--- title: "October 23, 2006" url: https://technologyvoices.com/archive/2006/10/23/ description: "Entries filed on Technology Voices on October 23, 2006: Next Gen Content - Image Metrics, Information - It’s All Around Us, Google’s Belgian Woes,Microsoft’s Too." published: 2006-10-23 updated: 2006-10-23 --- # October 23, 2006 Published 2006-10-23 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](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/54/) · 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](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/129/) · 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](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/130/) · 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](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/141/) · 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](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · 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](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · 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](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/130/) · 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... 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