea of crowdsourcing (getting services delivered by crowds) and applies it to raising money. In a later post I will write about the implications of the rise of crowdfunding for venture capital and other early stage funding sources. Here I will just cover some examples of crowdfunding, many of them in creative domains.

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SPF13

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

'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. 16 lessons from 16 years. Iâ??ve been working in the technology industry for the last 16 years. Iâ??ve learned a lot.

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Sports Google Industry Engineering 153

Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 25, 2010

Some of my most interesting work in in helping clients create effective processes for participative strategy. The traditional approach to strategy is that it is generated in the executive suite or by highly-paid consultants, then it is communicated to staff, usually rather ineffectively. There is an increasing recognition that many people across the organization have invaluable insights into industry change, competition, client requirements, innovation and other issues that will help shape strat

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