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Running your SOA like a Web startup

Running your SOA like a Web startupPhenomenal articleDion, this is a tour de force that will certainly be required reading at Mashery and recommended reading for the dozens of customers whose APIs we run.Opening an API is indeed a business decision. And often the open API leverages the services created...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web, API, SOA

Discussion threads 2009-06-13

Additional Resources

Google Voice is now even better

Google's coolest new product, called Google Voice, has just added a new feature that makes the service a lot less scary to jump into. If you haven't heard about this service yet, it's a solution that takes all your different phone numbers (home, work, cell, etc) and merges them...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Voice, Telecom & Utilities, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-07-04

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Jul/Aug 09

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Jul/Aug 09Adrian:Use Intel much?I appreciated your lineup, but noticed one glaring fact: while I can agree that Intel offers the best extreme processor in the i7 965 EE (for $1000), I noticed the glaring omission of any AMD parts. I think that if...

Tags: Processors, Virtualization, RAID, Jul/Aug 09, Hardware 2.0, Intel Corp., CPU, HyperThreading, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

NetSuite vs. SAP â€" How Newton would see this contest

Competition is a great thing. It forces even the biggest firms to become humbled. It makes innovation a necessity. It can lower pricing and expand markets to everyone’s benefit. Competition in the SaaS software as a service world of ERP got a little hotter this week...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Barron, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Survey: 45% of IT departments will move to Windows 7; 43% refuse to migrate off Windows XP

Survey: 45% of IT departments will move to Windows 7; 43% refuse to migrate off Windows XPPenny wise, pound foolish.XP is unsecurable. Enterprise AV, all the tools, etc, it is fundamentally broken. All these enterprises deal with constant and unrelenting security threats. It really has no place...

Tags: Operating systems, survey, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

PC OEMs: Please Cut the Crap!

PC OEMs: Please Cut the Crap!CrapwareYour average non geek will get a fair amount of pressure at the point of sale to drop another $35-$50 to get the junk off the computer. Let's see, now... If you crank the subsidy to Dell,etc from the crapware makers, then that extra...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Desktops, OEM, Crapware, laptop computer, PC, computer

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Microsoft seeks a name for its new Office Web Apps suite

Microsoft seeks a name for its new Office Web Apps suiteGiggle ME j/k nt Office Web Apps"Office Web Apps" sounds just about right to me.Since they never use the cool names anyway...Why not just call it Office for Web. :)Or the slightly more elegant "Remote Office". :)RE: Microsoft seeks a...

Tags: OpenOffice, Bing, Microsoft Office, Office Web Apps, Office Web, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office 2010, Web application

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Helping corporations leverage the Web, using open source and the cloud

What do open source and cloud computing have in common? For Navid Safabakhsh, principal at San Francisco and Philadelphia-based interactive web development agency Freshout, it's that both technologies are low-cost, high-yield solutions to help corporations leverage the customer data they collect on the Web. ...

Tags: Web, Service, Channel Management, Open Source, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Grace Digital Bravado GDI-IRD4400M

Photo gallery:Grace Digital Bravado GDI-IRD4400MThe Wi-Fi radio category has grown steadily over the last two years, thanks to greater consumer awareness and the popularity of streaming music services like Pandora. Grace Digital Audio was one of the early entrants to this product category, and the Bravado (model number GDI-IRD4400M) represents...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, background color, LCD Display, Bravado, radio, Grace Digital Bravado GDI-IRD4400M, Internet radio, stereo speaker

Product reviews 2009-06-29

Are iPod touch users second-class citizens? Apple says yes

Are iPod touch users second-class citizens? Apple says yesI bought the update, and was happy to do so.I would prefer that the update should have been free though, but there are features that I like to have in the update, that I can now use. Like the pairing of BT...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Operational accounting, Apple iPod Touch, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Apple SAYS, second-class citizen, iPod touch user, Apple iPhone, yes, revenue

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Sony PSP could get phone functions

Sony PSP could get phone functions late?"Sony plans to set up a project team as early as July to develop a new product ..."plans ... to set up ... to developwhat did they do the last 3 years? planing to set something up?wow sony, you are really only a shadow...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Sony PlayStation Portable, phone function, Sony Corp., phone

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Web Squared: Web 2.0's Successor?

Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle discussed their vision and nomenclature for the next iteration of the web in a webinar last Thursday: I believe the recording will be available online sometime this week, slides are above. With the term 'Web 2.0' enjoying its fifth birthday...

Tags: Web, ISBN, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-28

Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google

Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not GoogleBuy Buy Buy"The short answer is no. It?s not necessary to buy newspapers. Newspapers, like many other industries, need to rethink their business models. For now, Yahoo is happy to partner with them on advertising and content-sharing."I'd be looking to go...

Tags: Financial accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Bartz, Yahoo shareholder, shareholder

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Secunia: Average insecure program per PC rate remains high

Secunia: Average insecure program per PC rate remains highGeneralizations are always bad ;)I see Secunia quoted as saying "Failing to do so is playing Russian Roulette with your IT security ? it is only a question about time ? and luck ? when your system will be compromised."Yes, patching is...

Tags: Linux, Web browsers, Operating systems, PC, Secunia PSI, Secunia, insecure program

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Microsoft's Windows 7 pricing: Too high, too low, or just right?

Microsoft's Windows 7 pricing: Too high, too low, or just right?These prices...after Vista? MS has cojones...It's disappointing that Microsoft is charging such outrageous amounts for their operating system for two reasons:1. The Vista debacle...no sign of a "mea culpa" from MS and there likely never will be. So much for...

Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Too-high, Microsoft Corp., pricing strategy, Microsoft Windows 7 pricing, Microsoft Windows, service pack

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

MokaFive launches version 2 of its MokaFive Suite

Desktop virtualization (the combination of access virtualization, application virtualization and/or processing virtualization for client-side deployment) has not gotten the intense industry attention that its cousin, server virtualization, has and yet, a number of suppliers have pegged their hopes and dreams to that nascent market. MokaFive is one of those suppliers....

Tags: Desktop Management, MokaFive, MokaFive Suite, Desktop Management Cost, Desktops, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Do you have a knowledge store? You should

Do you have a knowledge store? You shouldMyStoreUseful I find even for a single user. Or maybe I'm useless.I use two techniques: an installation.txt file for each PC so I know what did ... and what didn't work. I find this particularly useful when exploring new territory, here you might...

Tags: Channel management, Strategy, Microsoft Office, knowledge store, knowledge, Kwok, Web

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Categorizing the SaaS Vendors

Can't tell the players without a program! I get a couple of vendor briefings a week from SaaS vendors or their wanna-be cousins. As I listen to the various spins and pitches, it occurs to me that we need a new lexicon for these firms. Here’s my...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Want To See (And Talk About) What Your Friends Are Buying? Zappos Set To Introduce 'Social Shopping'

Want To See And Talk About What Your Friends Are Buying? Zappos Set To Introduce 'Social Shopping'What a horrible ideaAnd I shop at Zappos, but I don't want or need to make it a social event. One of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard of. I could care less...

Tags: Social Shopping, Zappos

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Want To See (And Talk About) What Your Friends Are Buying? Zappos Set To Introduce 'Social Shopping'

Zappos, the online retailer of shoes and clothing, is about to become a social networking site, borrowing aspects of Twitter and Facebook and applying them to their customers’ particular passion: buying stuff. CEO Tony Hsieh Wednesday confirmed to Between The Lines that it is working on an...

Tags: Facebook, Customer, Twitter, Zappos, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-24