Predicting the Future A friend just asked me to “predict the future” since a major magazine is asking around for ideas of what'll happen next year. Here's what I just wrote him. I included some of their questions so you can see the format > The time has come for us to start formulating those… Continue reading

Predicting the Future

A friend just asked me to “predict the future” since a major magazine is asking around for ideas of what'll happen next year.

Here's what I just wrote him. I included some of their questions so you can see the format

> The time has come for us to start formulating those trends for next
> year. So, I'm contacting you and a small group of colleagues from
> industry, research, and academia to ask for your predictions for 2002.
> When you have a spare moment, please try to think of specific events
> that are likely to have a widespread impact next year. What's going to
> be on everyone's mind and in all the headlines?

George Bush will learn to use a big word properly. Oh, wait, that's not quite what you're looking for.

🙂

> 1) Will a software company start selling “web services” applications
> in volume next year, and if so, will other software companies quickly
> follow suit?

Yes. Microsoft is going to turn on its HailStorm services early next year and I know that I'll probably pay a few dollars a month so that I can upload bigger files to my MSN Train Simulator Fan Site. It looks like Microsoft is gonna be the first big fish out there, but some smaller fish will beat them to the punch (who? Wall Street Journal? AOL? http://www.plumbingsupply.com/

This Economy is Messed Up OK, I was wrong. There are great people out of work. Even folks who have interesting blogs. Even folks who have mastered Java and Frontier/Manila. Want proof? Talk to Seth Dillingham. He's looking for a place to land and he has all those skills and more. Email him at seth@macrobyte.net or… Continue reading

This Economy is Messed Up

OK, I was wrong. There are great people out of work. Even folks who have interesting blogs. Even folks who have mastered Java and Frontier/Manila. Want proof? Talk to Seth Dillingham. He's looking for a place to land and he has all those skills and more. Email him at seth@macrobyte.net

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Amazon Adds More Bricks to its Clicks. The e-commerce giant signs a pickup and return deal with the nationwide Circuit City chain of electronics stores. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Useit.Com: Did Poor Usability Kill E-Commerce? Did poor usability kill e-commerce? No. First off, despite the closure or dramatic downscaling of many sites, e-commerce is not dead. Second, sites have gone under because expenses were greater than revenues, and usability impacts only the second of these parameters. [Tomalak's Realm]

Xslerator – Yesterday I was working on an article I want to put together for MSDN; something like “How to build a web-based discussion board in less than ten minutes.” I am trying to make this really simple; no code required. When I got to the part where I show how to make it actually… Continue reading “Xselerator”

OnLAMP.com: Introduction to LDAP. OnLAMP.com: Introduction to LDAP—Well-written overview of advantages of LDAP and why would you even use it. [Eugene Pervago Web Log]

Dynamic Web Sites with XML, XSLT and JSP. Your programmers and designers needn't be enemies just because your site uses dynamic data. One way to keep both camps happy is to use an XML based data structure delivered via Java Server Pages. Michael Classen shows you how. 0820 [WebReference News]