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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Enterprise Architects versus Business Architects
It’s the Open Group Enterprise Architects Practitioners meeting in Austin, Texas, and it’s notable for the fact that they are the group under fire, both from inside the profession and from others outside, and the cause of the fire? SOA of course! The opening speaker Dave Linthicum set the context with the remark; ‘there seem to be two groups of people out there, the world of enterprise architecture and the world of SOA. The funny …
Get spammed by a friend – clever trick! Plus sometimes good things happen too: IT Week site
Read the following and check out your reaction, the names in italics are the replacements for the actual names: World Famous Retailer, in conjunction with Known Company Homes, are giving away free vouchers. World Famous Retailer are trying word-of-mouth advertising to introduce its products and the reward you receive for advertising for them is free non-refundable vouchers to be used in any of their stores. To receive your free vouchers by e-mail all you have …
Google Gears: is this a step too far?
I have no trouble with saying that Google has changed certain aspects of my life, and certainly I would feel lost without being able to use Google, but am I ready for Google Gears? I am not sure, right now it’s leaving me feeling that it’s a step too far, and in a direction that abandons the very notion of why I want Google. Maybe I have got it wrong, but to me Google is …
Mesh Network Bunny Ears
I like simplicity. I like browsing through the specifications of the 100$, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computer, now called the XO. Of course, the paramount importance of the XO is its potential to help children from all over the world to learn and communicate more and ultimately lead a better life. But it is also a compelling illustration of what happens when you design a computer experience without having to deal with backwards compatibility …
Is the MashUp the new killer App?
MashUp Camp 2 is nearly upon us, attracting 350 attendees, some with the new job title of ‘MashUp Enabler’, and a lot of API developers plus a noticeable shift to some very well known big companies as their employers. Here are more details on the event and on various aspects of the MashUp Camp community. The fact that the second camp is popular should be no surprise, the surprise for me is the extent to …
iPhone launched in Second Life
I thought, let’s discuss a bit about Apple. Of course, there is no point in adding yet another hit to iPhone’s current Google Quotient (187 million, and counting..). So this blog-item is not about the iPhone. But mentioning the iPhone a few times, will definitely increase the visit count of this site. Especially when we combine mentioning the iPhone (or simply Jesus Phone, if you like) with mentioning Second Life. This could be done with …
SOA – Case proven internally on cost, but not yet on value?
We finally have the case study we have all been waiting for; British Telecom has announced after some eight years it has nearly finished making its entire infrastructure ‘entirely SOA based’. Eight years of work on this certainly supports the statement that SOA is not new, but as anyone who has ever worked in a company that has tried to create standardisation by standardising on a single product will quickly recognise it’s not the ‘what’, …
