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CrisisCamps and the Pattern of Disaster Technology Innovation

by Jesse Robbins | @jesserobbins | comments: 0 Over the past three years I have been working to bridge gaps between the tech community & traditional emergency management organizations.  I've focused on helping technologists adapt technologies to ...

From JESSE ROBBINS, O'Reilly Radar,  22 Jan 2010

Velocity 2010: Fast By Default

by Jesse Robbins | @jesserobbins | comments: 0 One more thing… Quite a few people have asked us to have Velocity conferences more frequently & beyond the SF Bay Area, and so we're going to try something new. On December 8 we'll be running our first ...

From JESSE ROBBINS, O'Reilly Radar,  24 Nov 2009

More on how web performance impacts revenue...

Their data showed that slow sites get fewer search queries per user, less revenue per visitor, fewer clicks, fewer searches, and lower search engine rankings. They found that in some cases even after site performance was improved users continued to ...

From JESSE ROBBINS, O'Reilly Radar,  1 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Jonathan Heiliger on Web Performance, Operations, and Culture

We were honored to have Jonathan Heiliger, Facebook’s VP of Technology Operations, as our opening keynote speaker at Velocity. Jonathan is one of the most accomplished leaders in our field, and is a master of the craft. Here is his keynote in its ...

From JESSE ROBBINS, O'Reilly Radar,  24 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

CrisisCamp is June 12-14th in Washington, DC

CrisisCamp is an unconference to bring together domain experts, hackers, makers, developers, and first responders to improve technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief. This is the first event in what I hope will ...

From JESSE ROBBINS, O'Reilly Radar,  7 Jun 2009

Time Lapse of Galactic Center of Milky Way rising over Texas Star Party

According to William Castleman: The time-lapse sequence was taken with the simplest equipment that I brought to the star party. I put the Canon EOS-5D (AA screen modified to record hydrogen alpha at 656 nm) with an EF 15mm f/2.8 lens on a weighted ...

From JESSE ROBBINS, O'Reilly Radar,  21 May 2009
Related Topics: Sony

Space Shuttle Atlantis during Solar Transit

In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida. This image was made before Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 had grappled the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo ...

From JESSE ROBBINS, O'Reilly Radar,  16 May 2009
Related Topics: NASA

Velocity 2009 - Big Ideas (early registration deadline)

While the actual process of serving and rendering a page takes seconds to complete, describing it in real detail can take an hour. A good answer spans every part of the Internet from the client browser & operating system, DNS, through the network, to ...

From JESSE ROBBINS, O'Reilly Radar,  8 May 2009

Importance of Innovation in Finance & BarCampBank

Since then the BarCampBank idea has turned into a movement. There have been over 14 events all over the world, and many of the ideas generated are beginning to turn into action. To me, the global financial system is a platform must always create more ...

From JESSE ROBBINS, O'Reilly Radar,  20 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Fannie Mae,  Freddy (footballer)

AT&T Fiber cuts remind us: Location is a Basket too!

From an operations perspective these kinds of outages are nothing new, and underscore why having "many eggs in few baskets" is such a problem. I believe we will see similar incidents when we have the first multi-datacenter failures where multiple ...

From JESSE ROBBINS, O'Reilly Radar,  10 Apr 2009
Related Topics: AT&T Inc.

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