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Thursday, February 14, 2002 |
[xmlhack] XML-Signature Recommendation, Exclusive Canonicalization Candidate. The W3C has published XML-Signature Syntax and Processing as a Recommendation, and Exclusive XML Canonicalization Version 1.0 as a Candidate Recommendation. 4:40:42 PM ![]() |
[ZDNet Tech News] Storage--Microsoft's new domain?. Although no products have been developed yet, Microsoft is preparing a 'cohesive product and business strategy' for the storage and security markets. 4:10:10 PM ![]() |
[John Robb's Radio Weblog] Economist. The real-time economy. This is a new buzz-word from the mind of Vinod Khosla. Digital dashboards are the rage. Frankly, the best system for this would draw information from two sources:
1) Web Services that pull specific information from corporate apps (financials, supply stats, and sales). The interface needs to be easy-to-use (a simple Web form that allows people to select the data they want to see), distributed (so it can scale), and easily shared. 2) Information on what people are doing. This is data drawn from personal Weblogs; Real-time information on what people in the trenches are thinking and doing. The interface is a simple RSS subscription or reading a personal Weblog. The system that makes this possible should sit on the destkop. Run in the browser and connect via SOAP or XML-RPC. Sound familiar? |
[The New York Times: Technology] DoubleClick in Pact With Bertelsmann. DoubleClick signed a three-year deal with Bertelsmann in which the German media giant will license the online advertising firm's technology. Hmm. Interesting. Hopefully, not just for music ads 12:20:08 PM ![]() |
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[World Wide Web Consortium] XML-Signature Becomes a W3C Recommendation. 14 February 2002: The World Wide Web Consortium today released XML-Signature Syntax and Processing as a W3C Recommendation. Produced by the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group, XML digital signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and signer authentication services. Read the press release and testimonials. (News archive) 8:39:46 AM ![]() |
[Hack the Planet] Java 1.4! The pressure's on, Apple. 8:36:17 AM ![]() |
[Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog] Web Services Pitfalls. My two cents: Contracts and Billing are definately unexplored areas, work is being done on security and provisioning, and "DLL hell" is why the protocol is based on names and namespaces so while few vendors have grasped this last issue just yet, they will find that the protocol contains the necessary ingredients when they do. Billing and contracting. It will not happen by design - the revolution (if it happens) will not be televised. 8:15:51 AM ![]() |
[The Register] Anders Heljsberg on what's next for C#. Pointers not considered harmful 8:11:29 AM ![]() |
[The Register] BSD '3 times as popular as desktop Linux' - Apple Ok, maybe Apple hasn't given up completely on being Microsoft. 8:10:26 AM ![]() |
[John Robb's Radio Weblog] NPR. Great commentary by David Weinberger on Weblogs (Real). Upshot: Weblogs are reinventing journalism. 8:07:00 AM ![]() |
[The Register] Keygen routine producing valid WinXP product keys?. Sounds like bad news for Microsoft's WPA... 8:02:16 AM ![]() |
[Technology Review - Computers and Electronics] A.I. Reboots. "Artificial intelligence" used to mean robots that think like people; now it means software for rejecting junk e-mail. Low expectations could yield better applications, sooner. Interesting article on AI - spends a lot of time on the current state of Doug Lenat's Cyc. Quotes from Phil Agre ("consciousness was a waste of time") and Patrick Winston ("We don’t try to replace human intelligence, but complement it"). And short section near the end on how Microsoft does a lot of work in the area, including developing a Smart Office which does linguistic analysis of inbound messages, does some reasoning based on the relationship of the sender and receiver, factors in the users past behavior, and makes decisions about whether or not to interupt the user with news of the messages arrival. Sounds cool, but if they have it why don't they sell it? Maybe it's bullshit (too hard to configure, too slow, ineffective) or maybe they're just so sure of position and out of touch with their users that they don't see the need to release it today. 7:50:47 AM ![]() |
[Scientific American] Diminutive Dinosaur from China Sheds Light on Bird Evolution 7:13:08 AM ![]() |
"The Crime of Sharing" John Perry Barlow says the media industry and government have gone too far in revising/adding laws to prevent illegal copying -- we're losing fair use and even civil liberties (e.g. not allowed to link to DeCSS sites, not allowed to present the inner workings of SDMI). I agree. Still, I think this article's rhetoric probably does more harm than good. The analogy to book lending is weak -- you don't just lend the book electronically -- you copy it. Still... 7:11:51 AM ![]() |
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