2006

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The Future of Media Strategic 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 « Announcing the Future of Media Summit 2006 | Main | Will mainstream advertising die? » The Future of Media Strategic Framework Ross Dawson, June 28, 2006 9:48 PM US PT [UPDATE:] A slightly updated version of the Future of Media Strategic Framework, together with lots of related content, is available in the Future of Media Report 2006.

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Working Backwards

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In the fine grained services approach that we use at Amazon, services do not only represent a software structure but also the organizational structure. The services have a strong ownership model, which combined with the small team size is intended to make it very easy to innovate. In some sense you can see these services as small startups within the walls of a bigger company.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: User Interface -- Clean and Simple

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 « Successfu

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: I am Time Magazines “Person of the Year” (*) !

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) 18 December 2006 I am Time Magazines “Person of the Year

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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Being in two places at the same time - 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 social nature of Search 2.0 | Main | Mobile traffic data will pressure local radio » Being in two places at the same time Ross Dawson, July 21, 2006 5:02 PM US PT I really like this. A Japanese researcher has created a lifelike doppelganger robot of himself , which he uses to do lectures at a university an hour’s drive away from his home, thus s

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Open innovation in collaborative filtering - 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 « IBM drives open business | Main | Changing investor disclosure could transform the world of blogging » Open innovation in collaborative filtering Ross Dawson, October 2, 2006 4:15 PM US PT Netflix has just announced a $1 million prize to whoever can improve the accuracy of their movie recommendation engine.

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Peer-to-peer banking - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Positive word of mouth | Main | The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - Introduction » Peer-to-peer banking Ross Dawson, February 13, 2006 1:19 PM US PT A new peer-to-peer bank, Prosper.com , is launching in the US, attracting articles in both the New York Times and BusinessWeek, with the latter titling the story “ The eBay of Loans ”.

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The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - Introduction - 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 « Peer-to-peer banking | Main | The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services – #1 Client Sophistication » The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - Introduction Ross Dawson, February 17, 2006 8:17 PM US PT Around six months ago, I wrote a White Paper for the enterprise software company Epicor titled “ The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Servic

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Graphs as Art

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If done well a graph representation of data can reveal a lot of information about the structure of the data. And with particular care graphs can even become art. Sala has achieved this by building a very nice graph representation applet for web pages. If you visit this posting you’ll see some really cool graph representations.

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Stormy Weather

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Note to self: buy generator

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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The King of Disk Drives

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There will be lots of stories remembering Al Shugart as “Uncle Al”; these stories will be filled with love and fun, and lots of good laughter. They will portrait Al as a good natured loving mentor and an unconventional industry maverick, but there was so much more to this man.

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Amazon in Scotland

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I have been easing my way back into Amazon life by visiting the Amazon Development Center Scotland (ADCS), located in the outskirts of Edinburgh. Before joining Amazon I was always skeptical whether distributing development could actually work. The overhead in communication, lack of quality personal contact and handling time-zones always seemed like barriers that were too high to overcome, and I have seen many cases fail.

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The Final

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Zidane is a brilliant player, so it is sad to see his international career end this way. It was a very bizarre moment in an otherwise rather open match. Italy ruled during the first half, but the French had control over the second half and the extra time. Again Henry showed that he is not the cold killer he should be.

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Sports Book

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Whenever I end up in Vegas I am continuously amazed by the magnitude of the way things are implemented here and at the same time the superficiality of it all. Normally I take a stroll north or south of the strip to ground me and get back some sense of reality.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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What Are The Odds

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I am on the road this week (I am speaking at Oracle GMM, Garner Enterpise Architecture & Supernova). The first stop is in Las Vegas. This is on the sports board in Vegas: Personally I think the Argentinians look a lot more on fire than the Brasileiros. Of course I am not rooting for either team.

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Get Your Priorities Straight

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it is good to now and then be reminded of what the real important things in live are.

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Growing (up) is hard

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Building systems that can guarantee performance and availability while scaling up to handle exponential growth in datasets and user requests is still very much a Dark Art. It is an art we master quite well by now at Amazon but it took a lot of growing pains to get to this level of sophistication.

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The Grocery

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Another great new store launched today: Amazon.com Grocery An Amazon store filled non-perishable grocery items all eligible for Prime and Super Saver Shipping. An important new feature was launched alongside of it: Shopping Lists. This is like a wish list but you can use it for repeat purchases, different quantities and more.

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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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Amazon Gets IM

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In order to get closer to their customers, humanize Amazon, increase sales, and stay modern, Amazon.com has decided to make all Instant Messenger (IM) handles of its employees public. This way Amazon.com customers will get unprecedented access to the talented engineers at Amazon to answer all their questions, or just to have an interesting conversation about a new book or that old sci-fi movie.

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Generating SiteInfo with MT

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On the A9 Developer weblog there is an article today on he SiteInfo feature that was until now only available when you used the A9 Toolbar. They now have developed a Firefox extension that will give you the same functionality. Normally the siteinfo tab gives you the Alexa information about a site: traffic ranking, reviews, etc.

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The Big Day

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GO HAWKS!

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What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms - 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 « Leda Bella Dawson is born | Main | Keynote on relationships in technology services » What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms Ross Dawson, August 21, 2006 12:22 AM US PT The Sydney Morning Herald has just released an article titled Social networkers get mobilised , which examines how social networking is s

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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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Social networks, data mining, and intelligence - 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 « Speaking at the Network Roundtable | Main | Talking about MySpace Generation » Social networks, data mining, and intelligence Ross Dawson, May 12, 2006 4:09 AM US PT The uproar over the phone calls records collected by the National Security Agency to search for terrorist activity is actually a network phenomenon.

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Video goggles will unleash mobile video - 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 « Six Facets of the Future of PR | Main | Exploring new models for creating content » Video goggles will unleash mobile video Ross Dawson, May 5, 2006 7:49 PM US PT A year or so ago I was looking around to see what was available in the way of wearable video displays (video glasses) so I could use my laptop in privacy with a massive display while I’m f

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Making successful decisions: Technology Purchase Influence 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 « Social networks and search | Main | MeshForum 2006: Connecting networks » Making successful decisions: Technology Purchase Influence Networks Ross Dawson, April 18, 2006 1:20 AM US PT There can be few more important IT issues—for both large corporations and the vendors that service them—than making major technology purchasing decisions successfully.

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Organizational network analysis goes mainstream - 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 « Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - #6 Globalization | Main | Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - #7 Commoditization » Organizational network analysis goes mainstream Ross Dawson, March 4, 2006 4:37 PM US PT This week’s issue of BusinessWeek features a great article on organizational network analyis (ONA) called The Office Chart That

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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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The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services – #1 Client Sophistication - 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 Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - Introduction | Main | 10 Trends for 2006+ » The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services – #1 Client Sophistication Ross Dawson, February 19, 2006 2:02 AM US PT [link] Download the complete White Paper: The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services Continued from Introduction.

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A Word on Scalability

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Scalability is frequently used as a magic incantation to indicate that something is badly designed or broken. Often you hear in a discussion “but that doesn’t scale” as the magical word to end an argument. This is often an indication that developers are running into situations where the architecture of their system limits their ability to grow their service.

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Out of the Office, Town and Country

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Thank you for being loyal readers of this chaos, I hope you will all have great holidays, I know I certainly will. See you in the new year!

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Sagan's Billions

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Today is the 10th anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death. There is a world-wide event going on today to remember this master of science. I like to believe every one has stories of how Sagan impacted their lives, at least those in my generation. I remember this guy fascinated me, because he spoke so passionately and caring and full of amazement about science, much more than any teacher I had ever had.

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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.