June 7, 2001

Lotus to offer Web services kit to developers

an interesting article detailing how lotus plans to offer it’s collaboration applications as web services:

“The centerpiece of Lotus’ announcements will be a Web services enablement kit that allows developers to take components of Lotus collaboration applications and embed them as Web services in other Lotus applications or in non-Lotus Web applications.”

From: ZDNet: eWEEK: Lotus to offer Web services kit to developers

June 7, 2001

J.R.R. Tolkien: Lord of the Geeks

very intriguing article in the Village Voice about Tolkien’s influence on geek-culture:

“If you feel that’s no particularly meaningful achievement, I understand. But maybe you could indulge me and imagine, just for a moment, that the fact that we live in a world increasingly made by geeks actually makes their collective imagination worth understanding.”

From: The Village Voice: Features: Lord of the Geeks by Julian Dibbell

June 6, 2001

Fluorescent LANs

an interesting link i found on slashdot about a new technology that utilizes the flicker of flurescent bulbs to create a LAN.

June 6, 2001

Sheet Music to Napster: Music Distribution Tech

interesting essay on slashdot: “Not only am I unsure of what changes are coming down the road, I don’t think I dare predict whether they’re going to be changes for the better or worse. But whatever happens over the next decade or two … peer-to-peer music trading, legal or otherwise, is going to shake things up big-time.”

From: Slashdot | Sheet Music to Napster: Music Distribution Tech

June 6, 2001

Scour: The Resurrection

found this one on geeknews: “A couple of months ago, as you all may remember, Scour Exchange took a dive, but said they were planning a resurgence … Anyway, Scour has finally released the beta software.”

June 6, 2001

New company targets corporate portals

“American Express and software partners Tibco and Infosys launched a new company on Tuesday aimed at giving customers an easier way to access business-management software, services and content via the Web.”

“The new venture, dubbed Workadia, will provide companies a corporate portal where employees can log on to access certain business applications, e-mail, calendars, expense reports, corporate travel, human resources and a list of other products and services.”

From: New company targets corporate portals – Tech News – CNET.com

June 5, 2001

IDC believes success for the ASP model is guaranteed

“Despite the barrage of criticism and the financial knocks ASPs have had to endure, the industry is set to grow enormously over the next few years.”

“By 2005, global revenues for the ASP industry will amount to $24bn, representing annual growth of 89 per cent, according to research group IDC.”

From: ASP Still Going Strong

June 1, 2001

Open Web Services

from slashdot: “Clay Shirky has an interesting article on Hailstorm on OpenP2P.com. He looks especially at how MS mixes decentralization with strong control of third party development and user data. Think of it as an authentication-centric, rather than hardware-centric system.”

June 1, 2001

Fostering the Collaborative Creation of Knowledge: A White Paper

From: IBM Research: Knowledge Socialization: White paper

May 31, 2001

Weblogs: A New Source of News

Doc Searls, says: “Weblogs will inform old media. They will increasingly be a source of information that traditional media will rely on.”

From: OJR J.D.’s Web Watch: Weblogs: A New Source of News