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OSGi for the Enterprise Gets a Bit Closer & LinkedIn Too
eric via Eric Newcomer's Weblog on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
Last week at IBM Montpellier the upcoming OSGi 4.2 release got a bit closer, and Yan Pujante presented LinkedIn's requirements. Peter can't believe what Yan is saying... ! In t readmore

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Visual Science: How Termites Live on a Diet of Wood
(unknown author) via NYT > Science on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
Living on a diet of wood is challenging, not least because wood contains so little nitrogen. So how do termites do it? readmore
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Visual Science: How Termites Live on a Diet of Wood
(unknown author) via NYT > Science on Sat, 15 Nov. 2008
Living on a diet of wood is challenging, not least because wood contains so little nitrogen. So how do termites do it? readmore

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Comprehensive Firefox 3 Add-on Compatibility Report [Firefox 3]
Gina Trapani via Lifehacker on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
The next time you upgrade Firefox—which will be to version 3.1—you don't want to find out that your favorite extension isn't yet compatible with the new version, and Mozilla's going out of their way to make sure that doesn't happe readmore
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ServiceCustodian
(unknown author) via Martin Fowler's Bliki on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
Let's imagine a pretty world of SOA-happiness where the computing needs of an enterprise are split into many small applications that provide services to each other to allow effective collaboration. One fine morning a consumer service needs some information from a supplier service. The twist is that although the supplier service has the necessary data and processing logic to get this i readmore

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ALERT!!! You Must See This.
rjcutler70@gmail.com via Social Network Portability Goo on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
Are you a member of My Space, Facebook, or any of the like. Or have you ever been interested in one of these websites, then you MUST see this first. Click on any of these linksbelow. You won,t regret it. I PROMISE YOU! Highly Recommended [link] Thanks for your valuable time. readmore

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CDO schematics
Marcf via Maison Fleury on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
Look at this thing. That is the "architecture" of a CDO. Does it remind you readmore

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Plenty of Fish Says Scaling for Free Doesn't Pay
Todd Hoff via High Scalability - Building bi on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
Plenty of FishCEO Markus Frind, famous nerd hero for making over $10 million a year from Google ads on a free dating site he made and ran all by himself, now sees a problem with the free model: The problem with free is that every time you double the size of your database the cost of maintaining the site grows 6 fold readmore

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Opera Mini 4.2 brings performance, Notes, video support and skins
Kevin C. Tofel via jkOnTheRun on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
The "world's most popular mobile Web browser" hits a readmore

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Lexington Wealth Management Selected as Top Advisor by Worth Magazine
(unknown author) via Lexington News on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
LEXINGTON, Mass. - Lexington Wealth Management, a wealth management and investment consulting firm for high net worth individuals, today announced that co-founders Michael Tucci and Kristine Porcaro were named ... readmore

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Google, If Built By Librarians
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
What would Google look like if it was built by librarians? We're about to find out. Called "Reference Extract," the project's goal is to built a web search engine where the weight of the search results aren't determined by any sort of algorithm like PageRank, but rather by the expert readmore

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Five RESTful Friends
Dan McCreary via Planet Intertwingly on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
Sometimes in computing, as in life, we are surrounded by friends that are standing by to help us. But unless we are aware our friends exist and we give them the information they need to help us, we will not be able to take advantage of their services. Here is a brief overview of five friends you may not be aware of that are standing by to help you with your web application performance. readmore

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With Glue, AdaptiveBlue frees us from the tyranny of thesite
ZDNet Semantic Web by Paul Mil via Planet RDF on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
Glue from AdaptiveBlue has been out since late last month, and various sites have provided reviews of this useful little tool. See, for example, Dan Farber, Chris Morrison, Sarah Perez, and Jennifer Zaino. I am not going to write another review. I would, however, recommend that you give Glue a try, and congratulate the AdaptiveBlue team [...] readmore

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Lists & Rankings — Top 250 Wealth Advisors
ResourceShelf via ResourceShelf on Sat, 08 Nov. 2008
Top 250 Wealth Advisors (PDF; 51 KB) With many investors seeking sound professional financial guidance in view of recent economic conditions, Worth’s annual Top 250 wealth advisors issue (Oct/Nov) is especially timely. “When the financial markets are as extraordinarily volatile as t readmore

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A new web culture coming to government?
david via Planet Intertwingly on Sat, 08 Nov. 2008
Even a quick comparison between change.gov (run by the Obama team) and presidentialtransition.gov (run by the US General Services Agency - GSA) is fascinating. The former shows its Facebook heritage — beautiful URLs, pages with very tight information architecture, calls to action, a blog, and a navig readmore

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"Separating REST Facts from Fallacies" at DDD7
aland via Alan Dean on Sat, 08 Nov. 2008
This is the talk I will be giving at DDD7: readmore

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will.i.am Debuts Follow-Up To Viral Hit “Yes We Can”
Jason Kincaid via TechCrunch on Fri, 07 Nov. 2008
Only three days after the close of one of the most historic elections in US history and the selection of Barack Obama as President, will.i.am has created a followup to his smash hit viral video Yes We Can. The new song, called It’s a New Day readmore
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uSend.io Makes Semi-Big File Sharing Ludicrously Simple [File Sharing]
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker on Fri, 07 Nov. 2008
Free online storage and sharing site Drop.io was already a pretty streamlined service—upload a file, copy the "drop" address, then share it with anyone you wanted to have access to your files of up to 100MB. Since opening up an readmore

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Why Google Forked OpenID and Other Stories
(unknown author) via Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life on Fri, 07 Nov. 2008
The more I learn about OpenID, the more it reminds me of XML in that it is a suboptimal solution to the primary problem people are using it to solve. Recently I've seen OpenID geeks berating large vendors like Microsoft, Yahoo and Google for the way they've incorrectly implemented OpenID. Looking at these situations it has become clear that the problem OpenID solves is actually different from readmore

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Microsoft's 'M' treads on US veterans' toes
(unknown author) via The Register on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
Vista all over again Microsoft is in hot water again for again taking the name of someone else's software for one of its fledgling products… readmore

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