Blogging – The Next Big Thing?
Micah Alpern, who is about to get his masters in human computer interaction (HCI) from Carnegie Mellon University, said he was happy to see Blogging on my list of “the next big things” but he was disappointed in the page I had linked to. The page he refers to was a very basic page I […]
The Five Biggest Myths About Web Services
Bob Sutor, IBM‘s director of Web services and one of my former colleagues, just had an article published on CNET entitled “The Five Biggest Myths About Web Services”. It very clearly addresses the key questions that I have received many times over the past couple of years and so I wanted to share his story. […]
Fast
In Net Attitude, there is a chapter with a lot of discussion about “Fast”. The world record for high-speed network applications has jumped by a factor of more than five since the book was released in late 2001. At last week’s Supercomputing 2002 conference there was an application with a peak data transfer rate of […]
Clothing By Amazon
I suspect a lot of people were skeptical upon hearing that the world’s largest bookstore would now be selling clothing. What does Amazon know about clothes? I don’t know how many people at Amazon know clothing but they acquired hundreds of partners who are experts. Combing those partnerships with Amazon’s incredible service and it may […]
Amazon Then And Now
Seven years ago, in the Fall of 1995, I made a presentation to a group of CEOs about the Internet. I showed them various web sites that I was fascinated with at the time, mostly related to engineering, scientific, government and academic projects. Probably the most exciting site to me at the time was The […]
