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Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Online bringing people together: Brooklyn Bridge Photowalk | Main | Newsgator implements APML: the value of standards in an open world » Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050 Ross Dawson, October 14, 2007 8:44 PM US PT When people talk about the future, they usually point to all the new things that will come to pass.

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Breaking through Physical Boundaries

All Things Distributed

The emotions about reading books in digital form and the Amazon Kindle are running high, already before the device was released. For me there are two features that sold me on the device: the networked content push and the content interaction. I have had many pda's, phones and tablets over the years that I setup to automatically pull in feeds such I could read them on the bus or plane.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: Organizational cultures not conducive to effective leveraging of knowledge.

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

[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) 05 March 2007 Organizational cultures not conducive to e

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: Office 2007 in "Classic Mode"

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

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 « Some Sear

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Launching the Web 2.0 Framework - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Particls switches on the power of RSS | Main | A week of hot news on the web: Trade sales mark the boom » Launching the Web 2.0 Framework Ross Dawson, May 30, 2007 11:04 PM US PT [UPDATE:] We have taken the Web 2.0 Framework and applied it to the enterprise in our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report - You can download Chapter 2 on Web 2.0 and the Ent

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Eight steps to thriving on information overload - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Professional services network offsite: Tapping the Power of Collaboration | Main | Audio stream of radio interview on Facebook, networks, connectivity, and media » Eight steps to thriving on information overload Ross Dawson, August 27, 2007 1:24 AM US PT Many of my keynote speeches focus on the future of business and where technology is going.

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Value Networks Masterclass in New Zealand with Verna Allee - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Professional networks and marketing without advertising | Main | Mainstream media merges with social media, including the rise of news aggregation » Value Networks Masterclass in New Zealand with Verna Allee Ross Dawson, January 30, 2007 3:11 PM US PT Business and society are founded on networks – networks of communication, people, organizations, in

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Tribute to Honor Jim Gray

All Things Distributed

On May 31 2008 a tribute will be held at UC Berkeley to honor Jim Gray, who went missing during a solo sailing trip in January of this year. Although Jim is listed as missing, and will be until 2011, a Tribute be held to honor him before too much time has passed.

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Amazon Widgets

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A popular request has been to make more of the Amazon product data available as easy widgets for reuse on blogging, social network and associates websites. You can now find a nice collection of different widgets at [link] Some of these were already available for associates, but there are some really nice new ones.

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Potter Delivered

All Things Distributed

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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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Dr. Swami

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Today at noon Swami made the transition to Dr. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. In most European countries the doctoral defense (promotie in Dutch) goes with a lot of protocol and pomp & circumstance. A very specific dress code, with two secundants who need to be able to take over in case you faint during the defense.

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The Search for Jim Gray Continues

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As Mike Olsen just wrote on the Tenacious Search weblog, today was the first day that action could be taken on the boats found in the satellite and ER-2 streams. Bad weather has kept any aerial search parties on the ground until now. This morning two planes were dispatched to locations derived from images coordinates combined with drift models.

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Half a Million Assignments Completed.

All Things Distributed

Over 530,000 Mechanical Turk assignments have been completed by more than 12,000 volunteers in the search for Jim Gray. We need a little more of a push and then all the images will have been processed. A team of experts lead by Alex Szalay of John Hopkins University has been working through the thousands of images marked for further investigation.

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Turkers Working Hard on the Search for Jim Gray

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It is now 3 PM on Sunday afternoon and the group of volunteers in thethe search for Jim Gray has worked their way through almost 100,000 assignments since Friday 5 PM. Since then we have seen over 6000 individual workers completing anywhere from 1 to almost a 1000 assignments. And there are still more to go.

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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High Altitude Search for Jim Gray

All Things Distributed

We have now added the data captured by the NASA ER-2 plane yesterday over the ocean area outside of San Francisco. We were very fortunate that this flight was scheduled for yesterday and that the NASA folks were interested in having it capture these images. We have been able to split them just like yesterday’s satellite images and create HITs (Human Interface Tasks) from them.

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Jim Gray Missing at Sea

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My long time friend and mentor Jim Gray took his sail boat out for a trip to the Farallon Island yesterday and has not been heard from since. The coast guard has been searching since last night. Jim is an extremely experienced sailor with more than 40 years experience. This is very worrisome.

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Professional services are the future of the economy - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Implementing Web 2.0 is critical for attracting talent to legal and professional firms | Main | Microsoft teams up to improve its Enterprise 2.0 offering » Professional services are the future of the economy Ross Dawson, October 16, 2007 10:58 PM US PT When I was in Singapore recently to deliver a keynote for a client , I was interviewed by Radio Si

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Sneak preview: Future Files: A History of the Next 50 Years by Richard Watson - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Who is capturing the new industry of online classifieds? Analysis and global comparisons | Main | Tapping the Zeitgeist: Powerful tools for spotting online trends » Sneak preview: Future Files: A History of the Next 50 Years by Richard Watson Ross Dawson, August 30, 2007 9:40 PM US PT Do you want to have your brain vigorously shaken?

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

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.

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Amazon's Dynamo

All Things Distributed

In two weeks we’ll present a paper on the Dynamo technology at SOSP, the prestigious biannual Operating Systems conference. Dynamo is internal technology developed at Amazon to address the need for an incrementally scalable, highly-available key-value storage system. The technology is designed to give its users the ability to trade-off cost, consistency, durability and performance, while maintaining high-availability.

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The latest on Web 2.0 in Australia: Showcasing the best - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Web 2.0 helps us transcend the tyranny of the email inbox | Main | Prepaid mobile airtime becomes currency in Africa – what happened to e-cash? » The latest on Web 2.0 in Australia: Showcasing the best Ross Dawson, May 23, 2007 4:23 AM US PT [POST-EVENT:] Also see post-event comments and release of Web 2.0 Framework.

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The state of social networking software for the enterprise - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Interview on client relationships in the management consulting industry | Main | Robots, aged care, and emotional bonding with machines » The state of social networking software for the enterprise Ross Dawson, April 13, 2007 4:43 AM US PT Social networking software is at the center of technology hype, with MySpace , Bebo , Cyworld , Facebook , Piczo

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ERP: automating processes | Enterprise 2.0: enabling knowledge work - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Adapting consumer Web 2.0 for use in the enterprise | Main | Web 2.0 creating value in organizations: Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum - Sydney, Australia » ERP: automating processes | Enterprise 2.0: enabling knowledge work Ross Dawson, December 13, 2007 3:24 PM US PT There has been some very interesting discussion over the last week about enterprise

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Network Roundtable: Building Collaborative Teams - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Organizational networks: The variety of external networks | Main | Tapping Networks to Bring the Best of the Firm to Clients » Network Roundtable: Building Collaborative Teams Ross Dawson, November 5, 2007 11:10 AM US PT The current presentation at the Network Roundtable conference is from Tamara Erickson, who has an article out in the latest issue

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Self-publishing in a networked world: The case study of David Maister - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Global comparisons: Fastest Growing Online Properties | Main | Eight key developments in the global media industry: July 2006 – June 2007 » Self-publishing in a networked world: The case study of David Maister Ross Dawson, August 9, 2007 4:45 AM US PT Professional services guru David Maister has announced that his next book is going to be self-publi

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Openness, network effects, and competition in social networks - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Review of Future of Media Summit from Public Relations Institute of Australia | Main | The 9 motivations to participate in networks » Openness, network effects, and competition in social networks Ross Dawson, August 3, 2007 2:53 AM US PT The social networking space has opened out significantly today, with two significant announcements changing the s

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Innovation Timeline 1900 – 2050: what we might invent in the next few decades - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The intersection of value networks and social networks | Main | Blogs, media, parasitism, and symbiosis » Innovation Timeline 1900 – 2050: what we might invent in the next few decades Ross Dawson, March 2, 2007 3:20 PM US PT Following the big success of the Trend Blend 2007+ trend map , Future Exploration Network partner organization Nowandnext.com

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Breaking down silos and building networks in financial services - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Announcing: Web 2.0 in Australia | Main | The relationship economy and vendor relationship management » Breaking down silos and building networks in financial services Ross Dawson, February 15, 2007 11:20 PM US PT Yesterday I gave the keynote at a senior management offsite for a top-tier global financial services institution.

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The relationship economy and vendor relationship management - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Breaking down silos and building networks in financial services | Main | Dissatisfaction with mainstream media drives the rise of citizen journalism » The relationship economy and vendor relationship management Ross Dawson, February 16, 2007 3:12 AM US PT This is great!

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The Different CTO Roles

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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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Eventually Consistent

All Things Distributed

I wrote a first version of this posting on consistency models in December 2007, but I was never happy with it as it was written in haste and the topic is important enough to receive a more thorough treatment. ACM Queue asked me to revise it for use in their magazine and I took the opportunity to improve the article.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.