Joy BlakeJoy's InfoWorld WatchVirtualisation and Reality- (Found July 5, 2008 ) OLAPBIIM stuff Sadagopan points out this Infoworld article, Virtualisation and Reality which discusses the growing acceptance of Virtual Servers. Server Virtualisation is very cool stuff, allowing you to run one or several "virtual" stand alone servers within a normal OS environment. To your network, they actually do look like several unique machines, although they all run on your desktop, or server depending on which product you buy. The first time people see it and use it, it comes as a bit..http://duncanlamb.blogspot.com/2004/11/virtualisation-and-reality.html How Do You Use del.icio.us- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs Weblog Many of you already know and use del.icio.us, this free social software web service for sharing web bookmarks launched a few months ago by Joshua Schachter, and already mentioned in Del.icio.us Smartmobs. Here is a quick reminder of what del.icio.us is about. It allows you to bookmark a web page you find interesting, to organize these pages by categories, using tags of your choice, and to share your discoveries with other curious minds. But you can do much...http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2004/11/08/how_do_you_use_.html Dickerson Wiki Intranet- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Bill Seitz' WebSeitzwikilog Chad Dickerson is starting to explore using Team Wiki as an Intra Net alternative to a WebLog. Your staff may already be using one of the most productive Collaborat Ion tools ever built.http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2004-11-08-DickersonWikiIntranet Jon Udell tries dictation- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Sprague WebLog Jon Udell, a columnist I respect, who used to write for Byte among others, and now is at Infoworld, tried Dragon Naturally Speaking and loved it. "The result was, by far, the best out-of-the-box experience I've ever had with this technology." Just wait till Jon and others see the really cool stuff we're working on for Longhorn. I'm personally not that big a fan of dictation -- I type way too quickly -- but of course there are lots of people in my group here who are. People who...http://weblogs.asp.net/sprague/archive/2004/11/08/253738.aspx Hooking Amazon Up to the Austin Library- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Ben Combee Jon Udell's come up with a really cool bookmarklet; when your on a book's description page at Amazon or other online booksellers, this can tell you if it's available at your local public library. It works best from the entries for hardback editions, since they have different ISBNs than the paperback versions. Details on setting up your bookmarklet are at http:weblog.infoworld.comudellstories20021211librarylookup.html. The Austin Public Library uses the DRA system and is linked off...http://www.livejournal.com/users/unwiredben/61182.html Passport Shadow of Its Envisioned Self- (Found July 5, 2008 ) b.cognosco Good News! Microsoft gives up on making Passport the ubiquitous Digital ID mechanism. About time. This is much more appropriate. "Passport defangs itself: According to an article by Joris Evers in Infoworld on Oct. 20, Microsoft has dropped its o'erweening ambitions for Passport. Instead of being the "single sign-on for the Web," it's now going to be a service for Microsoft and the few partners who had signed up to use the service. Says the article: In 1999, the Redmond,...http://www.terryfrazier.com/1462 20% of 300 companies surveyed report networks hacked- (Found July 5, 2008 ) carlos leal's weblog InfoWorld reports that a survey to be released at this weeks Computer Security Institute (CSI) show in Washington DC of 300 IT managers of companies with annual turnover greater than $30M reveals that 76% felt their networks were safer than in prior years while 81% reported attacks on the increase. More frightening was the fact that 20% reported that a hacker had gained access to their network. Not surprising was the fact that in spite of the increased regulatory...http://blog.qualdata.net/index.php?p=15 Ingres r3 open source database- (Found July 5, 2008 ) MaxedOutMama Now this is exciting open-source news. Has anyone out there worked with Ingres I usually use Interbase for open source, just because I've found it very stable. But it does have drawbacks - for one thing it requires tight design or it's slow. What say you, my fellows Btw, I just looked at the latest figures for IE. Supposedly it still has over 92% of the market for web browsers. I don't believe it. It's never cracked 60% according to my stats. I think it's down there around 85%.http://maxedoutmama.blogspot.com/2004/11/infoworld-ingres-r3-open-source.html Do you need a vendor exit strategy- (Found July 5, 2008 ) CMS Watch The ever-perceptive Chad Dickerson at InfoWorld recounts a couple of stories about vendors who lose sales in favor of aggressive upsells, or worse, are simply coasting off ever-beloved maintenance revenues. In the Web content management arena, we see a fair bit of the latter. Some vendors focus product development on capturing new markets rather than satisfying existing clients. If you think your CMS vendor falls into that category, consider an exit strategy -- especially if you're...http://www.cmswatch.com/News/Article/?360 Jon Udell gets the portable service- (Found July 5, 2008 ) VMUNIX Blues I opened Bloglines today to see this bit by Jon Udell, entitled "The myth of the One True device". Its basically what Ive been promoting for a while, i.e. that a portable service is of much more value than a portable device: "Pervasive connectivity and ubiquitous computing dont depend on the device you tote in your briefcase or clip to your belt. Or anyway, they shouldnt. The environments we visit, as well as the ones we live and work in, could provide for our communication and...http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2004/11/02/jon-udell-gets-the-portable-service/ |