JotSpot reorients itself
Joe Kraus of Jotspot came by my office today and we chatted for about 30 minutes about how his wiki-based platform and applications are evolving. Joe has ample Web 1.
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Larry Rosen: 'Good time' not fast enough for open source/standards
Two recent posts of mine -- one about the Apache/OASIS snafu and another that uses that snafu as an example of how commercial software vendors' long-time dalliance with open standards may turn out to be deals with open source devils (for them) -- have drawn heated debate regarding the confict over differences in open source licenses and those of so-called open-standards.
PBS' NerdTV steers clear of Microsoft's media juggernaut
Yesterday's e-mail included an announcement from the folks at Creative Commons who were bragging about PBS's assignment of a Creative Commons deed to its NerdTV downloadable series of videos. NerdTV will feature interviews of industry luminaries by Robert X.
Google: Trust me
News.com's Elinor Mills looks at the underbelly of Google, as well as other sites or platforms that collect billions of user bits.
And then there were three (three open source J2EE servers)
In the "what sand was my head in" department, by way of Bob Sutor's blog comes a reminder that the Apache Software Foundation's Geronimo J2EE server project has cleared the biggest hurdle towards earning its official J2EE 1.4 wings.
Sun to open-source SSO software
Today at Catalyst, Sun EVP John Loiacono announced that they are going to put their single sign-on solution under an open source license. The code won't be available until Q4 2005, but the Web site is up.
Bringing down the walls between business and IT
Michael Liebow, vice president of Web services and SOA at IBM Global Services, writes that the thick walls separating IT departments from business leaders are crumbling.
Open source: Are Microsoft and other holdouts about to crack?
It was only a matter of time. Commercial software providers, including Microsoft, that have so far been steadfast in their resolve to preserve at least some of their old business models, are finding that the open standards card that they've so cunningly played as a part of those models could now have turned out to be a deal with the devil.
The cost of privacy breaches
In his talk at Catalyst today technology lawyer Scott Blackmer listed sixteen privacy breaches that have happened since February 2005 and then talked about the impact that these incidents have on business. $2.
Dissecting Intel's Centrino hype
It is almost impossible to judge whether or not any particular component is to blame for poor performance compared to an identically configured (but un-branded) machine.