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David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Update: I really don’t want to do this, as I fear I am about to burn bridges that I really would rather not burn, but I would rather gain clarification now as to the difference between the following two comments than sit on this and wonder why the discrepancy exists:
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David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Hello, Rubyists! I’m Geoffrey Grosenbach and I’ll be posting here from time to time. You might remember me from the Ruby on Rails Podcast or from my graphing library, Gruff .
Filed at 4:46am
Bob Parsons · CEO, GoDaddy · Enterprise Applications
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Filed at 6:09am
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · Security
Another in our series on the security problems of trusting people in uniform :
Filed at 8:10am
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Back when the first NSA/Bush scandal broke in January, I pointed out that the concentration of the telephone industry into a few playersmade it easier for the administration to carry off its illegal,undercover operation. The same reasoning applies to the currentrevelations over NSA tracking of American telephone habits, as well asthe current debate over the two-tier Internet (contrasted with whatopponents call “network neutrality”).The network neutrality debate provides a lot of irony, because thephone companies claim they should avoid regulation because there’scompetition in the Internet industry. They point to cable, satellite,and wireless. But what do these competitors consist of? Cable companies offer fasterInternet service currently than phone companies’ ADSL, but the cablecompanies would have to build entirely new networks to provide fiberto the home. Satellite service and wireless are not competitive withfiber. As I said in a major piece earlier this week ,the telephone companies are trying to confuse the public and thelegislators by mixing up the underlying physical network with theInternet service that runs on it. And when it comes to regular telephone service, the companies thatcooperated with the NSA are essentially still monopolies. (Qwest, toits credit, refused to help the NSA.) So I’m not surprised to readabout the true state of competition in the Boston Globe today: Lisa Pierce, a vice president at Forrester Research in Cambridge,estimates that Verizon, AT&T, BellSouth together account for 90percent of the country’s landlines and two-thirds of its wireless phoneaccounts. She said it’s possible angry customers might desert thecompanies for a competitor who wouldn’t share their records. “There’s not too many people out there who wouldn’t be affected bythis one way or another,” she said. “the question is who would youmove to?”
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Guy Kawasaki · Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures · IT Management
I just learned that Jajah is giving away 100 minutes of long distance calls to moms. Check out the offer here. Powered by Qumana...
Filed at 11:53am
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
In a new-to-me post on his Ventureblog (OK, it as way back in Dec/05), venture capitalist David Hornik explains why the real money in Long Tail businesses goes to the companies that aggregate and/or filter content- and not to the content creators. This is the point I’ve been exploring in talking about the economics of digital distribution and the Fallacy Of Composition (an advantage for everyone is an advantage for no one). But Hornik brings the perspective of someone who vets business models all day, looking for good investment risks:
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Eric Newcomer · Chief Technology Officer, IONA · miscellaneous / Software Development
Ok, today I am in Zurich but yesterday I was in Munich so I will report on that. Not much to say except we had a great visit with a senior SOA architect at O2. I can say a couple of things - they are definitely interested in SOA, and one of the interesting aspects the architect mentioned is the benefit of SOA in the context of standardizing IT terminology across projects and departments.
Filed at 1:26pm
Dave Hitz · Founder and Executive Vice President, Network Appliance · /thinkingoutloud/ / Networking
Most product launches are primarily about the cool new products a company is just shipping. Our launch earlier this week was different—it is mostly about a strategy that we've been working towards since the late nineties.
Filed at 2:24pm
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
This 30-day project explores the refactoring of a legacy system. The Everything Engine is an aging softwareproject that powers Perl Monks , Everything 2, and a few other websites.It suffers from poor design and maintainiability. Learn what it’s like to lookover the shoulder of an experienced developer as he refactors, redesigns, andupdates the code.
Filed at 3:15pm
Marc Fleury · Chairman and CEO, JBoss · Platforms
JBoss World Las Vegas will take place June 12-15 at the RIO hotel If you haven't reserved your pass, do so and do so quickly . It is going to be a special event for all of us. I truly believe it will have that "one time" feel to it. Expect some serious work time and some very serious play time. I know it is going to be a great event and I am personally very excited about it. On business side we have grown tremendously in the past year. We made promises at the inaugural JBoss World Atlanta a year ago and we have delivered on them, most notable JBoss ON, the Operations Network. As a combined entity with RedHat, (with an expected closing in the next few weeks) we will be in a position to talk more about our integration plans. As a combined entity RedHat and JBoss will transform the infrastructure software industry in the coming months and years. We also have a few blockbuster announcements, but shhhh. You want to be there to hear about it first!
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Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · Security
Interesting first-person account of someone on the U.S. Terrorist Watch List: To sum up, if you run afoul of the nation's "national security" apparatus, you're completely on your own.
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Steve Goldstein · CEO, Alacra · aml and compliance / Knowledge Management
In the March/April issue of Online Magazine, Marydee Ojala has written an article called Due Diligence Research, which asks why information professionals are not more involved in the compliance process. I asked the same question last year after attending the...
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David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Just in case you’re like me and occasionally get on a CLI bender… Install mpg123 (via Fink or Darwinports ).
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Jacob Christfort · Vice President of Server Technologies, Oracle
I'm on my way to a short vacation on Hawaii with my Fiancee, Kimberly. However, before I leave, I'd like to share some reflections on innovation. What is innovation? Is it coming up with something completely new that no one thought of before, and might be useful at some point? Or is it equally innovative to execute succesfully on a complex idea, previously thought of, but not successfully implemented? Sometimes I feel like Woody Allen, who said: "I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." Similarly, it seems that we too often accept as innovative only ideas that are completely new to us, when our innovative powers could in fact be equally or better applied to solving age-old problems better.
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Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · Security
Knit yourself a squid hat . At least one person did, and then took pictures .
Filed at 5:55pm
Bill Roth · Vice President of BEA Workshop Business Unit, BEA Systems · Software Development
What are the odds that no one would be named Janet?
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Guy Kawasaki · Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures · IT Management / reality check
If most venture capitalists weren’t liars, we’d tell you that if we had the opportunity to fund Google, we would have passed. Seriously, who would have thought the world needed another search engine in 1995? Fast forward to 2006. Does...
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