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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

Commerce and Community: Sears' Santa's Helper Promotion
Veröffentlicht 01 Dec 2009 von John EckmanTags: 3Cs, Advertising, Application Stategy, Assembled Web, Business Model, commerce, Community, Ecommerce, ecommerce Strategy, Marketing, multi-channel, multichannel, Recommendations, Reviews, Shopping, social shopping, User Generated Content

MySears keeps doing great work with respect to the convergence of content, community and commerce. Take this holiday promotion, for example: + 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

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

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

Community and Content: Business Week's Business Exchange
Veröffentlicht 30 Jun 2009 von John EckmanTags: Assembled Web, Blogs, business, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Content Management, content syndication, Crowdsource, media, Media and Publishing, new media, online, Platform, publishing, Recommendations, Social Networking, Strategy, Syndication, Twitter, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Earlier this month, during the MediaBistro Circus, John A Byrne (@johnabyrne on twitter) spoke about how Business Week is transforming itself, engaging with users, and taking advantage of new opportunities to bring commun + Read more

GPSies Top 25 App in German AppStore
Veröffentlicht 11 Jun 2009 von Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

GPSies is the 17th most popular navigation application in the German app store. Thank you all for the great reviews. Some of the reviews from Germany here: + Read more

Revaluation of Social Networks
Veröffentlicht 09 Jun 2009 von Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

Techcrunch has published their True Value of Social Networks Report for 2009 and the information actually made it on the front page of today’s tagesanzeiger. + Read more

Why Google Waves might be the next big thing
Veröffentlicht 05 Jun 2009 von Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

I remember writing email to only to three other students in the CS lab and to the one other admin that I worked with as a student. It was not really reliable, because you had no idea when and if at all the person would actually get the message (”Did you get my email about…”) and there were hardy any people that would have an email address (that they knew of or had proper access to). The other cool thing at the time where SMS text messages. + 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

Cross browser and platform testing in a single browser
Veröffentlicht 03 Jun 2009 von Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

Ever since the times of Netscape and the early Internet Explorer versions we have been discussing useful cross browser testing setups. I’ve seen through my career as (web-)developer, tech lead, test lead, project manager and account manager very different setups of addressing the issue of different behaviors of webpages and applications in different browsers because of different maturity levels of the software and different sets of standards and their interpretation implemented. + Read more

Ohloh! open source directory acquired by SourceForge
Veröffentlicht 31 May 2009 von Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

On Thursday SourceForge announced the acquisition of Ohloh!, an open source code and community directory that I have been following myself while + 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

OpenID Support and Gmail Login for Facebook [Update]
Veröffentlicht 19 May 2009 von Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Mobile

After opening the API for the news feed recently, Facebook announced end of April that they were working on OpenID support for signle-sign-on. Not even four weeks later you can select Google, MySpace, Yahoo, Vidoop, Myopenid and OpenID as linked account options. + Read more