This is a completely voluntary post by me to promote NewTeeVee’s event. I’ve put the logo on the site because they are doing great work in covering a new emerging sector. Blogging and professional coverage set by the standard Om built at GigaOm. Liz and team have very focused and relevant content when it comes to new TV models.

Want to know why Hulu is successful? Want to know why P2P might be a reality sooner than you think? What are the programming formulas online? What’s the big ‘real’ trends. How do you invest in this market online? What moves should you make? How do you make money?

All the holy grail questions will be raised. Answers maybe? It is definitely worth going. Here are some discount specials for late sign ups.

NewTeeVee Live is a must-attend event for anyone who develops, distributes, invests in or sells online media products and services. Last year’s conference sold out early and garnered rave reviews for it’s mix of influencers, tastemakers and media industry thought leaders who made the deals.

Come meet the senior executives from ABC, FOX, Netflix, Hulu, Disney, Lucasfilm, Comcast, YouTube, Sling Media, Level 3, Microsoft, and more who are driving the decisions that effect the future of online video. Hear from the producers of hit shows CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and HEROES as they discuss how online video is changing the art of storytelling.

Also, we can’t leave out the biggest breakout video stars from online shows Fred, The Guild, What the Buck, Boing Boing TV, Alive in Baghdad and Ill Doctrine.

Be there this year as we ask the tough questions. Hear from the best business brains in online television as they answer your questions on what has worked for their business and what have been lessons learned.

NewTeeVee Live: Television Reinvented

November 13, 2008
Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, CA

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Here’s a selection of the speakers with whom you’ll want to meet up and swap ideas

• Anthony Zuiker - Executive Producer, TV Show CSI
• Reed Hastings - CEO, Netflix
• Jason Kilar - CEO, Hulu
• Jesse Alexander - Writer, Producer, TV Show HEROES
• Alexis Rapo - VP, Digital Media, Disney-ABC Television Group
• Hardie Tankersley - VP Online Content & Strategy, FOX Broadcasting
• Blake Krikorian - CEO, Sling Media
• Dan Beldy - Managing Partner, Steamboat Ventures
• Miles Beckett - CEO, EQAL
• Ben Ling - Director of Platforms and Syndication, YouTube
• John Edwards - CEO, Move Networks
• Mark Taylor - SVP, Emerging Opportunities, Content Markets, Level 3
• David Verklin - CEO, Canoe Ventures
• Eric Schmidt - Director of Media Delivery and Monetization Evangelism, Microsoft
• Tania Yuki - Senior Product Manager, comScore
• James Slavet - Partner, Greylock
• Greg Douglass - Managing Director, Media & Entertainment, Accenture

We’ll be exploring the following topics

• The truth about online video advertising
• Bridging the gap between television and online
• Online video investment trends
• Managed versus unmanaged content
• Live webcasts of major events: the inside story

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Story on Cnet about Google’s rise in the web server market. Here’s some highlights from that article.

Google operates about 10.5 million Web sites in October, a 411,000 increase from September, according to statistics released Thursday by Netcraft, which monitors what software is used to host Web sites.

The figure comes from monitoring what Web server software is in use to deliver Web pages to people’s browsers. The top two packages are Apache and Microsoft’s Internet Information Services, but Google has been catching up since.

Netcraft found 182 million Web sites total, of which 10.5 million used Google’s software. Apache ran 91.5 million of htem, and Microsoft’s IIS ran 62.8 million.

That gives Google about 5.7 percent share, according to NetCraft. But the fraction rises higher to 10.6 percent when measuring “active” sites, which screens out a lot of domains that just have a token Web pages with no real content.

Google’s own Web server software is gaining popularity compared to the top software products, Apache and Microsoft’s Internet Information Services.

Google said in a statement, “The Google Web server is a custom-built server that runs on Linux.”

By Matthew Glotzbach, Product Management Director, Google Enterprise

The reliability of cloud computing has been a hot topic recently, partly because glitches in the cloud don’t happen behind closed doors as with traditional on-premises solutions for businesses. Instead, when a small number of cloud computing users have problems, it makes headlines. As with most things at Google, we are fanatical about measuring the availability of Gmail, and we thought it best to simply share our reliability metrics, which we measure as average uptime per user based on server-side error rates. We think this reliability metric lets you do a true side-by-side comparison with other solutions.

We measure every server request for every user, every moment of every day. Any millisecond delay is logged. Over the last year, Gmail has been available more than 99.9 percent of the time — for everyone, both consumers and business users. The vast majority of people using Gmail have seen few issues, experienced no downtime, and have continued to have a great Gmail experience, with exception of an outage in August 2008. If you average all these data together, including the August outage, across the entire Gmail service, there has been an aggregate 10-15 minutes of downtime per month over the last year of providing the service. That 10-15 minutes per month average represents small delays of a couple of seconds here and there. A very small number of people have unfortunately been subject to some disruption of service that affected them for a few minutes or a few hours. For those users, we are very sorry. And for Google Apps Premier Edition customers, we have extended service level agreement credits to them.

So how does greater than 99.9 percent reliability compare to more conventional approaches for business email? We asked some experts. Naturally, the normal caveats apply for on-premises solutions, since each individual business environment will vary, depending on server reliability, staff response time, and actual maintenance schedules for each application.

According to the research firm Radicati Group, companies with on-premises email solutions averaged from 30 to 60 minutes of unscheduled downtime and an additional 36 to 90 minutes of planned downtime per month.1

Looking just at the unplanned outages that catch IT staffs by surprise, these results suggest Gmail is twice as reliable as a Novell GroupWise solution, and four times more reliable than a Microsoft Exchange-based solution that companies must maintain themselves. And higher reliability translates to higher employee productivity. Gmail’s reliability jumps to more than four times as reliable as a GroupWise solution and 10 times more reliable than an Exchange-based solution if you factor in the planned outages inherent in on-premises messaging platforms. But this isn’t the only way Google Apps helps businesses do more with their resources. Compared to the costs of Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus or Novell GroupWise — including software licensing, server expenses and the labor associated with deploying, maintaining and upgrading them on a regular basis — Google Apps leaves companies with much more time and money to focus on their real business.

We are now extending what we’ve learned from Gmail to the other applications in Google Apps.

Today, we’re announcing that we will extend the 99.9 percent service level agreement we offer Premier Edition customers on Gmail to Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Talk. We have been delivering high levels of reliability across all these products, so it makes sense to extend our guarantees to them.

More than 1 million businesses have selected Google Apps to run their business, and tens of millions of people use Gmail every day. With this type of adoption, a disruption of any size — even a minor one affecting fewer than 0.003% of Google Apps Premier Edition users, like the one a few weeks ago — attracts a disproportional amount of attention. We’ve made a series of commitments to improve our communications with customers during any outages, and we have an unwavering commitment to make all issues visible and transparent through our open user groups.

Google is one of the 1 million businesses that run on Google Apps, and any service interruption affects our users and our business; our engineers are also some of our most demanding customers. We understand the importance of delivering on the cloud’s promise of greater security, reliability and capability at lower cost. We are hugely thankful to our customers who drive us to become better every day.

Cisco just launched a branded entertainment social media microsite called Tech Edge Weekly showing a blogger (Tim Washer) named Ira Pumfkin who is in search of the big scoop.  He is the prototypical blogger (in Cisco’s eyes).  Cisco makes fun of the bloggers in this video with goofball Ira Pumfkin acting like a alpha-blogger trying to break a story.

The videos (embedded below) are on the conservative side and the joke on the bloggers could backfire in the blogosphere (that might be their intention). However, I loved the clever humor, but it lacked laughs.

The video series brings out the rock stars John Chambers and other management.  I liked the people side of that approach.  I can see how Cisco doesn’t want to push the envelope because of corporate legal issue.

I would have given it an A if it was funny.  It didn’t make me laugh.

I give it a solid B for the star power in getting the execs involved. Making this people centric will make it a winner but Cisco needs to add more to the writing for better quality.

What’s your opinion?

Here are the two videos

Part II

Infoblox Inc. today announced that Interwoven, a global leader in content management solutions, has deployed Infoblox appliances for delivery of core network services, including internal domain name resolution (DNS) and IP address assignment (DHCP).

Domain name resolution and IP address assignment services are essential for all IP networks; without them, the network and applications can grind to a halt. And, when they are not robust enough or integrated properly, application malfunctions can be the result.

The Interwoven IT team recognized this first-hand when they implemented a network access control (NAC) solution with a legacy Windows-based core network services infrastructure that did not allow for effective dynamic DNS updates, producing data inconsistency. As a result, when certain users attempted to access the network, they were erroneously instructed to scan their system and/or update their end point security software, compromising productivity and causing many end-user frustrations.

Interwoven looked at several core network services solutions and selected Infoblox as its new next-generation infrastructure.

“NAC was the driver to upgrade our entire core network services system,” said Raymond Lockley, CORE systems manager at Interwoven. “And now, our NAC solution is much more effective; since installing Infoblox, we have not had any DNS-based network connectivity issues.”

Yonas Hambissa, senior systems administrator at Interwoven, concluded, “We looked at several competitors, but only Infoblox met our security, reliability and management needs. Simple code propagation, real-time data updates, along with tools for accurate data entry, and reliable service delivery are the real advantages.”

Interwoven purchased and deployed 13 Infoblox appliances running the DNSone package with Infoblox’s unique grid technology that links the distributed appliances into a unified system for central management, one-button upgrades and resilience benefits. In addition to Interwoven’s San Jose, Calif. headquarters, Infoblox appliances are also deployed in their Australia, Singapore, Bangalore, Atlanta, Chicago, Austin, New York, Maryland and UK offices.

Microsoft and Akamai Technologies are teaming up on high-definition video streaming efforts for PCs, the companies said Tuesday.

Akamai plans to release a beta service, AdaptiveEdge Streaming for Microsoft Silverlight, early next year to select media customers. It will run on Windows Server 2008 with Microsoft’s Silverlight media player.

This makes total sense but the interesting thing is what will Microsoft and Akamia do with P2P.  Will Microsoft leverage the Red Swoosh piece of Akamia or will this be another CDN based approach.

CDN based approaches cause unwanted inefficiencies in the network in that as more users view and watch popular content there is traffic congestion.  Unicast solutions cause traffic or packet pollution.  Legit P2P can solve this.

Microsoft is smart to build intelligence into their Silverlight client and having dynamic “policy” to manage traffic and content navigation is the cornerstone of their strategy.  Why?  It helps minimize the conjestion issue and provides for a better user experience.  This two concept are not mutually exclusive.

I hope to hear more about this from Microsoft.

Thanks to Mike Arrington at Techcrunch I  found this gem of an email. Arrington sees it as a software message.  I see it a bit different. Is it me or is Microsoft absolutely is moving it’s army.  We are seeing a massive movement of all their troops since the failed Yahoo takeover.  Great earnings and activity in every sector.  They could fire multiple warheads at little or no warning on any market - take your pick.

It’s clear to me that Microsoft is rolling again.  Balmer and team are focused.  As a blogger I still get no response from anyone from Microsoft for outreach or coverage.

Anyway enough ranting here is Balmer’s memo to the troops.

—–Original Message—–
From: Steve Ballmer [mailto:sballmer@microsoft.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:37 PM
To:
Subject: A Platform for the Next Technology Revolution

During the past decade, a dramatic transformation in the world of information technology has been taking shape. It’s a transformation that will change the way we experience the world and share our experiences with others. It’s a transformation in which the barriers between technologies will fall away so we can connect to people and information no matter where we are. It’s a transformation where new innovations will shorten the path from inspiration to accomplishment.

Many of the components of this transformation are already in place. Some have received a great deal of attention. “Cloud computing” that connects people to vast amounts of storage and computing power in massive datacenters is one example. Social networking sites that have changed the way people connect with family and friends is another.

Other components are so much a part of the inevitable march of progress that we take them for granted as soon as we start to use them: cell phones that double as digital cameras, large flat-screen PC monitors and HD TV screens, and hands-free digital car entertainment and navigation systems, to name just a few.

What’s missing is the ability to connect these components in a seamless continuum of information, communication, and computing that isn’t bounded by device or location. Today, some things that our intuition says should be simple still remain difficult, if not impossible. Why can’t we easily access the documents we create at work on our home PCs? Why isn’t all of the information that customers share with us available instantly in a single application? Why can’t we create calendars that automatically merge our schedules at work and home?

This week at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, we shared news with software developers about a new set of platform technologies that will help transcend these limits. Because you are a subscriber to Executive Emails from Microsoft, I wanted to share my thoughts about the impact that these technologies will have as developers begin to use them to create a new generation of experiences that extend uninterrupted from the desktop to the mobile phone, media player, car, and beyond-to places where we never thought information and communications would be available to us.

A NEW PLATFORM FOR CLOUD COMPUTING

At PDC, we announced the availability of an early preview release of a new technology called Windows Azure. Windows Azure will enable developers to build applications that extend from the cloud to the enterprise datacenter and span the PC, the Web, and the mobile phone. For the first time, we shared pre-beta code for Windows 7 and for Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows 7, which is the next version of the Windows desktop operating system, will take advantage of software and hardware advances to help eliminate the boundaries between information, people, and devices.

We also previewed Office Web applications, which are light-weight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote that are designed to be accessed through a browser. Office Web applications will be part of the next version of Office and will enable people to view, edit, and share information and collaborate on documents on the desktop, the phone, and in a Web browser in a way that is consistent and familiar.

Windows Azure is part of the Azure Services Platform, a comprehensive set of storage, computing, and networking infrastructure services that reside in Microsoft’s network of datacenters. Using the Azure Services Platform, developers will be able to build applications that run in the cloud and extend existing applications to take advantage of cloud-based capabilities. The Azure Services Platform provides the foundation for business and consumer applications that deliver a consistent way for people to store and share information easily and securely in the cloud, and access it on any device from any location.

Windows Azure is not software that companies will run on their own servers. It’s something new: a service that runs in Microsoft’s growing network of datacenters and provides the platform that helps companies respond to the realities of today’s business environment, and tomorrow’s. Windows Azure technologies are already finding their way into products such as Windows Server 2008 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, enabling organizations and Microsoft partners to create their own cloud infrastructure.

Windows Azure will enable organizations to respond to realities such as the need to use the Web to provide customers with comprehensive information and to interact with an audience that has the potential to expand exponentially overnight; to integrate operations with partners-and sometimes even competitors-to meet customer needs; to add new capabilities quickly to respond to new opportunities; and to enable employees to work efficiently and effectively no matter where they are. These realities apply not just to businesses, but to organizations of all kinds: schools, governments, community groups, and more.

Traditional approaches to building technology infrastructure and delivering computing capabilities make it difficult and expensive to adjust to these realities. You need systems with enough capacity to meet the highest possible demand-capacity that includes servers and buildings to house them, the power to run them, and the people to manage them. You have to spread that capacity across locations so there’s a backup if one part fails. You have to solve issues like access for different types of users and compliance with tax regulations in all countries where your customers reside.

Designed specifically to meet the global scale that today’s organizations require, the Azure Services Platform will provide fundamentally new ways to deploy services and capabilities. It gives businesses the option to take advantage of the capacity available in the cloud as it is needed, reducing the need to make large upfront investments in infrastructure simply to be ready when demand spikes. It will enable developers to create applications that run in the cloud and provide the features, information, and interactivity that employees, partners, and customers expect-no matter how many of them there are, where they are in the world, or what device they have at hand.

SOFTWARE PLUS SERVICES AND THE POWER OF CHOICE

The Azure Services Platform reflects our belief that choice is critical for developers, companies, and consumers. It is also based on our belief that the key to delivering value today and in the future lies in combining the best aspects of software running on PCs, servers, and devices with the best aspects of services running on the Web-an approach we call “software plus services.”

Our software plus services approach lets people take full advantage of the incredible power of today’s devices. While there are undeniable benefits to being able to tap into the wealth of information and services that can be accessed over the Web through a browser, the interactive experiences that people expect on their PC, mobile phone, and media player depend on sophisticated software running on powerful processors.

The richness of these experiences will only increase as multicore processors expand the computing capabilities of our devices and new programming languages open the door to a new generation of applications that let us use more natural ways to interact with digital technology such as voice, touch, and gestures.

Software plus services also recognizes that for most companies, the ideal way to build IT infrastructure is to find the right balance of applications that are run and managed within the organization and applications that are run and managed in the cloud.

This balance varies by company. A financial services company may choose to maintain customer records within its own datacenter to provide the extra layers of protection that it feels are needed to safeguard the privacy of personal information. It may outsource IT systems that provide basic capabilities such as email.

This balance will change over time within an organization, as well. A company may run its own online transaction system most of the year, but outsource for added capacity to meet extra demand during the holiday season. With software plus services, an organization can move applications back and forth between its own servers and the cloud quickly and smoothly.

Today, companies around the world are implementing Microsoft technologies to take advantage of the best combination of on-premise software and cloud-based services. Using Microsoft Online Services, businesses including Coca-Cola Enterprises, Blockbuster, and Energizer access and manage Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications Server, and Live Meeting over the Web through a single, secure infrastructure. In addition, 1 million people rely on Office Live Workspace for sharing and collaborating with friends, family, and colleagues.

EXPANDING THE DEFINITION OF PERSONAL COMPUTING

Ultimately, the reason to create a cloud services platform is to continue to enhance the value that computing delivers, whether it’s by improving productivity, making it easier to communicate with colleagues, or simplifying the way we access information and respond to changing business conditions.

In the world of software plus services and cloud computing, this means extending the definition of personal computing beyond the PC to include the Web and an ever-growing array of devices. Our goal is to make the combination of PCs, mobile devices, and the Web something that is significantly than more the sum of its parts.

The starting point is to recognize the unique value of each part. The value of the PC lies in its computing power, its storage capacity, and its ability to help us be more productive and create and consume rich and complex documents and content.

For the Web, it’s the ability to bring together people, information, and services so we can connect, communicate, share, and transact with anyone, anywhere, at any time.

With the mobile phone and other devices, it’s the ability to take action spontaneously-to make a call, take a picture, or send a text message in the flow of our activities.

Through Live Mesh-a service from Microsoft that we announced earlier this year and about which we shared new information week-we’re beginning to bridge the PC, phone, and Web and create this next generation of connected experiences. Built on the Azure Services Platform, Live Mesh enables you to use programs and information stored on your work computer from your home PC, and vice versa. With Live Mesh, you can share folders and ensure that the information is automatically synchronized across your devices.

Live Mesh hints at how our lives will be transformed as the barriers between devices disappear and the option to connect instantly to people, devices, programs, and information becomes a reality.

We’re not quite there yet. Today, the Azure Services Platform is available only as a limited technology preview release. But as developers begin to combine the capabilities of this new platform with the amazing ongoing hardware and software innovations that we are seeing from companies across the industry, it will bring us significantly closer to the time when information, communication, and computing flows along with us seamlessly as we move through our day-to-day activities.

You can learn more about these technologies and the progress we are making by visiting the Microsoft Software + Services Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/softwareplusservices/.

I look forward to sharing more information with you about these new technologies in the near future.

Steve Ballmer

The white space debate, for all its technical complexity, is otherwise
very simple to judge.  So many frequencies remain unused or
dramatically underutilized – either in space, or in time, or both.  A
cognitive radio should therefore be able to fill in these blanks with
useful stuff, such as Internet access akin to WiFi, WiMax, HSPA, EV-DO
and LTE.

Most of these frequencies are between 150 and 850 MHz.  This makes
them particularly complementary to most of the cellular frequencies,
who start at 850 MHz in the US (soon 700 MHz) and at 450 MHz in some
other European countries (although mostly 900 MHz).  Most other
cellular frequencies reside between 1700 and 2200 MHz, while WiFi and
most mobile WiMax launches are between 2300 and 2700 MHz.

These lower frequencies are used for things such as old-fashioned
broadcast television and military applications.  Some of those
military applications have limited geographic scope, and many of the
allocated television channels are also not used in most areas.  Those
are cases where this spectrum ought to be privatized outright, under
any circumstance.  At a minimum, this spectrum can be repurposed for
as long as no interference is proven.  Basically, there is no downside
to trying.  In this respect, the advocates of white space use
legalization are 100% correct.

However, the white space argument is even stronger and ought to be
taken at least one full step further.  Over 90% of American households
have cable TV, satellite TV, or some other form of non-terrestrial
broadcast TV such as wired TV from a telco (Verizon FiOS, AT&T U-Verse
etc.).  This percentage has also been increasing.  With only a few
remaining households taking up this valuable real estate in the air,
it’s beginning to look like the “bridge to nowhere.”  Basically, we
are foregoing an untold billion dollars (perhaps trillions) in
consumer welfare just so that a tiny single-digit percentage of
households can get to watch a handful of channels without paying for
TV from cable/satellite/telco.  This is a shameful exploitation of
government property, at a huge expense.

The solution is of course very simple:  The government a long time ago
should have told the TV broadcasters that the game is up.  No more any
free ride.  No more exploitation at the public trough.  This is
valuable real estate, which, just like almost all government property,
should be sold to the highest bidders as soon as possible.  Just this
February, the sale of a few tiny thin slices of the 700 MHz spectrum
fetched $20 billion.  Imagine what the spectrum all the way down to
below 200 MHz would fetch?

This idea isn’t new; I have been proposing it for years.  The rebuttal
has always been that this is somehow politically impossible.  I have
never understood this argument, because we talking about less than 10%
of households who are exploiting the other 90%+.  Any politician worth
his salt ought to be able to explain that the only thing standing in
the way of vastly more available, capable and lower-priced wireless
broadband are a bunch of people who refuse to get
cable/satellite/telco TV, just like the rest of us.

Some say those 10% are unusually poor, and need access to free TV.  To
this I say: If they are that poor, they are probably watching too much
TV, and working too few hours.  Daytime TV is also a bad influence,
culturally.  Besides, those same people who insist on watching free
TV, are also the same people who smoke and drink for a lot more money
than it would cost them to pay for the same kind of
cable/satellite/telco TV subscription that the rest of us do.  People
shouldn’t have to run around and pay for each other’s entertainment
habits.  What’s next – government-subsidized movie tickets, opera
passes or ballpark games?  Wait – don’t give the new Congress any
ideas…

Fund Manager Game Plan 2008

The plural of anecdote is data.  Following many conversations with the
nation’s savviest fund managers, I have discovered how we explain the
timing of the 2008 market decline.  It is essentially a two-step
process:

First, once Obama won the Iowa caucuses in early January, it was time
to start selling shares in anticipation of some probability of the
risk that he may win on November 4.  As the year progressed, this
probability has been increasing, intensifying the market sell-off.
The idea is that if you thought it were a 100% probability that Obama
may win on November 4, you wanted to be in 100% cash (or 100% short,
or some combination thereof).  Right now, the www.intrade.com odds are
close to 87%, which would indicate you may be in 87% cash, having left
13% on the table for now, in the market.

Second, assuming Obama wins on November 4, you would be in 100% cash
by November 5, at which point you have a few weeks to transfer the
money abroad before it would come under Obama’s 2009 IRS jurisdiction.
If you transfer your money abroad by December 31, you would avoid a
frontal collision with confiscatory socialism.

This is rational human behavior.  The only irrational thing about this
situation is that McCain has mysteriously failed to point it out.

Recession = Innovation; George Colony over at Forrester is saying it will be different, but people are still freaking out in Silicon Valley. I just got off the phone with someone in NY and they are freaking out all over the place in the Big Apple.  I’m not afraid of this market and other entrepreneurs are doing stuff as well. Entrepreneurs are blind to the recession but it doesn’t matter they don’t have the money only the ideas.  It will be a tough road ahead.

I think it is only a matter of time before ALL of the leading networking players start talking about the (strategic importance of the) network as a way to succeed in an uncertain economic climate. Last week, in “Cloud Computing, Virtualization and IT Diseconomies” I talked about the increasingly intense pressures already building on static network infrastructure, and the underlying need for more intelligence and automation.

These intense pressures are setting the stage for the next technology boom, by creating gaps between what networks can do today and what they’ll need to do tomorrow. I was amazed at how quickly the concept of Infrastructure2.0 spread, including an interesting discussion at F5 Network’s pace-setting DevCentral blog.

These pressures are coming from increasing rates of change, especially in larger networks supporting more devices and branches and processes, as well as with the introduction of consolidation, virtualization and cloud computing initiatives. These new initiatives are introducing even higher rates of change and making it clear that a static network will no longer be a strategic network.

The rest of the article is here at Greg Ness’ personal blog

Thanks Greg for the deep analysis.