Tuesday, April 30, 2002

GE's Welch: Don't fret downturn; fix it. Speaking at a Las Vegas conference, business icon and former General Electric CEO Jack Welch gives advice to companies and employees on handling economic troubles. [CNET News.com] 5:25:36 PM

"The latest way to pay is at our fingertips" [Daypop Top 40] 2:55:21 PM

RSA removes patent block to SAML uptake. Sun support [The Register] 2:54:15 PM

Valdis Krebs on knowledge networks. Valdis Krebs wrote to point out that the industry map I linked to is just a demo, and that he provides more robust visualizations to his clients. In a fascinating paper called Managing the Connected Organization, he writes about the application of social network analysis to corporate culture. Elsewhere, he describes a method for identifying subject-matter experts based on email queries. Writes Krebs: [Jon's Radio] 2:53:18 PM

Web Services Requirements Published. 29 April 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has released the first Working Draft of Web Services Architecture Requirements, the reference architecture and the constraints used to determine implementation conformance. The Web Services Description Working Group has released the first Working Draft of Web Service Description Requirements, the definitions and requirements for application to application communication. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services Activity. (News archive) [World Wide Web Consortium] 8:59:55 AM

New XML Signature draft offers alternate algorithm (xmlhack) [IBM DeveloperWorks: XML News] 8:28:19 AM