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Steve Wilhelm served as the development manager for Tibco’s MarketSheet for Windows, which was a Reuters-inspired spreadsheet for real-time information. Using those insights and looking at what has changed in the years since, Steve describes a hypothetical product called OpenSheet that takes into account the advances made in mobile computing, social networking, and open source […]
The New York Times > Technology > Identity Badge Worn Under Skin Approved for Use in Health Care: Real privacy concerns have emerged. “At the point you place the chip beneath the skin, you’re saying you will not have the ability to remove the ID tracking device,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic […]
Mark Nottingham wrote: From the standpoint of interface semantics, the difference here is really just one between saying “POST machineMgmtFormat” and “MANAGEMACHINE.” In the uniform approach, the service-specific semantics are pushed down into the type (media type) and content (entity body) of the data. In the specific approach, they’re surfaced in the interface itself. This […]
Sergei Burkov of Dulance asked via email: Any idea how many products are out there? This can probably be derived from the total number of UPC codes issued, or something. (We can probably ignore products for which no code of any type has been issued.) Is there an estimate how many different products are sold […]
Cool use of Amazon Web Services: ScoutPal… Use ScoutPal with any web-enabled cell phone or wireless PDA and find out the Amazon Marketplace value of books, CD’s, DVD’s, Video Tapes, or any other Amazon Marketplace Merchandise, while you are out bookscouting. How many times have you come back from bookscouting with essentially worthless books? How […]
It’s official — or as official as it’s going to get in such a decentralized market — the daily turnover in currency trades is nearly double the oft-quoted trillion-dollar-a-day mark… The Wall Street Journal version of this story on 9/29 noted that “the surge in trading levels indicates that foreign exchange is becoming increasingly well […]
It’s interesting to see an CommerceNet alum Bob Glushko in the news. The comment, though, is a telling one, since if anything CommerceNet is firmly on the same side as Halsey in its committment to open business service networks. On the other hand, a decentralized aspect of that vision is that you should always be […]
I posted my Web 2.0 Notes on my typepad for anyone who’s interested…
Web Service Grids: an Evolutionary Approach defines “a web service specification profile WS-I+ that builds upon the recognised WS-I Basic & Security profiles with the additional specifications: WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging and the Business Profile Execution Language (BPEL).” It might be the right approach for that community, but it’s still astoundingly complex.
In February, Dave Sifry talked about blog popularity by link count, which his company Technorati tracks: “Everybody talks about the power law. Fuck it, I’ve got the data.” All the power law says is that when it’s easy to publish that you’ll have a relatively small number of things (compared to the entire space of […]