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- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."My ViewFirst, no one hates Microsoft more than I do - for both practical and ethical reasons. After dealing with Microshaft's endless parade of crap for nearly two decades, I finally abandoned my PC for a Mac. It was one of the best moves of...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruit
- Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruitSO at AA level is still SOAI fully appreciate Burton Group's view that SO is best applied to business/enterprise architecture. That's where the biggest payoff is ostensibly to be found."The service is only built for one application and it’s never going...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows
- Last Thursday, Microsoft released the final version of Hyper-V, the much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. Back in February, we had a look at a late beta release, and we were quite impressed with the performance of the system and how easy it was to manage virtual machines....
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- A world ruled by Apple
- A world ruled by AppleGood post[i]I am perfectly willing to praise Apple or Linux when I feel they are doing something right, and do so on a regular basis in this blog. That’s why I have a hard time understanding the need to believe that Gates did nothing right, in...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- The view from the trenches...
- Taking a pragmatic approach on collaboration 2.0 strategy and tactics, here's an example of some realities from a client side perspective. This post is about what it's like inside a large enterprise running a collaboration system. I've been on both sides of the fence during my career:...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server: a next generation of deeper, wider content silos?
- The 'shoot out' between Microsoft Sharepoint and Lotus Connections, two juggernauts in the enterprise space, played to a packed audience at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. The two companies went head to head, squaring off with product demos. I chose to instead attend John...
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- Kingsley Idehen opens Linked Data Planet in New York City
- Recent podcast subject Kingsley Idehen opened the Linked Data Planet conference in New York yesterday morning, demonstrating the evolution of thought and practice from the world of big databases toward the Semantic Web; a journey that he and his company are well positioned to describe. Kingsley began...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Tim Berners-Lee talks cranberry sauce and Linked Data in New York City
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to the stage in New York City last night, to deliver the final keynote of the day at JupiterMedia's new semantic web event, Linked Data Planet. The ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel was certainly busier than earlier in the day, as a smattering...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- An anthropological view of SOA rituals
- Remember reading "The Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" in your college sociology class? That's the paper that stepped back and coldly analyzed the bizarre cultural rituals among a strange tribe residing somewhere in North America. Of course, the tribe being analyzed was modern-day American Nacerima backwards. So,...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- IBM's Zollar: SOA, Web 2.0 drive IT 'industrialization'
- Last week, I posted some countervailing views on the topic of software industrialization. Some say it represents the inevitable future of IT operations and software development; others say software needs to have elements of craft, since it's so highly specialized. 'Industrialized' IT needed to handle the coming...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- JBOGS - Just a Bunch of Governed Services
- What's the next step up from JBOWS Just a Bunch of Web Services? Immediate evolution to full-functioning SOA? Such a leap may be too idealistic, and there are a couple of levels on the way. Jeff Schneider took a good look at the JBOWS (just a Bunch...
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Frenemies
- Enterprises both large and small are psychologically complex places. Industrial and organizational psychologists are full of fascinating anecdotes about the ways the individual people that make up an enterprise organize themselves to hinder, help, block or share with one another. A common term in Hollywood is ‘Frenemies'...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Goodbye real-time era, hello 'event-driven' era
- Goodbye real-time era, hello 'event-driven' eraThis all sounds very whiz-bang......but I think I would prefer my financial information be "locked in a silo."Also, "transaction" is a noun. "Transact" is the verb you seek.It's not whiz-bang and it's not newRanadive and others META Group back in the day, have been promoting...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- Lesite.tv Improved Marketing Campaign Success and Increased Sales Productivity While Controlling Costs
- Lesite.tv wanted to provide a multi-channel, easy-to-use Customer Relationship Management CRM system that can be deployed rapidly and optimize customer knowledge over the various life-cycle phases: pre-sales, after sales, marketing, etc. The challenge was to categorize different types of prospects more effectively (establishment heads, teachers, institutional users, local authorities, etc.)...
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbentsThose are all smart arguementsApple, Salesforce.com, Google, VMWare, Amazon:They're companies who were supposed to die and/or who grew from nothing. If it's a forgone conclusion that the big IT guy landscape is cemented, then we should all just give up and go home. The...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- The trouble with Groundswell
- The trouble with GroundswellRealpolitik- Realpolitik (German: real ("realistic", "practical" or "actual") and politik ("politics")) refers to politics or diplomacy based primarily on practical considerations, rather than ideological notions.While there's a place for the 10,000 foot guys - analysts, theorists, high level management, authors - and their ideas are often tremendously...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
- Why kill Google?
- Technology journalists from the mainstream media appear obsessed with locating some magic bullet with which to topple Google from its dominant position in today's Web, and use of violent language seems part and parcel of this obsession. Have Larry and Sergey done something to upset them? Did they all have...
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Keeping SOA, the silo killer, from creating new silos
- Keeping SOA, the silo killer, from creating new silosIf one SOA is good...... more should be better.See my small cartoon:http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2008/03/one-soa.htmlBye,OliverAvoiding SOA SilosThis is survey points out the reality of SOA! http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/business/archives/avoiding-soa-silos-23200
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- A closer look at the HTC Shift from Sprint
- I've been using an HTC Shift from Sprint for over a week now and as you can see in the more than 140 photos and screenshots found in my image gallery and quick and dirty post yesterday I have had a chance to try out most all aspects of the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
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