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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
- The best organized vendor VoIP support page I've ever seen
- I'm quite aware that most equipment supplier Frequently Aasked Questions lists and online Help centers are only there to provide assistance with their own products, and those of their distribution partners.But after touring VoIP hardware and software solutions vendor Fluke Networks' new VoIP Performance Management in the Converged Network resource...
- Tags: Software, Products
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Skype without a headset: you have several alternatives
- So you would love to use Skype but you don't want to be tied down to a headset?You're not alone. Headsets can be uncomfortable and because their use most often means you will be tied down to a PC, headsets can be inconvenient.If you've echoed that lament, you will be...
- Tags: Skype, Products
- Blog posts 2007-06-24
- Want the ultimate audio? These speakers cost $150,000 a pair
- So let's just suppose you are a HDTV fanatic, and/or like to watch Internet tv on your huge- not just widescreen but huge- tv screen that's the centerpiece of your home entertainment system.And what if you want to squeeze every bit of quality audio you can out of your...
- Tags: Products
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Two close-up photos here of in-dev next-gen NETGEAR Skype phone
- When LiveDigitally.com blogger Jeremy Toeman visited NETGEAR's HQ last week, he was able to get a couple of closeup pix of the still-in-development 2nd-generation WiFi Skype Phone.No, this were not stealth photos, but those taken with NETGEAR CEO Patrick Lo holding the handset.That was one pix at the top of...
- Tags: Products, Skype
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1
- It's nearly the middle of 2007 already and I've had occasion to sit down and look at where Web 2.0 and SOA software models have evolved lately. Partly it's because we're now seeing some of the bigger software companies seriously embrace lightweight SOA recently, and it's also because we're...
- Tags: Ajax, Architecture of Participation, ATOM, Collective Intelligence, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Governance, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, REST, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SOA, SOAP, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), WS-*
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Mashups: The next major new software development model?
- At last weeks Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement...
- Tags: Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, Badges, Ajax, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Social Software, Tolerance Continuum, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst
- Ive only recently had a chance to catch up and read Tom Davenports post a few weeks ago about his skepticism of Enterprise 2.0s ability to wreak significant cultural and hierarchical change inside organizations. Those of you tracking the Enterprise 2.0 story know the drill, namely that applying Web 2.0...
- Tags: Wikis, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Tagging, Social Software, Social Computing, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Products, Network Effects, Mashups, Governance, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, ATOM, Architecture of Participation
- Blog posts 2007-05-05
- VoEX's Wireless Peering Grid could make your calls cheaper
- Ive just had a nice chat with Cyril Matthews, director of registry and network services for telecom trunking and infrastructure service provider VoEX.Cyril was literally packing his bags after several days at the CTIA show. He was there in large measure to talk up one of VoEXs newer services,...
- Tags: Products, News, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- 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
- Quick Review: Logitech Harmony
- Part of my goal with this blog is expanding on the idea of what web 2.0 is...what it means...and where it is going. More and more we are seeing delightful hybrids of web to device, like Skype phones and streaming music devices. Logitech has taken that idea and applied it...
- Tags: Reviews, Two-Way Web, Convergence, Products, Web 2.0, Media, Tech
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Woo-Hoo! Vonage finds themselves a test lab
- Thats notable, considering that Vonage doesnt make their own equipment.So whats the deal?Vonages service comes with literally dozens of equipment options, from routers and adapters to Vonage-branded portable devices. But as frequent posts to the non-Vonage-operated Vonage Forum tells us, sometimes these devices and set-ups dont play nice...
- Tags: General, Research, Products, Vonage, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Quick Review: Hands on with the iPhone
- Whoa...slow down! Before you get all foaming at the mouth...Im talking about the Linksys iPhone for the Skype service. BUT BEFORE YOU RUN AWAY...you should read this review because this phone is outstanding and will save you money (maybe enough to buy that other...uh...iPhone)! Linksys iPhone CIT-400...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, telephone, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Q&A: Wufoo's Hale shows good (Web 2.0) form
- At the Office 2.0 conference last year, there were a number of interesting new companies and services. One of them in particular not only impressed me, but got me to part with my money each month. Im a proud Wufoo user and I evangelize it every chance I get....
- Tags: Wufoo, Web, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- 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
- Guest Blogger Interview: John Fox of GroupSmarts
- IntroAt Macworld 2006 I found a little gem of a program, MemoryMiner, hidden away in a back corner of the showroom floor. After watching the demo, I thought it was one of the more unique applications I had seen in a long time. That year it won Best of...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Tech, Design, Yahoo, Collaboration, Products, Social Software, Two-Way Web, Flickr, Mac, Windows, photograph, D.A.M., MemoryMiner, Web
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- Enterprise mashups get ready for prime-time
- Last year we witnessed the rise of consumer mashups on the Web, with hundreds of individual mashup-based Web applications being released in 2006 alone. I covered this phenomenon in detail in my year-end mashup wrap-up, but now this innovation in software development is gearing up to move inside the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Mashups, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, SOA, Governance, Collaboration, Convergence, Right To Remix, Network Effects, Products, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Web services, Ajax, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, mashup
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- Quick Review: Hands on With the Belkin Skype Phone
- Three years ago I let go of one of the last vestiges of the wired world by cutting the land-line phone and moving to wireless. The problem with this has popped up in a number of unlikely places. One, I moved from a house to a new condo...and the reality...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Tech, Design, Products, Reviews, telephone
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Can this merger be consummated? Dual Sprint-Nextel phones are a start but more needs to be done
- For the year and a half since the Sprint-Nextel merger, the companies have struggled to combine disparate systems and technologies.Now, theyve made a tangible step forward.SprintNextel has just announced two phones that will function on both the Sprint and Nextel networks- Nextels iDEN and Sprints CDMA.Both are Motorola PowerSource phones.The...
- Tags: General, Products, SprintNextel, Nextel Communications Inc., Sprint Communications
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- SightSpeed 6.0 to feature several enhancements
- Just got a note about improvements in the forthcoming SightSpeed 6.0, due in early February.Thatll be the newest rev of the Internet video and voice utility services and platform provider that is so much more robust a solution than some of those household names you or I could rattle...
- Tags: General, Products, SightSpeed, SightSpeed 6.0, video
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
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