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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
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
A tale of two Web 2.0 conferences and mashups: Ive just come off a whirlwind conference tour that started in San Francisco last week with Web 2.0 Expo and ended with the Web 2.0 Kongress yesterday in Frankfurt. I was fortunate enough to be able to speak at both conferences and it was fascinating to see the differences...; Tags: ATOM, Badges, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Wikis, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis, WS-*; Blog posts 2007-04-27
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 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
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
The growth of mashups continued throughout 2006: One of my favorite Internet stats to check out are the mashup and open API trendlines on the front page of Programmable Web. Consistently, month after month this year and right up until present day, weve seen the mashup stats climb intriguing steadiness. And along with hundreds of...; Tags: mashup; Blog posts 2006-12-13
Web 2.0 Summit: IBM evolves vision of SOA and Web 2.0: One of the most consistent trends on the Internet is the rise of open APIs and the applications built on top of them, known as mashups. Programmable Web currently lists over 300 APIs that can be used for everything from building Web sites on top of Google Maps to...; Tags: Web 2.0, Business Models, SaaS, Mashups, Web as Platform, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, SOA, Business Process Management, Governance, Collaboration, WS-*, Right To Remix, Two-Way Web, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Social Software, Web services, Ajax, JSON, SOAP, RSS, ATOM, REST, Social Networking, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, User Generated Content; Blog posts 2006-11-07
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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Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop: Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge: So does Google have anything up its sleeve, when it comes to the Android mobile communications platform? It better have. Because expectations keep getting lowered. And Apple keeps raising the ante, at least in getting attention for new mobile applications. According to a Forbes.com...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-24
The little wind turbines that could: I have to admit, I'm more used to reading about U.S. tech firms expanding abroad rather than the reverse. But in the case of certain green tech innovations, I suppose it makes sense to flip this idea on its head. Just heard about the example of Proven...; Tags: Turbine, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Parallels releases Parallels Server for Mac: I almost missed Parallels' announcement of Parallels Server for Mac. I didn't speak with company representatives. All I saw was a press release. It was nearly lost in a huge pile of other mail in my inbox. Although there are several virtual machine software products that support...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Virtual Machine, Parallels Server, Parallels Management Console, Toolset, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-24
HR World SMB Payroll Solutions Comparison Guide: Why spend hours calculating deductions, writing checks and filing tax forms when you can afford a hosted solution to take care of the hassle for you? Small businesses can now take advantage of technology to take the headaches out of payroll processing thanks to reasonable, easy-to-use solutions. ...; Tags: Human Resources, Solution, Tippit Inc., Payroll, Small And Medium Business, HR World, Taxes, Free Trade, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Smb/Sme, Financial Planning, Finance; White papers 2008-07-24
|)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit: [Updated 07/24/2008: Gallery images of diffs of code revisions has been included and will be updated as things change, see here.] Earlier today, noted researchers |)ruid and HD Moore released exploit code for the Metasploit tool for attacking the DNS flaw that was originally reported by Dan...; Tags: DNS, Domain, Server, Entry, Exploit, NS, NS Record, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blog: Yesterday, Dean Cycon of Dean's Beans wrote a guest blog for this column on "Starbucks' Dirty Little Secret". The blog is worthy of some followup, as well as some additional information that Dean shared with me about their corporate philosophy. Growth is good for a company,...; Tags: Trader, Blog, Dean Cycon, X2 Development Corp., Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-23
COPA is unconstitutional: COPA is unconstitutionalgovernment censorshipNow that Andrew Cuomo AG NY has had most of the ISP's Eliminate ALT* Bineries newsgroups. Does this action, which is like finding a book in the library and burning down the complete facility . Eliminate Cuomo's actions and allow the ISP's to again carry ALT Bineries...; Tags: Regulations, Child Online Protection Act; Discussion threads 2008-07-23