Entries by ams

CommerceNet’s zLab Website & Open House

I’m proud to announce the debut of a new website for zLab, CommerceNet Labs’s center for decentralization research. We’ve only been in business for a few months, but we’re already assembling a great team and a series of publications & technical reports What’s more, we’ll be moving in to our new offices in Palo Alto […]

CN to discuss C1’s patents today

CommerceOne Patent Auction Teleconference CommerceNet, a non-profit industry consortium, invites you to participate in an event on the CommerceOne bankruptcy auction of patents that cover key facets of commerce related Internet transactions. The conference will address the impact and possibility of these patents being placed into the public domain. Please register to attend this conference […]

eMachineshop

I kept meaning to post this but kept forgetting to do so. Allan Schiffman: “This is why the Internet was invented. Unbelievably cool: check out eMachineshop. Link courtesy of Survival Arts.” If you enjoyed that link, check out my favorite Allan Schiffman lines from recondite thus far.

Online Reputation Systems

Jeff Ubois in Release 1.0 (October 2003) wrote an issue on Online Reputation Systems: Some like to think of the Net as a digital village, but in fact it’s closer to a digital city. The ability to interact with a billion people on the Net comes with its own costs: Dealing with strangers is risky, […]

Innovative Uses of RFID Tags

Roland Piquepaille writes about Innovative Uses of RFID Tags: When your newspapers write something about RFID tags, it’s almost always about Wal-Mart or how these tags are threatening our privacy. But they often miss the important innovations brought by this technology. For example, in Florida, RFID drives highway traffic reports on more than 200 miles […]

Mmmm… delicious…

I’ve been spending a lot of time with del.icio.us lately, and am struck by the “me-ness” of the service, as explained by peterme: While del.icio.us thrives as a “social bookmark” site, it depends on the me-ness of the activity — by and large, I’m saving items to del.icio.us that interest me, that I might want […]

Real Time in Intranets

Line56.com: Intranet Trends to Watch For: One of the most overlooked business trends affecting intranets has been the delivery of real-time key performance indicators and customer information. Executives are asking for precise, real time information and see it as a necessary tool to make smart business decisions. As a recent Harvard Business Review article discussed, […]

Active Grid

Peter Yared on Active Grid coming out of stealth: After 18 months of hard work, ActiveGrid is finally out of stealth mode! Check it out at: ActiveGrid There are details about the ActiveGrid Grid Application Server and about Adaptive Transactions, a new technology we are introducing to add intelligence into the execution of transactional applications […]

Real Names

John Battelle points out that RealNames has relaunched. Founder Keith Teare writes: The problem addressed by RealNames – that is the poverty of the DNS as a naming and navigation system for the world’s internet users – remains unresolved.

Market-based Macroprogramming

IBM Research – Distributed and Fault Tolerant Computing – Current Seminars at Watson Matt Welsh, Harvard University Title: Market-Based Programming Paradigms for Sensor Networks Date: 10/20/2004 Time: 2:00 -3:30 PM Location: Hawthorne 1S-F40 Host: Fred Douglis Abstract: Sensor networks present a novel programming challenge: that of achieving robust global behavior despite limited resources, varying node […]