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VIDEO: Why elasticity, performance, and analytics will change how Webops is judged

While at Velocity in San Jose, Alistair gave a short presentation on "Why elasticity, performance, and analytics will change how Webops is judged". [PDF here]

Buy your country a beer

For the last week or two, some of the Bitcurrent folks have been working with Visible Government on a fundraising campaign. Called Beers for Canada, the goal is to raise money to fund the creation of applications that link citizens to their governments. I'm a board member of Visible Government, and ...

Two streams to watch: Structure and Velocity

I wish I could be at Structure09 today, but the next best thing is their video feed. Kudos to Om and the team for pulling together a fantastic lineup of speakers and panels. Also, if you missed some of the content at Velocity, you can check out a number of ...

The Rockstars of Social CRM

What do you get when combine the traditional conference panel with Rockband and some hors d'œuvre? You get some really great conversations. Last night I attended a panel about social CRM, sponsored by Radian6 and moderated by Chris Brogan. The panel was a conventional question and answer format with Chris Brogan roaming ...

What the Rest of the Company Knows About Your Website

Finally finished the last presentation of this trip, starting with clouds at Enterprise 2.0, then picking on Community Gardeners, then the cloud equation, and now a quick overview of what web operators can glean from the rest of the company.

Why elasticity, performance, and analytics will change how Webops is judged

I got to Velocity this morning, and Jesse asked me if I wanted to get on stage for five minutes to talk before lunch. Given that I'm doing a session in the afternoon called What The Rest Of Your Company Knows About Your Website, I figured I should make something ...

Marissa Mayer at Velocity09, and Google’s quest for speed

I'm at Velocity in San Jose. Just got in last night, and I wish I could have been here for the whole thing. It's no exaggeration to say that this is the biggest congregation of people who make the Internet work, in one place, for one subject. Jesse Robbins and ...

Complete Web Monitoring at Enterprise 2.0

Just finished a one-hour dash through web monitoring from a community manager's point of view. The slides are available as a PDF; while this deck deals somewhat with the business of monitoring communities, it also looks at how to tie those communities back to business outcomes in analytics and how ...

Enterprise 2.0 - Cloud Computing Day Slides

We presented at Enterprise 2.0 today in Boston. It was an interesting day, with a three-hour session on the fundamentals of clouds and where they'll be going, followed by three panels: End users from Linden Labs, Brainpark, Vertica, and Gilt Cloud operators from Joyent, Xcalibre, Intuit, and Terremark Next-gen platform and tool builders ...

GigaOm Structure: What’s next in clouds

My friend Om Malik and the GigaOm crew have been hard at work on a few things. First, there's the new GigaOm Pro, a paid offering that's part analyst firm, part intrepid reporter, and part real-world clue-check. This is a good thing. Done wrong, analyst firms can sometimes look like the ...