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We need an onotology for the tags

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:35:29 -0000

group ontology | post by marbux on 2008-05-12

The tagging feature on Diigo is far less useful if we do not give some thought to an agreed ontology. This not to suggest that free tagging should be discouraged, but it's difficult to maximize the value of tagging when you can only sort by a particular tag without an ability to specify multiple tags in a boolean search.

What triggered this thought is that we now have three competing solutions for overlapping functionality presently being branded with at least three different tags. JavaFX, Silverlight, and Adobe Air. That's useful if you want to just get the information about one of those technologies at a time, but a system of classification might allow a view of bookmarks relating to all three, a timeline of the competition in this area of sorts.

So I think we need to begin brainstorming some more hierarchical tag names. Too bad we don't have RDF to work with here. :-)

E.g., what is an appropriate name for a tag that could encompass JavaFX, Silverlight, Adobe Air, and any competing technology?

Or should we bother tagging? Maybe the Diigo search facility is a more useful solution than its free-tagging facility.

Thoughts?
post by marbux on 2008-05-12

Lots of links to pages about Microsoft Live Mesh

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:41:37 -0000

live |mesh | post by marbux on 2008-04-23

Robert Scoble has his first impression of Live Mesh up and has supplemented it with lots of links to other reviewer's impressions.

http://scobleizer.com/2008/04/22/ray-ozzie-delivers-with-live-mesh/
post by marbux on 2008-04-23

Erecting the Microsoft cloud atop Solaris? -- Sun's Project Fortress

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:29:35 -0000

no_tag | post by marbux on 2008-04-20

Fortress 1.0 was released on March 31, 2008.

Fortress is a new programming language designed for high-performance computing (HPC) with high programmability. Fortress features include:

* Implicit parallelism
* Transactions
* Flexible, space-aware, mathematical syntax
* Static checking (but with type inference)
* Definition of large parts of the language in its own libraries

http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/

Note that the work was originally funded by DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems. http://www.highproductivity.org/
post by marbux on 2008-04-20

Microsoft BizTalk RFID Mobile Unveiled

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:06:05 -0000

no_tag | post by marbux on 2008-04-20

Microsoft today described its new platform to help developers more easily create mobile applications that make use of radiofrequency identification (RFID) technology. The company unveiled BizTalk RFID Mobile, a solution designed to work with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and other Microsoft products.

General availability of BizTalk RFID Mobile is expected in "late 2008," according to Microsoft's announcement. In the mean time, the company started a program for its customers and partners to test out the solutions. They can sign up for Microsoft's "BizTalk RFID Mobile Technology Adoption Program" through the Microsoft Connect Web site.

http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=22467

Microsoft press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/apr08/04-17RealTimeRFIDPR.mspx
post by marbux on 2008-04-20
See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Biztalk_Server (:) "Microsoft BizTalk Server, often referred to as simply "BizTalk", is a business process management (BPM) server. Through the use of "adapters" which are tailored to communicate with different software systems used in a large enterprise, it enables companies to automate and integrate business processes. Offered by Microsoft, it provides the following functions: Business Process Automation, Business Process Modeling, Business-to-business Communication, Enterprise Application Integration and Message broker[.] ... Although bipin [sic] targeted to medium to large enterprises, BizTalk has also proven popular among smaller companies. In a common scenario, BizTalk enables companies to integrate and manage business processes by exchanging business documents such as purchase orders and invoices between disparate applications, within or across organizational boundaries. Development for BizTalk Server is done through Visual Studio .NET."

http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/default.aspx (:) "Microsoft BizTalk Server is used to connect systems both inside and across organizations. This includes exchanging data and orchestrating business processes which require multiple systems. With over 7,000 customers, including 90 percent of the Fortune Global 100, BizTalk Server is a trusted solution for SOA and Business Process Management. "
post by marbux on 2008-04-20

Microsoft to launch Live Mesh cloud April 24, 2008

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:44:42 -0000

live |mesh | post by marbux on 2008-04-19

"What's in Ray Ozzie's Mesh?"
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9922955-56.html

"Microsoft ready to 'Mesh it up'"
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9917378-56.html
post by marbux on 2008-04-19
See also

"Microsoft's Ozzie Talks Open Source, Mesh"
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144781/microsofts_ozzie_talks_open_source_mesh.html
post by marbux on 2008-04-20

Is HTML in a Race to the Bottom? A Large-Scale Survey and Analysis of Conformance to W3C Standards

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:37:53 -0000

no_tag | post by marbux on 2008-04-18

Abstract: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) promulgates the HTML standards used on the Web, but it has no authority to enforce the adoption of one standard in favor of another. In this environment, developers have some incentive to ignore up-to-date W3C standards given that the transitional versions of HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 offer most of the capabilities of the newer ones but are less stringent in their requirements. If most Web sites migrate to these "transitional" standards and remain there, future versions might be mere academic exercises for the W3C.

http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/2008/04&file=w2std.xml&xsl=article.xsl&;jsessionid=LLV9NWYTTRvyTGh82mhPL1gz8sc2JmbL5QkLtCVbQtkd8hXBlZlw!692457680
post by marbux on 2008-04-18
Hi marbux,

Good catch! I was surprised at how strong the uptake of transitional XHTML is. What concerns me most though is the pending influx onto the Web of billions of complex MSOffice documents rich in business process, workgroup and workflow.

These MSOffice documents will not be coming to the Open Web as a version of XHTML or HTML. Instead they will appear as XAML documents courtesy of the MSOffice SDK OOXML <> XAML conversion component.

Funny, but XAML was not covered in the survey :) I wonder if the survey instruments will ever be able to penetrate the MS Web-Stack firewall?

I left an extensive comment on the survey web page.

~ge~
post by garyedwards on 2008-04-18
I thought it even more interesting that "No Doctype" came in a very close second. If DTDs aren't being identified on that proportion of web pages, I suspect that really says something about how far the browser developers have pushed "quirks mode." Ponder how much better browsers might be if the development resources plowed into parsing malformed web documents had gone instead into other development work.

Do apps conform to standards or do apps aim for elasticity in data format processing? It seems that the message is clearly the latter, which may say something about why so many standards are being developed that are themselves elastic, standards in name only.

BTW, I see the URL I left got chopped by Diigo because of its length. Here is a condensed version. http://tinyurl.com/67vkww

Also, I didn't see your comment on that web page. Is it being delayed by moderation? I didn't see any option to add comments.
post by marbux on 2008-04-18

Ismael talks about Google/Salesforce.com mashups

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:24:20 -0000

no_tag | post by marbux on 2008-04-17

http://itredux.com/blog/2008/04/16/on-salesforcecom-and-google/
post by marbux on 2008-04-17

So what are we doing here?

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:38:40 -0000

no_tag | post by marbux on 2008-04-17

A bit more detail, please, Gary.

Best regards,

Paul
post by marbux on 2008-04-17