Today Google has launched Knol, its Wikipedia alternativ e that holds authors ac countable for the articles they write. Each article is created by a team of authors who receive at tribution, and are allowed to take part in a rev-share for AdSense ads on their page. Other users can submit changes, but they have to [...]

In a heroic hum anitarian effort, Target and Borders are sending their rows of unsold, overpriced CDs to Zimbabwe so they use them instead of their $100 billion dollar bills. Listen to music or buy a loaf of bread. Your choice. It’s official: Audiophile s are over CDs The end is near, another war seems imminent, oil [...]

Chuck Allison?s interestin g article ?Software: Use At Your Own Risk?, (Better Software Magazine, July/Augus t 2008, p. 9) discusses the risk inherent in software licenses compared to other w arranties, reasons for the lack of quality in software and lists a sample of the code of ethics of the Associ ation of Computer Machinery. Here are some reasons why [...]

In early June I decided to join twitt er.com. For those who haven& rsquo;t heard about this yet another so cial-engin eering site, I’ll explain you what it is.  The concept is extremely simple. They give you a text field to enter a short answe

Sybase iAnywhere Announces Wireless Enterprise Lotus Notes and Exchange Email Support for New iPhone 3G

With their stock price falling VMWare needs to do something different to start rebuilding their company. The solution, however, is staring them in the face. VMWare just needs to look at the industry it help shape for the soluti on.Leave C ommentRela ted Entrie s:Amazon S3 suffers an 8hr outage; Trust no oneDoes software date? Of course not, and don't let them tell you differ entlyVMWar e worth $1 1BnVMware for the Children10 things I didn't know last weekFedora 5 running under vmware

Adobe AIR has been out for a couple of months now, and we are really seeing a lot of good apps being released. So, which AIR apps do you find yourself using the most? For me, I use the following daily: TweetDeck Has added a TON of value to twitter for me (es pecially their summize in tegration) Pandora No [...]

Jon Udell talks about his interview of Dan Bricklin in which about Dan talks about his experience entering the world of audio. Jon says:When I embarked on my personal audio adventure a few years ago, I naively thought that our fancy new digital te chnologies would make the whole process very ...

This blog points to a very nice article about services d escription languages.

In among the sessions at the recent OMG Real-Time Distribute d Object workshop were 2 int eresting CEP papers. The first was by the Naval Surface Warfare Center on their eval uations of CEP techno logies and tools for potential Navy use. Their goal is to replace certain &# 8220;hard coded̶ 1; event processing logic in expensive systems with some more [...]

When analysts talk, people listen. I am proud to say that JackBe is no exception. For example, we recently heard that a recent Forrester survey of 262 US IT decision-m akers revealed ?41% have never heard of mashups?. Based on this, Larry Dignan at ZDNet reco mmended companies like JackBe ?start talking to CIOs and technology decision makers?. To this marketer?s ears, that's all the marching orders I n eed.Coinci dentally, JackBe has had the op portunity to perform a simple survey of our own in

At FOO Camp I met Bruce Wyman, the Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum (He occasional ly blogs on the Mus eum’ s site.). For the past few years at UX Week, w e’ve had museums (first in D.C., now in SF) share with us how they design for experience . Had I met Bruce a few months [...]

We've already got a great lineup of speakers for the Business of Software c onference: Seth Godin Eric Sink Steve Johnson Richard Stallman Paul Kenny Tom Jennings Dharmesh Shah Mike Milinkovic h Jessica Livingston Jason Fried and me! Neil Davidson was looking for a way to bring in a handful of extra inte resting speakers for very brief pres entations just to keep the conference more dynamic and hear from different corners of the world. I had recently read about Pecha Kucha. The speaker gets 6 minut

I recently upgraded to the iPhone 2.0 software, and then finally upgraded my desktop to Leopard after waiting for the &# 8220;best beta evar& #8221; to stabilize. I noticed shortly thereafter that iTunes no longer recognized my iPhone. After a software update, reboot, and moving the iPhone to a different USB port, I still co uldn’ ;t [...]

I am not a big podcast listener but one of the ones I listen to regularly is the IT Management podcast with Redmo nk’s Coté and John M. Willis. Today Zeno ss’ Matt Ray and Tarus Balog from OpenNMS were guests and I thought it was a p articularl y good episode because of the open source angles. He re’s [...]SHARE THIS.addEn try({ title: "Zenoss, OpenNMS and Clouds on the IT Management ", url: "h ttp://soci alizedsoft ware.com/2 008/07/17/ zenoss-ope nnms-and-c louds-on-t he-it-mana gement/" });

What does the Ajax community want from future browsers? How are these different requests p rioritized ? Web developers have done amazing things with Ajax for both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 applic ations, but what barriers need to be removed to enable the next generation of browser -based inn ovations? The future of Ajax runtime en vironments matters more than [...]

I like the New Yorker's Obama cover. I chuckled. I got the joke. I'm not angry, nor am I offended. It could have been drawn better. Maybe they were in a hurry.

The Intern ational Sybase User Group (ISUG) is excited to announce that their web site has been s ignificant ly updated! ...

To someone in my position, who follows both Microsoft (.NET) news and Apple (Cocoa) news, the comparing and contra sting between MobileMe and Live Mesh as developer platforms is inevita ble. Here's my first stab at a comparison

Gartner, the world?s leading analyst firm, has just published its ?Marke tScope for Web Content Ma nagement? report, one of the most influ ential analyst reports on the Web Content Management market. Out of 17 CMS software providers evaluated, Gartner has given a ?Strong Positive? [...]

I'm totally stoked to say that my Dot Game has made it into the top 50 of all games on the store! Buy early, Buy often!

Copying a memory block from a "unsigne dlong" address into a Pow erBuilder managed object.

Ok, you haven't read new posts here for some time now. I've been pretty busy: an important deadline first and later five consecutiv e days of holidays (!) chasing the Rhône river from the glacier to the mouth - my first...

The Kaazing team recently got a Comet article published in the Jav aDeveloper 's Journal (JDJ June 2008), which gives an overview of the impact Com et-based solutions will have on your IT infrastruc ture. The article is now published online - Why the Web Dinosaurs Died. Enjoy! Cheers, Jonas