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 Here's a little Drupal Tip O' the Day for our readers. As many of you know, we're platform agnostic here at Orchestra (meaning we run Macs, Linux, Windows and more), so we often end up discovering little tricks and tips about our different OSes. For those of you building a Drupal websi...Oct. 29, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 575 |
 Online marketing is under heavy pressure to be all things to a target market in the ways that market wants them to be—right now. Instant marketing, on-demand pressure and today's culture of constant change impact not just the speed, but the quantity of content you need to create contin...Aug. 30, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 878 |
 Businesses tend to focus their architecture on efficiency instead of agility. This clear distinction between optimising for the known versus optimising for the unknown inherently counteracts on businesses in their effort to seize any of the new opportunities that arises around them.
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 Organizations looking to reduce integration costs are increasingly adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to maximize their IT investment. The preeminence of Web services as a tool that can support a wide range of dynamic business processes has made it the SOA tool of choice.Jul. 20, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 17,676 Replies: 2 |
 With the pending acquisition of Sun by Oracle and speculation over whether a new stream of monetization is about to tarnish and dishonor the good name of open source, industry eyes are watching the open code zone more keenly than ever to try and gauge whether a new playing field is abo...Jun. 19, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,731 |
 There has been a lot of talk this week about a new cloud storage service being rolled out by Google as part of their Google App Engine offering. The announcement was part of a presentation at the Interop Conference in Las Vegas, by Mike Repass, Product Manager at Google who indicated i...May. 20, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,804 |
 The definition of remote working is changing. Whether an employee is telecommuting or working at a branch office, they require the same connectivity to headquarters, to each other, and to business applications such as inventory and sales data. Many SMEs use the Internet to provide conn...May. 1, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,462 |
 Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) has been released today bringing highly interesting new features, specially in the Cloud Computing and Virtualization area. The new Ubuntu server distribution includes two complementary cloud tools, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus, so providing the technology r...Apr. 27, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,036 |
 More is better, right? Wrong. In "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less," Barry Schwartz explains how too many options actually cause more psychological distress. And nowhere is the overabundance of choice more prevalent than the Internet, where any given website can present us with ...Jan. 16, 2009 05:55 AM EST Reads: 4,351 |
 The Web is slowly changing from a visual resource designed to externalize information to people, to a non-visual resource that's able to facilitate machine-to-machine communications. The catalysts of this change are non-visual communications that are enabled using APIs, or Application ...Dec. 31, 2008 01:30 PM EST Reads: 3,441 |
 In the last two columns we talked about the emerging platform of the Web, and the use of Web APIs found through directories. Now I have something to show you that lives up to that hype, in essence a layer of technology, on-demand, that lives between the API provider and the API consume...Sep. 22, 2008 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,228 |
 Last week we launched a new column called “Web API Expert,” in essence, to provide a deeper focus on the emerging number of Web APIs out there, and show how to leverage them for mashups or other applications. This is the most exciting and interesting area of the emerging Web right now,...Aug. 26, 2008 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,862 |
 Google has told the SEC that its billion-dollar acquisition of 5% of AOL, made in 2005 to prevent Microsoft from doing it and giving AOL a $20 billion over-the-top valuation, “may be impaired,” accounting-speak for it ain’t worth what it was (if it ever was). Aug. 11, 2008 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,134 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 26,658 Replies: 6 |
 To take advantage of the OpenSocial implementation in Orkut sandbox, you have to create a Google Gadget with the OpenSocial feature, post the gadget on the Internet, and then add the URL of the gadget as an application. As I looked into the Google gadget API to build this, I found some...Nov. 6, 2007 08:45 AM EST Reads: 11,150 Replies: 2 |
 So what kind of real social networking applications would Silverlight enable? Would it be network visualization or media playback or mash-ups? Google with its Orkut online community (a closed-source ASP.Net application) created an API for social applications so that developers can buil...Nov. 6, 2007 04:00 AM EST Reads: 15,833 |
 One of the Google folks working on OpenSocial sent me a message via Facebook asking what I thought about the technical details of the recent announcements. Since my day job is working on social networking platforms for Web properties at Microsoft and I'm deeply interested in RESTful pr...Nov. 6, 2007 02:45 AM EST Reads: 37,006 Replies: 2 |
 There are 50 million Facebook users who don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care. There are about 5,000 tech bloggers and developers who think it is a revolution that will 'Checkmate' Facebook and leave them with no moves. TechMeme has over 100 stories saying that OpenSocia...Nov. 6, 2007 02:30 AM EST Reads: 14,229 |
Have you played with Google's Desktop tool? This is basically a strip on the side of your screen that lets you house small applications, called Gadgets. The tool is available for Windows, Linux and Mac so no matter your vice there is a flavour for you. There is a wide variety of Gadget... Nov. 2, 2007 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 18,185 Replies: 1 |
 Six of the Web's brightest and best minds - Google's Adam Bosworth, Laszlo Systems founder David Temkin, coiner of the term 'AJAX' Jesse James Garrett, Paul Rademacher of HousingMaps.com and Google, Web 2.0 Journal editor-in-chief Dion Hinchcliffe and Microsoft MVP Sahil Malik - wrestl...Sep. 30, 2006 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 68,528 Replies: 8 |
 Like so many of the ideas that tumble out of the Googleplex into the public domain, Google Trends is irresistible. Jeremy Geelan puts the application, newly taken out of beta and now available to all cyberspace from the Google main page, through its paces by taking it out for a giddy s...May. 12, 2006 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 29,914 Replies: 7 |
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