September 2006 Archives

'Neutrality' Is New Challenge for Internet Pioneer - New York Times Tim Berners-Lee: "I think even if the United States ends up faltering in its quest for Net neutrality, I think the rest of the world will be horrified,... Read More..

The October Issue of Wired Magazine has a good article by Fred Vogelstein on Rebuilding Microsoft. The article describes the challenges Microsoft faces in competing (surviving?) in a mobile, cloud centric world, rather than the traditional desktop environment, which Microsoft... Read More..

ESBCON The online conference for Enterprise Server Bus ­ ESB-CON BEA, Sonic, IBM and Sun participating in online ESB Conference - 9/28 12-5 ET. The opening panel might be interesting - questions on Fortune 1000 implementations. (tags: esb ibm... Read More..

Amazon launches shipping services for selling partners - CNET News.com Examples of powerful business model variations and offerings when your underpinnings are service-oriented..."Newly released beta programs offer fulfillment services and branded Web sites to third-party vendors. " (tags: amazon... Read More..

Loosely Coupled Thinking : WS-BPEL 2.0 Enters Public Review "The WS-BPEL 2.0 Specification entered Public Review on 10 September 2006. Public Review for WS-BPEL 2.0 ends 09 November 2006." John Evdemon's post contains all the relevant spec links. (tags:... Read More..

Submissions due Friday 9/15: OOPSLA 2006 Workshop on Event Driven Architecture "a forum in which researchers and practitioners from academia and industry can discuss various aspects of event-driven processing and its relationship to other architecture and programming paradigms, particularly... Read More..

This morning, webMethods announced it has agreed to acquire privately-held Infravio for approximately $38 million in cash. This acquisition comes on the heels of webM's purchase of semantic metadata management technology company, Cerebra.  Technology from both acquisitions will be incorporated... Read More..

Anne 2.0 » Blog Archive » Office 2.0 Podcast Jam is On Anne Zelenka is organizing an Office 2.0 Podcast Jam. If you want to speak, or know someone who might, read this post. If like me, you want... Read More..

ongoing · JRuby Love Tim Bray on "The JRuby Guys" (Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo) joining Sun to continue work on JRuby. "Dynamically-typed languages like Ruby are only beginning to be accepted in the software mainstream, and many of... Read More..

I'm visual by nature. I think and communicate best with a pen in my hand.  I work through ideas by drawing - mixing mindmaps, components, parties, flows, interactions and layers. I grasp concepts best when visual elements are present.  More... Read More..

WSJ.com - Loose Wire: Geoffrey Moore "...how problems get solved at a strategic level in a business...some version of scenario planning...It's story telling...come up with plausible stories that represent...the best distillation of the economic currents and competitive dynamics..." (tags:... Read More..

Web giants lure developers | CNET News.com "A fundamental premise behind what we are trying to do at Amazon Web Services is provide external developers all the benefits of scale that Amazon enjoys as a large Web site and... Read More..