Will Johnston produces Thinkmedia. I have been involved with technology and product development since 1983 when I bought and started programming my first PC. I was a member of the Apple HyperCard development team, founder of the BuyDirectory (among the first consumer search engines), Sr. Product Manager for PDF at Adobe Systems, Sr. Product Manager for Commerce at Inktomi Corporation and one of the earliest users of the WELL and Usenet.

Thinkmedia provides consulting services for the intersection of technology and business.

Wednesday, July 03, 2002

A list of available webservices at XMethods comment [] 10:22:18 AM    . This book looks great... XML and Java™: Developing Web Applications , Second Edition comment [] 10:14:57 AM    . IBM publishes an article on XHTML XHTML The Power of Two Languages W3C director Tim Berners-Lee put it this way: "XHTML 1.0 connects the present Web to the future Web...It provides the bridge to page and site authors for entering the structured data, XML world, while still being able to maintain operability with user agents that support HTML 4. comment [] 10:08:18 AM    . Fidelity and IBM team up to offer employee benefits services... NY Times Article. I believe this article points toward the trend for outsourcing of IT intensive services. I believe we are seeing a move by large scale organizations to outsource services which are not core to their business, so that they can focus on their core business. If this trend plays out I believe we'll see a lot of new opportunities emerge for web services. IBM and Fidelity indicate that companies who outsource can save 15-20% on their costs by adopting the outsource model, which provides a great argument for encouraging potential customers. The hold back to date has been the quality of the services and the assurance that they'll be around more than a couple years. I guess this is why IBM and Fidelity are tackling this, so that this $12 billion (projected to become $40 billion) market knows their services providers will be there. comment [] 8:39:06 AM    .

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