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Kevin Hughes wrote a beautiful Color Picker application in about 100k of SVG. The code is Creative Commons-licensed. More telling are Kev’s notes on SVG, in which he tells the good, the bad, and the ugly. His recommendations: Looking ahead, there could stand to be efforts for making today’s dynamic languages ready for real GUI […]
Nice analysis by Joyce Park on Web Services Commons: Flickr is a company that has gotten into open web services in exactly the right way. It costs them a lot of money to host all that bandwidth, but feeds of photos are a cool new feature and a value-add to their users — and ultimately […]
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’05) ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’05) June 5-8, 2005 Vancouver, Canada Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Society sponsor: ACM Special Interest Group on E-Commerce (SIGECOM) Conference Web Site: http://www.acm.org/ec05/ Since 1999 the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (SIGECOM) has sponsored the leading scientific conference on advances in theory, systems, […]
ACM News Service “W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities to Explore Next Web Services Layer” XMLMania.com (10/12/04) World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) members are working on a Web services constraints and capabilities framework that will allow organizations to communicate the terms of their service. Requirements for using HTTP or the ability to support GZIP compression, […]
Mike Langberg of the SJ Mercury News: I’m rolling up my sleeve, ready to get injected with the VeriChip. That’s the device cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this month as the first implantable electronic identification tag linked to a person’s medical profile… VeriChip is not new technology. Applied Digital of Delray […]
We’ve spent a little time working on the Decentralization page in the CommerceNet Labs wiki. Here’s a snapshot of what we have so far: Decentralization in Commerce means the freedom to do commerce the way you want, rather than the way your software wants. We believe that to build software that works the way society […]
I want SupplyFX, Webify, and Bonsai Development to be in CommerceNet’s Neighborhood. I also want Rob Rodin, Allan Schiffman, Kevin Hughes, and Marty Tenenbaum in CommerceNet’s Neighborhood. And by linking to those pages like I just did, I just did. Such is zSearch.
We love Google’s new Desktop Search. We’ve been arguing about something like this for a year or more. The idea of searching everything you’ve seen — not just your hard drive, but everything hyperlinked to it (such as your surfing history) — is so intriguing we’ve built something similar for ourselves. We’ve modified Nutch to […]
Using Desktop Google I found an email from Ross Stapleton-Gray (author of An Internet of Less Than Solid Things, among others), saying zCommerce is to eBay, as radio is to telegraph… (“eBay, except there’s no cat!”) citing the Einstein cat story: You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You […]
One immediately wonders if NAP is well-designed for RESTful applications… :-) Looks like Bob Pasker has resurfaced happily after Kenamea: Although J2EE has become the defacto standard for business application development, companies still face issues with reliability, predictability, and compute power…Azul has created a groundbreaking new class of compute infrastructure. Network attached processing seamlessly delivers […]