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Why the Boo.comeback makes sense

November 28, 2006

There has been much dis­cus­sion lately, most of it neg­a­tive (you can read more com­ments on Tech­no­rati), about the come­back of boo.com and once again, I find myself on the oppo­site side of the shared wis­dom. Before I go into rea­sons as to why I think a come­back by Boo.com (a boo.comeback?) makes sense, let me first go into my […]

RSS on Fire

September 29, 2004

There’s an old rule in jour­nal­ism that trends can be spot­ted when you hear/see the same item hap­pen­ing three times in a row over a short period. If that’s the case, the tri­fecta yes­ter­day was: Yahoo! announc­ing native sup­port for RSS and ATOM in the “my yahoo” page Blog­lines announc­ing a new set of ser­vices to ease the load […]

Mozilla after AOL

June 4, 2003

Over the past few days, I’ve been spend­ing time cov­er­ing what hap­pens now that AOL and Microsoft have set­tled their dis­pute. How­ever, one area that I have not cov­ered is what could hap­pen to Mozilla mov­ing for­ward. With the new agree­ment, AOL has received a royalty-free license to use Inter­net Explorer for the next seven years. Since […]

Death by a thousand papercuts

February 20, 2003

CIO mag­a­zine is run­ning an inter­est­ing arti­cle show­cas­ing efforts by sev­eral com­pa­nies to use a more mod­u­lar approach when build­ing new EAI appli­ca­tions. Based on what the arti­cle is say­ing, it looks like we are now reach­ing a point where going with a sin­gle ven­dor for your com­plete solu­tion is no longer the prefer­able choice. The rise of […]

Seeing Red

August 5, 2001

Last week, for the sec­ond week in a row, IIS admin­is­tra­tors have had to face Code Red. More than a sim­ple virus, Code Red could rep­re­sent a new accel­er­a­tion in the online virus war and shows that we may not be ready, as an indus­try, for the era of web ser­vices. A Rapid Epi­demic Now that I’ve got […]

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 […]