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Check Conference 2010 – FHSU

Check Conference

I made the trek to Hays this morning to attend the Check Conference (Conference on Higher Education Computing in Kansas). What a lovely drive… long but lovely. This year, Emporia State University is presenting or co-presenting sessions on Synchronous Learning Environment Experiences, The Evolution of a Technical Services Portal, Remote Assistance and the CIO roundtable. Brian Osbourn, Cory Falldine and Michael Erickson are the TCS representatives presenting.

I am definitely looking forward to a great conference. The following sessions are on my agenda.

1.) Synchronicity in an Asynchronous World – ESU

2.) State Security Policy and You – KSU

3.) Workforce Changes in a Maturing IT Industry – KANREN/USD450

4.) Using SoftChalk Lesson Builder for Instructional Design – KSU

5.) The Evolution of the PMO at KU -KU

6.) Organizing Web Developer Communication on a Decentralized Campus

7.) CIO Roundtable – BOR CIOs

Heres to a great CHECK 2010!

TJ

2010
05/26
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Facebook Architecture – High Performance at Massive Scale and Other Resources

Finding information on the technical architecture of facebook has proven to be a challenge. Though it is common knowledge that the facebook application was built and deployed on LAMP (Linux, Apached, MySQL and PHP), the specifics concerning facebook’s customization of the stack are not publicly available. And so the search began.

The following resources provide a inside view on facebook’s technical architecture and the challenges faced in scaling the application and architecture to meet current user load demand while maintaining high performance.

Facebook: Science and the Social Graph –

 http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Facebook-Software-Stack

Summary
In this presentation filmed during QCon SF 2008, Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: LAMP (PHP, MySQL), Memcache, Thrift, Scribe.

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High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook 

http://video-jsoe.ucsd.edu/asx/JeffRothschildFacebook.asx

Summary
Facebook has grown into one of the largest sites on the Internet today serving over 200 billion pages per month. The nature of social data makes engineering a site for this level of scale a particularly challenging proposition. In this presentation, Jeff Rothschild discusses the aspects of social data that present challenges for scalability and will describe the the core architectural components and design principles that Facebook has used to address these challenges. In addition, Jeff discusses emerging technologies that offer new opportunities for building cost-effective high performance web architectures.

Regards,

TJ

2009
11/17
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Web 2.0 B2B – Social Media Map

I recently stumbled across the following document that portrays the current B2B Social Media and Web 2.0 landscape in an integrated and well categorized manner.

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TJ

2009
11/08
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Web 2.0 @ Work… Benefits and Security Implications

Within the current web landscape, many different Web 2.0 tools are available for both personal and business related purposes. These tools are often freely available and can provide significant benefits in enabling virtual team collaboration, enhanced communications and collaborative document management. While the potential benefits are great, the potential for data and information security related issues, such as data breaches or system compromises, are equally as great and must be managed accordingly.

The use of Web 2.0 tools @ work was surveyed in a recent Dynamic Markets research study. The focus of the study was to determine IT Management perceptions and understanding of Web 2.0 tools while assessing organizational security preparedness in a post Web 2.0 world. The following key findings provide an IT oriented perspective on current perceptions and security awareness in the use of Web 2.0 tools in the workplace.

– 95 percent of respondents currently allow employee access to some Web 2.0 sites and applications – most commonly webmail, mashups and wikis.

– 62 percent of IT managers believe that Web 2.0 is necessary to their business.

– 86 percent of IT managers reported feeling pressured to allow more access to more types of Web 2.0 sites and technologies.

– 30 percent of respondents reported pressure coming from C-level executives and director level staff.

– 34 percent reported pressure coming from marketing departments.

– 32 percent reported pressure coming from sales departments.

These survey results provide insight into the use and future use of Web 2.0 tools in the work place. In essence, Web 2.0 tools are here to stay and organizations must be well prepared in the areas of security policy, use guidelines and enforcement methods to ensure the appropriate use of such tools in a business environment.

 

 

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TJ

2009
11/08
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Future Direction of Web 2.0 Social Networking Tools… Mass Integration

Web 2.0 social networking technologies provide significant benefit to individuals and organizations in providing mechanisms for maintaining personal and business oriented contacts and communications with internal and external stakeholders.  As products mature in terms of feature offering and integration, the benefits will only increase.

Two words can describe the future of social networks, Mass Integration. Many IT forecasters, including Gartner, view social networking as being the conduit for future web interactions and communications. Social networks will continue to consume the user’s experience on the web as the tools and technologies are integrated into existing and future business applications.

Social networks, in terms of technical evolution, are often compared to the Web Search tools (Google, Yahoo! Etc.) that were introduced during the infancy of the web. These tools revolutionized the ways in which information was indexed, retrieved and utilized. Social networks have the potential to impact web usage in a very similar fashion. Rather than information being purely indexed based upon static categorization techniques used in search tools today, social networks can provide a social context to web based information. This context will enable improved efficiency in the search and use of web based information as related to specific demographic, group or network.

Just as web search providers such as Google and Yahoo! revolutionized the information indexing, retrieval and use processes, they had also invented a search based advertising and marketing model. This same model has been applied at greater depth to social networks and will continue to provide businesses with mass marketing and advertising opportunities previously unavailable.

In essence, social networking is the new web and will eventually become as openly accessible and utilized as web search tools are today.

Regards,

TJ

2009
11/05
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