--- title: "April 20, 2006" url: https://technologyvoices.com/archive/2006/04/20/ description: "Entries filed on Technology Voices on April 20, 2006: Key takeaways from the IDC MPM Conference, One More EBIC Photo, Identity-Theft Disclosure Laws." published: 2006-04-20 updated: 2006-04-20 --- # April 20, 2006 Published 2006-04-20 20 entries filed this day ## Key takeaways from the IDC MPM Conference Eric Kintz · VP Global Marketing Strategy & Excellence, HP · Platforms I was a guest speaker at the IDC Marketing Performance Measurement (MPM) conference yesterday in New York on the CMO panel for effective strategies for marketing performance measurement. I had the opportunity to discuss MPM with competitors, large and small tech companies as well as with the IDC CMO advisory folks. I thought I would share my own key takeaways on the state of MPM in the tech industry. Filed at 7:14am ## One More EBIC Photo [Steve Goldstein](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/75/) · CEO, Alacra · Knowledge Management EBIC regular and digital photo expert Kathleen O'Connell from AstraZeneca sent me this photo from the Wednesday night Alacra dinner. Thanks, Kathleen!... Filed at 9:36am ## Identity-Theft Disclosure Laws [Bruce Schneier](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/107/) · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · Security California was the first state to pass a law requiring companies that keep personal data to disclose when that data is lost or stolen. Since then, many states have followed suit. Now Congress is debating federal legislation that would do the same thing nationwide. Filed at 10:11am ## Google's Summer of Code is Looking for Python Students and Mentors [David A Chappell](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development The BDFL just posted that Google is looking for students from undergrad through Ph.D levels to work on new open source code and mentors to, well, mentor these students. Obviously, since Guido is posting this, the particular students and mentors he's trying to draw are Pythonically inclined. This is a great opportunity to get involved in some Python related project. The Python Summer of Code Wiki is here and the Google Summer of Code page is here . Filed at 11:18am ## Blast From the Past: NeXT OpenStep on MacBook Pro [David A Chappell](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development Remember NeXT? Steve Job's next big thing after he left Apple in the 80's? Weblog Mac on Intel reports they've gotten NeXT OpenStep up and running on a new Intel-based MacBook Pro. OpenStep was developed in the early '90s to let NeXT's NeXTStep OS run on Solaris SPARC workstations. NeXTStep, which dates back to the late 80's was a Mach-kernel based Unix with a GUI that later evolved into Rhapsody and eventually OS X. GNUStep continues a live, open-source and developing GNU release of OpenStep. Filed at 12:17pm ## Disk Woes [David A Chappell](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development What's worse than discovering that your backup hard drive has mechanical difficulties that just killed a years worth of your pictures and videos? I'll give you the answer: Discovering that the file system on your primary data drive is corrupt and also just killed that same years worth of pictures and video. Filed at 12:17pm ## Microsoft's David Weiss gives a tour of the Microsoft Mac Lab [David A Chappell](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development Microsoft's David Weiss provides a A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab . Lots of interesting information and good photos from the home of Mactopia.com . Filed at 1:17pm ## Terrorist Travel Advisory [Bruce Schneier](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/107/) · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · Security From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : My son and I woke up Sunday morning and drove a rented truck to New York City to move his worldly goods into an apartment there. Filed at 2:09pm ## Express Now Free as in "Free" [David A Chappell](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development Good news for coders, the Visual Studio Express & Coding4Fun Team at Microsoft have posted an announcement on the ASP.NET Forums that the Express Editions of Visual Studio 2005 will be free till the end of time (as opposed to the first-year free deal previously announced). Get out and grab them today if you haven't already done so and join the 5 million or so others who have downloaded these cool tools. Filed at 2:18pm ## Surj Patel: Is Freeswitch the Fuse for the Big Bang? [David A Chappell](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development Surj Patel has just published an intriguing column over on the VoIP-News site that discusses the new open source Freeswitch project . Surj is excited by the announcement last week that Freeswitch has the ability to broker calls between the PSTN and the VoIP-specific protocol Jingle (used by GoogleTalk), and sees this as a potential tipping point for a flood of new innovative applications: Filed at 3:47pm ## Burt Kaliski Burt Kaliski · Vice President of Research, RSA Security Speaking of Security is the RSA Security Blog and Podcast. It features a group of experts in identity management, encryption, privacy, policy, and enterprise security standards. Filed at 4:09pm ## Ellison's Interview: Taking Swipes at Red Hat / JBoss [David A Chappell](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development I'm perplexed by Ellison's FT interview re: open source . I only half believe him when he says that Red Hat doesn't own anything. Ellison is trying to cast a shadow on the Red Hat deal from two weeks ago, and, to me, it speaks volumes that he's so prepared to answer questions about the JBoss deal. Here's an illuminating (and perplexing) quote: Filed at 4:20pm ## SOA Expert Podcast Show 35...Great Debate, SOA vs. Traditional Enterprise Architecture [David S. Linthicum](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/24/) · CEO, Bridgewerx · Enterprise Applications SOA Expert Podcast Show 35...Great Debate, SOA vs. Traditional Enterprise Architecture Listen to the latest SOA Expert Podcast... Filed at 5:27pm ## Oracle and Google [Luke Kowalski](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/58/) · Corporate UI architect, Oracle Oracle and Google I heard Marissa Mayer talk at BayChi. Filed at 5:56pm ## On The Cost Of AJAX: It's All About The Infered Question Asked [David A Chappell](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development ongoing � The Cost of AJAX So saying "AJAX is expensive" (or that it's cheap) is like saying "A mountain bike is slower than a battle tank" (or that it's faster). The truth depends on what you're doing with it. In the case of web sites, it depends on how many fetches you do and where you have to go to get the data to satisfy them. I would start with the above, move on to " The Real AJAX Upside ", and then call yourself a better, more informed hacker because of it. (Or a better, more informed Mort, if in fact such a term is more appropriate in your particular case (would you admit it if it was?)) Filed at 8:18pm ## IronPython Beta 6 Now Available [David A Chappell](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development Update: Worth noting, In answer (posted on April 2nd, 2006) to the question ... when we can expect a 1.0 release? Dino Viehland Filed at 9:49pm ## First Official Beta of Opera 9.0 Now Available [David A Chappell](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development Widgets, BitTorrent, content blocking: Introducing Opera 9 Beta Filed at 10:48pm ## The 120 Day Wonder: How to Evangelize a Blog [Guy Kawasaki](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/100/) · Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures · IT Management I know a fair amount about evangelism and a little bit about blogging, so I've combined the two in order to provide some insights into the evangelism of a blog. Granted, I've only been at blogging for 120 days... Filed at 11:30pm ## Simon Horwith On The Future Of ColdFusion [Ben Forta](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/57/) · MX Senior Technical Evangelist, Macromedia · coldfusion / flex CFDJ's Simon Horwith weighs in on ColdFusion, Flex, CF in the Adobe era, and more, stating that "this acquisition is the best thing that could have ever happened to ColdFusion". Filed at 11:56pm ## Sudos (and Sudon'ts) [David A Chappell](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development Using sudo effectively. Filed at 12:15am [Back to the full archive](https://technologyvoices.com/archives/)