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- Web 2.0's legacy: The startup Petri dish
- The legacy of Web 2.0 is on parade in New York City--a never-ending stream of startups armed with PowerPoints, infomercials and terms like long tail, mashups and mindshare. One exec used four Web 2.0 buzzwords in a sentence. Bottom line: Its...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Web, Petri, AlwaysOn
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
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- Ask.com: Innovation doesn't always pan out
- Ask.com in the last year or so had been a nice little Petri dish. It launched AskCity, tinkered with its interface, created universal search results and became a credible alternative to Google. The problem: Ask.com couldn't grow its base of users. With that backdrop, Interactive Corp. IAC...
- Tags: Innovation, Ask.com, Search, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Anyone out there cleaning their keyboards?
- I was working in the main office and guidance suite today since, on the first day of a new semester, we invariably have countless schedule changes, grading problems from the end of the semester, reports to run, etc. I didn't bother bringing my laptop as our student information system...
- Tags: Bacteria, Computer, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Will educational software ever be fun?
- Will educational software ever be fun?Second LifeHave they considered just using thator something like it as the basis? That was the thought that first came to mind when I started to read this, even though I don't play it.PETA"A virtual world is a tool like a petri dish," he says....
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, PETA, software
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- Will educational software ever be fun?
- MIT's Technology Review recently published an article on a $250,000 research project at Indiana University. The project was designed to create an online virtual world in which researchers could test economic theories: by manipulating the rules of the game, [Indiana University professor Edward Castranova] hoped...
- Tags: Game, Software, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Games, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Scalix: A Microsoft 'Exchange killer' no more?
- Scalix: A Microsoft 'Exchange killer' no more?ID10T Alert!!.Strategy vs. Tactics[i]I think M$ is just trying to extract a protection fee from OSS,[/i]The amounts involved are chump change for MS. The main value is strategic: by blocking redistribution, they convert a "community" that they never figured out how to counter...
- Tags: Linux, E-mail servers, Groupware, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Scalix Corp., Exchange Killer
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- Wrinkles in nanoscale-sized films
- An international team of scientists from Chile, the Netherlands and the U.S. has found a very simple way to measure the material properties of thin films having a thickness of only a dozen nanometers. The researchers just dropped water on thin film floating in a Petri dish. This causes wrinkles...
- Tags: Film, Wrinkle, Polymer, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-12
- Petri Heil - Gold Online (exe)
- Petri Heil - Gold Online is new fishing simulator. This game lets you feel this wonderful feeling without leaving your home. Real fish-life simulating. Photorealistic graphic, bird singing, nice water. You can play Petri Heil - Gold Online both at home and at the office. It is a brilliant game...
- Tags: Home, Games, Internet, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-07-03
- 3-D model of breast cancer in the lab
- According to BBC News, U.K. researchers have built a 3-D version of breast cancer in a test tube. Their model contains cells from normal and cancerous breast tissue. The researchers used a collagen gel to form 3-D structures to create structures similar to the ones find in a woman breast....
- Tags: Health &, Medicine, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- SOA consolidation ramps up with Software AG's purchase of webMethods
- German IT software infrastructure vendor Software AG is buying webMethods for nearly $550 million in cash, pulling together a larger solution set but perhaps more importantly straddling the Atlantic to serve both the North American and EU markets in ways many U.S. SOA components firms alone cannot.WebMethods has itself recently...
- Tags: management, IT Service Management, HP, IT Management, Developer Tools, database, business intelligence, SOA, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, Oracle
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Does the Internet need a do-over?
- The Internet is maxing out, isnt viable over the long run and is being flooded by rich applications and thousands of gadgets. If the Internet were air traffic control you wouldnt fly. Thats the gist of a Computerworld report. Computerworld argues...
- Tags: Broadband, General, Government, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Mobile, Security, Software Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Web 2.0's legacy: The startup Petri dish
- Web 2.0's legacy: The startup Petri dishUse more web 2.0 tools not buttonsThe Mediavidea blog has a related story:http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-be-really-web-20-savvy-mainstream.htmlWeb 2.0 is Already a Bubble in the MakingThis is a bubble, and it will burst, just like others. However, just like others, there will be those companies that survive by...
- Tags: Channel management, Mediavidea blog, Web, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, dot-com
- Discussion threads 2007-01-31
- News to know: Oracle DB rootkits; 5th Word zero-day; Microsoft pay as you go
- Notable headlines:Security is front and center: A fifth MS Word zero-day? Oracle DB rootkit for sale in exploit pack. Vista Speech Command exposes remote exploit.Hacker finds chink in Microsoft’s anti-piracy armor. Oracle Unlimited and Fusion Futures.Google amps up its Mini search appliance. Expectations high for Google earnings. Googles Bosworth: Why...
- Tags: Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web 2.0, Blogging, Oracle DB, Oracle Corp., Apple iPod, Microsoft Windows Vista, rootkit, Web, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- SucessFactors adds Web 2.0 to talent management
- As Dion Hinchcliffe recently explained on his ZDNet blog, enterprise mashups are getting ready for prime-time. He points to new tools, such as IBMs new wiki platform, as an example of the transition of mashups from Web hackerdom to corporate respectability. For mashups, APIs, REST, social networking and other elements...
- Tags: General, Web Technology, SaaS, SuccessFactors Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- 2007: The year enterprises open their SOAs to the Internet?
- Those that follow the trends on the Internet and the trends within the enterprise have long noticed a very similar direction in both spaces for a while now; a push to move their software to a real services model. The reasons for this push seem straightforward: easier integration between...
- Tags: ATOM, Enterprise Mashups, REST, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), RSS, SOAP, Orchestration, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Web services, JSON, Governance, Convergence, Business Process Management, Lightweight Service Models, SOA, Mashups, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Web 2.0, SaaS
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
- Controversies spawn new blogs
- Controversies spawn new blogsThis is so sadI had no idea Apple Fanboys were this mentally disturbed.and your problem is...?With all the extreme positions taken on both sides of this issue, none of you on the "Windows Fanboy" side need cast any stones.This wasn't, and still isn't, in my opinion, and...
- Tags: Blogging, Mac-user, blog, security, Apple Inc., computer
- Discussion threads 2006-10-03
- Using SaaS and Web 2.0 for business automation
- I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at solutions for automated business processes that are based on the online, low-barrier, and highly collaborative worlds of SaaS and Web 2.0. Primarily, this is part of my exploration of using Web 2.0 in the enterprise, sometimes called Enterprise...
- Tags: Rearden Commerce, business process, Web, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-05-13
- DAG Synchronization Constraint Language for Business Processes
- Correct synchronization among activities is critical in a business process. Current workflow languages such as BPEL specify the control flow of processes explicitly. However, their procedural style may cause inflexibility and tangled code. This paper proposes DSCL (Dag-acyclic-graph Synchronization Constraint Language) to achieve three desirable properties for a synchronization modeling...
- Tags: Business Process, Hewlett-Packard Co., BPEL, Modeling, Business Process Automation, Research & Development, Operational Planning, Web Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-04-14
- Microsoft joins OpenDoc committee, and the motive is...?
- Microsoft has joined the INCITS/V1 Technical Committee, which plays a key role in the ratifying the OpenDocument format as an international standard, according to Ingrid Marson's report on ZDNet. Groklaw's Pamela Jones speculated that Microsoft's intentions may not be pure--the wolf in the hen house--and the company would like to...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., INCITS/V1 Technical Committee, OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- NASA handler who muzzled scientist resigns; faked college degree
- NASA handler who muzzled scientist resigns; faked college degreeSuffixing theories with "theory"Deutsch's cut on putting "theory" after "Big Bang" is an excellent idea that I heartily applaud--no scientist not bound by economy of words would disagree. And surely we can applaud with equal enthusiasm the appending of the phrase "--a...
- Tags: Lord, NASA, Deutsch, theory, Big Bang
- Discussion threads 2006-02-09
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