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- C'mon Oracle, more noise please
- Last week, Justin Kestelyn Tweeted me to advise me about Oracle's moves in service oriented security. Since the document refers to strategy and what the company has in mind, I wanted to know about the timelines for product release. Justin Tweeted back: RevRec rules are really strict; timelines almost...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Dale, Transparency, Revenue Recognition, Groupware, Web Browsers, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Presidential candidates: Take a data integrity and transparency pledge
- Presidential candidates: Take a data integrity and transparency pledgeI predict an Egyptian presidentFor eight years---Executive Privilege and National Security.Are just two reasons why such pledges are ridiculous. While you may think you need to know everything that transpires in the Whitehouse it is not an unalienable right.RE: Presidential candidates:...
- Tags: E-mail, Vertical industries, transparency, Presidential Candidate, data integrity, government
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- US Government seeks to invest $6 Billion in security by obscurity
- According to the Wall Street Journal this morning the Bush administration is pushing to spend $6 billion on cyber security in one year! They claim that US telecom systems are not adequately protected and that they need to spend this money to protect it. Just one problem, the government is...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Government, Transparency, Security, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Things that suck somewhat: Mac OS X Sheets
- Things that suck somewhat: Mac OS X SheetsBesides the silly premise of your storyWhy is it you guys compress the heck out of the mac images in your articles but no one else does? I mean what's another 5k to make the image a little presentable? And as far as...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Mac OS X, Mac OS X Sheets, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, transparency
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
- Open source values: transparency
- Open source values: transparencyI Vote for Honesty Over TransparencyThe operative word should be "honesty".How many times have you seen ads, e.g., that are transparently dishonest? Doesn't "Transparent" mean that one can see through outward behavior into true and sometimes hidden motivations?Journalists and politicians are often transparently dishonest as well, and...
- Tags: transparency, Transparency, open source, Open Source Values
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
- Open source values: transparency
- This is the first in a series of pieces I plan to write about the values driving open source, and by extension the Internet. (To the right, a transparency demo concerning Apollo, a tool from Adobe. Its success may well be determined by how transparent Adobe is...
- Tags: GPL, Transparency, Open Source, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Transparency returns with a vengeance in Mac OS X Leopard
- Transparency returns with a vengeance in Mac OS X LeopardSome of the transparency seems sillyEspecially the menu bar but I think there is an app out there that will get rid of that for you. I haven't used Leopard so I cannot attest to liking it's transparency, or not, but...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Transparency, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mac OS X Leopard, vengeance, Apple Macintosh, transparency, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- More on the Windows work process
- More on the Windows work processAgain I'm forced to disagree[i]And no, I’m not saying that the point click and wait approach isn’t useful - it’s great where the user isn’t knowledgeable about the application. [/i]You're right the wintel concept is to reduce the barrier to entry for new users and...
- Tags: Transparency, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-07-12
- The real question: How to keep Microsoft on the transparency track
- The real question: How to keep Microsoft on the transparency trackI have concluded there is a new monopoly strategy afootand therefore, less transparency is likely over the next few years. I hope I am wrong, but you may have noticed the change in Bill Gates focus (he is still...
- Tags: Blogging, strategy, MVP Award, Microsoft Corp., transparency
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- Seeing through radical transparency
- When is radical transparency completely opaque? When its advertised on the cover of Wired -- that tease of a magazine that promises nakedness but covers up all the interesting bits. My April Wired arrived today, its cover glowing with a mini-skirted Jenna Fisher (dressed up as The Office receptionist Pam...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Blogging, Jenna/Pam, Wired Inc., radical transparency, transparency
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- In software services we trust?
- Practically everyday you read about a service outage from one of the popular online services. The latest was last night, when Flickr was out of service for a few hours see below. Yahoo Mail also had a recent outage that affected up to 750,000 users. Google has had recent outages...
- Tags: General, IT Management, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- F-IN-BOX, DLL Edition (zip)
- F-IN-BOX, DLL Edition is a window control that enhances Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX features. Load movies directly from memory. Protect movies. Create Flash-enabled applications which are ready to work even if the Flash Player ActiveX is not installed. Transparency is fully supported. Ability to play Flash Video FLV directly from...
- Tags: Memory, Macromedia Flash Player, Macromedia Flash, Transparency
- Software downloads 2007-02-16
- F-IN-BOX, .NET Edition (zip)
- F-IN-BOX is a .NET component that enhances Macromedia / Adone Flash Player ActiveX features. It does not use its own engine to display movies, but instead provides a wrapper around official swflash.ocx/flash.ocx code. Loads movies directly from memory. Protects movies. Creates Flash-enabled applications which are ready to work even if...
- Tags: Movies, F-IN-BOX, Transparency, Flash External API, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2007-02-02
- Oracle Losing the Transparency War. Microsoft Trying Too.
- Yesterdays release of Oracles most recent financials continued to push Oracle into a race for last place in the world of corporate transparency. Its disclosures were full of all sorts of information, except the information needed to really assess how well the companys acquisition strategy is doing. Charlie Di Bona...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Oracles, transparency
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Calacanis' AOL resignation: A new era of brutal candor for big companies?
- Calacanis' AOL resignation: A new era of brutal candor for big companies?Big company managementYou don't understand the nature of big organizations. The Internet is not going to change how big organizations such as Time-Warner operate. Top management will never show candor about anything, certainly not about major personnel decisions, certainly...
- Tags: Transparency, Garlinghouse, Calacanis, America Online Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-17
- Yet more on Evoting
- Yet more on EvotingMaybe, but we've seen where...that ends in the US.... A public fight in court, a moron in the White house and lots of tax money wasted on 'public services'to controll everybody...BTW: Using different counting and/or RDBMS software for different locations means that an interface needs to be...
- Tags: essentials, accountability, transparency, RFID, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2006-10-19
- Report from Foo Camp -- goodness!
- I spent the weekend at Science Foo Camp, cosponsored by O'Reilly and Google. Apart from the excellent food (of course!), there was also some excellent discussion in this mostly user-generated event. I personally generated a session on ethics; the users generating the content included Stewart Brand, Sol Katz,...
- Tags: morality, ethics
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- China, the Web's Broken Link
- The highlight of WWW2006 today was Danny Weitzner's talk entitled "China: a Broken Link on the Web." (See my notes or his slides.) He started with the controversial observation that we like to say that on the Web everyone's a publisher, but it may also be true that every...
- Tags: strategy, Danny Weitzner
- Blog posts 2006-05-26
- Transparencies in RIAs - Flex and Avalon, side by side
- I think that when transparencies are used correctly, they make a very nice effect. It looks pleasing to the user, gives a much greater sense of depth and a feeling of being in a 3D space. There are definitely times when transparencies can be overkill, but all...
- Tags: Aero Glass, Aero Glass Effect, Tim Sneath, transparency
- Blog posts 2006-05-05
- The next SCO suit
- The next SCO suitTechnology getting ahead of law?I don't think so in this case.Clearly someone has to take responsibility for what is posted online, whether it's a Wiki, bulleting board, RSS feed, whatever. The poster is primarily responsible, but the owner and host of the site also bear a...
- Tags: Wiki, site owner, SCO Group Inc., Free Speech, Transparency, Wikipedia, SCO Suit
- Discussion threads 2005-12-12
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