October 23, 2006
11 entries filed this day
Next Gen Content - Image Metrics
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · insights / Knowledge Management
The New York Times’ vidcast this morning reports on Image Metrics’ new image mapping software, a product that facilitates auto-generated animation for the movie industry.It works like this - Image Metrics’ software allows film-makers to map the deteail of human performance, particularly facial performance and then to produce animation from it. Humans perform, the...
Filed at 2:58am
Information - It’s All Around Us
Irving Wladawsk... · Vice President of Technical Strategy and Innovation, IBM · Enterprise Applications / technology and strategy
Last week IBM announced a new kind of software platform, IBM Information Server, designed to help businesses and other organizations integrate and derive more value from the disparate sources of information that are spread across their systems. The announcement was...
Filed at 6:00am
Google’s Belgian Woes,Microsoft’s Too
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · for argument's sake / for arguments sake / Knowledge Management
Microsoft and Google’s treatment in the Belgian courts is indicative of where EU thinking is going (or where it’s at). Belgium regards itself as the standard bearer for a European interpretation of economic law, just as France once did.In the 1970s France set up a customs’ post in Poitiers, some miles inland to which Sony...
Filed at 8:22am
Geonames marches foward with ontology v1.2
Kingsley Idehen · Founder & CEO, OpenLink Software · Software Development
Geonames marches foward with ontology v1.2 : " Geonames announced the release of its Geonames ontology v1.2 . The new ontology has few enhancements. It introduced the notion of linked data and made clear distinction between URI that intended for linking documents and for linking ontology concepts.
Filed at 8:26am
OSGEO Announces Executive Director
Geoff Zeiss · Director of Technology, Autodesk · Enterprise Applications / open source geospatial
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has chosen Tyler Mitchell as Executive Director. Tyler will be responsible for the OSGEO's day-to-day operations in support of both development and promotion. Tyler was one of the first in 2004 to recognize the important...
Filed at 10:34am
Links & Blinks |
Andy Lark · Chief Marketing Officer, LogLogic · link love / Networking / reads & feeds
Stowe on Goplan - a Basecamp competitor Musings on the value of social software New agency launches (in Second Life of course) - Crayon. Joseph Jaffe is behind the deal that has attracted some star players. Edelman gets socially responsible....
Filed at 10:46am
IBM granted patent for privacy “invention”
Stefan Brands · Founder & President, Credentica · general / Security
I just learned that IBM has been awarded a US patent on a so-called “invention” for “improving the handling of personally identifiable information.” The text of the patent, which has an impressive list of 14 “inventors,” can be found here.
Filed at 3:02pm
SOA: It's the Business that Matters
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
I recently published an article in Enterprise Systems Journal on the subject of SOA and meeting the needs of business. It's called "SOA: Its the Business that Matters">/a> and can be found at http://w
Filed at 3:46pm
ESB-CON II is now available for replay
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
The ESB-CON II virtual conference that I wrote about here is now available for replay. To recap, ESB-CON II features descriptions and case studies of SOA projects that are based on experience with act
Filed at 4:15pm
Google and Video Ads
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · advertising/marketing / Knowledge Management
There are plenty of clever ways to advertise on the web but clever for who? The Idea Dude some time back said that google ads depend in some immeasurable way on creating unsatisfying content on your site. People can’t find what they want so they’re tempted by a text link.I’m sure it’s not anything like...
Filed at 4:34pm
Road to Silicon Valley turns rocky
Andy Lark · Chief Marketing Officer, LogLogic · kiwi stuff / Networking
I'm quoted throughout this piece on the decision by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise not to back ANZA here in the Valley... It's a conference for emerging technology companies from downunder. I really like ANZA - and would have supported...
Filed at 10:28pm
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