Don’t worry, this blog post will go to Twitter, Facebook, et al: An RMIT University lecturer has warned that Australians are revealing signs of ‘obsessive-compulsive behaviour’ in their use of social media. John Lenarcic believes that spending long periods online, frequently checking email and accessing the internet even when away from computers is symptomatic of [...]
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Uncovered patent could see iPhone problems
In another “WTF? What a stupid patent!” case: John Paczkowski from All things Digital has found a patent which protects moving a mobile phone physically to enable “a user to intuitively control the state and/or displayed content of a computing device without the conventional need of pressing buttons”. This sounds like the motion control used [...]
Tim Berners Lee to head up Britain’s Institute of Web Science
From smh.com.au: Britain’s prime minister says the scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web will lead a new Internet research institute. Tim Berners Lee, who developed a prototype Internet in 1990, will head up Britain’s Institute of Web Science. The institute _ which has been given 30 million pounds ($45 million) funding _ will [...]
Notes on Leadership: Be Like Steve Jobs, . . . And Bill Campbell, And Andy Grove
From TechCrunch: When venture capitalists invest in early stage startups, more than anything else they are investing in the founders of the company and their ability to lead their employees through the most improbable set of circumstances to take an idea from a germ to a real and profitable business. In this guest post, Ben [...]
GigaSpaces XAP 7.1 EA: Elastic Middleware, Data Querying and Spring 3.x
GigaSpaces XAP is a distributed application server with an in-memory data grid. GigaSpaces started off as a commercial, clustered JavaSpaces implementation, then expanded to include in memory data grid capabilities such as local caching, eviction and query support. Further down the line, GigaSpaces introduced Space based architecture as a broader solution for scalability and low [...]
Digg and Reddit Have Joined the NoSQL Camp
On InfoQ: Both Digg and Reddit have announced their move to Cassandra this month because MySQL does not scale well enough for them. Some consider that MySQL + memcache is no longer the de facto scalability solution. Digg announced their plans to move to Cassandra in September last year, a process that was completed this [...]
Tim Berners-Lee on the year Open Data went worldwide
A video on GoverningPeople.com: At TED 2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for “raw data now” — for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED 2010, he revisited this theme and illustrated a few interesting examples of real world linked data.
Telstra calls halt to copper lines
thewest.com.au: Developers have warned that thousands of new houses will take longer to come onto the market, and will cost up to $3000 more, because of Telstra’s decision to stop installing copper phone lines. Telstra has told developers it has stopped installing copper phone connections in greenfields developments because of a federal government requirement for [...]
Podcast: Five Best Practices for Developing and Deploying Applications in a Cloud
By IBM and available on TheServerSide.NET: The average new application takes six to nine months to develop and deploy, more time than most companies can afford in a highly competitive marketplace. Ask the experts how Rational and WebSphere solutions dramatically reduce application delivery backlogs and enable faster rollout of innovative new applications and services to [...]
Gartner: 90% of Ecommerce Sites Will Use SaaS by 2013
I have been looking at SaaS business models lately and this old Gartner (2008) report was of interest: According to Gartner, Inc.by 2013, 40 percent of ecommerce deployments will use a complete SaaS solution and 90 percent of e-commerce sites will subscribe to at least one SaaS-based service, such as product reviews, product recommendations or [...]