Author: fioritto

Picking out the gems [1].

Picking out the gems. Adding Waypath Referencing to My Weblog. Summary: A chance to scan weblogs that also deal with the same topic? Useful, helpful, even to the writer who in some real sense discovers the subject after having completed the effort. But useful, certainly, to the reader who found the blog entry through, say, Google, and then has some…

*WebFountain: The Next Big Thing*…

WebFountain: The Next Big Thing. : IBM’s new Web Fountain platform is cauing a lot of whoopee in the arcane world of B2B content…figure out for yourself: — IBM’s WebFountain Launched?The Next Big Thing? — Can Factiva Redefine Premium Aggregation Value with IBM?… [PaidContent.org]

Joi [1] worries about weblog…

Joi worries about weblog syndication and Microsoft.   One thing everyone needs to understand is that in this syndication debate, the juice in the aggregator tool space and not with weblog tools.  Weblog tools are the weak sister in this relationship.  Why? There is so much out there that is worth subscribing to if it had a feed (from HBO high-definition schedules to low cost…

My Yahoo, Oracle, and Moreover….

My Yahoo, Oracle, and Moreover.. Follow this sequence: Yahoo! ports their enterprise MyYahoo! onto the Oracle 9i platform.  They announce that Oracle will make it available to all of their existing customers.   Moreover launches a weblog search tool for portal users.   From a news release: The company said it has selected more than 25,000 ‘business critical weblogs’ that…

Language instincts [1].

Language instincts. The dictionary of the Semantic Web may one day be written. But not until we’ve done a lot of yammering, a lot of listening, and a lot of imitating. We need to find ways to help these behaviors flourish. [O’Reilly Network] The ideas put forward in this article got a big boost this week when Kimbro Staken revealed…

Process is an embedded reaction…

Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity (Clay Shirky). Ben Hyde upbraids me for overstating the case about process in my post about Wikis, Grafitti, and Process. Says Ben: What pisses me off about Clay’s note is that he’s playing to people’s most base instincts. First he’s encouraging people… [Many-to-Many]

phpFreaks: An Intro to Graphing…

phpFreaks: An Intro to Graphing in PHP. If you’ve been looking for a good way to create a graph for your application (disk space, usage summaries, etc) for your customers, but don’t want to hassle with learning all of the GD functionality needed, you just might be in luck. One of the finest PHP graphic classes out there, JPGraph is…

Tie Skype to social software…

Tie Skype to social software and you have automagical experience Stuart Henshall and I were talking today via Skype, the P2P voice over IP (VoIP) application, and agreed that a Skype tag that allowed someone reading a blog entry, a Web page of any sort, or any document that supported calls to Web resources, to click a link to open a Voiptoners…