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WPBook 1.5 Released – Let the Streaming begin!
Veröffentlicht 07 Mar 2010 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

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Assembly Oriented Architecture
Veröffentlicht 18 Dec 2009 von Andrew WebbTags: Assembled Web, UK

The trouble with software architecture is that it keeps getting re-invented and new acronyms appear followed by a slew of large unreadable books explaining why this new architecture is going to change everything.  This is actually a widespread phenomenon in the software industry of many emerging approaches/solutions/tools/languages/frameworks/patterns/protocols where adoption rules supreme resulting in a form of natural selection.  It is perhaps inherent in the nature of software that such flexibility results in so many solutions to the same problem. + Read more

WordCamp NYC, WPBook, WordCamp Boston
Veröffentlicht 14 Nov 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Here’s the slides from my presentation this morning at WordCamp NYC. It was in the “beginning developer” track so I tried to focus on the overall structure of how the plugin does what it does and the hooks/actions/filters used. Hard to fit the talk into 30 minutes with time for questions and roadmap – there’s so much more I want WPBook to do – hopefully I can find the time soon. + Read more

VRM – controlling your own data
Veröffentlicht 16 Oct 2009 von Andrew WebbTags: Assembled Web, UK

I  first came across the concept of Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) in a new chapter by Doc Searls for the 10th Anniversary Edition of the Cluetrain manifesto.  Meeting Doc Searls recently and then attending the London VRMHub meetup has given me a better idea of what is happening in the VRM space.  Having worked in the CRM space for many years the idea of VRM seemed very radical but i knew it made sense. + Read more

Free as in What, Exactly?
Veröffentlicht 02 Oct 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Free Software advocates have for a long time worked to draw a distinction between free of cost (“Free as in Beer”) and free of restrictions (“Free as in Speech” or as I prefer “Free as in Freedom”). The challenge stems from the fact that we use, in idiomatic English, the same word “Free” to refer to both concepts, whereas in romance languages (based on latin) there’s a clearer distinction between gratis and libre. + Read more

The Assembled Web: Notes Toward a Manifesto
Veröffentlicht 22 Sep 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

In the spirit of (and heavily inspired by) the original Cluetrain Manifesto and the recent 10th anniversary edition, I offer the following definition and 10 principles of what we at Optaros have been calling the Assembled Web. + Read more

5 barriers to entry for corporate social media
Veröffentlicht 14 Sep 2009 von Andrew WebbTags: Assembled Web, UK

For many organisations the biggest concern is over losing control if they enter the social media jungle.  Drilling deeper these concerns include the following + Read more

Who Pays for Content? What’s in it for Me? Vote!
Veröffentlicht 02 Sep 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Pardon the brief, self-promotional nature of this post, but I just realized if I don’t get one up soon I’m going to miss the deadline – voting for SXSW Interactive 2010 ends this Friday! + Read more

Web Content Management evolved
Veröffentlicht 25 Aug 2009 von Andrew WebbTags: Assembled Web, UK

Web Content Management (WCM) seems to mean different things to different people.  This of course can lead to confusion.  The term Web Content Management has been around for a while, since the mid 1990’s,  but two key things have changed since the term was first adopted namely the web and the type of content available over the web. + Read more

Architecting to scale in the cloud
Veröffentlicht 14 Jul 2009 von Andrew WebbTags: Assembled Web, UK

Cloud computing is most often associated with scalability (see Amazon CTO Werner Vogel’s definition of scalability).  One commonly held view is that you can simply move an application onto cloud based infrastructure and it will then “magically” scale on demand.   The reality is that there is no free lunch.  Simply throwing additional CPU cycles or storage at an application is not going to deliver linear scalability unless the application was designed to scale in such a manner. + Read more

Open Source and Design: Ideologies Clashing (SXSW Extended Content)
Veröffentlicht 17 Jun 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

One of the panels I proposed for SXSW Interactive 2009 was on the intersection of open source and design: Thesis: Open Source and Design are fundamentally philosophically incompatible. Antithesis: Open Source and Design are profoundly similar in core beliefs and approaches. This talk works to articulate a meaningful synthesis between these two positions. + Read more

Twitter Post Optimization
Veröffentlicht 03 Jun 2009 von Andrew WebbTags: Assembled Web, UK

As Twitter evolves and potential applications of the platform emerge it is already clear that it provides a powerful channel  to build and contribute to a community of like minded individuals and organisations.  It’s openness creates opportunities for establishing far broader communities than other invite only based social network platforms. + Read more

Technical foundations for developers & architects
Veröffentlicht 19 May 2009 von Andrew WebbTags: Assembled Web, UK

I have often been asked what is looked for in technical candidates and what skills people need to develop in order to progress in a technical career path.   Typically long lists of technology, languages and certificates on a CV/resume don’t do much for me.  If the list is long it is likely that the candidate doesn’t really have deep knowledge in any of them.  Equally technology changes so rapidly that knowledge of particular languages or platforms rapidly becomes redundant replaced with something new and shiny.  For all of those reasons I have always considered the following to be the + Read more

Weaving Identity into the Browser
Veröffentlicht 14 May 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

(via Dion Almaer and ReadWriteWeb) Mozilla Labs posted a screencast yesterday of a new feature as part of the Weave project, which enables OpenID at the browser level, which will have potentially significant impact on adoption and use of portable identity technology. + Read more

Ideas for improving Twitter search
Veröffentlicht 07 May 2009 von Andrew WebbTags: Assembled Web, UK

There is alot of discussion around how Twitter search can be improved including the following recent post on Mashable.  The following then are my thoughts on how Twitter Search could evolve. + Read more

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