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.

Thursday, July 18, 2002

The W3C has a recommendation for digitally signing document fragments. This has been a much needed missing piece of the dsig proposals to date. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1429051 comment [] 8:51:18 PM    . Business Process Management (BPM) is an important emerging domain which could be supported by web services. Read the article published by Intelligent Enterprise Process of Improvement. Interesting stats: Whether they're clearly understood or not, Web services are here to stay — only 25 percent of survey respondents have no plans to implement Web services. Importantly, 39 percent plan to implement Web services within the project area of BPM, solidifying the relationship between the two. Other project implementation areas for Web services include enterprise portals (53 percent), content management (37 percent), enterprise application integration (EAI; 39 percent), CRM (29 percent), and e-commerce (39 percent). Also interesting stats on accounting for web service adoption: One third of companies see Web services as being a cost center within their organizations, one third see Web services as being a profit center, and the final third are cost-neutral at this point. comment [] 11:17:01 AM    . I think this is a cool list to glance at every once in a while XMethods List of Available Web Services The emergence of web service technology implementations reminds me of the emergence of http/html back in 93'. Web Services is a transformative technology in that there are so many types of implementations possible. I believe in the next two years we're going to see what the web can real provide to business. comment [] 9:49:47 AM    .

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