Tuesday, January 29, 2002

TAG: Managing the complex Web (XML.com) [IBM DeveloperWorks: XML News] 10:28:33 PM

[SJL's Radio Weblog] [Ed: I listened to one Seth Godin book on tape (Permission Marketing) and frankly thought it was one of those business books that should have been about 20 pages long. Not sure what he knows about management, but... ] Seth Godin has a new book out. Book summary available here. FastCompany article available here. "Penguins don't evolve on purpose. They don't have meetings about evolution. They don't debate the most effective routes for their future on the island. Instead, evolution is built into their daily lives and embodied in their reproductive cycle. Because evolution is automatic, it happens whether the penguins find time for it or not. The difference between a penguin and your company is simple: While both have evolved to a point where they can succeed, the penguin continues to evolve -- but your company tries not to. Your organization, unlike the penguin, is built on the fictional idea that someone is in charge, that the world is stable, that you get to choose what happens next." 5:10:50 PM

[The Motley Fool] When Companies Go Bankrupt. Bill Mann tells it like it is: Investing in bankrupt companies is like setting your own money on fire. 5:07:12 PM

[ZDNet Tech News] RIM, AT&T develop BlackBerry cell phone. Research In Motion is creating a new version of its BlackBerry handheld device that will allow people to make phone calls over AT&T Wireless' network. Sounds hot. 11:32:46 AM

[IDG InfoWorld] BEA exec discusses the Cajun Web services development tool 10:20:55 AM

[SJL's Radio Weblog] Today's News Stories Al Zollar, CEO of IBM's Lotus, is interviewed here and here. His comments about "authentication convergence" are interesting as are his comments on peer-to-peer. "Peer-to-peer is a bunch of baloney in terms of it being a collaboration architecture. There's this notion that [in peer-to-peer] there's no server. If you look underneath Groove's architecture, it's a server that just happens to be on Groove's premises, right? So, the connection, and real-time update of the "peer participants" is actually being coordinated by a server. It kind of proves that point that I make when I talk to customers about this stuff. That is, the model of the Internet is a server-centric model. But, it is orchestrated by individuals at the end points." 8:12:29 AM

[IBM DeveloperWorks: XML News] Java XML Pack winter release: Tools for developing Web services (EarthWeb.com) 7:49:20 AM

[Scripting News] Our theme website has a new look and lots of new themes. It's dual-purpose, with themes for both Manila and Radio.  7:48:00 AM

[Scripting News] According to the Register, Microsoft has a relational database on the front burner for a future version of Windows. Personally, I think they're barking up the wrong tree. If they spent more time building websites they'd know that hierarchical models with very tight scripting connections offer more performance and a higher level application model. Relational databases are good for factories and stores. Object databases map the model of the Web. Just change the slashes to dots and off you go.  7:43:13 AM