Author: Vince Kimball

Web Services Specifications. Today, Microsoft released for preview the first set of specifications in the Global XML Web Services Architecture on routing, referral, security, and licensing that build on the baseline XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI specifications. — MSDN These appear to be jointly developed with IBM. I don't know whether it will be submitted… Continue reading Web Services Specifications

Are you thinking of downloading Windows Messenger 4.5? It just came out a few days ago. I — being the stupid moose I am — downloaded it the minute it came out. It makes ICQ look nice. This thing won't let me quit it anymore unless I also quit all other apps. “There are other… Continue reading Windows Messenger 4.5

Mark Bernstein Weblog. Quote: “This makes life here on the border of art and science especially tricky. In the last few weeks, I've bumped into at least two papers about hypertext issues, published in respectable Web journals, that appear to me to be simply unpublishable. One is methodologically unsound, resting upon an experiment that doesn't… Continue reading Mark Bernstein Weblog

Peter Merholz on classification [peterme.com]

The “Internet Desktop” The Register.  Blackcomb not until 2003 at the earliest.  2005 is likely says Gartner.  Blackcomb is the real .Net operating system. Here's the situation.  For years Microsoft played a fast follower role to innovative developers (a fast follower targets innovators and quickly matches their innovations).  However, its success as a fast follower have all but… Continue reading The Register

The Unkindest Cut of All?. Very slowly, the butchers, bakers and small shopkeepers in Barcelona's fresh-food markets are taking their businesses online. Cyberspace can be efficient, but they fear its impersonal nature. Jorge L. Ortiz reports from Barcelona, Spain. [Wired News]

Robert Scoble: Don Norman is wrong when he compares pens to software. The idea of software getting “as easy to use” as a pen is revolting to me. The only way that'll happen is if you reduce its functionality down to only one or two functions. [Scobleizer]

Leaving SourceForge. The financial situation for VA Linux looks bleak. Those of us who depend on SourceForge for development are, or should be, getting worried. Already, one of the core services provided by SourceForge has fallen into “no longer being maintained”. It seems prudent to develop back-up plans. [Advogato]

Sun: Tuning Your Apache Web Server. Setting up and configuring your Web server is a reasonably simple process for which most installations provide scripts. Optimization involves tweaking your server to achieve maximum performance. This is not well documented and is anything but automated. This article provides some simple tactics you can employ to improve your… Continue reading Sun: Tuning Your Apache Web Server

MIT Technology Review: Digital Preservation. Increasingly, the record of our civilization is becoming digital, from census data to family photos. The Library of Congress alone has 35 terabytes of files. Yet rapid changes in computers and software could render this data unreadable. Congress recently allocated the library $100 million to look for a way to… Continue reading Digital Preservation