Same word root as Bison? wow.
And the egg-sucking derivation is classy, too.
weasel
O.E. weosule, wesle “weasel,” from P.Gmc. *wisulon (cf. O.N. visla, M.Du. wesel, Du. wezel, O.H.G. wisula, Ger. Wiesel), probably related to P.Gmc. *wisand- “bison” (see bison), with a base sense of “stinking animal,” because both animals have a foul, musky smell (cf. L. vissio [...]
Author Archives: jgovernor
About “Weasel Words”: Hey John Wesilheued!
August 1, 2007 – 1:42 pm
links for 2007-07-31
July 31, 2007 – 11:24 pm
Origins Of The “Little Four” — TalkBMC
Cote coined the term the Little 4, referring to systems management firms
(tags: cote Little4 systemsmanagement)
Petition to: review exisiting data protection legislation and improve the reporting of information security breaches in the public and private sectors.
Sign the petition for California style notification laws around breaches for the UK.
(tags: privacy)
How to [...]
Why Microsoft Cloud Will Fail With Hosting Partners
July 31, 2007 – 1:27 pm
What Isabel said. Seriously- Microsoft needs to own the service level and take advantage of web scale out architectures if its going to compete with Google. Zimbra is exposed to the same issue because of its OEM strategy. Web apps need web performance, and hosted apps just don’t offer that. From a third party perspective [...]
While You Weren’t Looking Judges Made Your Life Better
July 31, 2007 – 10:37 am
Anyone else think sneakwrap terms are often ludicrously one-sided? Judges too, it seems. I would just like to take the time to commend Ed Foster for continually griping about the issue, and to the judges doing the right thing… for doing the right thing. EULAs - let’s push back.
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IBM of Course *Does* Support Ubuntu
July 31, 2007 – 9:39 am
There is the small matter of DB2 support, as Simon Scullion reminded me this morning. Doh! I assume DB2 supports Ubuntu as part of its ambitions to foster better developer penetration. Under the leadership of Janet Perna DB2 was the least developer savvy software brand at IBM. Today, on the contrary, the database folks are [...]
links for 2007-07-30
July 30, 2007 – 11:28 pm
» Salesforce: David - When there’s only 5 systems left in the world, make sure you take a PaaS | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com
me - I prefer Architecture As A Service…
(tags: AaaS)
Prism Microsystems and Type80 Extend the Power of Log Management to the Mainframe Environment
Windows-based systems management… which supports IBM System z mainframes…
(tags: logmanagement logs [...]
On Redmonk’s Carbon Footprint
July 30, 2007 – 1:56 pm
James asks about our air miles. We definitely burn up too much carbon. Consulting, which in theory should be low carbon, is actually a carbon intensive business because of all the travel. None of us like traveling that much, but face to face is still an important element in most businesses (note that Google, eBay [...]
RedMonk TV from IBM SOA Impact
July 30, 2007 – 11:34 am
Its not exactly live TV, but the content is online now- interviews with Ali Arsanjani (IBMs approach to business/IT service modeling and “World is Flat?”, Robert LeBlanc (turning IGS into an automated services company rather than a body shop) and Sandy Carter (using the latest cool media tactics and tools to educate people on SOA. [...]
Why Early Stage Startups Aren’t Buying Hardware
July 30, 2007 – 10:40 am
happily bringing up multiple instances of Dopplr on amazon ec2, each with their own mysql slaved over ssh tunnel from the master. works!
- Matt Biddulph Dopplr CTO. The problem with hardware provisioning is that it isn’t
disclosure: I share an office with Matt
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links for 2007-07-27
July 27, 2007 – 11:20 pm
Top ten things you will never see at a Tivoli conference | John M Willis - ESM BLOG
this is kind of funny. pot as oscon - surely not.
(tags: comedy)
Emerging management challengers to the Big 4 | July 26, 2007 09:34 AM | By Harper Mann
IT Trouble Shooter, InfoWorld. July 26th, 2007
(tags: redmonkpress Cote systemsmanagement)
InfoQ: Java [...]
Why Open Source Software is Social Media
July 27, 2007 – 10:15 am
I was talking to Hugh Macleod of gapingvoid yesterday - he is one of the world’s foremost practitioners in the art of social object creation and community sustenance. Stormhoek wines. The Blue Monster. The Gaping Void itself: cartoons on the back of business cards (what more social object is there than a non-boring business card? [...]
links for 2007-07-26
July 26, 2007 – 11:30 pm
We want iPlayer for Linux and Mac fans, says BBC Trust - Retail & Leisure - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
wtf was the BBC thinking anyway? It’s a public body and Linux and Mac users still have to pay their TV license… Creative Commons, not DRM, is the key to success.
(tags: Mac Linux [...]
links for 2007-07-25
July 25, 2007 – 11:26 pm
Data breach rules ‘creating uncertainty for execs’ - IT Director - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
good campaign from silicon.com for California-style consumer disclosure laws after data breaches
(tags: Silicon.com privacy informationbulimia)
FT.com / Companies / Consumer industries - Stakes high for Sony in its war of perception
integrated aggravation isn’t going to fix Sony.
(tags: Sony)
Lawsuit Seeks [...]
Anne Truitt Zelenka
July 25, 2007 – 10:45 pm
Anne Truit Zelenka is over there. Lets see if that helps. Stowe Boyd helped with Google juice. I am sure it won’t be long before Anne is the number one Anne Truitt on the web.
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CA, HP, IBM *ping*: BMC gets developer/open source love
July 25, 2007 – 7:43 pm
It’s about time. William Hurley is announcing the news at OSCON. BMC has never done a good job of spanning development and operations- and these days its increasingly about the lifecycle, rather than the operational waterfall. So a developer community makes sense, especially if they can get some ARS dorks on board. A dev community [...]
Why doesn’t IBM just take our advice and support Ubuntu?
July 25, 2007 – 6:36 pm
Just asking. Its a matter of time in my opinion. Lotus, which currently has a Nitix-based appliance style offering, would be a good trial balloon platform. Lots of community interest in Ubuntu. People choose SLES or RHEL because they have to. Ubuntu because they want to.
disclosure: IBM is a client. Stephen O’Grady is a mad [...]
links for 2007-07-24
July 24, 2007 – 11:29 pm
Poll Finds Democrats Favored On War - washingtonpost.com
it took a long time for that headline to emerge
(tags: politics war)
Agile Elephant: Why I Blog
How could a blog called agile elephant not be worth reading. from the SOA skills side of the house. What do I have to do to get on the blogroll though?
(tags: [...]
My initial thoughts on Microsoft Popfly
July 24, 2007 – 2:04 pm
Are here (apologies for the MP3, text compression bigots). The YellowPark podcasts promise to be pretty interesting for those with a Microsoft bent. Chris Dalby, the host, is a Microsoft reseller so he has that practitioner thing going on, but he’s not afraid to adopt open source technologies where they are more effective. So he [...]
Office space? Invest in Hackney: more local praise
July 24, 2007 – 1:32 pm
While I am doling out the praise another organisation I have been meaning to thank is Invest In Hackney. Hackney is one of the poorest boroughs in London, but it is also by far one of the most vibrant. I live in Hackney, and my wife was born and bred here.
When I was looking [...]
Stoke Newington Police: thanks and praise
July 24, 2007 – 1:07 pm
For those of you that don’t know yet, we were burgled last week. Not at all pleasant. I had my hand on the thief’s foot for a moment, until he kicked out with his other and broke a window. Anyway, its worth noting that the Stoke Newington police were at the scene extremely quickly, they [...]
So Are You Guys Watching RedMonk TV Yet or What?
July 24, 2007 – 12:44 pm
RedMonk TV. Our latest program is an interview with Javier Soltero at Hyperic.
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links for 2007-07-23
July 23, 2007 – 11:27 pm
Paul’s Journal
iBloglines for the iPhone
(tags: bloglines iPhone)
FT.com / World - Globalisation backlash in rich nations
Flat Earth?
(tags: globalisation)
FT.com / Companies / US & Canada - Microsoft growth rate revived
These numbers are, quite frankly, pretty astonishing. Well done Microsoft. While we may not agree with everything Steve Ballmer says, one can’t deny the company he runs is [...]
links for 2007-07-22
July 22, 2007 – 11:20 pm
god - process and task monitoring done right
You got to love a tool called God. “God is an easy to configure, easy to extend monitoring framework written in Ruby. Keeping your server processes and tasks running should be a simple part of your deployment process.”
(tags: monitoring Ruby via:cotey)
The iPhone is a piece of shit, and [...]
links for 2007-07-21
July 21, 2007 – 11:20 pm
Yellow Park Tech Watch Podcast » Episode 4: Chewing the fat with James
In which I talk to Chris about Microsoft Popfly and getting burgled, not in that order. This is shaping up as a good somewhat Microsoft oriented show. short format is good
(tags: podcasts yellowpark Microsoft popfly)
Eventful - Dublin Events - Mashup Camp Europe at [...]
links for 2007-07-20
July 20, 2007 – 11:24 pm
Video: Microsoft learns a web-standards lesson - ZDNet UK
ZDNet Australia. 20th, July, 2007.
(tags: redmonk redmonkpress RedMonkclients)
Know When To Retire Storage Tape Media
Processor. July 20, 2007
(tags: redmonk redmonkpress)
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links for 2007-07-19
July 19, 2007 – 11:25 pm
Update Your Google Calendar via Twitter | Twittown Blog - The Unofficial Twitter Community and Forums
what it says. cool. haven’t tried it yet, but will do.
(tags: Google calendar twitter)
Path of the Digital Katana » Bottom-up outsourcing
big projects and minimal oversight. the key the IT success? not so much. some very interesting thinking here about distributed [...]
Researching Is Their Job, Not Yours: On Analyst Relations
July 19, 2007 – 10:09 am
Some back and forth about whether or not analyst firms are within their rights to ask vendors to fill in a questionnaire before carrying out a briefing. ARonaut says:
“researching Is their job, not yours”.
I see. Isn’t the purpose of a briefing to provide information? Isn’t the job of an analyst to collect information? As it [...]
links for 2007-07-18
July 18, 2007 – 11:30 pm
Firefox takes IE down another notch - WebWatch - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
I had not seen these Firefox growth figures, which have to worry Microsoft a fair bit. And as for Slovenia with a *47%* Firefox market share - holy web standards support, batman.
(tags: Firefox IE)
Agile Elephant: The Architect NDA
Don’t sign overly [...]
links for 2007-07-17
July 17, 2007 – 11:27 pm
Just the Desktop on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
we should surely use this image of a Red Monk on our home page for a bit. This guys looks just like Cote. And i suspect the picture is out of copyright…
(tags: redmonk)
Users Plan for Quick Oracle 11g Upgrades
Computerworld. July 16th, 2007.
(tags: redmonkpressquotes Oracle)
Accidental Light » A Butterfly [...]
Kingsland Glass Company: Excellent for Hackney Glass
July 17, 2007 – 5:30 pm
Have to give these guys a big shout out. No nonsense, excellent job, laid back, and even helped with a minor issue unrelated to the call out. If you live in Bethnal Green or Hackney and need a glazer I suggest you call them on 020-7739-8868.
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How To Use Blogging: Analyst Advisory Services
July 17, 2007 – 2:36 pm
Jonny says RedMonk are the natural analyst firm to use for blogging strategy advisory because we use the tools and methods of social media ourselves. This seems about right to me: its really not about tool selection, though we know the tools inside out.
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more props from Edelman for kicking ass on Influence 2.0
July 17, 2007 – 2:27 pm
I guess I couldn’t put it any more clearly. It seems to me these stats (see the third table) are weighted towards those that make a real contribution to a range of social networks. The table rewards givers over takers, which is one reason I am proud to be on there. Measuring the del.icio.us sphere? [...]
links for 2007-07-16
July 16, 2007 – 11:22 pm
FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - Web 2.0 to lift productivity, says Cisco
“The introduction of consumer-driven web 2.0 technologies into businesses is set to usher in a new phase of productivity growth that could surpass that achieved during the late-1990s internet boom, John Chambers, chairman and chief executive of Cisco Syst
(tags: cisco web2.0)
FT.com [...]
Give Every Developer a $5k Outsourcing Budget
July 16, 2007 – 4:41 pm
Bex Huff is a bit of a contrarian if this blog entry is anything to go by. Taking on one of Redmonk’s favourite subjects- Top Down vs Bottom up, encouraged by James McGovern, he suggests that outsourcing could be a useful bottom up phenomenon.
There’s nothing wrong with giving your middle managers a budget to outsource. [...]
links for 2007-07-12
July 12, 2007 – 11:29 pm
Changing market for Oracle database debut | Tech News on ZDNet
ZDNet News. 12th July, 2007.
(tags: Oracle database redmonkpressquotes)
Dopplr Blog » Heathrow’s Would-Be Saviour
surely unfixable?
(tags: heathrow)
Dopplr Blog » Importing your social network from other sites
nice to see dopplr using APIs to make it easy to import social networks from other sites. why don’t others do this, [...]
links for 2007-07-11
July 11, 2007 – 11:25 pm
Mac desktops are “smarter money”, says CIO - Desktops - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
“I feel we are being railroaded and the market generally forced into a corner or even a cul-de-sac. In a free market we have made Microsoft dominant and now we have the collective responsibility to reverse this situation to [...]
links for 2007-07-10
July 10, 2007 – 11:24 pm
FT.com / World - World will face oil crunch ‘in five years’
Peak Oil. Oh crap. time to find a job in the Emirates?
(tags: oil greening economy)
Tax Research UK / KPMG, Leeds United and offshore
KPMG in shady offshore ethics shocker
(tags: KPMG ethics)
Gonzales Was Told of FBI Violations - washingtonpost.com
Doesn’t the culture of lies make anyone else [...]
links for 2007-07-09
July 9, 2007 – 11:30 pm
deal architect : This Bluebird shall be hung and quartered
the problem of salespeople that are evidently making too much money
(tags: sales business)
IBM zeroes in on Project Zero for Web 2.0 apps | InfoWorld | News | 2007-07-06 | By Paul Krill
Infoworld. July 6th, 2007.
(tags: redmonkpressquotes)
Microsoft tries evading new GPL grasp | CNET News.com
News.com. 6th July [...]
links for 2007-07-06
July 6, 2007 – 11:29 pm
lolcote1 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
lolcote1 - that is hilariuz
(tags: comedy cote)
» The Burst Economy Websites, Blogging, and Small Business - Har’s Site » Blog Archive
“The burst economy is the result of large groups of people, connected by social media, that can move very quickly. If you are involved in this space, you can participate [...]
links for 2007-07-05
July 5, 2007 – 11:28 pm
gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: the time of the a-list is dead. thank christ. not a moment too soon.
I don’t think the A-list is dead but I do think a lot of people are realising they would rather live in an online village than an online city. 200 people - the [...]
On SOA at BT: Confused by Andy Mulholland
July 5, 2007 – 1:19 pm
“We finally have the case study we have all been waiting for; British Telecom has announced after some eight years it has nearly finished making its entire infrastructure ‘entirely SOA based’.
Eight years of work on this certainly supports the statement that SOA is not new, but as anyone who has ever worked in a company [...]
links for 2007-07-04
July 4, 2007 – 11:28 pm
I, Analyst: WS* vs. REST / Intelligence vs. Wisdom
The WS-* revelation is making its way through Burton apparently. I didn’t know Anne Thomas Manes had recanted, but its good too see other analyst firms checking out the naked emperor.
(tags: REST SOAP ws-*)
Bush Rationale on Libby Stirs Legal Debate - New York Times
You know they call [...]
links for 2007-07-03
July 3, 2007 – 11:25 pm
CleverClogs: Multi-party Video Conferencing with Viper Room
multiparty videoconferencing, embeddable in a blog
Once More unto the Breach: Ari Jaaksi on Nokia and Open Source and the N770
nice write up on the Nokia 770 Tablet, and the open source choices behind it. the section on secrecy is particularly interesting. Developers from all over, no leaks before launch. [...]
The Cult of The Professional/The Long Tail of Authority
July 3, 2007 – 5:06 pm
lawyers- we trust them, right?
accountants - oh we were supposed to read those filings?
teachers - sure, we all respect teachers.
doctors - professionalism in healthcare is an unalloyed good (exception proving the rule)
journalists - the New York Times always checks its sources
broadcast TV - Paris Hilton, all the time
industry analysts - ha, not professionals
and so on. [...]
links for 2007-07-02
July 2, 2007 – 11:30 pm
Europe gets 3G iPhone Monday | tbites
So let me get this straight. The European iPhone is going to be 3G, while the US version is only 2G. What works I guess. I asked in Carphone Warehouse this morning - they said the rumours they were hearing was a late July UK launch
(tags: iPhone 3G Apple)
Web [...]
links for 2007-06-29
June 29, 2007 – 11:27 pm
DeskLickr - Flickrize your Mac desktop!
dont know if these even works but it turns your mac into a flickrtop…
(tags: flickr mac)
FT.com / Companies / Consumer industries - Nintendo opens Wii door to games designers
Nintendo: beating Sony by lowering barriers to entry
(tags: barriers Nintendo Sony)
Roadblocks and steamrollers | acidlabs
Australian trouble makers
Mainframe: Mainframe takes Manhattan - zSummit [...]
Web 2.0- which is really a Global SOA
June 29, 2007 – 2:47 pm
“We are clearly moving from dynamic visual interfaces to dynamic non-visual services, all accessible over the internet. All of this is Web 2.0- which is really a Global SOA.”
Frank Cohen, Push To Test, from his twitters.
This chimes with some arguments Duane Nickull of Adobe is currently putting forward. We’re working on a book about [...]
links for 2007-06-28
June 28, 2007 – 11:25 pm
Shirky: Permanet, Nearlynet, and Wireless Data
just recommended to read this by extremely solid Cisco EA.
(tags: Cisco)
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One Laptop Bag Per Child
June 28, 2007 – 4:49 pm
Is it just me, or is Ed some kind of godlike genius? Here is his suggestion:
“Someone mentioned to me yesterday that a good charity to donate to would be the One Laptop per Child project: http://laptop.org/
It also would open up the possibility for everyone to donate their conference laptop bag (I get at least [...]
links for 2007-06-27
June 27, 2007 – 11:29 pm
An Open Letter to Adobe | alexking.org
Adobe please get your act together on this one. Your product upgrade experience is b0rked in many ways. This is a barrier to entry for version currency. Makes little sense.
(tags: Adobe creativesuite)
Crowd Favorite : Task Management Software | Custom Web Development | WordPress Magic
I am not convinced the mullet [...]
Cote: A TV Star not just a Rock Star
June 27, 2007 – 3:56 pm
What next? Maybe he should go to jail, just to really get the ratings up. RedmonkTV is getting some rhythm now and its mostly down to Cote. Thanks man you da bomb.
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Something strange about Wordpress
June 27, 2007 – 3:42 pm
Its the only platform I can think of which, if I was asked to suggest a tool for something-in this case blogging-I wouldn’t start by saying: “well, that depends…”. Wordpress is as close to a binary recommendation as I get, recent security concerns notwithstanding. Security is made better by transparency, in my opinion. Webware 100 [...]
Note to Cisco: Barclays ain’t Web 2.0
June 27, 2007 – 1:06 pm
I am with the dancing mango. The thing is: describing something as Web 2.0 doesn’t make it so. It lessens rather than adds credibility to point to a company as a 2.0 case study, if the evidence isn’t there? Does Barclays.com change based on user behaviours? Where is the community area? No architecture of participation I can see. Perhaps [...]
Note to Sam Palmisano: Suggest You Call Gordon Brown ASAP
June 27, 2007 – 1:01 pm
IBM must have missed out on upwards of a hundred billion dollars in UK central government mega-contracts this last ten years. Microsoft has done an amazing job of 0wning the Blair administration in terms of software choices. Services companies other than IBM have made a lot of play in the UK, mopping up the big [...]
A Better Approach To Corporate Gifts: Real Social Responsibility
June 27, 2007 – 12:05 pm
Something I have been thinking about for a while just got crystallized by PragDave, via Nigel James, via Dennis Howlett
Nigel says:
“I don’t need to tell you there are people starving every day. I don’t need to tell you there are child soldiers fighting wars. I don’t need to tell you that just a little [...]
Cisco as a "consumer" company
June 27, 2007 – 11:06 am
You guys know I hate the “consumer electronics” term. But I like companies that understand the boundaries between enterprise and consumer are breaking down. its good that Cisco sees the disruption, but it doesn’t seem to have fully understood that we’re all creators now.
Dan Scheinman is SVP and GM, Cisco Media Solutions Group. He said Cisco’s [...]
Cisco’s on Disruption, Collaboration and Globalisation
June 27, 2007 – 10:16 am
I am at Cisco’s European Analyst Event. Nick Earle, VP Services, European Markets, just presented. He says the three high level themes are: disruption, innovation and collaboration.
“We are seeing unprecedented disruption in every industry we do business in. That disruption is accelerating. The way in which companies and governments need to react to disruption is [...]
links for 2007-06-26
June 26, 2007 – 11:29 pm
FT.com / Companies / IT - Google calls for more limits on Microsoft
Well yes, that’s what I would have done. Not sure about the direct appeal to Kottely, but Google isn’t hiring lobbyists and politicians for nothing. Sometimes chutzpah can backfire, eh?
(tags: Google Microsoft)
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links for 2007-06-25
June 25, 2007 – 11:22 pm
Study on I.Q. Prompts Debate on Family Dynamics - New York Times
my sister is smarter than me. i am the risk taker. sounds about right.
(tags: IQ)
FT.com / World - Congress probes pile pressure on Bush team
priorities WTF? “if any wrongdoing serious enough to transform the investigations from an irritation into a full-blown crisis comparable to [...]
links for 2007-06-23
June 23, 2007 – 11:24 pm
YouTube - second life
making it clear how much SL people move like zombies if they were in RL. funny.
(tags: via:stshank zombies secondlife)
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links for 2007-06-22
June 22, 2007 – 11:25 pm
blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in
Marc either has a bad case of the reality distortion fields, or this is a very cogent and interesting analysis of the Facebook explosion. As ever, its all about the APIs.
(tags: facebook APIs)
Welcome to Revisor — Revisor
roll your own minidistros through Fedora. going to look into this
(tags: via:mjw)
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Don’t be an ass: work for MuleSource
June 22, 2007 – 5:16 pm
Check this out. It seems like the Mule team is hiring a bunch of people as they build out a company around their core open source ESB. The chaps are a lot of fun, the code is well liked, and is being downloaded and deployed all over the place, usually in conjunction with Spring. Mule [...]
IBM Mainframe: Scale and Skills 07
June 21, 2007 – 2:19 pm
Its time for Jim Stallings, IBM mainframe general manager, to do his thing. He starts with talk of growth in India and China.
In India, he points out, the mainframe is playing a flattening role. That is, the mainframe is part of the trend of Indian firms hooking up with other players. Tata and Corus, Bharti and [...]
Analysts as Bank Robbers: IBM Mainframe summit 2007
June 21, 2007 – 1:32 pm
I remember when there were about 20 of us that covered the mainframe. It wasn’t so long ago. A few outliers from Robert Frances Group, Sageza and the major firms kept their eye on the mainframe, working with IBM and its customers.
Something has changed and changed dramatically. There are about 200 people in here, probably [...]
SAP Community Day: The RedMonk Track
June 21, 2007 – 11:41 am
How cool is this? October 1, Vegas. We’ll also be doing something in Munich a couple of weeks later. I got a brilliant email the other day (you know who you are, guy, feel free to chime in) which said RedMonk had created a “kindler, gentler, more effective analyst model”. That’s the thing. RedMonk: Collaboration [...]
links for 2007-06-20
June 20, 2007 – 11:26 pm
Neil’s point-free blog » Eclipse PDE does Scala
One for my people/the dorks. Scala is set to break out. Eclipse already did. Here is Scala in Eclipse. concurrency meets xDE - coolness. Dave Pollak should be pleased to see this too.
(tags: Scala Eclipse concurrency)
Dario Salvelli’s Blog » Blog Archive » Le classifiche non finiscono mai
Some good [...]
I didn’t feel comfortable as top dog anyway
June 20, 2007 – 10:20 pm
It was nice while it lasted but I see myself as an underdog, not an uberdog, so its probably good that Charlene is now at number one. That said, being in striking distance of the social software queen is quite something, and i know have influence in ways she doesn’t. So its all good. Well [...]
links for 2007-06-19
June 19, 2007 – 11:31 pm
Google and Utility to Test Hybrids That Sell Back Power - New York Times
Good job Google billions. Its good to see this effort being put in place.
(tags: Google greening energy)
Business, Life and Learning by B Gillet: Starting Fresh
Its a lot easier to write in one place. multiple blogs are very hard to maintain.
(tags: blogging)
People Over [...]
Great Example of Positive Regulations: Charging In China
June 19, 2007 – 12:12 pm
New ecobusiness tracker Greenbang has a classic today. Apparently the Chinese government is mandating that all cell phone and device chargers are USB-based, to “cut waste and lower user costs”. I like this idea a lot. I am currently moving office, and the charger detritus is truly ridiculous. I know some people think all [...]
RedMonk in the Rainforest
June 19, 2007 – 10:05 am
Here’s hoping Australia starts tackling its environmental problems soonest, or Ric won’t have a tree to lean on. Cut the sheep-raising, and the tree-felling, and some of the wine production, and the Continent might give you some breathing space in return. Australia- its too dry for agriculture. Nice t-shirt though.
Umm.. maybe this post should [...]
links for 2007-06-18
June 18, 2007 – 11:27 pm
Australia - the continent that ran dry - earth - 13 June 2007 - New Scientist Environment
Australia is going to teach the world a thing or two about transforming the economy to suit the new environmental reality. either that or we’re all dead.
(tags: Australia water greening)
Adobe - Showcase : Adobe Case Study : U.S. Green [...]
Does IBM need a new software brand for the grassroots? And Big Blue’s Source code backlash
June 18, 2007 – 12:47 pm
Just wondering. If the target audience is developers, rather than people that manage the people that manage developers, the majority have little if any interest in Governing Software And Systems Delivery. They just want productive tools. Stephen says:
“Rational is evolving in two distinct directions simultaneously.”
Is there a fork in the road ahead, which will [...]
Monkcast: On Beer, Safari and a change in Apple’s MO
June 18, 2007 – 11:25 am
The latest exciting episode of the Monkcast series, in partnership with David Berlind at ZDNet. We talk about German excellence in engineering the cold beer drinking process, and also Apple’s latest moves to attract developers to its platforms.
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ABC, as Easy as 1,2,3: RedMonk Rankings in Analyst Top 50
June 18, 2007 – 10:12 am
Obviously any ranking system is open to question, and its not clear exactly what the new Technobabble 2.0 Industry Analyst Top 50 measures, but it aggregates some useful measures of web influence, and I am very happy to report that out of more than 200 industry analyst bloggers RedMonk takes the top three slots (at [...]
links for 2007-06-15
June 15, 2007 – 11:32 pm
Tech vendors scrutinised over green credentials - Servers - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
48% of European tech buyers have green concerns, only 22% Americans
(tags: greening)
Should you ban social networking sites at work? - WebWatch - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
Yes. Ban all social software at work. Good idea. I do like [...]
links for 2007-06-14
June 14, 2007 – 11:26 pm
Ben Poole :: weblog :: My sides hurt
“refuctoring code” - very funny. Even better, a superb example here from ben poole of via: via:
(tags: via:benpoolevia:stevenorthovervia:colinpretorius)
Peter Yared’s Musings: What Happened to LAMP?
LAMP as a personal trainer for Java. Its doing a damn fine job. Java is looking less bloated all the time, which is weird but [...]
Ambient Intimacy: From picking fleas to eating peas
June 14, 2007 – 11:25 am
Leisa came up with the term ambient intimacy for how we use social software in social networking. Its a snowball rolling downhill. A book deal and a blog renaming are surely a matter of time. She apparently rocked the house at Reboot. As apes we groomed each other - it made us closer. The mundane [...]
links for 2007-06-13
June 13, 2007 – 11:25 pm
James lines up a tricky one. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
i played some pretty reasonable pool yesterday
(tags: pool me)
Open Source Directory
obscenely cool. a moneyball site for open source developers. really amazing. go Christopher lens.
(tags: OSS ossbusiness)
Photo Matt » Flickr Switches to WP
another MT loss to Wordpress. Flickr now. Well done photomatt and the folks at [...]
links for 2007-06-12
June 12, 2007 – 11:28 pm
meangrape » Blog Archive » “Sun, I love you…please don’t beat me anymore!”
Sun really needs to get its engagement model fixed. There are too many of these stories online. People want the hardware, they just can’t get it. Shipping the wrong power supplies, stuff like that, its all barriers to participation.
(tags: Sun hardware)
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The Future of Press Releases
June 12, 2007 – 9:33 am
Why should a press release be a static, text-based artifact anyway? They are not legal contracts. More and more vendors are going to create their own release videos or work with media companies to do so. What do we call the trend? PodPRing? Podflacking? It makes sense because with video you can show, not tell. [...]
links for 2007-06-07
June 7, 2007 – 11:24 pm
eMusic Spotlight - Desco and Daptone: Rebirth of the Groove
dirty funk revival toons
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Radiowalker: Tech Business Beat
Jeffrey on twitter.
(tags: Twitter)
Vendors seek unity on identity protocols | InfoWorld | News | 2007-06-06 | By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
Concordia for id management. this is a very good idea. cardpace, open-id and liberty all [...]
links for 2007-06-06
June 6, 2007 – 11:26 pm
Twitter / Jeff Barr: Back from awesome meetup. S…
the Long Tail of processing power. Infinite supply creates infinite demand. Is Amazon fundamentally changing the economics of computing? I suspect it is.
(tags: Amazon EC2)
In praise of open source analysis « Technobabble 2.0
This is a super little post. But then I would say that, wouldn’t I? Its [...]
links for 2007-06-04
June 4, 2007 – 11:27 pm
Tim Anderson’s ITWriting - Tech writing blog » Why Google Gears? Thoughts from Google Developer Day
good write up from Tim on Gears
(tags: Google Gears)
Иван Бегтин | Интересные блоги CIO и IT консультантов
I don’t read Russian well enough to grok this, but I am cited in a list of people I respect, so that’s cool.
(tags: russian)
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On SOA: Why is Microsoft Pushing The Rock Uphill?
June 4, 2007 – 9:32 pm
I wrote recently about IBM dominating the SOA market. But that’s SOA as defined through a largely top-down lens. Many of the analysts here at TechEd have fostered the frame. So I found it interesting that there is a potentially really solid Microsoft SOA narrative, but Microsoft is somewhat wilfully refusing to just tell it. Microsoft currently talks to [...]
On Redmonk as a sticker virus: Duane’s Bass
June 4, 2007 – 8:56 pm
I love this. From Duane Nickull.
Watch out Adobe - we currently don’t have a bass player: we only have lead vocals (me), lead guitar (sog) and drums (cote) If anyone would like some RedMonk stickers please let me know.
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What about via: via: link economies?
June 4, 2007 – 8:08 pm
Annez’s recent post on Web Worker Daily about del.ico.us prompts me to ask a question I have been pondering for a while. How are we going to enable via: via: via:? Anne says:
“Use via: to credit your sources. In many parts of the blogosphere, noting where you got a link is almost as important [...]
TechEd 2007: Customer Panel/SQLServer depth
June 4, 2007 – 7:29 pm
Microsoft had a couple of customers come and present to the analysts. The event really took off at this point. SQLServer was at the heart of Microsoft’s deepening relationships with both customers.
Not Circa 1990
First came Jeff Hays, market data product manager of Lava, a market data provider, a subsidiary of Citi. He told a great story [...]
TechEd 2007: Where we at?
June 4, 2007 – 3:58 pm
I was surprised by one thing at the Bob Muglia keynote this morning: where was the audience enthusiasm? The content was pretty solid, but ther