February 11, 2003

XML Content Management

Jon Udell has some encouraging words to say in regards to Chad Dickerson’s experience “winning ugly” with XML and content:

“As a longtime content wrangler, I’m guilty of assuming that any structure is mappable to any other structure. And that’s true. But it’s never as trivial as we like to imagine. Transformation is work. We’ll always need to do some of it programmatically.”

Well said.

February 10, 2003

Microsoft’s Xdocs will be called InfoPath

“The software giant is set to announce at a conference in San Diego that XDocs will officially be called InfoPath.”

“InfoPath will use XML to allow office workers to create electronic forms that will automatically share data with other documents and back-end business systems.”

“Microsoft is hoping to corner a share of the XML-based content management software market. Market researcher ZapThink, based in Waltham, Mass., estimates the value of the market for XML-based content management software at more than $11 billion by 2008.”

February 10, 2003

I am XP

Scary. In the which OS are You? quiz, I came out as Windows XP.

February 9, 2003

Microsoft, webloggers and Community

I’d like to see this happen…

“Microsoft wants to help webloggers and others build strong communities like Slashdot around their products.”

Although according to The Scobleizer, it’s unlikely they “get it”.

However, there are a few exceptions, like for example, the IBS community at ASP.Net

February 9, 2003

Simpson’s Cast On Bravo This Sunday

So what do the voices of the Simpson’s cast look like? Find out tonight on Bravo (via Slashdot)

February 8, 2003

The Weblog: Tough to Beat on Breaking News

Article about the use of blogs when reporting on breaking news. (via BlogRoots)

February 7, 2003

Google Dance Tool

An interesting tool for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

“During the update, which takes several days, the 3 Google servers display different results. Whilst the results vary from server to server, they are said to be “dancing”, hence the name Google Dance.”

February 6, 2003

Latent Semantic Indexing

Heh, I wish this was available when I was in school, “One other possible use of LSI is for an automated essay writer. Given a big enough body of knowledge about a certain topic, an LSI program could take your homework, mark it and even suggest areas you haven’t covered.” (via Ben Hammersley)

February 6, 2003

Data emergence et al

Jon Udell just ties everything together in this sentence, “When teams form and work together, the “markup” that enables and documents team formation, and that represents shared work product, needs to arise naturally and invisibly as a consequence of tool use.” … great post!

February 5, 2003

Java development impractical?

I’d like to hear more on this, but according to Lockergnome, “Sun’s own engineers find developing common software applications in Java impractical…”