Jeremy Geelan's i-Technology Blog: Are We Blogging Each Other To Death?
"For a journalist, technologist, politician or anyone with a pulse and who
doesn't know everything," wrote Dan Farber on Monday, "blogs matter." Then,
in almost a textbook demonstration of why in fact they don't, Farber adds:
"Every morning I can wake up to lots of IQ ruminating, fulminating, arguing,
evangelizing and even disapassionately reporting on the latest happenings
in the areas that interest me, people from every corner of the globe."
That "even" says it all. Dispassionate reporting would certainly be the
exception rather than the rule. So in what possible way, then, is this
testimony to why and how blogs "matter"? Farber is mistaking energy for
insight, prevalance for significance, and quantity for quality. He might
almost have written that every morning he wakes up with a column to
fill.... (more)
Jeremiah Owyang, of the popular Web Strategy by Jeremiah blog (and now an
analyst at Forrester), wrote a post several months ago entitled The
Irrelevant Corporate Website. And in typical Owyang style, it is
thought-provoking and has been translated into several languages, including
Greek, Swedish, and German. As one of the owners of a digital marketing and
communications company, I'd like to extend Owyang’s argument that the
corporate Website is irrelevant, and present a framework that just might make
it more relevant than ever.
Let's consider the pages of a traditional corporate Website. They include an
“about me” page, a contact page, a careers section, and probably
a page with news and press releases. The words look good on paper, and, more
than likely, a committee gave the final sign-off on the site's content.
Visitors frequented these pages... (more)
2007 was undoubtedly the year of Social Networking, but what of 2008? Will
'08 be the year of "Unified Communications" or the year when CMS comes to
stand for "Community Management System" - or even "Collaboration Management
System"? Or will it be the year of a giga-merger, to beat the mere
mega-mergers of 2007?
As usual at the end of each year, SYS-CON has been informally polling its
globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives,
commentators, investors, writers, and editors. As always, the range and depth
of their answers is fascinating, throwing light not just on where the
industry is going but also how it's going to get there, why, because of who,
within what kind of time-scale.
Enjoy!
RIAs versus AJAX . Ruby on Rails . PHP . Facebook Competitors
TIM BRAY
Director of Web Technologies, Sun
Tim Bray managed the Oxford English Dictionary projec... (more)
Web 2.0 has been a buzzword shrouded in mystery. Although I've heard it used
hundreds of times in the past year, I've never been able to find a good
definition of what it actually means. This is in part because, as Paul Graham
points out, Dougherty coined the term before defining it.
When brainstorming on Web 2.0, O'Reilly laid out a list of services that
seemed qualitatively different than those that had come before and looked for
patterns. What he eventually came up with was a list of seven principles and
eight patterns. O'Reilly hits the nail on the head here with his inductive
approach. However, I still come away from O'Reilly's manifesto wishing for
definitive clarity.
So here I set out to put forth a working definition of what Web 2.0 really
is, how it differs from Web 1.0, and how it will differ from what may come
after. I am not proposing that these are abso... (more)
"We continue to struggle a bit with what developers think “Eclipse”
means. They have heard of it, but they believe that we are entirely focused
on Java tools when in fact we are doing so much more," says Mike Milinkovich,
Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, in this exclusive Q&A; with
Jeremy Geelan. "Our goals at Eclipse are to create an industrial-strength
open source development platform that spans extensible tools, frameworks and
runtimes," adds Milinkovich - pictured here during a previous Webcast on
SYS-CON.TV from our Times Square studio.
Eclipse Developer's Journal: May 20th marked your 4th anniversary as the
Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. What have been the biggest
changes in the Eclipse ecosystem in that time?
Mike Milinkovich: I believe the biggest change is the breadth of the projects
that are happening at Eclipse today, and the eco... (more)
Government Cloud on Ulitzer
Have you ever been given the task of building and executing an aggressive
customer outreach program?
Well I received my assignment about a year ago and trust me; the budget was
not commensurate with the assigned goal.
My particular need was to educate prospective Federal government customers on
a new information technology trend.
Known as cloud computing, this new approach blends service oriented
architecture (SOA), virtualization technologies and a "pay-by-the-use" sales
approach into a new IT delivery business model.
Although this new approach promised the delivery of better constituent
service at a reduced cost, risk adverse Federal agency decision makers needed
to know much more before they would even consider cloud computing as an
option.
During a time of economic collapse and fiscal crisis, competing security,
governance and procur... (more)
In one of my (several) former professional lives, I used to publish books
about the future, including for example the world’s first full-length book
about groupware.
That was back in 1994 and the book was called Groupware on the 21st Century.
If I’d been a clairvoyant I guess I would have called it simply The Future
Is Google, but the Web hadn’t yet taken off, let alone Google, Inc. –
mainly because Sergey Brin and Larry Page were both still only 21 years old.
Fast-forward 12 years and how very much the landscape has changed. It turns
out the world was neither flat, not round, but Google-shaped. Because much of
what is said and done on the Web is currently said or done via Google.
But what comes after Google? Where will the Web, the Internet, the whole
nexus of telecommunications, i-Technology, and the quest for a better world,
take us?
My strong sense is as follows... (more)
Now held three times a year, in New York, Prague, and Silicon Valley, the
organizing principle of each International Virtualization Conference & Expo
remains the same: our aim is to ensure, through an intense and carefully
chosen program of technical and strategic breakout sessions, that attending
delegates leave each Conference with abundant resources, ideas and examples
they can apply immediately to leveraging Virtualization, helping them to
maximize performance, minimize cost and improve the efficiency and
flexibility of their Enterprise IT endeavors.
The Call for Papers for the 7th International Virtualization Conference &
Expo, which will be held in Santa Clara, CA, on November 2- 4, 2009, is
currently still open.
The submissions URL is here, and the deadline for submissions is June 30,
2009.
Topics welcomed include every aspect of virtualization. For example:
... (more)
Surely they jest. Jeffrey Zeldman has an interesting and widely covered new
article on Web 2.0 which is almost exactly as content free as he claims the
Web 2.0 hypesters are. That's not to say that he doesn't make a few
factually correct statements about AJAX and even makes a passing mention of
social software. But he's missing many of the big pieces of Web 2.0 since
he's apparently looking at it through the somewhat myopic tunnel vision of a
web page designer.
Yes, Jeffrey understands the Web from the front-end, but apparently not the
whole thing, and so misses some important parts. In the end, Jeffrey doesn't
like Web 2.0 because 1) he apparently didn't bother to really understand it
and 2) he really dislikes any annoying people that have picked up on the
name.
Yes folks, for a lot of non-technical people, Web 2.0 seems
oh-so-approachable and some are beating us ... (more)
Having used both sites for about two weeks, there is still a great deal I am
learning to do with both Ulitzer and Ning, but a reader asked if I would do a
quick comparison, so I will.
The obvious point for me is that the sites have two different objectives for
the writers. For Ning, the writer is trying to be involved in a niche
social network from scratch. For example, I have built my own social
network for marketers and salespeople called BuyerSteps. I created
BuyerSteps as a way for other professionals to join in a conversation around
the 21st century buyer. So, Ning represents a way to build a community.
In the case of Ulitzer, as a writer I am focused on getting readers from
within an existing audience. There are already thousands of readers coming
to the Ulitzer site, so if they are interested in my topics such as
marketing, they will find my articles as ... (more)
We tend to forget that 'There's nothing new, except that there's nothing
new.' Most especially we tend to forget that human beings have been
processing new experiences in terms of old ones for millennia. Permit me to
give you an example...
Many commentators, analysts, executives, and software developers so far
this year - as I write we are past midsummer's day, so the period I am
thinking of is now just over half a year long - have been processing the
arrival of what has been dubbed "Web 2.0" with sage prudence born of having
seen Web 2.0's bubble-like characteristics once before, with Web 1.0...and
having gotten burned. That the VC community is showing no such prudence, to
these people, is evidence enough of recidivism. Old ways die hard, especially
old ways that at one point enriched an entire galaxy of talented
individuals, go-for-it angels, risk-savvy institutio... (more)
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