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Ten things to know about Airbnb (and booking.com, VRBO etc.)

A few tips and tricks from a hosts perspective

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Slack sucks, so what to do about it?

Just fucking do it. Recruiting for diversity 101

It’s not about me

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Kick-Ass Remote Presentations

There’s an art to presenting information and making it stand out.

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Better Standups

Updated 10/11/17

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Meetings suck — so why don’t we do something about it?

Updated 10/10/17

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Apple iOS app rejection and resubmission

Lessons learnt and what happens

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Analysis of a server downtime and lessons learnt

Hi Mum, this post isn’t for you — if you’re not interested in the gory details of our near server disaster last night, then please look away now. If you are, read on! Background Last night we managed to break several components on two of our servers — our Database

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Part 2: Build a processing queue with multi-threading and spread over multiple servers in less than a day using RabbitMQ and Celery.

This is part two of my post on How to build a multi-threading processing queue. Set Static Execution Limits I suspect for many people this is now approaching the point where you have enough of a grip to be able to use this in anger in a lot of different

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Build a processing queue with multi-threading and spread over multiple servers in less than a day hours using RabbitMQ and Celery.

As we move through the development cycle we now have many of the essential processing modules we need for Tribalytic, but we also have a few challenges we need to deal with as well: 1. We need to collect data faster than we can process it on a single processor.

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Part 1: Build a processing queue with multi-threading and spread over multiple servers in less than a day using RabbitMQ and Celery.

This is part 1 — part 2 is over here. As we move through the development cycle we now have many of the essential processing modules we need for Tribalytic, but we also have a few challenges we need to deal with as well: 1. We need to collect data faster

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10 Principles to Guide Social Media (Enterprise 2.0) Implementations

Around 18 months ago, Luis Benitez from IBM and I (along with some suggestions from our internal colleagues) collaborated together on a set of Enterprise Social Media Principles. Since then we’ve both gained a lot more experience in enterprise social software implementations and I’ve also moved blog hosts,

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IT pros weigh Gartner Magic Quadrant lawsuit

Filed by ZL Technologies Inc. — a small email and file archiving vendor — the suit claims that Gartner Inc.’s well-known Magic Quadrant vendor rankings favor big companies with large marketing budgets. And some end users who use the Quadrants for research on IT buying decisions agree with that contention. via

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Rant on the frustrations with open source

I’ve become a huge fan of Python and in particular Django over the last year. So much so that it’s what we are planning to use at http://www.binaryplex.com as it offers a lot of advantages in terms of speed of development and cross-platform ability. There

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Email — Game on and the case for People Centric Software

James Dellow responded to posts by Luis Suarez and Andrew McAfee about the value of email in an Enterprise 2.0 world. I thought I’d add my own views as someone with current Enterprise experience in what E2.0 looks like inside a large (160,000) person organisation. While

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Opening up in self-interest of Google, Microsoft | The Open Road — CNET News

Microsoft is starting to learn the same thing. Its customers tend to use Microsoft products because they work, not because some evil genius in Redmond dreamed up diabolical ways to keep them locked in through closed file formats. Don’t believe me? Look at Microsoft’s support for CMIS (Content

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E2.0 may be hype, but Dachis Group is joining the goldrush

About Dachis Group * Founded in 2008 by Jeffrey Dachis, Dachis Group (Dachis Corporation, Inc.) was created to unlock the value of social technologies for large corporate enterprises through its Social Business Design global advisory practice and technology implementation program. * The company’s strategy is backed by a commitment from Austin

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Re-thinking blogging and a new domain http://timbull.com

It must be the spring feeling in the air, but lately I’ve had an itch that 140 characters in Twitter just can’t scratch. Chris Saads recent experiment here has also made me think. My blog (previously at http://binaryplex.com) has been sadly neglected. Often I have more

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Name your trend — Twitter trends in a friendly way

While mucking around with Twendly, it became quickly apparent that there are numerous different types of trends. Some come around with surprising regularity, others flash and then disappear, while some just hang around and won’t go away. For a bit of fun, I thought I’d try pick out

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Working with Google Appengine and a basic Twitter Bot

By now, some of you who follow me on Twitter will probably know that I made a Twitter Bot called Twendly that tweets the current trends on an hourly basis. For various reasons, mostly because I thought it would be fun, I decided to do this using Googles AppEngine. AppEngine

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Hidden signals in Social Software

The book, The Wisdom of the Crowds, by James Surowiecki talks about the aggregation of information in groups and how this can make better decisions than individuals within certain bounds. The ubiquitous nature of social software, the number of people using it and the degree to with which we become

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More on Social Networking for an outcome

Earlier this month I posted on how I used Twitter for a real business outcome, networking with Luis Benitez who I met through a shared interest in Lotus Connections.Recently another examples of the power of Twitter occured that I thought I’d share.There are many uses for Twitter

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Refactor your life step 7 — Reach out

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) It’s been a little while since I’ve returned to this series, but with a few minutes to spare

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10 Architectural Principles for Enterprise Social Software — Take 2

The first draft of the Architectural Principles for Enterprise Social Software was posted here. I invited feedback and was fortunate to get some comments from Luis Benitez, an IBM architect who deals with Lotus Connections who also then commented and expanded on these further in his own blog with a

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Location aware services coming of age

Some of the earliest posts on this blog were about how powerful location aware services could be. I spoke about Mobile Mashups and SOA, as well as Location Based Services (LBS) and AGPS and finally the value of Location (and how I thought it was relevant, but not quite sure