Friday, March 10, 2006

VoIP Skype Announces Skype For Business. [Slashdot] 6:02:32 PM    comment

web services Mashing up the enterprise, wiring the web. Mashups are lightweight and agile in two important ways. They rely on services that live on the WS-Lite end of the tolerance continuum, where recombination seems almost effortless. And they rely on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) techniques to make deployment of responsive and richly interactive interfaces seem almost effortless. In reality, of course, there's no free lunch. As Phil Wainewright pointed out, enterprises will always occupy a base camp at the WS-Heavy end of the tolerance continuum. Robust centralized services for managing identity, data, and business process are central to the mission of SOA. Mashups cannot and should not compromise that mission. What they can do, however, and what I think they should do, is what Lotus Notes did for an earlier generation: empower user-driven innovation at the level of individuals, workgroups, and departments. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 5:53:02 PM    comment

depression Internet Suicides Alarm Japan. An rise in suicide pacts arranged online has authorities concerned with the proliferation of websites advocating suicide, and sociologists scrambling to understand why so many young people want to die. [Wired News: Top Stories] 5:46:21 PM    comment

violent Yet Another Violent Games Ban. [Slashdot] 5:43:24 PM    comment

power New 'Crystal Sponge' Triples Hydrogen Storage. In a step toward making cars that can run on hydrogen rather than gasoline a reality, chemists at UCLA and the University of Michigan have announced a new "crystal sponge" material that can store in its pores nearly three times more hydrogen than any substance known previously. [Science Blog -] 5:38:26 PM    comment