Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

MARCH 28, 2009

Cloud computing and the return of the platform wars | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com. Cloud computing is arriving on the scene in a big way this year and the next platform wars have begun. Sun's move to offer service using Amazon's APIs shows that there is some early coalescing around de facto interoperability. The big question is whether businesses will go after what is sizing up to be a $42 billion dollar industry by 2012.

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Sailpoint

MARCH 22, 2009

Last week, Burton Group analyst Lori Rowland wrote about how the weakened economy has been good for identity management technologies. I agree with Lori – the churn created by the recession has heightened the need for companies to proactively manage risk associated with user access controls. Compliance and identity governance are more important than ever.

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Steve Farber

MARCH 2, 2009

Well…it’s finally here. The publication date for Greater Than Yourself (Tuesday). I’m thrilled, of course, but also anxious to see how the book’s received. (Releasing a book is a major OS!M ). GreaterThanYourself.com just went live this morning, and I think we’ve built something very rich and provocative. Please go on over and spend some time watching the videos (it would take you over an hour to watch all of them, but we’ve put them in bite-sized bits).

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 13, 2009

I get asked this question quite a few times: Why are you an IBMer? Well, here is a quick blog post with a video clip that lasts for a bit over a minute that describes it quite nicely. And nearly 13 years and counting! Tags: Networking Innovation Spain Connections Social Networks Kool-Aid Knowledge Sharing Social Computing Communities SmarterPlanet Social Media Trust Social Software Smarter Planet Enterprise 2.0 Relationships Knowledge Management Social Networking Communication English Graduate K

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

Artificial Inteligence

Ruminations of a Programmer

MARCH 19, 2009

Looks like asynchronous messaging is becoming quite a common paradigm of distribution in Web applications and large Web sites. The general theory is to do the absolutely essential user requirement stuff as part of the synchronous HTTP request/response cycle. And delegate the rest offline for the asynchronous queuing service to process. This leads to faster page reloads, optimal resource utilization and much better user experience.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

Sharepoint and Enterprise 2.0: The good, the bad, and the ugly | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com. I try to take an objective look at using Sharepoint for Enterprise 2.0 projects. Includes latest data and analysis on how suitable Sharepoint is for 2.0 style collaboration and knowledge management. 10 Must-Know Topics For Software Architects In 2009. I explore the leading topics that software architects should have a good understanding of this year.

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Architecture Analysis Enterprise Software 71

Sailpoint

MARCH 15, 2009

Recently, an iGoogle “quote of the day” made me stop and think. Usually, I read the quotes, smirk, and move on. But this one was different: Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. — Archibald Putt (a pseudonym). It turns out this quote is known as Putt’s Law and was first published in Research/Development magazine in 1976 (yes, before my time in high tech).

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Steve Farber

MARCH 31, 2009

This Wednesday (April Fool’s Day!), I’ll be a guest on Zane Saftrit’s show on BlogTalkRadio. Since Zane and I go waaaaayyyy back, I’m confident in predicting that it will be a lively exchange. He’s a wise dude who asks great questions and pulls no punches. Please join us live, if you can, at 2:00 PM eastern, 11:00 AM pacific.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 31, 2009

Have you heard about the superb "Open Enterprise 2.0" initiative that both Oliver Marks and Stowe Boyd are working on and whose results they are going to share them at the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston? Check out this blog post where I share some further insights in this topic as well as the weekly progress report from last week, where it looks like I am back on target.

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Ruminations of a Programmer

MARCH 29, 2009

Some musings from the International Lisp Conference 09. From Jao Ortega, noted Lisper and Haskeller, in his Sussmaniana report from ILC 09. "Next day we were in a kind of tongue-in-check debate provocatively entitled Are macros a menace? Richard Gabriel was on the wrong side, and arguing along the lines that macros were akin to language design and that he’d rather not suffer the consequences of letting your average software engineer undertake such a complex task.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 16, 2009

The last piece of the Agile PMO puzzle is to make the data needs of the PMO non-burdensome to delivery teams. It’s all well and good to be able to get quality and performance data, but it has to be easily accessible. If it isn't, we're just taxing the teams that much more. That means we won't get this data timely or efficiently, if at all. Automating Metrics Capture Because they're derived directly from the asset under development, our metrics give us an objective way to index and monitor qualit

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Steve Farber

MARCH 31, 2009

Over on GreaterThanYourself.com , we put up a new video clip of my conversation with business-author-rockstars Patrick Lencioni and Matthew Kelly , in which we discuss some of the particulars of their GTY relationship. (I’ve posted it below, as well). If you’d like to watch the full video (and I think you would–like it, that is) it’s available in the Resource section.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 30, 2009

Here is a blog post where I share some insights on what I feel the future of conferences would be like from a logistics perspective. And I am not just referring to free wi-fi availability, by the way, but about something much more important and closer to each and everyone of us. Tags: Social Computing Conference Events Events Technology Web Live Con-blogging Live Tweeting Pictures Logistics Improvements Repetitive Strain Injury RSI Health Fitness Fit Ergonomic Wireless Wi-Fi User Experience Even

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 27, 2009

Here we go again with another blog post on the weekly progress report of "A World Without Email" after a rather intense week away from the home office and on the road again on a business trip to Madrid and back home again. Phew! Far too hectic, but here is the catch up blog post. For those interested, I have also included a link to the video recording of the session I did last year at one of my favourite conference events: EventoBlog in Seville, Spain, in November 2.

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Steve Farber

MARCH 25, 2009

A while back, I received a distressed email from Ken, a young manager at a high-tech company. Ken and I had never met, but he had read my first two books and had done his best to apply the ideas and practices of Extreme Leadership to the way he’d led his team. To their culture, their work ethic, their camaraderie. When necessary, Ken told me, they would band together and work hard–10 to 20 hours a day at times–to solve a problem or meet a pressing need.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 23, 2009

Today, ahead of time by a few hours, I am celebrating Ada Lovelace Day. Are you? Tags: Networking Innovation Leader Committed Connections Approachable Social Networks Executives People Manager Social Computing Knowledge Sharing Communities AdaLovelaceDay09 Dogear Ada Lovelace Women Social Media Twitter Social Software Enterprise 2.0 Engagement Relationships Manager 2.0 Slideshare Gina Poole Productivity Knowledge Management Social Networking Leadership Communication Lotus Connections Ada Lovelac

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 23, 2009

Today, ahead of time by a few hours, I am celebrating Ada Lovelace Day. Are you? Tags: Networking Innovation Leader Committed Connections Approachable Social Networks Executives People Manager Social Computing Knowledge Sharing Communities AdaLovelaceDay09 Dogear Ada Lovelace Women Social Media Twitter Social Software Enterprise 2.0 Engagement Relationships Manager 2.0 Slideshare Gina Poole Productivity Knowledge Management Social Networking Leadership Communication Lotus Connections Ada Lovelac

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 20, 2009

Reflecting on the future of social networks within the corporate world. Brighter than never? Tags: Networking Innovation Presentations Connections Public Social Networks SXSW Knowledge Sharing Social Computing Communities Charlene Li Insights Social Media Social Software Enterprise 2.0 Relationships Slideshare Knowledge Management Productivity Social Networking Communication Openness KM Conversations Remote Collaboration Learning Transparency Dialogue Collaboration Future IBM Groundswell.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 19, 2009

Catching up with a day off at work while celebrating Father's Day here in Spain, here is a blog post where I am sharing two video clips I'm sure you are going to find one incredibly funny and the other rather inspirational. At least, I did ;-) Happy Father's Day, if you are celebrating it today! Tags: Networking Innovation Work Life Balance Unwinding Spain Connections Social Networks YouTube Twittersphere Life Holiday Social Computing Knowledge Sharing Communities Martin Koser Work SmarterPlanet

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Steve Farber

MARCH 18, 2009

. There’s a great discussion going on over at Leadership Now’s Leading Blog. They’re offering 5 free copies of Greater Than Yourself in exchange for examples/stories of GTY projects. You have until March 23 to participate. So, I suggest you go on over and either add your two cents (anything helps in this economy–har!), or get your stimulus by reading about others’ Technorati Tags: coaching , greater than yourself , leadership , leading blog , mentoring.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 18, 2009

Sometimes things are just so incredibly busy that you lose track of time and before you realise it, several months go by, and you feel pretty bad that you havent blogged about something that is so close to your heart for how wonderful the overall experience is that you dont know where to hide anymore! Tags: Episodes Innovation Modern Salon Collaboration 2.0 Social Computing Knowledge Sharing Communities PKM Tertulia Web 2.0 Personal Knowledge Sharing Tertulia 2.0 Social Media Social Software T

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 17, 2009

Returning back into the topic of figuring out the ROI for Social Software, here is a blog post where I reflect on a personal story that details what, to me, the main business value and benefits are from using social software while at work, as I reflect on the last 5 years I have been making extensive use of it. Tags: Challenge Your Inbox Thinking Outside the Inbox ROI Balance Spain Connections Progress Reports Life Social Computing Communities Work No-Email WLB Ownership Social Media Virtual Tea

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 16, 2009

I guess it's about time that I get back on track with things and share with everyone out there the weekly progress reports I have been collecting since last time I blogged about this subject, where I presented, amongst several other things, what my new challenge would be like for 2009 and an initial report status on how things were going on my progress living A World Without Email.

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Ruminations of a Programmer

MARCH 15, 2009

In the QCon London track, Architectures in Financial Applications, Oracle presented an interesting solution that seeks to transform the reconciliation process from an inherently batch process to an incremental event driven asynchronous one. They presented a solution based on Coherence, their data grid that addresses the capacity challenge by spreading trades across servers and the availability challenge through the resilience of continuous replication that Coherence supports.

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Sailpoint

MARCH 12, 2009

For the past several weeks, I’ve been racking up the frequent flier miles, canvassing the identity management marketplace and talking with customers from various industries and geographies. My overwhelming conclusion from these meetings is that the concept of identity governance has rapidly evolved over the last 12 months from an auditor’s concern to an urgent enterprise requirement.

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Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 12, 2009

For a good number of years, both Knowledge Management and Learning have always been associated with one another and overlapping quite a bit. Plenty of organisations are eventually using terms like Learning & Knowledge to refer to that process of knowledge sharing and collaborating; and, in a way, with the emergence of social software within the corporate environment, I am sure we will be seeing both disciplines come together even more!

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

MARCH 12, 2009

Is your corporate Intranet ready for some hot action with the 2009 Intranet Innovation Awards? Do you think it's moved quite a bit incorporating some of the most compelling social innovations around and would want to have recognised such a wonderful piece of work? You may want to read further on then. Tags: Networking Innovation Intranet Innovation Awards Connections Social Networks Intranet Knowledge Sharing Social Computing Communities 2009 Alex Manchester Corporate Intranet Intranets Step Two

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Ruminations of a Programmer

MARCH 11, 2009

Frameworks like Sproutcore , Cappuccino and Objective-J have given the Web programming model a huge leap. Till date one of the pet peeves of Web programmers had been the fact that the programming model was based on the native DOM and the associated accidental complexities that HTML, Javascript and CSS brought forth. The crux of the problem was not the polyglotism involved in Web development, but all these technologies were often found to be competitive with overlapping responsibilities.

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