http://tech.poglianis.net Opinions... because I choose. Always ! Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:28:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The recent announcement of Microsoft's intention to buy Yahoo! is, in my opinion, marking the end of the short, initial period during which the Internet was populated by different subjects. During these initial 15 years, the proliferation of different subjects, all fighting against everybody else to gain market share, was ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/02/03/from-internet-to-oligarchy/ Whilst the software products are geared towards making people executing things in a more effective way and allowing people to execute things that were not possible before (I agree, this is not always something good... we would live better without some of the software creatures...), I have always thought that ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/01/09/dreaming-of-hiding-the-complexity/ Of course, this is NOT the official cover for the POY of Times. But it is a very interesting story (thanks Dvir for having sent the pointer). Quoting the article from Times: "Don't get me wrong: all the things that made You You in 2006 are still there. All ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/01/02/from-you-to-them/ I thought I would share another couple of sentences I read in a book have very much liked. The book is another masterpiece, The Tipping Point. In the afterword there is a little chapter, titled "Beware the Rise of Immunity". The following are excerpts from there: ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/01/02/how-to-get-immunity-against-e-mail/ So, I had been late on commenting on other attempts of the big octopus, but I cannot refrain from commenting on this.Google officially announced a Wikipedia killer: it is called KNOL. Under the seducing title of Encouraging people to contribute knowledge, Google is, actually, directly attacking Wikipedia. I have never ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/12/15/googlenomiks-or-googlesaurus/ Yesterday I saw the movie "The Devil wears Prada". You remember when Miranda asks for the yet-to-be-published copy of Harry Potter? The way in which Andy manages the situation, by delivering two copies of the book to the twins before they take the train and giving an additional copy to Miranda, ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/11/21/the-power-user-wears-prada/ Yesterday, on my way back from Paris where I got a wonderful long week end with my wife, I was reading these sentences from the book "The Tipping Point":In general, people chose friends of similar age and race. But if the friend lived down the hall, then age and race ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/11/05/papybook/ I have been surprised when I read this article: James Gosling (Sun) : « Java sur le poste client n'est pas à la hauteur aujourd'hui ». It is in French, so I translate the title here: James Gosling (Sun) : « Java is not ready today for the desktop » Strange, ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/10/26/java-on-the-desktop-is-already-here/ Thanks to TonyBlog, and his article How difficult is to be the fastest growing internet company in the world, I discovered a long but very interesting video on Google's dominance. I share the video here also for the ones who want to see it from here. I was hit by several things: the ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/10/25/the-ministry-of-truth/ Thanks to an IBM internal comment, I discovered the Did you know 2.0 video referenced by Luis in his Reminder of How Much Things Are Changing post.I have one reaction: frightening. I am scared! I mean, of course the flow of things cannot be reversed, the earth spins from West ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/10/16/unavoidability/ Yesterday the big day arrived. The Airbus A380 first shipment happened. I cannot say if this will change the way in which civil aviation will be in the future.But, certainly, it is the achievement of an exceptional technical challenge that the European industry took. Successful or not, it is certainly ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/10/16/proud-of-being-european/ I read a commentary around the recent Gartner 10 Strategic technologies to watch in 2008. In this commentary, Evan Data Corp. Joe McKendrick and Software AG Miko Matsumura say, very high, that even in SOA is not explicitely spelled in the recent Gartner's report, SOA itself is the basis for ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/10/15/mashups-web20-and-the-soa-cake/ Few years ago, when I left Sun, I thought that the medium term scenario would involve some "fusion" between Oracle (Applications + database), BEA (middleware) and Sun (hardware).In this way, the new entity would be able to compete against IBM and against MSFT (well MSFT+Dell or MSFT+HP, according to the ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/10/14/bea-wants-more-money-and-sun/ I happened to read the article Le système biométrique de Microsoft piraté avec de la pâte à fixe ?. It is in French, so I provide here a quick Babelfish translation of the orginal content (I changed few little words from the automatic translation):Exclusive: French students succeed in circumventing the ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/10/08/is-msft-biometric-system-so-easy-to-bypass/ I could not believe it when I read Jonathan Schwartz's (Sun CEO and President) recent post about changing the trade name for Sun Microsystems from SUNW to JAVA. I hear that most of the comments are hostile to this. Some of them loose even time in going in the semantic of ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/08/30/trading-java/ I have read this morning an article speculating on the arrival of a new Browser on the market, a Browser labelled "Google" (or Gbrowser). The few readers of my blog can immediately imagine that this is not the kind of news that I would have liked to hear. I personally do ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/08/30/speculations-on-google-browser-gbrowser/ I am starting to digest and sediment a series of articles that recently popped out on Mozilla. The one who hit me most was Chris Messina's Thoughts on Mozilla, but also Alex Faaborg's Web2.0 Expo presentation. I will certainly add more comments in the next few days.For the moment I ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/05/11/firefox-as-a-phoenix/ Strange logic in this article titled Does JavaFX Spell The End Of AJAX? After reading it I would think that the title would better be Does JavaFX Spell The End of Swing? http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/05/11/does-javafx-spell-the-end-of/ So, just few days after Microsoft announced its SilverLight platform, Adobe answered making Flex an Open Source platform. I suggest you have a look at Scoble's page "Adobe opensources Flex", especially for the two videos he recorded with some of the Adobe thinking heads. Wow! How things are changing fast! There is ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/04/26/flex-opensourced-the-battle-of-the-giants-towards-a-new-rich-client/ I have been reading about SilverLight, the new technology from Microsoft that has been labeled as the Flash-Killer.What I find interesting is that the positioning of SilverLight on respect to Windows Presentation Foundation (and Vista in general) from Microsoft seems, to me, very similar to the positioning of Flex with ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/04/26/silverlight/ I want here to promote the excellent article of my friend Luis: IBM Lotus Connections Demo - The Real Thing . This post introduces Lotus Connections, the new Social Networking product that IBM announced at Lotusphere. In this quote from Luis's post, please find the details about how to get ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/04/18/ibm-lotus-connections-demo-the-real-thing/ For the people that start fearing about Google, I suggest reading the following article: Google goes click. Among the others, I liked this quote: Further proof, if any were needed, that Googleisn't a technology company that makes money from ads, it's anadvertising company that uses technology to lure eyeballs I ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/04/17/internet-search-should-be-property-of-no-one/ 46.3666667 6.1333333 Few months ago, I was reading an article describing a deviation that the new electronic, synthetic world brought over:  people that pay other people to play electronic games. ;-)In that case, we could say that someone (with probably too much money to waste) payed other people (humans) to play the ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/03/12/future-jobs/ An interesting article "Barrelling Through The Web 2.0 World" highlights parts of a recent Gartner's report on Web2.0. The article features my friend and IBM colleague Dan Gisolfi. I extrapolated the sentence Who is to say the mashup has to remain a Web-based offering ? because I think that it ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/03/08/are-mashups-web-based-only-offering/ It is quite sometimes that I have in mind to write down this little comment. I know that, in doing this, I am probably going to be ignored or to be blamed. But, for all my readers, I am doing this exercise with true humble and open spirit; I am ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/03/08/thoughts-around-rest/ Wow! I think this is an interesting quote from the BPM and Enterprise 2.0 panel: My favourite quote from the panel, from Phil Larson when speaking about mashing up BPM data: "BPM *is* a mashup". I never thought in this way, but this is certainly very stimulating as a concept. It is ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/03/07/bpm-is-a-mashup/ Today is AJAX's second birthday, as this article remembers us. I remember when I started blogging on this topic. And, in all honesty, I have to admit that I got in love with AJAX when it happened. I liked very much the idea of building web applications that "last longer", ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/02/21/ajax-seconds-birthday-whats-next/ The CBDi Forum feeds are always very valuable. Yesterday I was able to find an interesting post from David Sprott, titled SOA Plus AJAX. What hit me most was:David asserts very clearly that "it's essential to avoid coding business logic into the client layer". Why? What's wrong with coding some ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/02/20/soa-ajax-the-client-layer/ Finally I found it spelled the way I thought. Great article, Beyond HTTP; something that made me thinking again. Just yesterday evening, I received a mail from a colleague asking me what did I think about Windows Presentation Foundation and if I have seen the New York Times Reader application. ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/02/19/will-browsers-ever-deliver-applications-instead-of-documents/ Just happened to read this little report on Google's CEO Eric Schmidt: Google CEO: Internet's role in freedom still expanding I just wanted to read as I was immediately surprised by the fact that Google has something to say in that domain. My curiosity did not come without an answer ... http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/02/09/internet-and-freedom-and-google/