According to SYS-CON Media's worldwide network of software development
activists, evangelists and executives - including the creator of Ruby on
Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson - 2006 promises to be a vintage year for
software development...
Take Microsoft, for example: A new client OS is on the way, Microsoft Vista,
due late in 2006, giving rise to the obvious question: will the new cool 3D
user interface be enough to move user to upgrade? We’ll see. Maybe the
new built-in security, performance features, and integrated search will be
enough to convince users – after all, why go to the Web if built-in
web-enabled services and integrated information search allow the Web to come
to you?
Or consider the world of PDA Devices. Everyone is looking for the next killer
Palm or BlackBerry. But are they looking in the right direction for the
next killer PDA? What... (more)
There, I said it. I wasn't the first--a couple of guys funded by Google
speculated in March 2009 that cloud computing "could be" bigger than the
Intertubes.
And I'm sure there are hundreds of you out there, if not more, who have
voiced this opinion to colleagues, in a blog, or maybe in a corporate memo
that's been ignored completely.
Someone else said that cloud will be bigger than we can imagine. This is not
true and not possible. Nothing created by humans is bigger than we can
imagine, because we imagined it.
The universe is bigger than we can imagine, to be sure. I'm not even sure if
the universe is finite, infinite, or one of those mathematical infinities in
which some infinities are much larger than others (think irrational numbers
vs. rational numbers).
Even the manner in which we humans misuse new technology shouldn't be bigger
than we imagine anymore, given wh... (more)
Evernote, the multi-platform application that allows users to remember every
notable aspect of their lives, today announced the availability of a
significant update to its application for iPhone and iPod touch: Evernote
version 3.0. Taking full advantage of the latest iPhone OS 3.0 software
update, the app has been redesigned and optimized for easier note creation,
faster browsing and more intuitive search.
Evernote lets iPhone users create notes, take snapshots, record audio memos,
and search through any content created on their iPhone or iPod touch, desktop
computer, or the Web, thanks to its cloud-based sync functionality.
New in Evernote 3.0
Evernote 3.0 contains a number of major enhancements made possible by the
latest iPhone software update. New features include:
-- Full note list sync enables smooth browsing and quick filtering -- Map
view plots notes on a m... (more)
This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, as
more than 4,000 votes have already been recorded in just the first seven
days of voting, and more than 50,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to
cast their votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards. The winners of this
years awards will be announced in November at Web Services Edge 2005 West -
International Web Services Conference & Expo in San Francisco.
The list of companies heading the various polls reads like a "Who's Who" of
the most active and enterprising players in the i-technology space -
including all the industry's top software and hardware vendors, services
providers, and technical publishers. Highlights after just one week's voting
include:
2005 JDJ Readers' Choice Awards:
There are 26 categories in this year's JDJ awards. In the coveted "Best Java
Application Server" categor... (more)
SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media
company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls will close on
December 31, 2005. So far more than 16,000 readers cast their votes to
select the best software products and services of the year for Java, Linux,
Web Services, XML, Microsoft .NET, ColdFusion and Macromedia MX.
Best Java Products of 2005:
http://java.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best Linux Products of 2005:
http://linux.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best Web Services Products of 2005:
http://webservices.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best .NET Products of 2005:
http://dotnet.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best Macromedia MX and ColdFusion Products of 2005:
http://mxdj.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards program is considered to be the most
prestigious awar... (more)
SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media
company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls opened today,
February 1, 2005, and will remain open for six months, until July 31, 2005.
More than 50,000 readers are expected to cast their votes to select the
best software products and services of the year for Java, Linux, Web
Services, XML, Microsoft .NET, ColdFusion and Macromedia MX.
Best Java Products of 2005:
http://sys-con.com/java/readerschoice2004
Best Linux Products of 2005:
http://www.sys-con.com/Linux/readerschoice2004
Best Web Services Products of 2005:
http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/readerschoice2004
Best .NET Products of 2005:
http://www.sys-con.com/dotnet/readerschoice2004
Best Macromedia MX and ColdFusion Products of 2005:
http://www.sys-con.co... (more)
This is a checklist of items you need for an all-encompassing personal
branding strategy. Personal branding is the process of marketing and selling
yourself as a brand in order to gain success in business. Personal branding
is a continual process just as knowing yourself is a continual process. As
you grow, so does your brand. The need for personal branding arises from the
fact that globalization has increased competition in the workplace. As the
wheat is separated from the chaff, if you are left standing, you are left
standing with others of good caliber. The playing field is now that much more
challenging since your competition is as good as, or better, than you.
To paraphrase David Samuel, the bloke who got me into personal branding after
I saw him speak a few years ago; he spoke about of why you need personal
branding. His audience was a group from a large teleco... (more)
2004 was the year that saw the iPod blaze its trail through the technology
heaven, saw Google Inc. go public and double its share price from $100 to
$200, and watched the fortune of RIM (of Blackberry fame) founder Mike
Lazaridis's fortunes grow still further as wireless e-mail became more and
more the rule and not the exception. But what of 2005? Has a wider technology
bounceback begun? At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2005 last week, the
answer seemed to be a resounding: "Yes!"
As everyone who has not been living in a cave for the past 29 years knows,
Microsoft is 100% devoted to changing the world.
"Most people are still not in the digital realm," said Bill Gates in his
opening keynote at CES. But it is far from being the only onion in the stew.
The industry-wide 'return of technology' has begun.
Even Gates himself acknowledged we stand at the threshhold of ... (more)
Jeremy Geelan's i-Technology Blog: Can Blogging Change the World?
Ina wonderfully eccentric [and subsequently deleted] posting last
week entitled "Does the old school accept blogging?" Alan Williamson
suggests not only that I am a late adopter to the world of blogging,
dragged-reluctantly-into-the-future-through-a-hedge-backwards kind of thing,
but also that the reason for this is - not to beat about the bush - that I'm
more or less a hidebound relic of a bygone age.
So permit me quickly to extinguish both myths.
First, as to blogging. Alan references my recent Are We Blogging Each Other
to Death? posting and says that he detects in it an undertone of, as he puts
it, "What's it all about? This whole blogging nonsense?" Well I have a
startling revelation for Alan: this is called critical thought. Blame one of
the finest educational systems on earth if you like, but I am ... (more)
Frank Cohen's Blog
Today is US Independence day and I stopped at the Apple store to see the
iPhone, and ask questions about the new MacBook Pro. I wanted to see the
iPhone in person to learn what I should expect from mobile phone people
interaction and feature sets. And I wanted to learn which MacBook Pro model
I'll be upgrading to in the next few weeks.
iPhone is beautiful. It is smaller than I expected. Just a little larger than
my current Samsung D807. iPhone has a nice feel and the touch keyboard worked
very well for my big fingers. iPhone was suprisingly hot - temperature wise -
but what mobile Apple device isn't! (The CPU in my PowerBook constantly wants
to burn its way through my lap on its return to the molten core of Earth.)
Being a Java and Mac guy I looked for Java on iPhone. Java is no where to be
found.
For years I've listened to Jonathan Schwartz, CEO a... (more)
(Montvale, NJ, February 1, 2005) - SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the
world's leading i-technology media company, announced that its 2005 Readers'
Choice Awards polls opened today, February 1, 2005 and will remain open for
six months, until July 31, 2005. More than 50,000 readers are expected to
cast their votes to select the best software products of the year including
Java, Linux, Web Services, XML, Microsoft .NET products and services.
SYS-CON's readers' choice awards program is considered to be the most
prestigious award program of the software industry and often referred to as
"the Oscars of the software industry." The products participating in the
program are nominated by their vendors, customers, users, or SYS-CON readers.
This year a record number of companies and products were nominated. Below is
a list of all companies and products participating in the 200... (more)
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