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Monday, February 28, 2005 |
Is the Nightmare Finished?. Overview of the stock market performance of the
major e-learning companies, including Saba, SumTotal (the
merged Docent and Click2Learn), Blackboard, Centra and
Skillsoft. The analysis? Mixed. Via ADL. By Unattributed,
CheckPoint E-Learning, February, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
10:17:18 PM  Google It!.
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4suite. According to 0xDECAFBAD, 4suite "installs
like Buddha". Not sure exactly what that means, but I
sure like what I see in the program description: an
open-source platform for XML and RDF processing,
"4Suite is a library of integrated tools (including
convenient command-line tools) for XML processing,
implementing open technologies such as DOM, RDF, XSLT,
XInclude, XPointer, XLink, XPath, XUpdate, RELAX NG, and
XML/SGML Catalogs." Written in Python, which means you
can go into the source and break it yourself. By Various
Authors, February, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
10:16:15 PM Google It!.
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Gospels of Failure. Fascinating article on organizational failure.
And if you mapped this article to my recent talk on
blogging communities, you would find a near-perfect fit.
From the article: "'If there's not a network
connecting two departments, then one can bring the best
data in the world to the other and it won't be trusted.'
Krebs uses his software to help clients map out who knows
whom within an organization -- he calls the maps
'organizational X-rays' -- and then does something
decidedly less high-tech. He introduces people on the
borders of the networks, creating opportunities for them to
work together." By Jena McGregor, Fast Company,
February, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
10:14:01 PM Google It!.
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IBM Backs Open-source Web Software. IBM is announcing support for PHP. I would
rather it were Perl, because I find PHP cumbersome. Still,
it's absolutely a move in the right direction, and I'd much
rather work with PHP or Python than Java. "IBM's push
into PHP and scripting reflects IBM's disillusionment with
the Java standardization process and the industry's
inability to make Java very easy to use. 'IBM's been so fed
up with Java that they've been looking for alternatives for
years,' the executive said. 'They want people to build
applications quickly that tap into IBM back-ends...and with
Java, it just isn't happening.'" By Martin LaMonica,
CNet News.com, February 25, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
10:12:38 PM Google It!.
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Telemedicine on the Cheap.
Doctors are once again making house calls -- a new program by MyMD
gives 1,000 doctors Apple iBooks and iSight cameras so they can make
home video visits, even when they're at the golf course. By Daniel
Terdiman. [Wired News]
11:14:42 AM Google It!.
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