Web 2.0 - highlighted by web services, mashups, the explosion of leveraging Google Maps, Wikis & Blogs, RSS/ATOM feeds, REST, etc - presumes that an application is the value-add portion of lots of reusable services. In most cases, the resources are remote and may or may not have had the expected usage.
Moore’s Law assumes compute [...]

I followed the news at Lotuphere and then followed the blogs. All of this “following” lead me to the IBM site for the official posting / announcement …

IBM Lotus Quickr will provide ready-to-use team places where team members — inside or outside the firewall — can share information and collaborate on projects online.
Lotus Quickr comes [...]

It’s 8pm (EST) and I’m at my desk in my home office in Massachusetts about to perform a service upgrade on a pretty comprehensive service we installed at ServerVault in Virginia. Of course, I am ready with everything tested twice and ready to deploy (grin)
The service is hosted Sametime instant messaging, web conferencing, chat conferencing, [...]

Businesses call it “Collaboration Software” whereas the rest of the world calls it by whatever program they are using - “chatrooms” “forums”, “bulletin boards”, etc. This is definitely true of persistent chat solutions. The idea has been around longer than text messaging. The concept has roots in AOL chat rooms, message boards, BBS’s, even list-servers.
The [...]

I’ve spent much of the past 5 years doing hosted solutions in one form or another - both for my employer and some of it’s large customers (mostly telecommunications). The answer to how to use software in a hosted solution is driven by the solution, the target customer, and the software.
Let’s start with the big [...]

The debate over “cloud computing”, “software as a service”, the “value of mashups”, and “free really isn’t free” will go on for a very long time but the reality is - sooner or later - it all comes down to money.
In a recent telephone interview with Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, a [...]

I took a look at my blog’s statistics for June. I’m not sure what has been so interesting to the Italians … ?

 
Countries
 
Pages
Hits
Bandwidth

Italy
it
49710
49894
83.76 MB

United States
us
16080
40003
583.54 MB

Unknown
ip
509
1714
31.27 MB

European country
eu
361
1104
18.95 MB

Great Britain
gb
280
863
13.60 MB

Canada
ca
173
756
11.82 MB

Brazil
br
167
277
6.53 MB

Australia
au
160
718
10.12 MB

Germany
de
100
365
4.80 MB

Netherlands
nl
99
481
10.20 MB

Spain
es
77
327
7.29 MB

Denmark
dk
62
129
1.93 MB

Sweden
se
58
160
2.68 MB

France
fr
32
116
1.77 MB

Taiwan
tw
26
96
806.70 KB

Singapore
sg
24
104
1.13 MB

South Africa
za
24
82
1.50 MB

Poland
pl
24
91
1.35 MB

Austria
at
23
73
1.38 MB

Hong Kong
hk
22
101
1016.82 KB

Switzerland
ch
21
85
1.42 MB

Croatia
hr
19
89
2.11 MB

Hungary
hu
17
51
1.07 MB

Mexico
mx
16
95
1.23 MB

Portugal
pt
14
43
843.97 KB

Czech Republic
cz
14
40
667.48 KB

Finland
fi
14
41
703.90 [...]