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10.11.10Six steps to success in a world driven by cloud computingI recently gave the keynote for an event series on cloud computing run by Telstra Business across five Australian cities. My keynote was followed by a presentation by Telstra's Chief Technology Officer Hugh Bradlow. In the current issue of Telstra's customer magazine Business Insights the feature article is based on Hugh and myself. The article is here, with the full text of my quoted 'Six Steps to Success' is below. Cloud computing: Interview with Ross Dawson and Hugh Bradlow ...
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07.21.10Will the future of social networking be open and distributed? Here comes PlexusI just caught up with my neighbor and fellow futurist Mark Pesce, who over a coffee at our local briefed me on his new project Plexus, which he publicly announced at his recent keynote at Pycon Australia, for Python developers. His excellent speech, titled How Not to be Seen, is below, and the transcript on Mark’s blog. In his presentation Mark starts with his long relationship with programming and finally moves on to describe his project Plexus, which will provide a new platform for social networks. In his talk Mark says: There are three ...
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07.19.10Revisiting the Web 2.0 Framework for insights on the web landscape todayI have just been requested permission by London School of Economics to use my Web 2.0 Framework in their Management and Innovation of eBusiness program for the next four years. The first part of the framework is below, and the industry landscape further down the page. Click on the image for the original description and full pdf I’m delighted that the framework is still seen as relevant and useful over 3 years after it was created in May 2007. Certainly the original post continues to get plenty of traffic, not least because an image from the framework still appears on the front ...
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07.19.10No more checking in: why public facial recognition may take offWe all know that processing power has for many years increased exponentially and continues to do so. This essentially means that any processing-intensive task you can imagine will eventually be possible. Facial recognition happens to be a task that humans are hard-wired to be exceptionally good at. While computers struggled at this for a long time, it is now an entirely viable technology in controlled conditions, as when people are walking through turnstiles or gates. The facial recognition used at the 2001 Super Bowl was successful enough to apparently nab 19 people with pending arrest warrants, while facial recognition is ...
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12.14.09I’m Dumping My Blog for Google WaveWhen I first started blogging in 2006 or so, I loved the idea of being able to have conversations with people all over the world, many of whom I didn't even know existed. It's served me really well in that respect, I've met a ton of people and developed my most important online social network. I have several relationships in the real world that developed because of blogs. Then Twitter came along, and was all real-timey and stuff. It's fun. It feels like a cocktail party. I can blurt out things that I think would make funny fortune cookies and ...
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10.11.09Looming Disruptions to the Software IndustryI view a major shift in technology, like the one that I see materializing right now with Google Wave (the protocol), as a huge object crashing into a an existing landscape. There's this massive change right in the middle, a new space that has to be filled, and then all these fissures spidering out from the main event where the rest of the world is affected by that event--new spaces that must be filled with something. One of the fun things about technology disruptions is trying to figure out what the landscape will look like after the main event. It's those ...
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09.24.09A Vision of a Post-Wave InternetThis is a follow up to my last post about Google Wave, er, XMPP. That post generated a ton of commentary and questions, and my goal here is to address a lot of them, as well as take a stab at outlining what a post-Wave Internet looks like to the average person. First, there were STILL some questions about why exactly Wave and XMPP are so cool. Well, the short answer to that is that the guys working on Wave did a number of things right.The Conversation The first thing they got right is the concept of a “conversation". This is not some ...
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09.17.09Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this.So here's the deal with Wave: If you deal in technology, and you get this one wrong, you'll miss the boat. And it's a big boat. If, on the other hand, you get this one right, you have the potential to do some incredible innovation.In a nutshell, this is the next revolutionary leap in Internet application architecture. Maybe the first truly revolutionary leap since HTTP itself.I've been wanting to write this post for a while, but first I wanted to read fully thru and digest the specs and available code. I haven't done any posts about XMPP for quite a ...
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About Me
CIO at Shine Lawyers
Non-exec Director of Ozmota
Non-exec Director of Queensland Kids
Ex CIO/CTO of Ozmota, Benefon and Voxson.Education
Executive MBA from QUT
High Distinction average
Singapore Airlines International Business Award
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Computer Science from QUT
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