Information Warfare

This is a fascinating and disturbing look at online crime and the increased sophistication of the organizations behind it. The online gangs are also going after those that try and track them down, or stop them from stealing. No, not the cops, but the companies and organizations that make anti-virus software, and study malware created by [...]

Survey of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Reviews: Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!

I guess my bar must be set pretty low, I've been using IE7 beta for awhile and like it. Have not experienced major problems, and expect that things like Favorites editing would be updated in later beta releases. Either way, I like it (wish it was on the Mac as well… where using Firefox for [...]

SAP and PHP

I was bouncing around SDN today looking for stuff to talk about tonight on a Web 2.0 panel I am participating in and I found this PHP toolkit for NetWeaver and discussion forum on the subtopic. Finally.

Oracle acquires Portal

We had an inside source at Portal that told us this deal was in the works back in December. Mark put together a great set of recomendations for how we should deal with this in the event that it actually happened. It did, it's nice to be prepared. The Village View: Oracle acquires Portal This deal [...]

ABC experiment faces infrastructure problems

This made me think of now-defunct @Home from a few hundred years ago. Wasn't their architectured premised on the notion of caching massive quantities of data out to the edge of the network in order to circumvent the architectural shortcoming of packet networks for streaming and other high bandwidth content?Bit Torrent looks like a possible [...]

My Internal SAP Blog - part deux

Yesterday I posted about a new blog I am authoring behind SAP's firewall. As it happens, we are upgrading that server today with new templates and functions and as such my blog is largely unavailable today (404 error). Guess I should have waited an extra day before announcing this, oh well. Everything will be back [...]

Emptoris and diCarta Merged

Mike Kaul is a really good friend of mine, and also the CEO at diCarta (Valentine poached him from one of my companies a few years back, but it really was a great move for Mike). This merger is actually a good case study in how to push through the "tweener stage" that enterprise software [...]

Mitt Romney delivers universal healthcare

Romney talks a pretty good game and it appears that on the issue of universal healthcare he has actually delivered a real solution to a problem that is only going to get bigger.  With private insurance finally affordable, I proposed that everyone must either purchase a product of their choice or demonstrate that they can [...]

BA Ventures Breakfast with Scoble and Israel

I went to a breakfast talk over at the Quadrus Center this morning that featured Robert and Shel talking about their book to a bunch of startup executives and venture capitalists. Bank of America Ventures hosted the breakfast and I was invited by Carol Sachs at Tenor Communications, who has always been very generous in [...]

Persistent Search: Search’s Next Big Battleground

Back in 2004 I wrote a post about a service that allowed you to track Ebay auctions via RSS. The notion of watching keywords or triggers with a mechanism like RSS is so logical that it stuns me to see how little of this has been adopted by companies in my segment of the technology [...]

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