Daily Links - 2007/03/26

• Iona adds repository for SOAs - Iona Technologies Inc. is broadening its suite of Artix infrastructure software with a new tool announced Monday for managing software services in an SOA environment.
  >>>More on news.yahoo.com
• Firefox 3.0 Development Continues in ‘Gran’ Style - Mozilla developers are keeping up the pace on the development of their next-generation Firefox 3.0 browser with the Alpha 3 release, adding more under-the-hood improvements to security and its offline capabilities.
  >>>More on internetnews.com
• JSF Enables AJAX with No JavaScript - JavaServer Faces can be used to develop Asynchronous JavaScript and XML applications with no JavaScript coding, according to JSF experts.
  >>>More on eweek.com
• Voicethread launches group audio blogging - Voicethread has just launched an impressively designed service that allows groups of people to simply add voice or text comments to image albums.
  >>>More on venturebeat.com

Internet helpdesk

A real hard job I think

Multi-Touch Interaction Research

Great video about the possibilities of a touch screen with cool background music.
Enjoy…..

Daily Links - 2007/03/22

• Is Web 2.0 over and out? - New Internet technologies, defined vaguely as “Web 2.0,” have gone mainstream, but the cycle of innovation may be slowing, suggests a venture capitalist.
  >>>More on venturebeat.com
• IT vendors submit management spec to W3C - A group of IT vendors including Microsoft and IBM are backing a specification aimed at helping make it easier to manage services on a network by creating a common way to define applications, servers, and other IT assets.
  >>>More on news.yahoo.com
• NBC, News Corp. in Online Video Venture - NBC Universal and News Corp. joined forces Thursday with several major Internet companies to distribute TV shows, video clips and movies online in an effort to better control their programming and counter competition from YouTube.
  >>>More on news.wired.com

The iRack

Some interesting new Apple products
Really profound!

Distributed continuous quality assurance

Daily Links - 2007/03/20

• Analysis: Salesforce AppSpace signals major shift in SaaS - The days of dismissing SaaS as ‘just another delivery system’ are long over. In its Spring 07 rev announced earlier this week, Salesforce.com showed how there is an endless number of ways in which the SaaS company can reconfigure its core competency to serve new purposes.
  >>>More on infoworld.com
• Microsoft Joins OpenAJAX Alliance - After mulling it over for nearly a year, Microsoft has decided to join the OpenAJAX Alliance of vendors working toward furthering the adoption of open and interoperable Asynchronous JavaScript and XML-based Web technologies.
  >>>More on eweek.com
• Lyrics plugin for Winamp and Windows Media Player - No more searching for the lyrics.
  >>>More on lyricsplugin.com
• An overview of Cryptography
  >>>More on garykessler.net

Project Management - An other View

I like theses images. They hit the nail on the head

>>>Found on linuxkungfu.org

Daily Links - 2007/03/18

• Cisco Goes Office 2.0 - Cisco’s acquisition of WebEx brings good and bad news. Good news: the Office 2.0 industry welcomes a formidable new player that has the potential of fundamentally altering the rules of the game. Bad news: WebEx Connect, arguably one of the most ambitious projects announced last year, might be at risk of being neglected.
  >>>More on enterpriseirregulars.com
• Encouraging Enterprise 2.0: As simple as possible, but no simpler? - Blogger Euan Semple recently highlighted a key point about Enterprise 2.0 adoption that ZDNet’s own Dan Farber also found worthy of note over the weekend. And that is that Enterprise 2.0 will happen in your organization entirely by itself, whether you encourage it, discourage it, or even consign it to benign neglect.
  >>>More on blogs.zdnet.com
• E 2.0 Breakthrough in Europe: Trampoline Systems Raises $5.8 Million - Trampoline is the brainchild of ethnographer turned technology entrepreneur Charles Armstrong. Mentored by sociologist Lord Young of Dartington, Armstrong undertook twelve months of field research in the Isles of Scilly studying the underlying social behaviours involved in information management. He found that today’s business software works against the methods humans have evolved to distribute information.
  >>>More on fastforwardblog.com

Powerset a new competitor for Google?

Will Powerset a Silicon Valley start up with a new search technology under development rival Google in the future?

On the webpage of Powerset they say: “Our unique innovations in search are rooted in breakthrough technologies that take advantage of the structure and nuances of natural language. Using these advanced techniques, Powerset is building a large-scale search engine that breaks the confines of keyword search.”

We will see, but it seems to be very interesting…..