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- A bumper crop of new mashup platforms
- While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...
- Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- More organizations shift to Web 2.0 while IT departments remain wary
- A couple of recent announcements from two large, very well-known organizations provides an interesting data point on how Web 2.0 is affecting the product designs and business processes of otherwise very traditional institutions. Both USA Today and the U.S. Patent and Trademark office have recently unveiled strategies for letting...
- Tags: Architecture of Participation, Business Models, Business Process Management, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Design Patterns, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Governance, Social Media, Social Software, Two-Way Web, User Generated Content, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 2: Mass customization, mashups, and recombinant Web apps
- In my last post, I took a look at the recent proliferation of Web widgets, which are modular content and services that are making it easier for anyone to help themselves to the vast pool of high value functionality and information that resides on the Web today. Companies are...
- Tags: Architecture of Participation, ATOM, Badges, Business Models, Design Patterns, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise Web 2.0, Gadgets, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, REST, Right To Remix, RSS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, SOAP, The Long Tail, Two-Way Web, Web 2.0, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets
- Blog posts 2007-02-25
- Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 1: Widgets, badges, and gadgets
- One of the hallmarks of a good Web 2.0 site is one that hands over non-essential control to users, letting them contribute content, participate socially, and even fundamentally shape the site itself. The premise is that users will do a surprising amount of the hard work necessary to make...
- Tags: Ajax, Badges, Business Models, Design Patterns, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Gadgets, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Network Effects, Open APIs, Right To Remix, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Widgets
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Big software firms take aim at Web 2.0
- While 2006 was a big year for Web 2.0 in the consumer space, it was barely on the radar in the enterprise world. That didnt stop volumes of press coverage, speculation, and debate about how applicable Web 2.0 technologies -- from Ajax to social networking -- would actually be...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Web
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Enterprise 2.0: Ten Predictions for 2007
- I explored the rise of Enterprise 2.0 this year in last weeks year in review post, but 2007 will likely prove to be a much more intriguing year for the trend. The demand side of Enterprise 2.0 seems to be driven from a variety of sources that likely include...
- Tags: User Generated Content, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Social Software, Global SOA, Enterprise Web 2.0, Products, Network Effects, Orchestration, Collaboration, Governance, Business Process Management, SOA, Customer Self-Service, The Long Tail, Architecture of Participation, SaaS, Collective Intelligence, Hype, Design Patterns, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- Applying Web 2.0 in the enterprise: News from the trenches
- Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend I finally had time to compile my notes on a significant new Web 2.0 in the enterprise story that emerged earlier this month from the Web 2.0 Summit. At the same time, one of the inevitable recurring debates about Web 2.0 made its rounds...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Web
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
- Web 2.0 definition updated and Enterprise 2.0 emerges
- The annual Web 2.0 Conference starts this Tuesday and with it comes an important update of the vision of the next generation of networked applications. Thus, the major event during the leadup to the conference is not the pending renaming of the conference to the Web 2.0 Summit, but the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Design Patterns, Business Models, Collective Intelligence, SaaS, Mashups, Architecture of Participation, The Long Tail, Customer Self-Service, Web as Platform, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, Cost-effective scalability, Collaboration, Right To Remix, Two-Way Web, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Software, RSS, Social Computing, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise 2.0, User Generated Content, Web
- Blog posts 2006-11-05
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- Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Ready for real Indian medicine?
- Ready for real Indian medicine?Reply from C.A. ChienDear Mr. Blankenhorn:Thanks for your note. To clarify: (1) I wanted to document my inventive system-design and inter-connection work on [i]Medical Onshoring[/i]; thus, the USPTO filing; (2) as to the "how," head to --http://tinyurl.com/6c4tj4" .. Covering the professional world (e.g., health care, computing),...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Medical Onshoring, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Is open source hurt by piracy?
- Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics
- In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone spaceMicrosoft Store in the works...My rep told me Microsoft is looking into significant retail space in higher end upscale shopping malls. In the mock-up of the store, boxes of Vista and Office 2007 were kept under lock and key. Customers will be...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., PC phone, PC, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Are solar-energy materials in short supply?
- Are solar-energy materials in short supply?Need Ink ContractsImprovements in solar photovoltaic sources of materials brings to my mind the need of inks that will allow painting your own photovoltaics in colorful designs and patterns stressing advertising as much as is possible to enliven the circles of users. Inks of N-type...
- Tags: Manufacturing, photovoltaics
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Nokia 500 Auto Navigation
- First announced at SEMA 2007, the Nokia 500 Auto Navigation system is finally hitting the streets. It's the second portable navigation device we've seen from the Finnish cell phone manufacturer (the first being the Nokia 330 Auto Navigation) and it's a big improvement over the 330. The design is a...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Nokia 500 Auto Navigation system, power button, Nokia Corp., Nokia 500, Nokia 500 Auto Navigation
- Product reviews 2008-07-23
- Firefly flyPhone (blue)
- Though cell phones for youth came into vogue two years ago, it wasn't long before they fell out of favor. While some parents liked the idea behind simple handsets such as the LG Migo and the Enfora TicTalk, many children weren't so impressed. They wanted more features for playground comparisons,...
- Tags: Cellular phones, display, Firefly flyPhone, Firefly, phone, cell phone
- Product reviews 2008-07-23
- Ego Cup
- With many states recently passing hands-free laws banning the use of handsets while driving, we're seeing a flood of new Bluetooth devices into what is already a pretty crowded market. The Funkwerk Ego Cup is one such device, promising clear calls without fear of a citation. It stands apart from...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Ego Cup, cup-holder
- Product reviews 2008-07-23
- Polk PSW111 Compact Powered Subwoofer - Black
- The Polk Audio PSW111 isn't just a very good compact subwoofer, it's a excellent match with the brand's RM and SurroundBar speaker systems. Not that the PSW111 wouldn't jell with other Polk speakers, or those of any other manufacturer, for that matter, but its prime directive is to fill in...
- Tags: Polk Audio PSW111, sub, SurroundBar 50
- Product reviews 2008-07-23
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