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Download as PDF: http://www.scribd.com/doc... The business models that defined 2010 visualised. If you think there are better/strong/more inspiring cases feel free to give us a tip! >> @nickdemey - Ali Sohani

Note: these are pretty much the same slides as the Creating Game-Like Engagement Deck, posted for ASTD-TCC 2010 attendees. - Ali Sohani

It’s not the program that sucks, it’s you. - Ali Sohani

NO MORE BORING POWERPOINT!!!!!!!!! - Ali Sohani

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Get creative inspiration for next presentation Agencies in this presentation: Tribal DDB Wunderman SapientNitro GoViral OlgivyOne Draftfcb Hill & Knowlton HP R/GA Publicis Contagious thenetworkone LeoBurnett DDB Dentsu The Barbarian Group Y&R UNIQLO Razorfish Smirnoff - Ali Sohani

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Gaming the game (game theory) explains the burn out. The system acquires friction and dilution by combatting the gaming of the rules. (the rules are no game) - Cliff Gerrish

Lucandra presentation by Jake Luciani - Ali Sohani

A discussion of the different NoSQL-style datastores in use at Twitter, including Hadoop (with Pig for analysis), HBase, Cassandra, and FlockDB. - Ali Sohani

Short intro (30 min) to the Akka project. Slides from Scala Days 2010. http://akkasource.org - Ali Sohani

Cassandra presentation given at the 3rd annual Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON 2010). - Ali Sohani

Billions of Hits: Scaling Twitter From my presentation at Twitter’s Chirp 2010. - Ali Sohani

Talk on our new technology for sentimental market segmentation, from 2010 Sentiment Analysis Symposium, NYC (http://sentimentsymposium.com). - Ali Sohani

"In this session, Twitter engineer Alex Payne will explore how the popular social messaging service builds scalable, distributed systems in the Scala programming language. Since 2008, Twitter has moved the development of its most critical systems to Scala, which blends object-oriented and functional programming with the power, robust tooling, and vast library support of the Java Virtual Machine. Find out how to use the Scala components that Twitter has open sourced, and learn the patterns they employ for developing core infrastructure components in this exciting and increasingly popular language." - Ali Sohani

Over Easter, I have been working on a paper as below. if you are working in related areas, happy to speak. I am specifically interested more in the last bit i.e. Finally, the Internet itself is evolving and hence we discuss the evolution of the Internet and the topic of Overlay networks. We are interested in exploring the scenario of a future energy network as an overlay network to the Internet when entities (devices and people) begin to communicate at and to trade energy without human intervention. The paper - The role of the Internet in future energy networks: Decentralization of Energy networks and insights for Smart Grids from Peer to Peer and Ubiquitous computing discusses the impact of the Internet on the Smart Grid domain. We first provide an overview of current state of the Intelligent energy networks (Smart Grids) and then discuss the impact of the Internet on Smart Grids. The Internet has a tendency to push intelligence to the edge of the network (i.e. to decentralize...

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"That's a brilliant post Eric, Lean Startup is lot more than just an optimization, where learning matters more. Focused more towards results-oriented approach but also back tracking on what process in what context lead us there, so improving process too in return, makes it "Result-Oriented - Lean/ Adapt - Process-Oriented" Model. As I have mentioned it to you and others earlier, If we do contrast it with mathematics or computer science algorithm than it should be Bio-inspired evolutionary programming like genetic algorithm which better depicts nature's beauty in way we all learn and reproduce, invent (mutations) and innovate (crossovers), while maintaining the niche (variety of contexts with learning) so that we don't get stuck in local maxima. It's all different ball game to just hear what customers want versus realizing what they actually need. What are their actual pain points, envisioning a solution and offering it, evaluating a big picture. I always say for evolution of your..." - Ali Sohani

"That's a brilliant post Eric, Lean Startup is lot more than just an optimization, where learning matters more. Focused more towards results-oriented approach but also back tracking on what process in what context lead us there, so improving process too in return, makes it "Result-Oriented - Lean/ Adapt - Process-Oriented" Model. As I have mentioned it to you and others earlier, If we do contrast it with mathematics or computer science algorithm than it should be Bio-inspired evolutionary programming like genetic algorithm which better depicts nature's beauty in way we all learn and reproduce, invent (mutations) and innovate (crossovers), while maintaining the niche (variety of contexts with learning) so that we don't get stuck in local maxima. It's all different ball game to just hear what customers want versus realizing what they actually need. What are their actual pain points, envisioning a solution and offering it, evaluating a big picture. I always say for evolution of your..." - Ali Sohani

"That's a brilliant post Eric, Lean Startup is lot more than just an optimization, where learning matters more. Focused more towards results-oriented approach but also back tracking on what process in what context lead us there, so improving process too in return, makes it "Result-Oriented - Lean/ Adapt - Process-Oriented" Model. As I have mentioned it to you and others earlier, If we do contrast it with mathematics or computer science algorithm than it should be Bio-inspired evolutionary programming like genetic algorithm which better depicts nature's beauty in way we all learn and reproduce, invent (mutations) and innovate (crossovers), while maintaining the niche (variety of contexts with learning) so that we don't get stuck in local maxima. It's all different ball game to just hear what customers want versus realizing what they actually need. What are their actual pain points, envisioning a solution and offering it, evaluating a big picture. I always say for evolution of your..." - Ali Sohani

1 April 2010 given to the San Antonio Java User Group by Gary Dusbabek - Ali Sohani

LinkedIn is the premiere professional social network with over 60 million users and a new user joining every second. One of LinkedIn’s strategic advantages is their unique data. While most organizations consider data as a service function, LinkedIn considers data a cornerstone of their product portfolio. To rapidly develop these products LinkedIn leverages a number of technologies including open source, 3rd party solutions, and some we’ve had to invent along the way. This LinkedIn talk at the NYC Hadoop Meetup held 3/18 at ContextWeb focused on best practices for quickly uncovering patterns, visualizing trends, and generating actionable insights from large datasets. - Ali Sohani

A talk on the past, present, and future evolution of the Web -- Where it’s headed and in particular, the Semantic Web, and where it fits. If it doesn’t load here on slideshare -- try viewing it at http://novaspivack.com - Ali Sohani

This presentation was given at LinkedIn. It is a collection of guidelines and wisdom for re-thinking how we do engineering for massively scalable systems. Useful for anyone who cares about Big Data, Distributed Computing, Hadoop, and more. - Ali Sohani

"Patterns for Cloud Computing" presentation as delivered at QCon San Francisco 2009. - Ali Sohani

Column-oriented databases have become fashionable following the work of Stonebraker et al. In the data warehousing industry, the terms "column oriented" and "column store" have become necessary marketing buzzwords. One of the benefits of column-oriented indexes is good compression through run-length encoding (RLE). This type of compression is particularly benefitial since it simultaneously reduce the volume of data and the necessary computations. However, the efficiency of the compression depends on the order of the rows in the table and this is even more important with larger tables. Finding the best row ordering is NP hard. We compare some heuristics for this problem including variations on the lexicographical order, Gray codes, and Hilbert space-filling curves. - Ali Sohani

Presentation given at nosql east 2009 in Atlanta. Introduces the NOSQL space by offering a framework for categorization and discusses the benefits of graph databases. Oh, and also includes some tongue-in-cheek party poopers about sucky things in the NOSQL space. - Ali Sohani

A talk on the use of Hadoop and Pig inside Twitter, focusing on the flexibility and simplicity of Pig, and the benefits of that for solving real-world big data problems. - Ali Sohani

Slides used by Guy Kawasaki at Nasscom PC in March, 2009. - Ali Sohani

Social Data on the Web Workshop at the International Semantic Web Conference / Washington, DC / 26th October 2009 - Ali Sohani