Tuesday, June 04, 2002

Weblog neighborhoods. Excellent! Radio can now harvest channelroll data: ... [Jon's Radio] 8:55:17 PM

Zoe has mailing lists. Interested in Zoe? Subscribe to the mailing lists on SourceForge. we have one for developers and one for discussions of general Zoe goodness, help, feature requests, and anything else you can think of. [weblog.masukomi.org] [rebelutionary] 8:53:36 PM

Looks like Zoe is going open source. Maybe I'll add IMAPS support so I can use it. [Hack the Planet] 8:53:19 PM

Microsoft seeks converts to .Net - seems that JUMP has been renamed JLCA (Java Language Conversion Assistant). I wonder if this new beta still only converts Java 1.1.8 source (which I'd suggest isn't really that useful for anyone). [rebelutionary] 8:46:08 PM

Seeing and Tuning Social Networks. Software is catching up with what we know about social networks: the greater the reach of your array, the more effective an actor you can be within an organization. Jon Udell talks with two observers about software that maps social networks and the patterns revealed. [O'Reilly Network Articles] 8:38:17 PM

Python SOAP libraries. Mike Olson: The Python Web services developer: Python SOAP libraries, Part 3. [dive into mark] 8:30:24 PM

Slashback: Gnoogle, PlayStation, Assault [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] Google contest winner's entry is now available under GPL.   The idea was to allow you to restrict your search by geography by parsing addresses in documents and mapping them to coordinates. 8:28:51 PM

An old, old memo from Bill Gates talking about how the only way for you the hobbyist to get good software is to stop stealing it and start paying for it.   8:19:24 PM

This is shaping up to be a long-term bear market. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] hmmm. always funny how a change scale changes the perspective. I thought of the market as being roughly flat, but if you tack on 2000 to the picture, it still looks like it's decelerating but still headed down. 10:03:32 AM

WSJ.  Confidence in the dollar is extremely low.  Corporate America has done to itself what 9/11 wasn't able to do. >>>The dollar, which remains near 16-month lows against the euro and six-month lows against the yen, is suffering from a crisis in confidence in U.S. equities as doubts mount over the soundness of corporate governance and accounting practices.<<< [John Robb's Radio Weblog] true -- i expected this to show up more dramatically than it did... but it does appear to be showing up. Inverstor's call a timeout for the US while we retool our checks and balances to keep our engine running lean. 10:00:27 AM

Housing Prices. Wall St. Journal reports this morning on the outlook for housing prices in major cities around the US: "how to buy a new house in the midst of a market bubble." Business Week checks in with a report on the housing price bubble in London. [Scott Loftesness] 7:17:03 AM

Tell me about web services and make it quick. What to tell the CEO about web services. Web services are important to business because they enable systems in different companies to interact with each other, more easily than before. With businesses needing closer cooperation between suppliers and customers, engaging in more joint ventures and short-term marketing alliances, pursuing opportunities in new lines of business, and facing the prospect of more mergers and acquisitions, companies need the capability to link up their systems quickly with other companies. Thus Web services give companies like ours the capability do more business electronically, with more potential business partners, in more and different ways than before, and at reasonable cost. [Scott Loftesness] I think of web services as a low-common denominator integration technology, the quick and dirty alternative, the integration option of last resort (or first resort if you're prototyping :) ). In the enterprise, I've seen interest on two fronts -- one, for talking between business partners, usually in the context of a pre-existing relationship (i.e. not done via directories on the fly). two (far more common), for integration between legacy apps and platforms within the organization, ofter between business units. One interesting use case I saw was where one organization removed a scripted procedural interface to their system and replaced with a SOAP interface -- they felt that the WSDL/Schema gave them a way to define their contract to other divisions by nailing down the allowable actions and the required/optional data in the messages. 7:13:33 AM

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