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As some readers may have noticed, we’ve been having a problem with blog comment spam lately — just like most other Movable Type blogs. We’ve had several hundred comments, of which only seven have been non-spam. So I’ve been thinking about countermeasures. Soft touch: the more detectable and forceful the anti-spam measures are, the more […]
Gary Potter posted about an article in MIT’s Magazine of Innovation, Technology Review, in which Mark Frauenfelder of boingboing interviews creator of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee: On why people aren’t excited about the Semantic Web… It’s not the first time I’ve had this paradigm-shift problem. On getting past it… …we are just starting […]
This is pretty significant news, as the wheel of creative destructions cycles around yet again — this new fund certainly is fueled by some of the gains from the success of Salesforce.com. Now, he’s in a position to invest in yet further iterations of these ideas: “The fund is specifically for companies who develop services […]
Fascinating gambit; I usually associate it with more mature markets. Perhaps this is a sign that SOAP skills are going to be more profitable for enterprise developers to add to their portfolios soon… It’s also an interesting judging panel — several of these folks have definitely been around for several hype cycles, so it says […]
From Biz Stone’s excellent article, The Wisdom of Blogs: Bloggers are a wise crowd. Diversity of opinion – That’s a no-brainer. Bloggers publish hundreds of thousands of posts daily, each one charged with its author’s unique opinion. Independence of members – Except for your friends saying “You’ve got to blog about that!” bloggers are not […]
Cachelogic Research paints an interesting picture of decentralized filesharing. The most astonishing item is that global Internet traffic analysis in June 2004 revealed that in the United States peer-to-peer represents roughly two-thirds of traffic volumes, and in Asia peer-to-peer represents more than four-fifths of traffic volumes. By comparison, HTTP is less than a tenth of […]
Phil Windley writes: Dave Sifry gives some details about the Technorati outage this past weekend. Seems an electrical fire in the data center their co-lo at was the culprit. Running a 24/7 Web application reliably isn’t easy and it isn’t cheap. It took us several years of problems and study to hit on a solution […]
Slashdot writes: Michael S. Mimoso writes “A Yankee Group survey of 473 enterprise decision makers reveals that companies have put aside money for service-oriented architectures for 2005.” This is a bigger deal than it sounds – if companies keep moving this away, it will mean a sea change in corporate technology usage – and change […]
Tomorrow begins the WWW@10 conference on “the visions, technologies, and directions that characterized the Web’s first decade… a forum in which scholars and practitioners of all disciplines — cultural, historical, and technical — can share perspectives, concerns, and innovative ideas about the World Wide Web.” The program looks quite promising.
CNET: “IBM said Monday that it intends to spend $250 million on developing RFID, and a related technology known as sensor networks, over the next five years. HP is pouring $150 million into the technology, the company said in a dueling announcement.” Most likely the money IBM and HP are pouring in are essentially the […]