First reactions to EJB 3.0
After my first real exposure to programming EJB3.0, I'm pleasantly surprised to find them less complex and more easy to use.
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Joy refreshes last two of his "six Webs"
In his keynote to the approximately 800 attendees at MIT's September 2005 Emerging Technologies conference, Kleiner-Perkins partner Bill Joy (a co-founder of Sun Microsystems) offered his long-discussed six Web framework once again as a way for people to understand what the Internet is and what categories all of its future changes will fall into. This is obviously the way that he thinks about it as a venture capitalist.
Golf analytics: Meet clients at a virtual course while improving your swing
Pebble Beach, eat your heart out. If Pennsylvania-based VisViva Golf Inc.
SimplyHired is on the job
SimplyHired indexes more than 4.5 million jobs from thousands of sources and provides filtered searches, ratings and other services for job hunters.
Best description of the intractable state of the DRM state
Over on Digital Media Thoughts, contributing editor Jeremy Charette and friends are tearing apart the problem I'm having playing 99 cent downloads on my $20,000 whole home entertainment system.
Primacy of hardware shines when Sun shares stage with BEA
Schwartz's story improved markedly when he got off of the Sun middleware review and got on to Galaxy.
Move over Microsoft, Dell. The $100 PC cometh. From MIT.
As a part of what he says is his life's most important work, MIT Media Labs director Nicholas Negroponte is on course to deliver a $100 laptop to the people who need it most: the world's children. The first prototype, (pictured left, see more photos of it in ZDNet's online photo gallery) is on course to be shown-off for the first time on November 17 at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis.
Digital identity defined
Must watch: I've seen Dick Hardt's presentation on the nature of digital identity evolve over the last several months, and the version available here really captures the complexities of participating in an online world and how identity is at the center of the Web experience. Dick is the founder and CEO of Sxip Identity, which he describes as an Identity 2.
Best quotes so far from MIT EmergeTech
So far, this is the best quote of the day from MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference: "It isn't the birthright of Americans to have a high standard of living, clean water, and good healthcare.
Blogging from MIT's Emerging Technology Conference
Equipped with my WiFi-enabled notebook computer, an extension cord (for power) and my Nikon D70 digital SLR camera, I'm at MIT's Emerging Technology Conference today (pictured right, MIT's Kresge Auditorium, the location of the event). I've already "Photoshopped" about 16 photographs that are currently being uploaded to ZDNet's online photo gallery of the event and more are on the way.