OpenWeb 03/21/2012 (a.m.)

• Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz And Khosla Back Big Data Startup ClearStory | TechCrunch

  Interesting, but do they have a plan to implement ODBC at the Cloud level?  It's one thing to provide connectivity, exploration and analysis to non Cloud data and transaction servers.  And another to connect the data feeds into next generation compound documents.  Seems to me this is an effective first step, but the value remains elusive.  Left a comment on this page. exerpt: The startup’s offering, which has not been released yet, will connect to data stored in databases as well as the web and other sources, and adds a visual discovery component to make it easy for users to parse through this data and make sense of the information. The beauty of ClearStory is that it allows businesses to analyze internal and publicly available data at the same time and make this data easy for the masses to understand.

  Tags: ge, ClearStory-Data

  • - By Gary Edwards

• Mobile Content Management | Averail

  new startup, looking to be a contender in the mobile sync-share-store content sector.  Not sure what separates them from the Dropbox sector though.  big time funding.  Sandhill road.

  Tags: Averail, DropBox

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 03/20/2012 (p.m.)

• Who will be the ‘Dropbox of the enterprise?’ The race is on — Cloud Computing News

  Could have written this two years ago, but it is a sign of the times, and the advance towards a Cloud Productivity Platform that brings this issue front and center.  DropBox has many challengers (finally).  It's always seemed to me that sync-share-store is a foundation kind of service.  Another would be that of real time connectivity to data and transaction processing systems - Cloud ODBC.  The great transition is indeed underway.  And this is a good day for me.  I've got tow companies that made the 451 list!  Now, if only DropBox will listen.

  Tags: DropBox, SurDoc

  • - By Gary Edwards

• What’s in a name? Analyzing ‘Dropbox for the enterprise’ — Too much information

  The 454 Take on DropBox and the sync-share-store phenomenon.  Kathleen Reidy

  Tags: DropBox

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 03/17/2012 (a.m.)

• ChronoZoom: A deep dive into the history of everything

  Tags: timeline, ChronoZoom, Microsoft

  • Imagine a timeline of the universe, complete with high-resolution videos and images, in which you could zoom from a chronology of Egypt’s dynasties and pyramids to the tale of a Japanese-American couple interned in a World War II relocation camp to a discussion of a mass extinction that occurred on Earth 200 million years ago – all in seconds.

    Based on an idea from a University of California, Berkeley, student, ChronoZoom – essentially a zoomable timeline of timelines augmented with multimedia features –- is coming to life.

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OpenWeb 03/14/2012 (a.m.)

• Ray Ozzie's startup has mobility, communications at core - Computerworld

  Interesting, but lightweight interview with Ray Ozzie.  Look at the productivity comment in particular.  He also mentions "social productivity" as being an aspect of "communications".  My guess is that his new startup, Cocomo, will gear up towards a Cloud Productivity Platform where this new capability of integrated web communications is woven deep into collaborative productivity applications.  With enough juice to blow the legacy Windows - MSOffice Productivity environment out of the water.  We shall see. excerpt: When he joined Microsoft he thought it had a "tremendous history," he said, with great technology assets and people. But it was a company struggling to adjust to changes in the PC and server markets, he said. "I tried my best to communicate with various groups what their purpose in life was," he said. For instance, he tried to convince the Office group that it should focus on selling productivity, as opposed to selling PC-based productivity products, and the Xbox group that it should sell entertainment, not boxes or discs.

  Tags: Ray-Ozzie, Cocomo, Cloud-Productivity-Platform

  • - By Gary Edwards

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Fight for Freedom

OpenWeb 03/06/2012 (a.m.)

• Privacy betrayed: Twitter sells multi-billion tweet archive — RT

  Tags: Twitter, tweets, privacy, social media

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OpenWeb 03/05/2012 (a.m.)

• EUROPA - Press Releases - Antitrust: Commission opens proceedings against MathWorks

  Commission v. MIcrosoft Redux.

  Tags: interop, DG Competition, antitrust, European Commission

  • - By Paul Merrell

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OpenWeb 02/29/2012 (p.m.)

• The Best Guide to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing Programs

  Tags: earn_online, affiliate_marketing, affiliate_programs, affiliate_income, online_affiliate_programs

  • - By Stanley Jones

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Future of the Web 02/27/2012 (p.m.)

• Michael Geist - The ACTA Guide, Part One: The Talks To-Date

  [Monday January 25, 2010The 7th round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations begins tomorrow in Guadalajara, Mexico. The negotiation round will be the longest to-date, with three and a half days planned to address civil enforcement, border measures, the Internet provisions, and (one hour for) transparency. Over the next five days, I plan to post a five-part ACTA Guide that will include sourcing for much of the discussion on ACTA, links to all the leaked documents, information on the transparency issue, and a look at who has been speaking out. ...]

  Tags: acta, guide, copyright, counterfeiting, secret, agreement, knowledge, power, social, involvement, Internet

  • - By Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

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Future of the Web 02/27/2012 (a.m.)

• open enterprise manifesto | bettermeans.org

  Tags: management, manefesto, 2012, development, how to, change, enterprise, open

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Future of the Web 02/16/2012 (p.m.)

• Leadership Vs Management

  This is the most debated topic in management research today, and yet there has not been any clarity in arriving at a conceptual distinction between these two styles at increasing number of organizations.

  Tags: bp, charisma, Collaboration, collaborative, leadership, contingency, plan, divide, failure, harvard

  • - By asmi agarwal

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OpenWeb 02/14/2012 (a.m.)

• Node.js Manual @ Cloud 9 - Node Manual.org

  Node.js tutorials and script library resources

  Tags: Node.JS

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 02/05/2012 (a.m.)

• Goldilocks SEO | SEO Book.com

  Funny graphic showing how to engineer and maneuver your web sites to get the most out of Google Search Engine.  Excellent advice positioned in a cute, but surprisingly effective and contrasting graphic format.  

  Tags: Google-SEO, Goldilocks-SEO, OpenWeb

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 01/31/2012 (a.m.)

• Metacrap

  Tags: metadata

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OpenWeb 01/28/2012 (p.m.)

• Common Crawl Founder Gil Elbaz Speaks About New Relationship With Amazon, Semantic Web Projects Using Its Corpus, And Why Open Web Crawls Matter To Developing Big Data Expertise - semanticweb.com

  Tags: search, web crawling, Common Crawl

• First 'Super Wi-Fi' network goes live in North Carolina

  Tags: wifi, wireless networking, super wifi, white spaces spectrum

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OpenWeb 01/27/2012 (p.m.)

• HTML5 Please - Use the new and shiny responsibly

  HTML5 app development resource and advice site.  Same people who did the excellent CSS3 Please site.

  Tags: HTML5, tutorial, CSS3

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 01/27/2012 (a.m.)

• » Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

  Tags: ACTA, Obama, OpenWeb, SOPA, constitutional law, law

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OpenWeb 01/25/2012 (a.m.)

• Google's Chrome Browser Sprouts Programming Kit of the Future "Node.js" | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

  Good article describing Node.js.  The Node.js Summitt is taking place in San Francisco on Jan 24th - 25th.  http://goo.gl/AhZTD I'm wondering if anyone has used Node.js to create real time Cloud ready compound documents?  Replacing MSOffice OLE-ODBC-ActiveX heavy productivity documents, forms and reports with Node.js event widgets, messages and database connections?  I'm thinking along the lines of a Lotus Notes alternative with a Node.js enhanced version of EverNote on the front end, and Node.js-Hadoop productivity platform on the server side? Might have to contact Stephen O'Grady on this.  He is a featured speaker at the conference. excerpt: At first, Chito Manansala (Visa & Sabre) built his Internet transaction processing systems using the venerable Java programming language. But he has since dropped Java and switched to what is widely regarded as The Next Big Thing among Silicon Valley developers. He switched to Node. Node is short for Node.js, a new-age programming platform based on a software engine at the heart of Google’s Chrome browser. But it’s not a browser technology. It’s meant to help build software that sits on a distant server somewhere, feeding an application to your PC or smartphone, and it’s particularly suited to systems like the one Chito Manansala is building — systems that juggle scads of information streaming to and from other sources. In other words, it’s suited to the modern internet. Two years ago, Node was just another open source project. But it has since grown into the development platform of the moment. At Yahoo!, Node underpins “Manhattan,” a fledgling online service for building and hosting mobile applications. Microsoft is offering Node atop Windows Azure, its online service for building and hosting a much beefier breed of business application. And Sabre is just one of a host of big names using the open source platform to erect applications on their own servers. Node is based on the Javascript engine at the heart of Google’s Chrome browser — the engine that executes Javascript code. But it takes Javascript out of the browser and moves it to a new place. The trick with Node is that developers can also use Javascript to build the back-end of an application — the part that runs on a server somewhere. With Node, all those developers who know how to build code for the browser can suddenly build stuff for the server too — at least in theory. It seeks to democratize net programming. “Javascript is ubiquitous,” says Jason Hoffman, the chief technology officer of Joyent. “With the emergence of Web 2.0, it won on the client-side, and it’s 100 percent cross-platform. With Node, we want it to win on the server-side — and be 100 percent cross-platform.” In other words, he wants it to run on any operating system. And it’s well on the way. It began on Linux, and now, in tandem with Microsoft, Joyent has moved it to Windows. This setup is ideal for applications handling a large number of connections to other systems. Chito Manansala’s project is a prime example. It connects not only to a wide range of back-end systems inside Sabre itself, but to myriad systems operated by hotels, airlines, rental car companies, and other travel providers. “We can’t wait for each of those systems to send us what we need — and wait and wait. The back-end system is always the weakest link,” Manansala tells Wired. “With Node, we send the request to the back-end system and then we move on to the next events.” His Node system is currently under test at Sabre, but it’s slated to go live in May.

  Tags: Stephen-OGrady, Node.JS, Joyent, Wired

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 01/24/2012 (a.m.)

• Asterisk fax - voip-info.org

  Ever wonder why it's so difficult to send a document over the Internet, to a land line Fax machine?  Or how about sending a document through Google Voice to a land line Fax machine?   Since our congress critters still rely on snail mail and land line Fax machines, i'm very interested in improving my Fax productivity.  This Web page has the best answers to my questions, but the solution is elusive.  Good background though. Covers T.37, T.38, why Web-Fax operations use the VOIP channel to Fax, and how eMail gateways can be used instead of that VOIP channel.  Good explanations.

  Tags: Fax, Google-Voice

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 01/19/2012 (a.m.)

• IBM, Cisco, Red Hat, SAP Join Forces at OASIS To Combat Amazon's Cloud Success

  Good article but leaves out any mention of WebKit and incredible impact that open source project has had on HTML5 and the future of the Web.  I left a lengthy comment explaining this.  Also referenced ODF, OASIS and Corporate support of standards and OSS projects.

  Tags: ge, ODF, OASIS, TOSCO, Cloud-Computing, Cloud-Productivity-Platform, Microsoft-Cloud

  • - By Gary Edwards

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