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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-18

my eyes are now fully padded # Done with my speaking engagement at Columbia Univ on Post Parametric Architecture http://bit.ly/aUNLWE very fun # I'm at AA177 (JFK Terminal 8, New York). http://4sq.com/cid5Nj # Funny I'm at 38000 feet on iPad wifi and gps places me in westchester LA I guess it assumes you're on earth surface # Funny apparently abc player app considers goo inflight wifi to be "out of the country" and won't stream there. # Halliburton :{>...

Top 5 Definitions of Enterprise: focusing on the Enterprise in “Enterprise 2.0″

It’s a cool sunny day in San Francisco and there’s some bustle at the Moscone center. Enterprise 2.0 conference. You can tell it’s an Enterprise conference because unlike the Web 2.0 Conference there’s no free pass even to the show floor. Also the full pass is about $2500 bucks. One way to define Enterprise is: en⋅ter⋅prise   /ˈɛntərˌpraɪz/ [en-ter-prahyz] –noun 5. Stuff I wouldn’t do unless you paid me. This definition puts Enterprise...

If SOA is truly dead . . . ¦ Shane Schick’s Computerworld

A lovely post called “If SOA is truly dead”… Another great read in this general category comes from the insightful James Governor’s assertion that 99% of everything in software is “dead”, a rant I had heard in person but had not seen as a blog post… until now. If SOA is truly dead . . . | Shane Schick’s Computerworld 11. If SOA is truly dead, there’s a great history to be written from all the blog posts. 12. If SOA is truly dead, IBM and many...

Entertaining and heartfelt post about REST

I like the passion, style, and urgency of this post and concur that IT is going through a pretty major upheaval right now. Let me start by saying that IT is dying. No, Nick Carr did not kill it. No, it is not dying because “It does not matter”. It is dying because IT can’t do its job. IT can’t do it’s job because ever since we left the mainframe era IT has been served sub-optimal technologies, developed in a hurry by people largely incompetent (on the business...