Sunday, April 10, 2005

IBM Business Transformation IBM's Business Transformation. Business Week writes about IBM's focus on business transformation services: "BM, with its legions of PhDs and closets full of patents, is not built to duke it out with the likes of Dell. Palmisano's strategy promises a neat escape. Instead of battling in cutthroat markets, he takes advantage of all the low-cost technology by packaging it, augmenting it with sophisticated hardware and software, and selling it to customers in a slew of what he calls business transformation services. That way IBM rides atop the commodity wave -- and avoids drowning in it." [E M E R G I C . o r g] 11:16:40 PM

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Is the SUN setting on CLECs ? How will they survive in a UNEP-LESS Post ERA? In the good old days 199x - 2004 a typical CLEC with a 50 central office (CO) HDSL build-out, the CLEC is able to break even with just 20 business customers, show net EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) of 20-plus percent over three years and become cash-positive in less than two years. With the recent UNEP ruling how will these xLECs navigate the vehement tumultous telecom sea and steer their company/ship away from the regulatory rocks so as not to shipwreck? One solution is VNAP http://vnap.ws and http://dv4.agileco.net/BizLocity Now Virtual Operators, xLECs, xSPs, Mobile, Wireless and Cable MSOs, and others can leverage this Virtual Network Infrastructure to redefine how services and products will be created and offer and break the tyranny of the DS0 and and the shackles of the unwilling partner. I will have more to say about this at a later time. 8:43:49 PM

Monday, March 07, 2005

Ten To Watch in Mobile Content Ten To Watch in Mobile Content. This is not a definitive list, just a list of smart young blood in the mobile content sector. Notice that except for one, none of them are CEOs (yet), but you’ll hear a lot from and about them in the next few years (that was the criteria). Just a way of recognizing the people in the second wave of mobile content (in no particular order): » Greg Clayman, Vice President, Wireless Strategy and Operations, MTV Networks » Rio Caraeff, mobile head at Universal Music » Thomas Ryan, Senior VP, Mobile Development, EMI Music » Mark Levy, VP content at InfoSpace Mobile » Lucy Hood, VP, Content, News Corp » Shawn Conahan (end of page), CEO, Intercasting Corp » Adam Flick, Chief Marketing Officer, Airborne Entertainment » Robert Tercek, Chief Strategy Office, mForma » Manish Jha, Senior VP, ESPN Mobile » Russell Beattie, Yahoo Mobile I realize this is a US-centric list, and if you want to add to my list of the people influencing our fast growing sector, post them in the comments below… [unmediated] 9:58:47 PM

Sunday, March 06, 2005

SODA SODA. A month or so ago, I was reading a Gartner handout for a conference, and came across an acronym they invented- SODA[1]. SODA (Service-Oriented Development of Applications), as Gartner defines it, consists of the following areas:... [] 12:32:57 PM     Yahoo Web Service API Yahoo Web Service API. Yahoo joins the growing number of web sites exposing their API as Web Services. Their API is available from Yahoo Developer Network.... [] 12:31:44 PM

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Yahoo! Web Services Yahoo! Web Services. Paul Bausch takes a look at the new Yahoo! Web Services interface and shows how to tap into the API with a sample application. [O'Reilly Network ONJava.com] 9:10:38 AM     Yahoo opens up search platform to external developers. Yahoo opens up search platform to external developers. Yahoo is for the first time opening up its search platform so that external developers can create search applications that tap the vendor's search infrastructure, Yahoo is announcing Tuesday. Yahoo is also expanding access to the Overture ad network to more developers. [InfoWorld: Top News] 9:02:09 AM

Monday, February 28, 2005

Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and Editors, 2nd Edition. The #1 guide to excellence in documentation--now completely updated! Direct from IBM's own documentation experts, this is the definitive guide to developing outstanding technical documentation--for the Web and for print. Using extensive before-and-after examples, illustrations, and checklists, the authors show exactly how to create documentation that's easy to find, understand, and use. This edition includes extensive new coverage of topic-based information, simplifying search and retrievability, internationalization, visual effectiveness, and much more. Coverage includes: Focusing on the tasks and topics users care about most Saying more with fewer words Using organization and other means to deliver faster access to information Presenting information in more visually inviting ways Improving the effectiveness of your review process Learning from example: sample text, screen captures, illustrations, tables, and much more Whether you're a writer, editor, designer, or reviewer, if you want to create great documentation, this book shows you how! [O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf] 9:27:38 PM     BPO battle heats up. BPO (business process outsourcing) is quickly becoming a frontline solution for CIOs desperate to reduce costs and automate business processes. ADVERTISEMENT Reducing the Total Cost of Ownership Learn how to reduce the total coast of ownership in enterprise data management in this case study. [InfoWorld: Top News] 5:31:01 PM

Sunday, February 27, 2005

Planet Roller internals [Blogging] Permalink | Comments [2] I promised some details on PlanetTool (the command-line tool that generates Planet Roller) internals, so here goes. This is what happens when PlanetTool runs: Startup (1) We start by reading the XML configuration file (via JDOM and XPath) (2) From the config, we create a config object, subscriptions and groups (3) A group has subscriptions (4) And a subscription can belong to more than one group Refresh subscription data (5) For each subscription, call the Rome Fetcher (6) Fetcher uses Conditional Get and Etags and caches feeds on disk (7) Feeds parsed into entries objects and added to subscription objects File generation (8) Call Velocity Texen with name of a control template (9) Texen calls our control template (10) Control template calls file generation templates (11) Templates calls planet object to get config, group, subscription, and entry objects needed to generates files needed for aggregated site (HTML, RSS, OPML, etc.) 8:24:48 PM

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