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.
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• An overview of Cryptography
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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…..

Daily Links - 2007/03/15

• Ballmer talks up CRM Live - Microsoft demonstrated Dynamics Live CRM, its planned hosted customer relationship management software, during the closing Wednesday keynote given by CEO Steve Ballmer at its Convergence show in San Diego.
  >>>More on infoworld.com
• Socializing online luring an older crowd: study - Teenagers are being joined by more people aged in their 20s and 30s on social networking Web sites as the trend of socializing online continues to expand, according to a survey on Wednesday.
  >>>More on news.yahoo.com
• Skype to connect buyers with sellers - Skype’s business model is taking a distinct eBay shape.
  >>>More on news.com
• Enterprise 2.0 Meets the Press - Information Week recently released a report on Enterprise 2.0, Most Business Tech Pros Wary About Web 2.0 Tools In Business. While the title seems cautionary at least it is press coverage and they used the terms Enterprise 2.0 in the subtitle, ‘Enterprise 2.0′ must overcome concerns about security and return to get a foothold in business, InformationWeek Research Finds.”
  >>>More on billives.typepad.com
• Office 2.0 Database Redux - The Office 2.0 Database created almost a year ago now contains over 450 applications, which have been submitted by more than 150 contributors. It started as a single page separate from the core IT|Redux blog, then evolved into a collection of pages, but did not offer the ability for readers to write reviews. This is now fixed, with the release of a brand new Office 2.0 Database, with its own domain name.
  >>>More on enterpriseirregulars.com

In-the-Brain of Paul Fremantle: SOA with Apache Axis2 and Web Services

SOA expert, Paul Fremantle, chair of the Oasis WS and committer to Apache presented a free Skills Matter In-the-Brain Session on SOA with … all » Apache Axis2 and Web Services.

Daily Links - 2007/03/14

• Bruce Sterling gives blogs 10 years to live - Science fiction writer and professional pundit Bruce Sterling has cracked bloggers with the extinction stick, saying the plebs will crawl back into their ooze by 2017.
  >>>More on theregister.co.uk
• Startup Organizes Multimedia Content - A Silicon Valley startup hoping to become “the Google of audio and video” introduced software this week that trolls the Internet for podcasts, music and videos, then sorts the clips into categories such as “fashionista,” “hip hop” and “gossip snoop.”
  >>>More on washingtonpost.com
• Is Google creating a Gphone? - The mobile industry likes nothing more than a good piece of gossip. One particularly juicy nugget of whisper that has refused to die is the Google phone, a piece of mobile kit the search giant is supposed to be working on.
  >>>More on hardware.silicon.com

HTML forms Next Generation

Web-based replacements for spreadsheets and simple forms

By Dave Raggett, W3C Fellow and Principal Researcher at Volantis Systems.

Daily Links - 2007/03/12

• Google maps World Wildlife Fund efforts - Google on Monday added details of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) environmental projects to its popular global online mapping service.
  >>>More on news.yahoo.com
• Xactly Planning For More Intelligent SaaS - Business intelligence relies on clean data and a single version of the truth. On-demand sales compensation management software vendor Xactly believes that kind of valuable information can be extrapolated from sales data.
  >>>More on internetnews.com
• Content Analysis Heuristics - Most website designers are aware that an important part of understanding the background of any website redesign project is performing a content inventory as well as a content analysis.
  >>>More on boxesandarrows.com
• Enterprise 2.0 Success Story within a US Hospital - Here is an enterprise 2.0 success story from Ken Cohn’s new book, Collaborate for Success! Breakthrough Strategies for Engaging Physicians, Nurses, and Hospital Executives. This book is written to enable physicians and other healthcare providers to reframe assumptions and collaborate better to achieve outcomes not possible when operating in silos.
  >>>More on fastforwardblog.com
• The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Web 2.0: Top 25 Apps to Grow your Business
  >>>More on avivadirectory.com