Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Over the last year I've worked with organizations around the world that are attempting to grapple with Web 2.0 and the growing external marketplace pressure being exerted for the change and transformation of their businesses. Along the way, I've been fortunate enough to be able to identify and assemble a working list of some consistent recurring issues and themes around Web 2.0 strategy.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Found this via Ben Kuo - The math behind Internet advertising businesses The advertising equivalence principle? So if we assume that a $1 CPM is about right and figure out what audience is required to build a $100MM annual revenue business, we find out that we need 8.33 billion monthly page views and over 300 million monthly unique visitors creating 25 page views per user.

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Ruminations of a Programmer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Over the weekend I was grokking functional data structures and bumped into a functional pearl by Chris Okasaki from the publications of ICFP 2000. The paper is titled Breadth-First Numbering: Lessons from a Small Exercise in Algorithm Design - it indeed unfolds a beautiful algorithm and explains in detail the philosophy and thought process that went into designing it the unconventional way that he did.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I've noticed a reasonable amount of buzz around the net about Wordle. I decided I needed to check out this phenomenon. and I find Wordle is addicting, but more importantly it can help you see relationships in your words. In short, Wordle lets you take any text or web site and get a graphical representation of the word relationships. I find I like Wordle's which are mainly horizontal, and somewhat circular.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Please join me on Friday, 19 September for An Agile Readiness Assessment , a ThoughtWorks sponsored webinar. Taking on Agile can appear to be an overwhelming commitment with no obvious place to start. For one thing, Agile is often a significant departure from how a team is operating, requiring organisational changes, new practices, and stricter discipline.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Over the last year I've worked with organizations around the world that are attempting to grapple with Web 2.0 and the growing external marketplace pressure being exerted for the change and transformation of their businesses. Along the way, I've been fortunate enough to be able to identify and assemble a working list of some consistent recurring issues and themes around Web 2.0 strategy.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Fantastic post by Dion Hinchcliffe - Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know. Raises some interesting points, but the general theme is: just figure out ways to get it to happen.

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Ruminations of a Programmer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

Last week I was having a chatty tweeter session with Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta. It all started with Ari's initial observation regarding the confusion that exists in people's mind regarding the actual use of memcached and how it compares to Terracotta as a caching solution. Ari was chatty and I thought it would be pretty useful to share his observations with a broader audience.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Still on holidays, but this time around in London and with a rather "busy schedule" as I'll be participating in a couple of Web 2.0 related events as a speaker at the same time that I will be doing some serious face to face social networking with those folks in town and keen on a drink or two or some food. Fancy meeting up?

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Over the last year I've worked with organizations around the world that are attempting to grapple with Web 2.0 and the growing external marketplace pressure being exerted for the change and transformation of their businesses. Along the way, I've been fortunate enough to be able to identify and assemble a working list of some consistent recurring issues and themes around Web 2.0 strategy.

Strategy 75

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Over the last year I've worked with organizations around the world that are attempting to grapple with Web 2.0 and the growing external marketplace pressure being exerted for the change and transformation of their businesses. Along the way, I've been fortunate enough to be able to identify and assemble a working list of some consistent recurring issues and themes around Web 2.0 strategy.

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Strategy Network Technical Review Social 45

Ruminations of a Programmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

In an earlier post , I had talked about scaling out the service layer of your application using actors and asynchronous processing. This can buy you some more donuts over and above your current throughput. With extra processing in the form of n actors pounding the cores of your CPU, the database will still be the bottleneck and SPOF. As long as you have a single database, there will be latency and you will have to accept it.

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Ruminations of a Programmer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

From Toni Arceiri's blog on Reia. "Objects are able to communicate with only with messages. They hold their own state, which can only be accessed by other objects via messages." "Reia’s objects function as separate Erlang processes. This mean every object is concurrent and runs simultaneously, provided it has something to do." "More than that, Reia objects are gen_servers.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Ever have the need to know how to do something in Adobe Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop and a host of other tools? Then link to Adobe's Video Center for free, high quality eLearning / simulations. In order to insure crisp graphics, make certain you put your browser into the full screen mode with at least 1024x768 screen resolution.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Early this week, Joyce Benik of SortFix , contacted me via this blog. She recommended that the Northstar Nerd should take a look at their new search engine. you know. better kind of mouse trap and all that kind of nonsense. While Google will remain my main search bookmark, I was pleasantly surprised with my SoftFix results and they are now part of my search tools.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Google Labs has quietly rolled out a new search capability which allows one to search the audio content of YouTube videos. Right now they are only indexing political content. thus if you want to see what Obama or McCain. or any other politican is saying about the proposed federal bailout. try a search on "federal reserve" This could be huge if expanded to other content.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Folks might think I am crazy, and they are probably correct! However, this Winter I will ski the longest cross-country ski marathon in North America (54 kilometers). As it turns out, this event has a contest which allows two lucky men to recreate the 800-year-old rescue of Prince Haakon (Hŝ-ken), the baby who became one of the most popular Kings in Norwegian history.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

I normally steer away from politics in this blog, but as the USA considers the most massive financial bailout since FDR's New Deal , I invite you to consider what happened in two financial markets yesterday: ( see Google Finance ). The price of oil rose over $25. The price of a Euro rose from $1.45 to $1.48. In other words, investors know that the only way to pay for the proposed bailout is to run the printing presses at the US Mint.

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Ruminations of a Programmer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

In my last post , I had talked about a Functional Queue implementation in Scala that used the laziness of Streams to improve upon the worst case bound of the dequeue operation. In reality, with the initial benchmarks, the algorithm didn't perform as well, and was, in fact, in some cases, slower than the one that used the strict List based implementation.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Spending a few days on holidays in Barcelona and enjoying the many pleasures of such a cosmopolitan city, yet with the odd challenge here and there. Yes, I am sure you know which area I am talking about. heh.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In my continuing engineering blog quest , Agile Engineering Design blew to the forefront via a Google Alert RSS feed ( see my tutorial ). Dr. Adrian Smith has a fantastic blog which focuses upon this topic. The two posts which immediately caught my eye were: Cloud Computing Explained. and a great long post, with lots of links on: Open Source Engineering Tools.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Here is the first of a series of blog posts that I am putting together to share where some of my excitement comes from for the upcoming trip I will be doing to Berlin to attend what I think is one of the best Social Computing events taking place this year in Europe: The Web 2.0 Expo! Will you be there? Here you will find as well how I can help you get there!

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

My son who is a freshman engineering student at Rose-Hulman is busy conquering the Galaxy! Meet Spore ! Watch the video ! Start with a single spore, and take over the universe! Click upon any image for an expanded view!

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I like this kind of competition between the two coasts. Stanford has recently started a new initiative named Engineering Everywhere. In short, you are able to access engineering courses with full course materials and video. The first nine courses are grouped in these three areas: (all added to the Engineering Learning Wiki and Search Engine ): Introduction to Computer Science.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

And we are back! Here is episode #7 from The Sweettt Show, where both Matt and yours truly get to explore, still under "The Age of Conversations" what they would be like while at conference events. And our vision on how we need to break the model and move on with the times. And no, we are not talking about Barcamps.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

It may be 6:30 a.m., but I have not gone crazy! Anyone who thinks the idea of open sources software and Lego Mindstorms are both great ideas, needs to listen to Peter Semmelhack's podcast from O'Reilly's eTech Conference ( all podcasts ). Most everyone understands that the key concept of open source software is that the technical community freely builds upon each other's work.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

A colleague passed along this link: Boeing to Rank Colleges by Measuring Job Success. While the US News methodology is controversial, this may make schools think twice. After all, Boeing has over 35,000 engineers. How was your performance appraisal? Make certain you see my prior post and follow-up on college rankings. It generated some good discussion points by leading web thought leaders.

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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Happy birthday, SMT! Here is hoping you would be making many many more years to come helping shape up the Enterprise 2.0 & Social Computing spaces within the corporate world! Way to go!

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