Weekly Finds – Link Post

• Service Oriented Abstraction: The 4Ds “Detect, Derive, Decide and Do”

  Nice event processing metaphor by Jeff Adkins: “Detect, Derive, Decide and Do”. Reflects the separation of concerns and therefore implementation options.

  tags: event_processing

• Age and happiness: The U-bend of life | The Economist

  The Economist says Life begins at 46. Not sure if I can believe them, since the small print hurts my old, tired eyes http://econ.st/hcU6do

• The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011 – Michael Schrage – Harvard Business Review

  Michael Schrage asks readers to pick 2 from his list of 6 Innovation Ideas of 2011. I pick #2 and #3. Especially 3 – experimentation at scale. (can you say cloud computing?)

  tags: innovation 2011 technology schrage

• Disney Command Center Aims to Keep Lines Moving – NYTimes.com

  Deep in the bowels of Walt Disney World, inside an underground bunker called the Disney Operational Command Center, technicians know that you are standing in line and that you are most likely annoyed about it. Their clandestine mission: to get you to the fun faster.

  …And so it has spent the last year outfitting an underground, nerve center to address that most low-tech of problems, the wait. Located under Cinderella Castle, the new center uses video cameras, computer programs, digital park maps and other whiz-bang tools to spot gridlock before it forms and deploy countermeasures in real time.

  tags: disney real-time visibility responsiveness

• JWT: 100 Things to Watch in 2011

  tags: trends 2011

• Longform.org

  tags: digital publishing longform

• CTOvision.com – The Quickest Guide to Hadoop You’ll Ever Read

  tags: hadoop mapreduce

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