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The “Open” Graph

September 25, 2011

Is Face­book the new face of advertising?

Fauxpenness

August 26, 2009

Some com­pa­nies pre­tend to be open. Intro­duc­ing the con­cept of Faux­pen­ness, a def­i­n­i­tion, and some exam­ples from cur­rent companies.

Googling Netscape

February 1, 2006

The Google stock is get­ting hurt in after hours trad­ing as the company’s earn­ings dis­ap­pointed Wall Street. It was to be expected but now is the time for exec­u­tives at Google to look at his­tory and, hope­fully, not repeat it. The his­tory I am talk­ing about, in par­tic­u­lar, is that of a com­pany that was in a similar […]

Metrics — Weighting the Metrics

October 20, 2005

Met­rics weeks con­tin­ues with a review of how to weight met­rics. So far, I’ve looked into who, in a com­pany could ben­e­fit from met­rics. I then delved into two dif­fer­ent types of met­rics: hard met­rics, which can eas­ily be mea­sured, and soft met­rics, which can­not. Today, I’m going to try to fig­ure out how this all weights out. […]

The day I broke Gmail

May 12, 2004

Like many other geeks, I’ve got­ten a Gmail account but unlike most peo­ple, it took me less than 48 hours to ren­der unop­er­a­tional (and this time, it’s not a joke). First of all, let me say that while it is an inter­est­ing pack­age, it is not with­out flaws. For starters, the lack of indi­ca­tor when the Spam […]

Google Ping

August 12, 2003

I’ve been spend­ing some time play­ing around with the Google API and can’t help but think there is a piece miss­ing: That of send­ing data to Google via this inter­face. The con­cept is hardly new as weblog soft­ware like mine already sends infor­ma­tion out to such ser­vices as Weblogs.com, Blo.gs, Blogrolling and Tech­no­rati, telling them that […]

Tipping the Edge

July 7, 2003

Tim O’Reilly recently talked about the evo­lu­tion of soft­ware and how all soft­ware should be net­work aware. While I gen­er­ally believe that this is true (see my Feb­ru­ary 2000 arti­cle on Hybrid com­put­ing), I’d like to make a few com­ments on Tim’s note. Dis­cov­er­abil­ity and Secu­rity The first assump­tion is that soft­ware should be able to con­nect automatically. […]

Securing SOAP

February 20, 2001

The lead­ing con­tender for the com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­to­col that facil­i­tates the world’s busi­ness trans­ac­tions is designed to trans­mit data over HTTP, in the clear. Although some of the cre­ators of Sim­ple Object Access Pro­to­col (SOAP) have expressed con­cern, the con­sor­tium respon­si­ble for redraft­ing SOAP into the new Exten­si­ble Markup Lan­guage (XML) Pro­to­col is near­ing agree­ment that […]

MS-DOJ Talks Falter: So What?

April 2, 2000

Microsoft and the Depart­ment of Jus­tice fail to come to an agree­ment, insur­ing that Microsoft will be seen as a monopoly.

Wild Tangent: DirectX for the Web

July 15, 1999

A new player attempts to bring graphic engines to the web.