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It was pretty convenient that the bot used to copy my content copied this post 100%.

Next step in stopping a Content Farm from stealing content, contacting web hoster

TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2011 AT 1:56PM

I posted about BestGreenWebHostingDeal stealing my content.   I have tried to contact the owner of the site, but no response.

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Top Mistake in Social Networking, not investing in Command and Control Technology like Telligent

I was able to meet with an ex-Microsoft employee Rob Howard who is founder and CTO of Telligent.

ABOUT US

Telligent is dedicated to being the most trusted and innovative enterprise collaboration and community software company. We were founded in 2004 by technology visionary Rob Howard around his fundamental beliefs that information should be independent of tools, and communities – social and business – contain vast amounts of untapped, unshared knowledge.

After I watched Rob's presentation on World Class Communities.   I was thinking about this graphic.  You can get a PDF of the presentation here.

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And then it hit me.  Almost everybody focuses on throwing resources at the participation on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc., but few think about the ownership of the community.  How can you own your community when you use Facebook and Twitter?

If you think about Facebook and Twitter as your distribution channel, then you need to have something at the core of your social networking strategy.  You need command and control (C2) technology.

Command and control, or C2, in a military organization can be defined as the exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commanding officer over assigned and attached forces in the accomplishment of the mission.[1][2]

The DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms defines it as "[t]he exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned and attached forces in the accomplishment of the mission. Command and control functions are performed through an arrangement of personnel, equipment, communications, facilities, and procedures employed by a commander in planning, directing, coordinating, and controlling forces and operations in the accomplishment of the mission. Also called C2." [3]

Rob has the idea of Command and Control is his paper.

To truly become world class, leaders will invest not only in the technology to run the community, but the people and resources to support the community. The community must be an integral part of the entire experience and culture of the organization.

It's so clear now.  The top mistake people make in social networking is they don't have command and control technology as part of their social networking strategy.

I am looking forward to more conversations with Rob on this topic and the use of Telligent SW in social networking solutions.

If you really want to go further you think about Command and Control Intelligence and Telligent does that as well with Analytics.

  • Monitor key decisions and community buzz.Evaluate brand awareness, sentiment and customer loyalty to enhance your interactive marketing strategy.
  • Get a handle on service performance. Monitor trends and identify the most valuable people and information to deliver on your support commitments.
  • Understand your community network. Track what your customers and employees are thinking, how they’re connected and what they contribute to your community.
  • Build a sustainable community. Mine community data and assess the impact of your community via community health indicators.

One group with a smile on their face during Japan's Nuclear disaster, coal industry

There is tons of anti-nuclear press and discussions given the situation in Japan.

Consider this point from Seth Godin's blog on The Triumph of Coal Marketing.

The triumph of coal marketing

Do you have an opinion about nuclear power? About the relative safety of one form of power over another? How did you come to this opinion?

Here are the stats, and here's the image. A non-exaggerated but simple version of his data:

Deathratewatts

For every person killed by nuclear power generation, 4,000 die due to coal, adjusted for the same amount of power produced... You might very well have excellent reasons to argue for one form over another. Not the point of this post. The question is: did you know about this chart? How does it resonate with you?

The coal industry like the fact that people don't think this way.  In their minds it is the opposite.

But, you go to some areas of the US and Nuclear is still a priority reports Reuters.

By Matthew Bigg

ATLANTA | Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:12pm EDT

(Reuters) - For much of the world, Japan's nuclear crisis has heightened concerns about nuclear power. But in the U.S. Southeast, where the next set of reactors are planned, the concerns are not so great.

Even environmental activists -- those with deep-seated reservations about nuclear safety who say events in Japan provide an opening to change opinions [ID:nL3E7EI251] -- do not anticipate a radical shift.

No reactors have been commissioned in the United States since the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania in which a reactor suffered a partial meltdown.

The next four are due to come online in Georgia and South Carolina between 2016 and 2019, pending regulatory approval, in a region that is one of the country's most conservative.

 

When will Netflix move to another cloud besides AWS?

I don’t own any Netflix stock, but if I did I would ask “Do you really think hosting Netflix in  streaming media competitor Amazon.com’s data centers is the best decision?  What other cloud providers have you evaluated besides AWS?”

Being in the cloud makes sense, but couldn’t Netflix be in a facility like SoftLayer or Rackspace?

With Netflix’s outage in AWS, should these questions get asked?

Netflix Confirms Outage; Showtime Shows to Be Pulled

By Mark Hachman

Netflix (for iPad)

Netflix reported problems with its Web site and streaming service on Tuesday night, which the company has yet to explain.

While the Web site was functional at 8 PM PT, newer interfaces such as those used by the Logitech Revue were unable to connect. Other users reported that Netflix streaming was still down via the Roku box and the PlayStation 3.

"We are aware that the website may not work for everyone at this time. We're working to get it fixed as quickly as we can," the NetflixHelps account tweeted about 4 PM Pacific time.

Netflix proudly discuss the 5 reasons why they went to AWS.  I wonder what Netflix thinks about their #3 point.

3. The best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly.

We’ve sometimes referred to the Netflix software architecture in AWS as our Rambo Architecture. Each system has to be able to succeed, no matter what, even all on its own. We’re designing each distributed system to expect and tolerate failure from other systems on which it depends.

If our recommendations system is down, we degrade the quality of our responses to our customers, but we still respond. We’ll show popular titles instead of personalized picks. If our search system is intolerably slow, streaming should still work perfectly fine.

One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren’t constantly testing our ability to succeed despite failure, then it isn’t likely to work when it matters most – in the event of an unexpected outage.

Twitter makes major investment in IT infrastructure, hires eBay VP of Technical Ops Mazen Rawashdeh

Twitter’s VP of Engineering of Mike Abbott has tweeted the hiring of Mazen Rawashdeh from eBay as VP of Technical Operations.  TechCrunch covers the announcement.

eBay VP Of Ops Mazen Rawashdeh Moves To Twitter As VP Of Ops

17 hours ago

Twitter has confirmed that seven year eBay veteran Mazen Rawashdeh will be replacing Nick Heyman as VP of Operations at the 400 person strong company. In true Twitter fashion, the move was announced in a tweet by Twitter VP of Engineering Michael Abbott.

There are a couple of comments in this article.

All Things Digital also posts.

Twitter recently completed two data center migrations, with Abbott saying yesterday that the company could now look beyond its stability problems.

The company had let go of its previous Manager of Operations, Nick Heyman, in December. Heyman was a veteran of Facebook, Playdom and Zazzle.

For those of you who don’t know Mazen here is information you can read to find out what he has done at eBay.

Mazen gave a keynote presentation in Dec 2010 at Gartner’s Data Center Conference where he discussed eBay’s accomplishments.

Mazen Rawashdeh

Vice president of Technology Operations
eBay Marketplaces

Mazen is a technology executive with both Fortune 500 and internet startup experience. Mazen has been with eBay for 6.5 years and is responsible for eBay Marketplaces technology Operations. In his role,Mazen is responsible for the day to day operations of the eBay Marketplaces technology platform in addition to technology operations strategy, data centers, servers, databases, storage, data warehousing, and global network technologies.

In the past few years, Mr. Rawashdeh has led multiple technology initiatives at eBay which provided a significant reduction in data center power, footprint and up-lift in the eBay site capacity while driving the TCO "Total cost of ownership" down.

I was at Gartner’s Data Center conference and posted a blog entry with a video of Mazen.

eBay VP of IT Operations, Mazen Rawashdeh keynote at Gartner DC LV

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2010 AT 2:51AM

I ran into Mazen before he presented his keynote at Gartner DC LV, and we caught up as we hadn’t chatted for a while.  I sat up front and created a video of Mazen discussing the process change that eBay made to improve the performance per watt for eBay systems.  Sitting with the eBay team we were also able to catch up a bit discussing Olivier Sanche passing away.

Mazen does a good job of explaining what eBay did to change the behaviors in IT to be greener in the data center and reduce watts per transaction by 70%.

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Here is an interview with Mazen by TriplePundit regarding eBay’s Green Data Center.

eBay Builds State-of-the-art Green Data Center in Utah
By Kathryn Siranosian | November 13th, 2009 5 Comments

green-data-centers-bannerWelcome to UtahOnline auction site eBay is building a $334 million state-of-the-art, environmentally responsible data center in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah.

eBay says this data center will showcase the best and most innovative thinking in green data center design, technology, construction and operation, and Triple Pundit asked Mazen Rawashdeh, VP Technology Operations, eBay Inc., to fill us in on all the details.

Triple Pundit: Does this new data center represent new capacity, or will it consolidate other eBay data centers?

Mazen Rawashdeh: The new center is being opened as part of a corporate-level, four-year  data center consolidation strategy that is moving us from a handful of co-located data center facilities – largely space that we rent from data center providers – to space that we own and can manage to the highest standards in both cost and environmental efficiency. In short, it’s a consolidation strategy. Our business model is unique; we know the rhythms and availability requirements that are specific to eBay’s platform. By designing an environment for our data and compute power – both in terms of physical data center, hardware and software infrastructure that goes into it – we can innovate and manage it in the most efficient way possible. The facility in Utah will host the core technology that runs our business – including the eBay.com marketplace, PayPal and some of our adjacencies, including StubHub.com and Shopping.com.