Friday, December 8, 2006

A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft. For today's podcast I decided to interview myself about my upcoming new gig. It's a short episode, under six minutes, and the transcript follows. ... [Jon's Radio] 1:28:16 PM      Google It!.

Charles - Web Debugging Proxy. http://www.xk72.com/charles/ For the server geeks out there, here's a nifty little app that my buddies at The Learning Edge turned me on to. It's a Java-based tool that lets you watch all of your HTTP session traffic in real time. The really nice piece is how it handles XML as it enables you to see the XML flowing between the client and server. It also does bandwidth simulations - while this is probably pretty out of fashion these days, we should remember that broadband adoption in the US is just over 50% and that connectivity in places with many remote communities (like Canada ) can still be challenging. - SWL[EdTechPost] 1:26:55 PM      Google It!.

Jon Udell is leaving Infoworld to work for Microsoft. [Scripting News] tis a pitty as he info flow usually disappears at MS -- BL 1:22:12 PM      Google It!.

CSIRO Demonstrates Fastest Wireless Link Yet. rob101 writes "The CSIRO yesterday demonstrated the world's 'fastest' wireless radio link by transmitting sixteen full quality DVD streams over a 250m link and only using a quarter of the available bandwidth. 'The CSIRO ICT Centre today announced that it has achieved over six gigabits per second over a point to point wireless connection with the highest efficiency (2.4bits/s/Hz) ever achieved for such a system.'" CSIRO hopes to double the speed of this connection in the future, pushing twelve gigabits a second.[Slashdot] on a clear day you can see the data flowing -- BL 1:19:33 PM      Google It!.

Sun CTO Predicts Internet Consolidation Endgame. Romerican writes "C|Net is running an interview with Greg Papadopoulos, CTO of Sun Microsystems, about the Very Near Future where he essential sees the Internet as no longer competitive. He has blogged his belief that the end game is here and nothing is likely to unseat the new world order." From the C|Net article: "It's called software as a service. It really is the running of what we think of as IT through the network. You don't buy software, you buy the consequence of the software. That starts with the small and medium enterprises. eBay, in my mind, is the leading example of small businesses being absorbed by services. Anybody who clicks their store on eBay is in fact consuming a service. They are contributing to a larger-scale eBay rather than them buying some server and sticking it on their desk."[Slashdot] 1:14:45 PM      Google It!.

Detecting Conflict-Of-Interest on the Semantic Web. CexpTretical writes "At the 15th International WWW Conference in Edinburgh Scotland, Refereed Track on Semantic Web accepted many thorough and interesting academic papers on semantic web research on subjects related to where the Web is in the Semantic Web? One such paper nominated for Best Paper Award, Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection hits on the whole subject of validation and/or verification in the brave world of so called "Web 3.0" topologies/frameworks/architectures. The paper describes a "Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships"." [Slashdot] 1:11:57 PM      Google It!.