SOA Plumbing delivering power and water usage info- October 23, 2007 Joanne Cummings has an interesting story in Network World today about an electricity utility in the US Pacific Northwest which is using SOA. The story reminded me of another user of SOA in the utility space: EPAL in Portugal. EPAL is the Portugese state water board. They use SOA to provide customer-facing information about water usage, and they use XML networking infrastructure and an event-driven model. Utilities are widespread users of Real World SOA , though the goal here is not...http://radio.weblogs.com/0111797/2007/10/23.html#a106 What is Web 2.0, anyway- October 22, 2007 This presentation by John Breslin of DERI and boards.ie is the best explanation of the social networking aspects of Web 2.0 as I have seen anywhere. John builds the argument that connections between people are not just about the connections ("Hey, I have 100 LinkedIn connections") but they are about connections around objects. In this respect, Wired's already widely-criticised story on "The Six Lamest Social Networks" actually has it backwards: by organizing networks...http://radio.weblogs.com/0111797/2007/10/22.html#a104 |