December 18, 2002

Improve Your Career with Tomcat and Aspire

“Information technology companies today have a hidden resource that they have
barely started to exploit. IT companies have, over the years, spent a
considerable amount of money equipping themselves with strong relational
database expertise. But these relational teams are traditionally isolated and
kept behind the glass doors, primarily supporting the development teams that
churn out end-user applications. This practice largely continues even today as
the programming face of IT moves to the Web.”
(via ONJava.com)

December 18, 2002

World Trade Center Site Design Concepts

Seven new design concepts for World Trade Center site on display @ LMDC

December 18, 2002

Creative Commons Flash

I finally spent some time checking out the creative commons “get creative” presentation. Very well done. Although, this kind of “creative sharing” has been going on in the Jazz community for sometime without too much friction.

December 18, 2002

Commercialize your dog?

Ok, if this comes to the US, perhaps our dog will be big enough for … “A mobile phone giant has opted to use big dogs as moving billboards to advertise
its new handset. ”

“And the company behind the innovative form of advertising is appealing for
owners of larger dogs to register their pooches for future “dogverts”. ”

From: BBC NEWS Phone giant opts for ‘dogverts’

December 17, 2002

LED spoke lights for your bike

Next year I’d like to see Lance roll into Paris with these :-) …
Hokey Spokes are transparent “blades” that attach to your bicycle spokes. As these blades spin during riding, a computer inside the blades modulates the internal LED lights so that design images and text appear.” (via SlashDot)

December 16, 2002

Control a PC from your DVD player?

Ok, this sounds very cool … Sonicblue’s new DVD player will be able to access content on PCs, such as photos, music and videos, via an Ethernet and wireless network connection. Sweet!

December 15, 2002

Seeing Both Sides

Jeremy Zawodny writes, “It’s a rare engineer who can see both sides of the coin: the technology and its application toward achieving a company’s business goals.”

“However, there’s a stranger breed … the engineer who … has little trouble explaining how his work supports the company’s broader goals…”

I think as we put the .com era behind us and as engineers from that time mature, you will see more and more of this “odd creature” — at least I hope so (sans the part about the “difficultly communicating with the more common engineers” :)

December 14, 2002

Business Model for Music in the Internet Age

Interesting quotes from: I, Cringely | The Pulpit: ” .. classical or jazz, those two genres are already living in the future where musicians survive by performance rather than because they have a recording contract. If they had to rely solely on record sales, Branford Marsalis and Yo-Yo Ma would starve.”

“An enlightened music company would see itself as being in the venture capital business. “

December 13, 2002

Blogger API 2.0 documentation

Well, I’m happy to see that (so far) the Blogger API 2.0 now supports Titles and Categories. However, I suppose this is also the case with the MetaWeblog API via the struct element. Hmm …

December 12, 2002

Google introduces Froogle

“Froogle is a new service from Google that makes it easy to find information
about products for sale online. By focusing entirely on product search, Froogle
applies the power of Google’s search technology to a very specific task:
locating stores that sell the item you want to find and pointing you directly to
the place where you can make a purchase.”

I wonder if this is available via Google’s web services API … it would be interesting to expand on Calin Uioreanu’s Amazon PHP API powered Simplest-Shop idea with Froogle.