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DaveNet. Google is just the juice. Cool. The next layer of the Internet is being formed, right before our eyes. 6:38:55 PM  comment
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Three reasons Google Web Services are great (if you don't get this now, you will...): 1) I have a ton storage space (even on my shitty laptop -- also known as MSLT). I want to get data I think is important down to my desktop (it's a trivial storage issue). I also have tons of excess horsepower. Most of my apps chew up less than 5% of my processor's power. I want this expensive processor to do something or its not worth upgrading (hello Intel!!). Getting data on a regular basis from Google and other sources uses these resources. It also, most importantly, allows me to manipulate it locally, using powerful desktop tools. 2) Microsoft, BEA, and IBM (except for Sam Ruby and his work on Axis for Apache) aren't needed to make this happen. Without the big cos at the center of things, this paradigm scales and takes off. 3) I want to be able to publish the data I get (to my Intranet or the Web). Radio does that for me. I can leverage a desktop app that allows me to add annotations to the data I collect. Imagine this applied to everything that changes often: sales data, inventory data, financial data (both corporate and from someplace like Yahoo finance), and systems data. I would now have the ability to see the data (in real-time -- hello Vinod!), manipulate it using whatever business process I import as a tool (Radio tools are both easy to build and install -- just drop the tool in a folder), and publish the result. Nice. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] |
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Andreessen. Digital copy protection is doomed. >>>Andreessen applied Moore's law -- the prediction by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that computational power would double every 18 months -- to predict the transformation of digital entertainment. The cheapest computer -- say, an eMachines box -- comes with a 20-gigabyte hard drive, enough storage space for 400 CDs worth of music. Within five years, that same $600 PC would have the capacity to hold 12,800 hours of music -- a veritable Tower Records available at the click of a mouse.<<< This is the same argument I made. Cool. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 6:36:07 PM comment
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Early adopters reflect on .NET. Analysis | Early adopters reflect on .NET. The recent launch of Visual Studio .Net and .Net Framework was anticlimactic for some developers who had already deployed applications and Web services based on these technologies. As the early adopters now reflect on their experiences, there is remarkable consensus about the value of what Microsoft Corp. has achieved and the obstacles that still lie ahead. [Jon Udell] [Jon's Radio] 6:32:47 PM comment
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Java, XML, and Web Services. Analysis | Java, XML, Web Services. Java may have arrived late to the Web services party, but the music hasn't really started yet. When it does, nobody will remember who shipped what kind of XML parser for which programming language on what date. We'll all be too busy figuring out how to piece together a much larger puzzle. [Jon Udell] [Jon's Radio] 6:30:15 PM comment
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CRM Case Study: Cleared For Takeoff Failure to rethink business processes -- not technology trouble --grounds most CRM implementations. At Honeywell Aerospace, taking the time to retool business processes is paying off. 4:44:20 PM comment
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Microsoft: Web services have way to go. For all the buzz around the Web services concept, it will remain just that--a concept--until businesses figure out how and why to use such services, says a Microsoft engineer. [CNET News.com] 3:19:47 PM comment
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A Palmtop Gets a Pivot. Sony's new Clie organizer is the first palmtop to incorporate a keyboard and camera as standard equipment. But at $600, is it worth it? By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology] 3:18:06 PM comment
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Microsoft Has Shelved Its Internet 'Persona' Service. Microsoft has quietly shelved a consumer information service that was once planned as the centerpiece of the company's foray into the market for tightly linked Web services. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] 3:16:04 PM comment
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IDC: WLANs Are "Disruptive Technology". Predicts rapid growth, particularly in home. Of course, we called it two years ago... 3:05:32 PM comment
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Pill may someday replace exercise: "That ultimate fantasy of the couch potato may become a reality some day, according to researchers who have found the chemical pathways that muscle cells use to build strength and endurance." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] 3:04:44 PM comment
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ARM tools up for killer phone app - 3D games. Graphics deal lays ground for Next Big Thing [The Register] 3:04:26 PM comment
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Early adopters reflect on .NET. Analysis | Early adopters reflect on .NET. [Jon's Radio] 3:04:00 PM comment
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Crafty or Crazy?. They're larger-than-life CEOs who have enjoyed enormous success. But could the quirky management styles of folks like Herb Kelleher or Richard Branson work for you? [xBlog: Visual thinking linking | XPLANE] 3:03:14 PM comment
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Winning Presentations. When you make a presentation to a group of important decision makers, your sale may hang in the balance... [xBlog: Visual thinking linking | XPLANE] 3:00:09 PM comment
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8 Strategies of Wise Negotiators. I just finished writing Chapter 19 of my new book, Think and Sell Like a CEO, due out in September from Entrepreneur Press. It's on the topic of negotiating... [xBlog: Visual thinking linking | XPLANE] 2:56:56 PM comment
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