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Use Google Street View Maps & Serve More Time

The state legislature in the U.S. state of Louisiana has passed a law adding extra time for committing a crime with an online map. Senate Bill 151 adds at least one year to the sentence of any criminal found guilty of using an "Internet, virtual, street-level map" like Google Maps with Street View to commit a crime.

"'Internet, virtual, street-level map' means any map or image that contains the picture or pictures of homes, buildings, or people that are taken and dispensed, electronically, over the Internet or by a computer network, where the picture can be accessed by entering the address of the home, building, or person."

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Nola, a New Orleans-based online news site attached to the Times-Picayune, reports that a burglar is liable to get a lot less extra time than a terrorist.

"Rep. Henry Burns, R-Haughton, who handled Adley's bill on the House floor, said that if the map is used in an act of terrorism, the legislation requires a judge to impose an additional minimum sentence of at least 10 years onto the terrorist act."

Worries about terrorist use of the Internet, including maps, has never been far from the headlines since the attacks on 9/11.

The additional penalty, according to the bill's wording, is to be served consecutively, not concurrently, with "the sentence imposed for the underlying offense."

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Five Free Tickets to the Real-Time Web Summit, New York City, June 11

What if Chris Dixon and John Borthwick were sitting at the same table as you, ready to have a real conversation about what's next for the real-time Web? Would you like to sit across from Marshall Kirkpatrick and Richard MacManus and have a straight-shooting conversation about real-time online media? If so, then the ReadWriteWeb Real-Time Web Summit is for you. And thanks to its unconference format, the day will be like participating in a think tank - you and a group of tech luminaries collaborating on the future of the Web.

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It's simple: With the help of a professional facilitator, Kaliya Hamlin, you and everyone attending the conference create an agenda in real-time on the day of the event. This ensures that what's covered is important, timely, and exactly what you want to talk about. To see the power of the unconference format in action, check out this video of session pitching at the recentReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit:

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The rest of the day is spent debating and discussing the issues. Notetakers record the sessions throughout, and we record video when possible.

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Today we're giving away five free tickets to our readers who have the most interesting thoughts about the real-time Web. Let us know your comments, concerns, predictions and premonitions in the comments below!

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Június 9-én az Oracle Database 11g Upgrade-r?l szóló szemináriumot tartunk Mike Dietrich közrem?ködésével Budapesten! Ha valaki nem ismerné még Mike-ot és Oracle Database upgrade-et tervez, akkor épp itt az ideje hogy megismerje. Erre pedig kiváló alkalom a rendezvény június 9-én, Mike ugyanis az Oracle legf?bb upgrade szakért?je. Számos upgrade szemináriumot tart, és nem utolsó sorban van egy kiváló blogja err?l a témáról: http://blogs.oracle.com/UPGRADE/
Az esemény fókuszában az upgrade tippek&trükkök bemutatása, valamint az upgrade közben felmerül? buktatók elkerülésének ismertetése lesz. A szeminárium során áttekintést adunk az Oracle Database 11gR2 upgrade folyamatáról és a szükséges el?készít? lépésekr?l. A nap során tárgyalni fogjuk a minimális állásid?vel végrehajtható upgrade stratégiákat, és kiemelten foglalkozunk majd a teljesítmény hangolás módjával, felhasználva az SQL Plan Management-et és a Real Application Testing két funkcióját: az SQL Performance Analyzer-t, illetve a Database Replay-t. Befejezésként néhány ügyfél tapasztalatait fogjuk megosztani Önökkel.
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If You Like Moustaches on Men - You'll Love These Restaurants

Cross reference a person's Twitter friendships with their Foursquare favorites with their Hunch.com articulated "taste graph" and what do you get? Interesting personalized restaurant recommendations, for one thing.

Taste-gathering startup Hunch is experimenting with a recommendation service that cross references social graph connections on other services with the large set of unusual questions its users have answered. Questions like "do you like facial hair on men? Yes? Well, 48% of our users have said that." The end result is a simple prototype website where you enter a city and your Twitter username and Hunch will show you Foursquare venues it thinks you'll like. Or at least it thinks that people on Hunch who are like your friends on Twitter tend to like those places, on Foursquare. Crazy? Maybe not.

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Restaurant recommendations are just the beginning. Hunch knows a lot about a lot of people. The company recently said that the average Hunch user has answered 152 personal questions about themselves. Now that data and our corresponding friend connections are going to be the basis for personalized recommendations. Want to see how well the company thinks it understands you? Check out the recently launched Hunch Twitter predictor game. It's downright eerie.

Hunch co-founder Chris Dixon explained (vaguely) what's going on by email.

We developed the technology to project and propagate our taste data using graph-like connections via public APIs. In this case we propagate our taste profiles to Twitter by projecting the subset of Hunch users connected with twitter onto all Twitter
users. Then we propagate this taste data to Foursquare by projecting the subset of Twitter users checking in on foursquare onto all Foursquare venues. With our collection of taste profiles, in real time we can calculate affinities between any Hunch user, Twitter user, and Foursquare venue. As we project and propagate across all the web's entities, we will enable crazy data mashups. It's going to be cool!

In other words, if Hunch doesn't know about you well enough to make Foursquare recommendations via a Twitter account that's tied to both Foursquare and Hunch, then it will assume you are like those Twitter friends of yours who are on Hunch, and Foursquare.

That's the kind of data-driven value that making all these connections explicit will allow. The future will look like a big algorithm and interface war between companies battling it out to better serve you based on commonly, publicly available user data. Or data you selectively expose in return for recommendations.

Does the Mobile Web Need a Yahoo-Style Directory?

Do you remember the days when Yahoo was a Yellow Pages-like directory of websites? Back in the early days of the Internet, a number of companies created vast, human-edited databases that aimed to catalog all the Web - and some even sold these as printed books. According to mobile search engine Taptu, the mobile Internet is at a similar point today, where a directory is simply the easiest way to discover content. While Taptu's main focus is still on its crawler-based search engine for mobile sites, the company also just launched a Yahoo-like directory of touch-friendly websites.

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The Mobile Web is Going Through Its "Yahoo Phase"

Earlier this year, AdMob's CEO and founder Omar Hamoui argued that the mobile Web is going through its "Yahoo phase," as it is still possible to find mobile apps using directory-like app stores instead of having to rely on more advanced search engines. While Hamoui was mostly talking about apps, the same could be said about the mobile Web in general. The number of touch-friendly mobile sites is still relatively small when compared the Web as a whole, and services like Taptu's new directory make sense at this point.

Taptu's Directory

To help its users find the best touch-friendly sites for mobile phones, Taptu decided to create a directory. Taptu notes that phones with touchscreens are quickly becoming mass-market devices, but a lot of these devices don't feature app stores. For Taptu, the top five traffic-generating phones include the Samsung Caliber, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Samsung Finesse.

Thanks to Taptu's focus on touch-friendly sites, the directory turns out to be a fun way to find interesting sites on the go, without the hassle of having to deal with sites that don't work well on small screens. To access Taptu's directory, just head over to the company's mobile site and look for the Categories icon at the top of the page.

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A Future GeoCity in the Cloud: Washington D.C.

Washington, D.C. CTO Bryan Sivak is creating the infrastructure for a city that makes everyone a map maker in the cloud. His plan? Give citizens easy tools to create their own mapping applications that can be augmented with additional data.

Sivak spoke at the Gov 2.0 conference this past week where he outlined projects now underway in the city.

According to Information Week, these include his plans to create a private cloud that acts as a shopping experience for the IT manager. After adding a server to an online shopping cart, the order is completed and a server automatically spools up into the private cloud.

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That's not the map part but it shows the level of sophistication and the modern focus the city is adopting in order to develop an infrastructure that leverages the cloud for city operations and the community.

As for his geospatial goals, Sivak's plan is to crowdsource the process of creating geodata that is layered on to map locations.

The city is now developing a series of templates and best practices to spark the development of mapping applications. For example, this might include support to create apps that provide pointers to city services or polling place locations.

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"The city is already a heavy supplier of mapping applications, having 26 apps that mash maps up with data on crimes, evacuation routes, school data, emergency facilities, addresses of notaries public, leaf collection, and much more."

Sivak also wants to provide ways for citizens to update city maps or augment maps with additional information such as the location of park benches and traffic lights. The idea is to take crowdsourcing to a higher level of detail by offering the capability to use this geospatial data to mark not just locations but documents and data relevant to the place.

This is ambitious but the challenge, as always, is to provide the tools that will make it easy for people to add information. That means simple ways to create their own online maps or those provided by the city. The reality of an augmented geospatial municipality will emerge if there truly is interaction with the community.

Our poor economy creates constraints that force local, state and federal governments to look at new ways cloud-based services may be provided. To save money, municipalities are adopting online email services such as GMail.

But the forward looking leaders are looking beyond email. They are providing tools so people may create information networks that span the geographies and the cultures of their rich communities.

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Rumored $99 Apple TV to Feature Cloud Storage, iPhone OS

After Google's announcement last week of their upcoming Google TV service, many speculated whether Apple would respond by refreshing its neglected Apple TV. Though Steve Jobs called the product a "hobby" at its launch, the rumor mill has begun to churn as reports point to an overhauled Apple TV with cloud storage and an attractive $99 price tag. According to gadget blog Engadget, a "a source very close to Apple" has confirmed speculation that a simplified version of the set-top box closely resembling the internals of the upcoming fourth generation iPhone is currently in development.

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The device has apparently been described as "an iPhone without a screen," says Engadget's Joshua Topolsky. The CPU (Apple's A4 chip), storage (estimated at 16 GB) and OS will mirror those found on an iPhone, but this new device will reportedly also include support for full 1080p HD video. Though storage is limited, users will be able to access other local storage devices (supposedly local systems and networked storage devices) via WiFi, as well as cloud storage.

With the current Apple TV selling at a hefty $229 with 160 GB of storage, this new product could be a significant pivot for Apple in the set-top box realm. The transition from local to cloud-based storage may have something to do with recent rumors that Apple's MobileMe service may soon be provided free to all users - a possible use for the new data farm the company is building in North Carolina.

The reported $99 price seems logical because the majority of the cost of the Apple TV goes toward 160 GB of storage. Additionally, by designing it to mimic the iPhone's specs, Apple can streamline the production of the product and remove the most expensive part of the phone - the screen. Topolsky says no mention was made of whether apps would be supported on the device, but he suggests that scaling up iPhone and iPad apps to a TV wouldn't look particularly attractive (not to mention the lack of a touch interface).

I wouldn't be surprised to see some integration with the upcoming iPhone OS release that would allow users to control and browse from content on their phones or iPads and watch it on their TVs. Jobs has been adamant about how "couch friendly" the iPad is, so it only makes sense that a refreshed Apple TV would interface with the company's existing handheld devices.

If the speculation is correct, Apple and Google are poised for a Web TV showdown - a competition between to fierce competitors that could lead to some great feature innovations for users. While this is all based on rumor and some reading of the tea leaves, many have speculated that Apple "leaks" information to the press intentionally to generate buzz or divert attention from other products. The timing of this information - a week following the Google TV announcement, and at the midpoint between iPad and assumed iPhone launches - seems a bit convenient for Apple, but whether that lends credibility to the reports is yet to be seen.

Through all of this, one thing is certain: it would be unwise to buy and iPhone or Apple TV any time soon.

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Why HP Thinks Sensors Will Lead to The Next Big Wave of Computing

Earlier this month I had the chance to visit Hewlett Packard Labs in Palo Alto. I spent my time there talking to a number of senior engineers and scientists about the exciting technology they're working on, much of it related to the Internet of Things (a trend I've paid particularly close attention to over the past 18 months).

I started the morning with a visit to the laboratory of Dr. Peter Hartwell, a senior researcher at HP Labs and one of the brains behind HP's ambitious CeNSE project ("Central Nervous System for the Earth"). As I walked into the lab, Hartwell was busy playing with a new accelerometer that measures very fine vibrations - which I would soon find out has potential applications in industries such as medicine and mass transport.

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The basic premise of CeNSE is to create a worldwide network of sensors that is connected to the Internet, which in turn creates a feedback loop for objects and people. An example HP often gives is putting thousands of sensors on a bridge, to measure vibrations. Peter Hartwell explained to me that there are around 600,000 bridges in the United States. 30-40% of these bridges are in need of maintenance, according to Hartwell. A large bridge such as Golden Gate in San Francisco would need anything between 1,000 - 10,000 sensors in order to give a good picture of its 'health.' Hartwell added that it's not simply the bridge data that HP wants to measure, but the system itself.

Sensor Data Services

In time HP foresees services arising out of sensor data. One example, said Peter Hartwell, is traffic services based on sensor data from bridges and roads. He said that this sensor data would allow companies to "build awareness" and perhaps even deliver services that people will pay for. Consumers may be willing to pay for the "best decision" about which route to take to a destination, he explained. That decision would come from a combination of sensors in the road and real-time analytics performed by HP, or a company that processes the data.

HP is actively looking for partners for such services. Its first major project was announced in February, a partnership with Shell on a seismic solution which has up to 1 million wireless sensor nodes.

It's early days though and Hartwell admitted there are issues still to be resolved with sensor data - in particular privacy, security and trust of data. He noted that if a hacker was able to spoof data, then that could cause havoc on the roadways (which made me think of the plot of Live Free or Die Hard, but I refrained from adding that to the conversation).

Despite the risks, CeNSE is a compelling vision and HP is one of the few companies in the world that has the money and technology to pull this off. Peter Hartwell's slideshow about CeNSE is a great introduction to the basic concepts.

Why is HP Interested in Internet of Things?

HP is at heart a computer hardware and IT services company, not an online company. So some of you may be wondering why HP is so interested in the Internet of Things? The reason is that millions (or a trillion, as HP is planning) of sensors will result in an explosion of data coming onto the Internet, which in turn will lead to huge demand for more powerful computers and better processing of all that data. Or, in the words of Peter Hartwell's slideshow: "One trillion nanoscale sensors and actuators will need the equivalent of 1000 internets: the next huge demand for computing!"

So this trend of Internet of Things will directly impact HP's bottom line.

HP also says that producing sensors is "very similar" to producing ink cartridges. Perhaps one key difference is that sensors, when produced on mass scale, have a cost near to zero. Let's hope that means HP and other companies don't put a hefty price premium on them like with ink cartridges!

Example Application: Healthcare

It's not just roads and oil wells where sensors could be put to good use, but in the human body too. This video, of Peter Hartwell demonstrating the same accelerometer he was experimenting with the day I talked to him, gives us a sense of where this technology is headed.

In upcoming posts, we'll explain more about why HP and other companies are so excited about the Internet of Things.

Startup Strategy Roundtable: Don't Waste Precious Years Of Your Life

Today quite a variety of entrepreneurs presented their business ideas at my Online Strategy Roundtables. Several times I brought up how precious our time is and we need to treat it as such. So many people become enamored with technology and the building of the product before they ever think to validate that this is a business service or product that a customer wants to pay for.

I've seen too many entrepreneurs wasting precious years of their lives, and I sincerely try to discourage anyone from wasting his or her time on an idea that does not have legs based on concrete customer feedback. One of the entrepreneurs said he thinks of me as the Simon Cowell for entrepreneurs after listening to some recordings of previous roundtables. I think my advice is only valuable if I'm being honest and direct. Plus, I don't want to waste my precious time either!

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Dawson Fercho started off by introducing Temetic Research, an software services company that offers advanced tools based on digital sociology that can offer a deeper understanding of social media buzz (beyond just words) than social listening and monitoring products currently do. Launched in January, they already have half a dozen communications firms who deal in brand awareness and management on board as clients. They offer a base analysis report as a service, and they hope those who like the report will become clients of either the software products or of their ongoing service.

Dawson asked if he should position his business as being similar to social monitoring to help potential clients fit them into a category. He tells me there are several metrics that his technology is able to track because of the algorithmic sophistication that others cannot, so my advice is to lead with those metrics to differentiate. He needs to ask customers if they are interested in measuring X, Y, and Z to validate that these metrics are indeed of interest to them.

Dawson said all of their money is going into development, and my advice is to ramp up the base analysis service to help fund their development and continue to bootstrap. I also suggested he explore partnering with SaaS PR businesses like Vocus PR who I think will find this technology intriguing. I asked him to check out my case study on Vocus PR.

Next, Griffin Boyce presented PsycView, a software to help eliminate the distance between doctors and patients. Griffin discussed how this software can help doctors manage patients over great distances, and also how patients can use it to get treatment from rural and frontier areas. Griffin is trying to do too many things at once with his business and is going in too many directions. He spoke about having an iPhone application to serve people living in frontier areas, but the iPhone is not widely used in such places. He said he thinks addicts are a strong segment to target, but I don't think people in the depths of addiction will be checking their phones for solutions.

I think there could be something interesting in Griffin's pool of ideas, but he needs to do a lot more focused work to figure out what it is. I told him it's like an uncut diamond that still needs to be shaped and pared down to get to the gem. He needs to focus his software on doing one thing really well - zero in on one idea, a specific disease or whatever. Spraying and praying does not work. I suggest using the Clarify Your Story framework to focus.

Gustavo Hernando was up next to present daFoodie, a website that allows diners in Orlando to share photos of their plate of food at a restaurant to help others decide where to eat. He sees the sharing of such photos as a growing trend and does not plan to include ratings or reviews.

I'm very concerned that there is no reasonable way to make money doing this. I question how many people base their dining decision on photos alone rather than reviews. Perhaps he could partner with some other review sites, but what will keep them from doing this themselves? I hate to discourage any entrepreneur, but Gustavo may be better off using his considerable skills elsewhere. It is very expensive to go to market in this area; OpenTable has spent a ton of money. I hope Gustavo will find an opportunity that will monetize better for him.

Then we had Rudy Santamaria who has designed a line of kids clothing called Look Mommy! Clothing. These clothes convey positive images depicting what a child would like to be when he or she grows up. He has sold 750 of these shirts by hand in the past six months, validating that this is something parents are interested in buying for their child. If he would like this business to scale, the next step is to figure out how to sell these shirts without Rudy being physically involved in the process. Since baseball player and rock star shirts are his best selling, I suggest he start exploring what the best channels are for each category and remain very focused on each niche. Personally, I'm aware of a high level effort to interest young girls in science, so I suggested he do a Look Mommy, I'm A Scientist design for girls and target the organizations that are leading this movement.

Up last was Matt Walters for Sports Spray, a line of water resistant spray products to help amateur and professional athletes excel. His product line includes a stick spray (to enhance grip), slip spray (for under padding and blisters), no sweat spray (antiperspirant for hands or feet), more sweat spray (enhances workout and weight loss), and shoe spray (to keep from slipping). He is ready to go to market but is wondering if he should lead with a product whose competition retailers would already be familiar with or should he introduce the slip spray product, which is totally unique.

I suggest he start with the new, more differentiated product, the slip spray, and manufacture that first. He should focus all the branding around this new product and getting it reviewed by bloggers and social media influencers interested in sports. We discussed very targeted advertising to coaches since he believes it is a cost-effective and reasonably priced channel. I suggested he validates that the demand for this product exists by selling online before chasing retailers to get broader distribution.

I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million (1M/1M). Its mission is to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs. In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures.

In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our substantial channels. Our newly launched 1M/1M Incubation Radar series this week profiles La Grande Dame, and you can also read about several other 1M/1M entrepreneurs on my Forbes column, These Companies Are Built To Enjoy.

You can find the recording of this roundtable session here. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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NBC Says "No" to iPad, Wants People to Pay

NBC isn't hopping on the iPad bandwagon, according to recent reports. The media giant known for popular shows like "The Office" and "30 Rock" reportedly told Apple it won't be making any of its online shows iPad-compatible anytime soon. And it's not alone. Sources cited by The New York Post's Claire Atkinson say that Time Warner and several other "large media companies" are forgoing what they claim is an expensive reformatting of their video libraries.

But is conversion expense the real reason why some media companies are eschewing the Apple iPad craze? Or is the fact that the ad dollars just aren't there yet to make it worth their while?

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That some media companies aren't "iPad-ready" isn't new information by any means, but the fact that it's being rehashed, re-reported and re-analyzed is notable, especially following Google's newfound partnership with Adobe, whose Flash plugin stills powers much of the video on the Web today.

With support for Flash in both the upcoming Google TV platform, as well as in Google's Android mobile operating system (an OS that's now outselling Apple's iPhone), Google is making it clear that for the time being, the Web still needs Flash. And media companies like NBC and Time Warner are along for the ride. Why convert videos for the iPad when Android may dominate? Why waste time on "iDevice" support when ad dollars associated with streaming media barely impact the bottom line?

These are the very questions major media companies are considering as we speak.

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Some TV and video is available for free on the iPad today, but it's still more limited that what you would find on the Web in general. ABC has an iPad app, but that's not surprising considering that the Disney-owned property has Jobs as its largest shareholder. CBS has an iPad-friendly site, but only a few shows are available, and media-filled sites like CNN, Fox News, ESPN.com and others offer varying degrees of iPad-readiness.

But NBC won't be following these early adopters, it appears.

There's a very telling quote about this issue from NBC Universal's president and CEO, Jeff Zucker, that he delivered in January. Speaking about tech advances and the iPad in particular, he said, "We believe in ubiquitous distribution of our content and the fact is consumers want to engage with our content wherever they are... As long as we get paid for that content, we don't really care where it's displayed or where it's used."

"Get paid," he said. Streaming video sites, even the NBC Universal creation Hulu.com, have been struggling to make that a reality. Although Hulu finally reached profitability this year, the numbers aren't anywhere near what traditional TV advertising brings in. Hulu's revenue topped $100 million in 2009, according to Hulu chief Jason Kilar. To put that in perspective, a 30-second national broadcast TV commercial maybe makes around $300,00-$500,000 these days.

Too Expensive to Convert?

But is there any truth to the claims that conversion is too expensive? Open-Web zealots will tell you that's a bunch of "FUD" - conversion costs are minimal and there are plenty of solutions out there for ditching Flash and moving to HTML5, the upcoming Web standard that supports plugin-free video viewing.

In reality, while HTML5-enabled video streams are possible today, large media publishers are still waiting for video platform providers to catch up to the capabilities Adobe's Flash currently offers, including rich analytics, advertising and engagement tracking, and more.

That's just around the corner, though.

For example, video platform provider Brightcove will be on par with Flash by year-end, according to its published roadmap. However, the expense of conversion is not necessarily as trivial as Apple CEO Steve Jobs has made it seem. The truth, said Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire, is that "it depends." As he told us earlier, publishers that use homegrown video solutions will have more expenses associated with the creation of HTML5 websites. But for customers using platform solutions (like his, of course), the transition is much easier. But Flash and HTML5 will co-exist for years, he said. It's not a matter of ditching one for the other. That means companies offering an iPad-compatible website must maintain it separately and there is some cost involved with that, minimal as it may be.

But Conversion Cost Isn't the Problem Here: NBC & Others Just Want to Make Money

Last month, The New York Times reported that NBC execs were showing off a mock-up of an iPad/iPhone-compatible mobile website that offered full episodes of popular shows, ready for streaming. At the last minute, however, the company decided to block iPad viewing of these shows. At present, only clips and the short-form "webisodes" play on the iPhone or iPad.

The fact that NBC had already gone so far as to build a mock-up of an iPad-friendly site makes the whole "it's too expensive" argument questionable, at least in this case.

So let's get real about this. NBC isn't a great network these days. In fact, it hasn't been "must-see TV" since "Friends" or maybe even the "Seinfeld" era. Olympics coverage notwithstanding, the network trailed others during the past season, losing out to Fox and CBS, both of whom were riding high on the return of the sitcom and reality programming. 

Does NBC want to give away its best content for free right now? No. If anyone is bothering to tune into NBC at all, they had better be paying for it, thinks the network, either via their eyeballs glued to the TV screen, via a paid-for iTunes download or perhaps soon, via a subscription to the long-rumored, but still unrealized Hulu iPad application.

Curse, NBC, Time Warner and other iPad holdouts if you want for limiting the fun you can have with your new slate computer. But for them, the iPad isn't pushing these companies toward the quick adoption of HTML5-powered video - it's pushing them to figure out a business model for making video pay.

Using JCA Adapter with OSB 11.1.1.3

In OSB 10g to use the JCA adapters you were required to use JDeveloper to create the necessary WSDLs and XSDs etc using the associated adapter wizard. These files were imported into Oracle Workshop (Eclipse) and used to create the business service as you would any other web service. In 11g unfortunately JDeveloper is still required. The process has changed slightly as described below. As an example I have used the JCA DB adapter as an example.

1. Start JDeveloper 11.1.1.3
   
2. Create a new SOA Application
   
3. Create a new SOA Project and call it DBAdapters.
   
   
   
4. Choose the Empty Composite Template
   
   
   
5. Drag a Database Adapter Component to the External References panel on the composite. Provide a service name.
   
   
   
6. Create a new database connection, or use an existing one
   
   
   
7. Take note of the JNDI Name, e.g.
   
   eis/DB/MyConnection
   
   This will be used to configure the DB connection in the WebLogic Console.
   
8. In my example I use a stored procedure, but you can use what ever operation you require. Please refer to the following link for other options: User's Guide for Technology Adapters
   
   
   
9. Select a schema and stored procedure
   
   
   
10. Once the procedure has been selected, accept the defaults and finish.
    
11. Startup your OEPE version of Eclipse.
    
12. Create a new Oracle Service Bus Configuration Project (you can use an existing project if you have one)
    
13. Create a new Oracle Service Bus Project in the configuration project created above.
    
14. Instead of importing the WSDL and XSD files you import the jca file created in JDeveloper. In Eclipse right click the Oracle Service Bus Project and select Import -> Import
    
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15. Choose File System
    
    
    
16. Browse to the directory where JDeveloper stores its project
    
    
    
17. Select the jca, wsdl, and xsd files based on the service you created in step 5. Also check the 'Create selected folders only' radio button.
    
    
    
18. When you import you may have a little red x indicating the files are invalid. This is due to the location of the files. Open the invalid files and fix the path in relation to where you store your files in the OSB project.
    
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19. Once you have the files all valid, Right-Click the jca file and select Oracle Service Bus -> Generate Service. This will create a new Business Service.
    
    
    
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21. You can now deploy your project and test

Barnes & Noble Goes up Against Kindle, iBooks on the iPad

Barnes & Noble has just released its BN eReader for iPad, a mobile e-reader application that competes with Apple's own iBooks app and the popular Kindle for iPad. The new BN eReader sports several features that could position it as a worthy competitor, the most notable of which is probably the "LendMe" feature borrowed from the company's own e-reader device, the Nook. With this option, users can loan e-books to friends for up to two weeks.

In addition, the BN eReader app offers multiple preset themes and library views, fully customizable pages, text sizes, typefaces, highlight and link colors, margins and spacing, and support for syncing between devices.

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Syncing and Shopping

Like Amazon's Kindle, which features something called WhisperSync to synchronize reading progress, notes and bookmarks across devices, the BN eReader will also sync the last page read of an e-book, newspaper or magazine as well as bookmarks, highlights and notes between the iPad and the company's BN eReader software for PCs. However, syncing between its iPhone BN eReader app and the iPad is not supported at this time, as the company is still working on the updated version of its iPhone software. The company says iPhone-to-iPad syncing will be in place by next month and a brand-new iPhone app will arrive later this summer. Also arriving next month is an Android app, which will further extend the BN platform's reach.

In-app purchases aren't supported within the BN eReader application. Instead, tapping "add books" launches an external browser that takes you to Barnes & Noble's online bookstore. Whether the choice to forgo in-app purchases is a design decision or a by-product of Apple's restrictions is unknown at this time, but it's worth noting that the Amazon Kindle iPad app does the same.

LendMe: Loan Out Your E-books

The unique "LendMe" feature is perhaps the biggest selling point for the new BN application. With this feature, e-book owners can share select titles with friends for up to two weeks. To share a title, the app actually taps into the iPad's address book - no need for the friend to have a Barnes & Noble account or for the app to be pre-installed on their PC or mobile device. Unfortunately, not all titles are supported due to publisher restrictions.

Other features include:

• An e-bookstore with 1-plus million titles
• Over half a million free e-books
• Free samples for all e-books
• Two library views (grid view, which displays cover art, and a list view)
• Sort options (recently read, author, title) for the library view
• Ability to bookmark pages, make highlights and write notes
• Recommendations
• Built-in dictionary
• Notes, highlighting and bookmarks
• Keyword search for notes
• Built-in Google and Wikipedia search options for looking up words and terms

Downsides

At launch time, popular periodicals like The New York Times and The Wall St. Journal weren't available, but they should be arriving soon.

Also missing is support for content purchased elsewhere, even when it's in a standard e-book format. Because of the lack of this feature, many users have already condemned the app for being yet another closed-off, walled garden. Luckily, though, this restriction is only temporary. Barnes & Noble says that ePub-formatted content will be able to be imported into the application in the "coming weeks," so keep checking for updates.

EBS 11i and R12 certified with DB 11gR2 11.2.0.1 on Windows

• Windows Server 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit only)

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• Oracle E-Business Suite Release ; 12.1.1 or higher

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Open API Madness: The Party Has Just Begun for Cloud Developers

It's like an API festival here at Gluecon. I tweeted that this afternoon. But it's not just Gluecon, though - they're one of the hottest topics in discussions about cloud computing.

In his presentation today at Gluecon, John Musser of Programmable Web illustrated how hot APIs have become and how they've matured.

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Perhaps most illustrative is his "API Billionaire's Club."

Members of the club include Google and Facebook with 5 billion AP calls per day. Twitter has 3 billion per day. Ebay has 8 billion per month. NPR gets 1.1 billion calls per month for its API-delivered stories. Saleforce.com gets 50% of its traffic through its API.

According to Musser, it took eight years to get to 1,000 API's but just 18 months to get to 2,000. This year, the number of API's are double what they were last year on a month-per-month basis.

Internet/platform as a service (PaaS) API's are now number one. That's illustrative of the increased usage of services like Amazon S3 and all its competitors. Maps are the number three API, dropping from the number one spot last year. Social API's are number two.

REST API's are far surpassing SOAP.

There's a real energy here at Gluecon around the discussions about APIs. The room was packed for the presentations on the topic.

We'll pour more into the topic in later posts.

5 Intersections of the Real-Time Web and the Deepwater Horizon

In the month since the well blowout beneath the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, the real-time Web has been leveraged to communicate between concerned parties. At other times it has been noteworthy for how it could have been used but wasn't. Here are five instances where the real-time Web intersected with the blowout's aftermath and those caught in its wake.

1. No Real-Time Connection from the Rig

Transocean, the operator of the Deepwater Horizon rig, told the U.S. Congress that the last seven hours of data on the day of the blowout are missing. There was, in effect, no "black box." Nor, according to the Associated Press, was there any real-time data available from the rig in the aftermath. This despite one of the actors, Halliburton, being contractual required to provide just such a link to shore officials.

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Newman, the Transocean CEO, told legislators that alarms are monitored on the rig through a vessel management system, or VMS. But he said such records were not transmitted to shore.

"And so the VMS system, along with the logs of the VMS system, would have gone down with the vessel," he said.

"So you have no mirrored backup data device so that that information is recorded at some other location than on the rig itself?" asked an incredulous Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa.

"We do not have real-time off-rig monitoring of what's going on on the vessel," Newman replied.

Not just questions of legal culpability, but engineering and other scientific questions could have been answered in time to stop 36 days of oil pumping into the Gulf.

2. Oil Spill Social Media

Early this month, we published a post outlining the social media efforts being made by the parties involved in the oil spill. They ranged from BP to the Coast Guard.

A collaborative multimedia website, Gulf of Mexico - Deepwater Horizon Incident, rich in social media, has launched with information for those who are or might be hit.

The site is being maintained by British Petroleum, which owns the oil; Transocean, which owns the rig; the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of the Interior.

A Flickr slideshow, hosted by U.S. Coast Guard Eighth District External Affairs, plays at the center, beside a clickable list of news items and documents, some in PDF format. Links are provided to the service's Twitter account, Oil_Spill_2010 and its Facebook page, Deepwater Horizon Response. The response team's YouTube page is at Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

3. Crowdsourcing Scientific Estimates of Flow Rates in Real-Time

The U.S. Congress ordered BP to broadcast a real-time video of the leak in the wake of independent scientists' valuable contribution to the investigation. After BP released a short video clip of the spill, independent scientists used it to estimate a flow rate that was up to 20 times higher than the official figure.

Federal agencies, led by the U.S. Geological Survey, have set up what is being called the Flow Rate Technical Group. The FRTG, led by Admiral Thad Allen, has been tasked with coming up with a more precise figure. That figure was supposed to be released "early (this) week." It has not been so far.

4. Florida Live-Cams and Photo-Shares Its Beaches

The economy of Florida's Gulf Coast is significantly influenced by tourism. Nervous residents and officials are anticipating with some trepidation the possible arrival of oil from the spill. In advance of the Memorial Day Weekend and, further along, the all-important summer months, Florida's state tourism site, VisitFlorida.com, has set up a Web cam and photo sharing site called Florida Live where potential visitors can check and make sure their destinations are oil-free.

According to the Sun Sentinel, the site was created in conjunction with a television ad campaign. The campaign, running from Dallas to Raleigh, North Carolina, sought to reassure visitors.

Gulf Coast and Keys hotels have started to report cancellations and the 727-room Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort reported a decline of 16% in calls to their reservation center.

5. The Guardian Live Blogs the Top Kill

The latest attempt by British Petroleum, the company with overall responsibility at the site, to seal the well was via a process called "top kill." Today BP attempted to pump mud into the well and hopefully stopper the blowout long enough to pump concrete into it. The British newspaper the Guardian lived blogged it.

Starting at 2:00 p.m., Central time, reporter Richard Adams followed the procedure, giving up-to-the-minute news and background. At 8:20 p.m., Adams posted his last entry for the night, saying that 7,000 barrels of mud had been pumped into the well and quoting Doug Suttles, the chief operating officer of BP's exploration and production division, as saying, "Over the next 24 hours we'll know if it will be successful, but it's too early to know now."

Thanks to Deane Rimerman for valuable research assistance.

Spotlight: How Scandinavia's Largest Nuclear Power Plant Increased Productivity and Reduced Costs with AutoVue

Ringhals nuclear power plant, which is part of the Vattenfall Group, is located about 60 km south-west of the beautiful coastal city of Gothenburg in Sweden. A deep concern to reduce environmental impact coupled with an effort to increase plant safety and operational efficiency have led to a recent surge in investments and initiatives around plant modification and plant optimization at Ringhals.

A multitude of challenges were faced by the users in various groups that were involved in these projects. First, it was very difficult for users to easily access complex and layered asset and engineering information, which was critical to increased productivity and completing projects on time. Moreover, the 20 or so different solutions that were being used to view various document formats, not only resulted in collaboration complexity but also escalated IT administration costs and woes. Finally, there was a considerable non-engineering community comprising non-CAD specialists that needed easy access to plant data in an effort to minimize engineering disruption.

Oracle's AutoVue significantly simplified the ability to efficiently view and use digital asset information by providing a standardized visualization solution for the enterprise. The key benefits achieved by Ringhals include:

The complete case-study can be found here

SalesForce Ecosystem: Counting Carbon Credits in the Cloud

Today, SalesForce partners FinancialForce, the first native accounting package for SalesForce.com, and CloudApps, a new breed of carbon management solution, announce their products integrate to enable carbon credits to be managed in accounting terms within the Salesforce platform.

In reviewing this integration and observing the momentum of the ecosystem we see another clear example of the advantage in being both first in a new platform - and going native into it. This seems especially true in the cloud as it is positioned for massive growth.

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Cloud and the Environment

Carbon is a building block of life.

It is also being looked at seriously (especially in Europe) as a new currency that counts the cost of doing business.

The effort to reduce the carbon emissions going into the atmosphere is becoming a critical discussion in terms of both the future - and the present quarter.

As legislation and credits have been established, accounting for these transactions has become a natural extension to managing the business.

Cloud Apps - Platform for Carbon

The process of carbon management includes a process of measurement, planning, and executing change. Cloud Apps has delivered a carbon platform for activating a program, this technology lives on the Force.com platform.

Counting and monitoring the use of physical assets touches concept we cover in the ReadWriteWeb called the Internet of Things. In this case, monitors of activity can push data of real world changes directly into a decision management solution to make decisions.

In this context, it seems like SalesForce Chatter platform will be a important piece of this puzzle, as information an processes continue to merge, basic communications and escalations will be a key part of making real-time decisions.

FinancialForce - Native Matters

FinancialForce is the first native accounting package on Force.com platform. We spoke with CEO, Jeremy Roche, and found that he described FinancialForce as "speaking SalesForce natively".

The company shares product feature screenshots on how the product maps workflows and generates reports on the state of the business. Shown here is a view of cash flow for the organization.

The natural expansion of the SalesForce platform shows us several things that seem key to a thriving business environment. In particular, this partnership shows off the case of specialization of services that are complementary and worthwhile to business leadership.

Perhaps it is too soon, but here's one vote for Marc Benioff getting a nudge for the Nobel Prize.

It's one thing to build a case in Powerpoint, entirely another to command a platform.

Have you counted your carbon today?

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4.Applying Patches.
5.Upgrade Application Database Version to 11g Release 2.
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7. Deploy Clone Application Database to Sun Oracle Database Machine.
8.Migrate Application Database File System to Exadata ASM Storage.
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Bee.tv Recommendation Engine for TV and Film

From shopping to music, the overload of information on the Web has been shaped and ordered by recommendation engines. There are even tools like the browser extension GetGlue that purport to sail the entire recommendations ocean. But one very important aspect of the online experience has been overshadowed: video. Milan- and Tel Aviv-based Bee.tv, currently in beta, has introduced a proprietary, cross-platform recommendation service to personalize television, film and video viewing. Bee.tv aspires to do for video what Pandora or Last.fm do for audio.

"Bee.tv employs a proprietary algorithm that includes contextual and semantic analysis, collaborative filtering, and thematic push to deliver personalized TV, movie and video content recommendations."

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I signed up for the beta and was interested to see if my weird taste in TV and movies would track at all. I like Blazing Saddles, Chuck, The Beekeeper, Erich Rohmer, Rick Steves, Cracked.com and A Blog About History, so heaven only knows what they'd make of that.

You chime in on eight movies from Superbad to Casablanca. I wound up with The Bourne Supremacy (sure), Observe and Report (eh, probably not) and All Through the Night (never heard of it). It didn't blow my mind but it wasn't crazily out of the park either. Presumably, as I use the service, and rate more offerings, the engine will hone in on my weirdness and before you know it, voila! Kentucky Fried Movie and Cities in the Mist.

Recommendations are broken into TV, Web, Mobile and iPad. A recommendation filtering mechanism can monitor your preferences.

YouTube and most online video viewing sites have recommendation algorithms, but Bee.tv is a stand-alone site, with an emphasis on the recommendation process.
The site provides you with a place to purchase each of its recommendations that are for sale, but unlike Hulu, say, it does not seem to be a platform for free programming.

Bee.tv's partners include Apple, YouTube, Tribune Media, Amazon, broadcast and cable networks and various online content creators.

Google rolls out encrypted web search

Skoncujte s anonymitou koncových uživatel? (1/2)

Znalost identity koncového uživatele ve všech vrstvách systému je základní nutností p?i tvorb? bezpe?ných aplikací. Dnes si ukážeme, jak m?že program p?es Client Identifier p?edávat databázovému serveru tuto informaci i v p?ípad?, kdy aplikace sdílí stejné p?ipojení do databáze pro všechny uživatele, jak je to b?žné v dnešních webových aplikacích.

Greenpeace: Social media can save the planet

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HP Improves Visibility, Alignment, and Marketing Effectiveness with Siebel MRM

How does an $80 billion technology company gain complete visibility to marketing spend?

Hewlett Packard uses Siebel Marketing Resource Management to ensure marketing dollars are invested wisely and gain transparency and accountability across its marketing function. With Siebel MRM, HP is able to manage over 50,000 campaigns in over 60 countries and leverage marketing best practices around the world.

Find out more in this video with Deborah Nelson, SVP of Marketing and Alliances at HP.

OWB és heterogén adatforrások, Oracle Magazine, 2010. május-június

Megjelent az Oracle Magazine aktuális száma (naná, az aktuális számnak ez a dolga. Oracle Magazine, 2010. május-június.
Ebben a számban sok érdekes cikk közül válogathatunk: cloud computing, Java, .Net, új generációs backup, párhuzamosság és PL/SQL, OWB,...
Ajánlom a Business Intelligence - Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2 and Heterogeneous Databases cikket, melyben megtudhatjuk, hogyan használhatunk heterogén adatforrásokat az Oracle Warehouse Builder ETL-ELT eszközzel, hogyan tudunk például SQL Serverhez csatlakozni, és nagy teljesítménnyel adatokat kinyerni. Az Oracle adatintegrációs weblapja.
Ez a gazdag heterogenitás az OWB az Oracle Data Integrator testvér termékb?l jön. Az adatintegrációs SOD azt mondja, hogy ez a két Java alapú termék, az OWB és az ODI egy termékben fognak egyesülni.

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Larry Ellison cikk, tervek a Sun-nal, az ember az Iron Man 2-b?l, Reuters interjú

2010. május 12-én jelent meg a következ? cikk az Oracle-r?l és Larry Ellisonról (az Oracle CEO-ja): Special Report: Can That Guy in Ironman 2 Whip IBM in Real Life?.
Larry szerepel az Iron Man 2 c. filmben is, ahogyan korábbi blogbejegyzésemben már írtam róla: Larry Ellison is szerepel az Iron Man 2 c. filmben, a nyúlfarknyi 3 másodperces szerepben önmagát alakítja. A következ?kben a cikkb?l idézek.
"...Sun under Oracle should be larger than Sun ever was", azaz a Sun az Oracle kezében sokkal jobban fog muzsikálni, mint korábban önállóan.
"He added that he expects profit from Sun's operations to boost Oracle's earnings in the current quarter, which ends May 31.", azaz Larry már a két hét múlva végetér? pénzügyi negyedévben is profitot remél a Sun termékekb?l.

"Last year he unveiled Exadata, version 2, based on Sun technology, which he says initially has nearly $1 billion in potential sales and will likely have annual sales measured in the billions of dollars within a few years."

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Google Reveals AdSense Revenue Shares for Content, Search-based Ads

Google finally revealed this morning just how much it takes as its share when advertisers buy ads on content and search inside AdSense. According to a release this morning on the AdSense blog, all publishers pocket 68% revenue for content ads and 51% for search ads, except for high profile publishers which negotiate their own shares. Google says they are revealing these numbers "in the spirit of greater transparency," but what is the real motivation behind their decision?

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According to Search Engine Land writer Barry Schwartz, the transparency could be an effort to placate Italian anti-trust complaints which argued for revealing the revenue shares. Journalist, author and Google expert Jeff Jarvis made no mention of the Italian pressures in a blog post this morning, but did mention that he too had pressed the company to publish their ad splits earlier this year.

Google says its cut for content and search ads goes toward the "costs for our continued investment in AdSense -- including the development of new technologies, products and features that help maximize the earnings you generate from these ads." These costs are yet to be solidified for their other AdSense offerings, such as mobile applications, feeds, games and YouTube ads, and thus these splits were not revealed today.

Only Three Days Left to Save $100 on Real-Time Web Summit

ReadWriteWeb's first East Coast event - the Real-Time Web Summit - will be taking place on June 11 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. Be sure to register now as we are extending the $395 ticket price until Wednesday, May 26.

The Real-Time Web is a set of technologies that impacts almost every service, activity and application on the Web. Come to the summit to understand how it impacts you, your business and your next development.

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Attendees already include thought-leaders like John Borthwick of betaworks, Alex Iskold of Adaptive Blue and Anil Dash of Expert Labs. ReadWriteWeb also has a special rate for students. If you are a student and would like to participate, please email us at students@readwriteweb.com.

Why We Use the Unconference Format

Watch live video from ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010 on Justin.tv

"[The Mobile Summit] was the best best best event I've been to in years, and I mean it. To be frank, I almost left ten minutes after I arrived, thinking that I was completely out of place. Turns out I was exactly in the right place all along. I left feeling completely energized about media, innovation, women in tech, new social models, and have so many new ideas about what I want to do next and what I want to get involved in. What I really didn't expect was to walk away with a pretty clear picture of what the future of mobile media (and social media) looks like. Now I'm staring at invites to keynote at a couple of tech events this year and hoping they're a fraction of the win that was RWWMS." - Violet Blue, sex educator and author

An unconference is a free-flowing, organically generated series of group discussions agreed on and led by attendees.

To get a feel for how thoughtful discussion happens at these events, check out the comments by Ted Morgan, Chris Saad and Ben Metcalfe in this video by Evelyn Rusli from TechCrunch:

We were one of the first news outlets to analyze the Real-Time Web and we've since written extensively about it. We also published a premium report on the subject last year, which featured interviews with 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology.

If you're a company in the Real-Time Web market, you may be interested in helping to sponsor this event. Please contact our COO Sean Ammirati for more information.

The ReadWriteWeb team is excited about our first New York event on June 11th, so we look forward to seeing you there!

IBM Buys Sterling Commerce For $1.4 Billion

IBM is buying Sterling Commerce for $1.4 billion. It is IBM's largest acquisition since purchasing Cognos in 2007 for $922 million.

The acquisition of the AT&T company is intended to complement IBM's middleware portfolio and help customers develop more intelligent business networks. Gartner believes the acquisition is a complement to IBM's acquisition of Cast Iron Systems a few weeks ago.

The transaction environment is undergoing rapid change as customers increasingly make purchases online and through electronic systems via any number of indirect channels. IBM's expectation is that Sterling Commerce will simplify the way organizations connect and communicate with partners, customers and suppliers through an on-premise infrastructure or cloud delivery model.

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Sterling Commerce provides business transaction, selling and fulfillment software. IBM's goal is to accelerate IBM's efforts to capture more share in the business integration software and services market.

Gartner's Benoit Lheureux says the acquisition shows the deepening interest in the B2B space:

"We're already working on a consolidated response to this acquisition as well, but shooting from the hip here's a few initial reactions:

* Acquired by IBM WebSphere group, along with Cast Iron, Lombardi, etc. -- they're decisively assembling a lotta B2B horsepower
* The WebSphere group now has even *more* integration software -- hey, has anyone seen my software roadmap GPS?
* Sterling Collaborative Network + Cast Iron Cloud == A viable integration as a service offering for both traditional ecommerce & Cloud services
* The WebSphere group now has a bunch of Apps -- some inherently multi-enterprise Apps -- that's a lot *on top* of application infrastructure
* IBM has pitched this acquisition in the context of "Dynamic Business Networks" -- more expansive, but builds upon business process networks"

IBM is spending aggressively to expand its offerings. The company is on pace to spend $20 billion in acquisitions by 2015.

Tony Blair to Advise Silicon Valley Green-Tech VC Firm Khosla Ventures

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is joining Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Khosla Ventures as a public policy advisor for the firm's green-tech investments, according to a press release from the firm today. Founded by Vinod Khosla in 2004, Khosla Ventures is one of the leaders in environmental tech investments - a field of entrepreneurship Blair says is paramount to turning around the energy and climate crisis facing the world today.

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According to the release, Blair and his team "will leverage his advocacy for environmental issues and his global relationships to help Khosla's broad portfolio of clean technology companies maximize their effectiveness in achieving their environmental goals." During his time as Prime Minister, Blair led efforts to address the climate and energy crisis. Today he heads the Breaking the Climate Deadlock initiative which is aimed at uniting world leaders for global climate policy.

"Solving the climate crisis is more than just a political agenda item - it's an urgent priority that requires innovation, creativity, and ambition," said Blair. "I share a clear vision with Vinod, one of the earliest leaders in cleantech investment, that entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and beyond will have a tremendous impact on our environmental future.

Based on his continuing work with international climate control policies, it is likely that Blair will offer Khosla Ventures and its portfolio of green-tech companies with both policy advice and connections to government officials who support these efforts. Blair will also likely provide the firm with advice on new investments, though there was no mention whether he will provide any funding himself as an angel.

The partnership was announced before a private audience of portfolio companies and limited parters and other Khosla funders, including Bill Gates. Aside from it's green-tech investments, Khosla Ventures has helped fund IT startups like Square, Hunch and Xobni.

This announcement is great news for green-tech companies which saw a significant dip in venture funding last year. Khosla's partnership with Blair is a large step forward in their dedication to environmental tech investments - a field in which they are clearly determined to become the hands-down leader. Other VC funding figures have been lackluster so far in 2010, but Khosla's cleantech initiatives could help these numbers rebound as the year continues.

Photos courtesy of The World Economic Forum on Flickr.

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Farewell

Dear Friends and Colleagues

After 8.5 years with Plumtree/BEA/Oracle, it is time for me to move on to something new and exciting. Tomorrow, May 21, will be my last day with Oracle.

Prior to joining Plumtree back in 2001, I had not stayed with any one company for more than two years at a time and I really thought that that might be the case with Plumtree even then. However, 8.5 years later, I can definitely say that it has been a great ride with very few regrets. I have made some fantastic friends and have learned something from each and every one of you. I have definitely considered this to be a rewarding experience and I will miss all of you.

I do hope that you will keep in contact. You never know, our paths may cross again in the future. If you would like to keep in contact, then you can find me on Facebook or Linked In and my personal email is: briancharrison@gmail.com.

Goodbye and Good Luck.

Brian C. Harrison

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Weekly Wrap-up: Google's Real-Time Feeds, Your Browser's Fingerprint, Google TV, And More...

Google made a lot of news this week at its I/O developer conference, but none of it was quite as important to our readers as the story about how the company will be pushing real-time feeds to browsers. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: We stuck our noses into smell sensors that are changing the Internet of Things; in mobile news Google announced the next version of Android; and speaking of Google, it bought itself a real-time video communications company. Read on for more.

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Story of the Week: Google Will Push Real-Time Feeds

• Google Will Push Real-Time Feeds to Browser (Updated)
• Gmail's New API: Email as Enterprise Platform
• EFF: Your Browser Has a Fingerprint
• Unbelievable: WSJ Calls Facebook's Referring URLs a Privacy Violation (UPDATED)
• Google's New Big Data APIs a Big Gift to Startups?
• Google Introduces Google TV

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The Real-Time Web Summit, New York City

You're invited to join ReadWriteWeb for our third event and our first on the East Coast: the ReadWriteWeb Real-Time Web Summit, on June 11 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. This is our second Summit on the Real-Time Web, following on from our successful debut event in Mountain View last October. It will follow the same unconference format, which we have gotten a lot of great feedback on.

The Real-Time Web is a set of technologies that impacts almost every service, activity and application on the Web. We were one of the first news outlets to analyze the Real-Time Web and we've since written extensively about it. Come to the summit to understand how it impacts you, your business and your next development.

The ReadWriteWeb team is excited about our first New York event and we look forward to seeing you there! Click here to get a 30% discount on your registration.

Mobile Web

• Geolorean: A Check-in App with Check.in Integration
• Google Announces the Next Version of Android
• 7% of U.S. Consumers "Very Likely" to Buy an iPad

More Mobile Web coverage

Augmented Reality for Marketers and Developers: Our Newest Research Report

We're pleased to announce ReadWriteWeb's latest premium report, Augmented Reality for Marketers and Developers: Analysis of the Leaders, the Challenges and the Future. This report will help you develop a sophisticated understanding of Augmented Reality (AR), the mobile and Web technology that places data on top of a user's view of the physical world. The research included will help you decrease your AR development time to market by learning from the first wave of early adopters. AR offers a new marketing and product paradigm for a high impact, high value customer experience. More than 1,000 AR campaigns were kicked-off last year and we expect to see many more in 2010. In this report, we profile key AR development companies, their campaigns as well as development lessons learned. For more information or to buy the report, visit here.

Internet of Things

• 6 Smell Sensors That Are Changing the Internet of Things
• Sensor & RFID Apps of the Future, Part 1

More Internet of Things coverage

Real-Time Web

• Google Will Push Real-Time Feeds to Browser (Updated)
• Google Buys Real-Time Video Communications Company

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The 30 Best (And Worst) Web Tech Tattoos

Love Linux? Love your Mac? No you don't - not like the hundreds of people out there with Apple and Tux tattoos. But even then, that's not hard core - it's not like Apple is just a Web 2.0 darling du jour.

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This is Lynn LaVallee's monument to the composition of the Web: "I'm a Web engineer," she explained to the L.A. Times, "so the tattoo represents the proper separation layers of a Web document. The first file is the structural layer - which is the house. The second is the presentational layer - CSS - and the third is the behavioral layer, which is JavaScript."

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Wordpress/Drupal

Google

Farmville Hot Rod Tractor

@critter

Rackspace

Cisco

Fork Bomb

(Don't know what a fork bomb is?)

Firefox/Safari

Android/BlackBerry App World

@BaltimoreMD Fail Whale, Reddit Alien, Free Wi-Fi

Want more? Geekytattoos.com is a good place to start. Got your own geek ink you want to share? Let us know about it in the comments.

Lead photo: fiatlux. Lynn LaVallee: jayzombie. RSS: gorillasushi, bestdamntech, creepysleepy. Wordpress/Drupal: bakershours.com, vegasgeek, Dries Buytaert. Google: ivanmor, growabrain, mezdeathhead. Farmville Hot Rod Tractor: geekytattoos.com. @critter: digitalpapercuts, korneliuz, freezerburns.com, critterscode.com, trioutnc.com. Rackspace/Cisco: MarJor24, simonov, geekologie.com. Fork Bomb: silveiraneto. Firefox/Safari: liveneedle.com, fisherwy.blogspot.com, bmezine.com. Android/BlackBerry App World: ivanmor, gadgets.boingboing.net, blindfutur3. @BaltimoreMD Fail Whale, Reddit Alien, Free Wi-Fi: supeertakai, urdb.org, geekytattoos.com.

ProtoShare: Helping Make The Move From Waterfall To Agile Development

The proliferation of apps is creating a bit of a challenge for the enterprise that does significant software development.

But it is also in many ways what is propelling a new generation of SaaS services that add features at an exponential rate compared to on-premise counterparts.

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One of the outcomes is a shift from waterfall to agile development processes. The transition can be a bit tricky. But the result is a new emphasis on prototyping.

Protoshare is a Portland, Oregon company we had the chance to catch up with at the Webvisions conference. The company offers a platform for prototyping that helps companies move from waterfall to agile.

A waterfall process is traditionally marked by a long front-end process to develop a high-level scope of work. For example, a few people set the scope and then another team may put together a detailed, functional level of specs. That's followed by creating some static wireframes to communicate the project information.

ProtoShare provides a collaborative service for making application and Web-based prototypes. The service is designed to overcome many of the issues that come with waterfall development process. Clients, for instance, will often find that what they get is not always what they had envisioned.

There are several tools available that provide wire framing capabilties. These include iRise, OmniGraffe and Axure.

ProtoShare is definitely the low-cost alternative to these services. But like any hosted service you need to be wary of what you are getting into. Tammie Egloff is a usability specialist who did a comprehensive review of the service. Tripwire recently reviewed 15 tools.

Like many of the services available, A prototyping process through ProtoShare allows for the development to be more iterative. Tasks can be assigned. Questions can be asked. It has a real-time activity stream for collaborating.

Thumb tacks, for instance, point to comments. Markers will also show annotations for more detailed feedback. The input is in one place. People can see an app as it would look live, making iterative changes to the prototype as it is created.

Companies are increasingly moving to more agile development processes. ProtoShare is one of a growing number of services that are helping the process be more collaborative, and faster in getting services to market that meet client expectations.

The ideea of prototyping is not new. And there are plenty of options. ProtoShare consistently gets high marks. It's worth a look, especially if you are on a tight budget and looking at alternatives to higher priced services.

Google rolls out new developer tools

security stuff's

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>>At design time, JDeveloper saves all policy store and identity store changes in a single file for the entire application. In the development environment, this is the jazn-data.xml file. After you configure the jazn-data.xml file using the editors, you can run the application in Integrated WebLogic Server and the contents of the policy store will be added to the domain-level store, the system-jazn-data.xml file, while the test users will be migrated to the embedded LDAP server that Integrated WebLogic Server uses for its identity store. The domain-level store allows you to test the security implementation by logging on as test users that you have created.<<

>>References to the identity store are always in the context of test user identities that you create for the purpose of running in Integrated WebLogic Server. Typically, you would not migrate these users to the staging environment when you deploy to Oracle WebLogic Server<<

looks like above part didn't went well with me, apart from following all instruction provided in doc, I need to create users from adminconsole in security->realms->Users and Groups sections to successfully login in to the pages.

what is missing ?

Right click the application and select application properties, then select the Users and Groups check box from deployments in the wizard as shown in screen shot below that's it.
Now you don't need to create users through AdminConsole if your app is running through integrated server, users ceated using ADF Security wizard automatically migrate to emb LDAP.

other tips

Define the grant for the task flow.

Do not define grants for individual page definition files associated with the web pages of the bounded task flow.

If the web page is part of a bounded task flow, define the grant for the task flow.
Define the grant for the page definition only when the web page is not contained by an unbounded task flow.

Note that the unbounded task flow is not an ADF security-aware component and allows no grants.

Google Maps Now Makes Getting on the Right Train Easier

Earlier this month, Google announced the addition of biking directions to Google Maps. Today, Google is also enhancing its maps by adding more data about local public transit options. Whenever you search for a train station in Google Maps, you can now see a list of transit lines that service this station. Google Maps will also display the next scheduled departure times for every line.

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We have to say, however, that while this feature worked great for the example given in Google's blog post ("Zurich HB") and most of the larger transit stations in big cities like New York, finding the right name for smaller train stations can be rather frustrating.

One More Feature That Sets Google Apart from the Competition

While this is only a small addition to Google's mapping product, the constant drumbeat of new features and partnerships that Google Maps announces on an almost-weekly basis makes it hard for competitors like Bing Maps to keep pace. Even though Bing Maps offers a very competitive set of mapping and directions features that still outperform Google Maps in many ways, Google is currently offering a more comprehensive set of features. Thanks to Google's strong emphasis on getting local businesses to update their own data in Google Maps, the company is also able to offer better results for local searches.

Given Microsoft's renewed focus on Bing - and the Web in general - it would be wrong to count Bing Maps out, but for the time being, it looks like it will be hard for Microsoft to catch up with Google.

Sites caught sharing secret data with advertisers, report says

How to Design a Web App for Google TV

Google has released a preliminary developer's guide to aid those interested in porting their Web or mobile applications to Google TV, the newly announced platform built on top of Google Chrome technology. With Google TV, "television is no longer confined to showing just video" explains Salahuddin Choudhary, Google TV product manager, in a blog post. "It can be a photo slideshow viewer, a gaming console, a music player and much more."

But how does one build a working application for Google TV?

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Although deeper, technical details are still forthcoming (sign up here for updates), developers interested in this new platform can now follow the guidelines put forth by Google here on the Google TV developer site. These are essentially style suggestions for building TV-enabled Web apps, something that developers should consider if building apps for any TV platform, not just Google's.

They are, as follows:

• Make it Simple: Identify the vital parts of your app before starting work, stick with one visible mode of navigation or one information hierarchy, make the primary action reachable in one click, avoid the temptation to use abstract icons, limit vertical scrolling, and preselect the user's next action when you can.
• Get Navigation Right: Google TV users will often navigate with a directional pad, so the navigation model involves up, down, left, right and enter buttons and action. Make your app navigable with one hand.
• Design for TV screens, not Computer Screens: TVs have wider screens, so you should make UI elements slightly larger. Also, avoid highly saturated and very bright colors, and design for 1280x720 and 1920x1080 resolutions, including at least a 10% margin. Use pure white (#FFFFFF) sparingly.
• Pick the Right Fonts: Avoid lightweight fonts or those with very narrow or broad strokes. Use simply constructed sans serif fonts and apply anti aliasing to increase readability. Google TV currently supports only the Droid Sans and Droid Serif font families. If you want to use font embedding techniques to create a more customized appearance, you can, but this relies on Flash, which will be slower.
• Make Onscreen Text Readable:
• Limit each paragraph to no more than 90 words.
• Break text into small chunks that can be read at a glance.
• Keep line length at about five to seven words per line. Never go shorter than three or longer than 12.
• Remember that light text on a dark background is slightly easier to read on TV (compared to dark text on a light background).
• Target body text to be around 21pt on 720p and 28pt on 1080p.
• Don't use any text smaller than 18pt on 720p and 24pt on 1080p.
• Add more leading (larger line spacing) for onscreen text than print text.
• Don't Use Disruptive Sounds: By default, volume should be low. Make it simple to mute the app. Don't make interactions dependent on audio cues.
• Use Flash Wisely: Google TV can play 720p and 1080p Flash videos. Use h.264 encoding, not h.263 or vp6. Avoid Flash banner or sidebar ads that include video. Only use one instance of the media player at a time. Be conscious of system memory.
• Be Conscious of Performance: Perceived performance is more important than actual performance for TV apps. Make sure the app never executes so much code that the runtime can't frequently update the screen and gather user input. You may need to divide a task into parts to accomplish this.
• Use Bitmaps: Use bitmaps to optimize rendering.
• Watch Out for Tweening: Minimize the use of motion tweens to help content run faster.

iPad on pace to outsell Macs

Oracle felvásárlás: Secerno, heterogén adatbázis t?zfal

A következ? cég az Oracle felvásárlások sorozatában a Secerno, a heterogén vállalati adatbázis t?zfalak gyártója, ez a következ? eleme az Oracle biztonsági megoldásoknak.
"Oracle Buys Secerno, Adds Heterogeneous Database Firewall to Oracle's Industry-leading Database Security Solutions"
- Oracle Secerno lap
- Sajtóhír a Secerno felvásárlás bejelentésér?l angol nyelven
"As a provider of database firewall solutions that help customers safeguard their enterprise databases, Secerno is a natural addition to Oracle's industry-leading database security solutions," said Steve Hurn, CEO Secerno. "Secerno has been providing enterprises and their IT Security departments strong assurance that their databases are protected from attacks and breaches. We are excited to bring Secerno's domain expertise to Oracle, and ensure continuity and success for our current customers, partners and prospects."

Google faces probes over Wi-Fi data flub

Long-lost brothers reunite via Twitter

Google unveils 'multimillion-channel' TV

CIC 2010 - Ghost Stories and Model Based Design

I was lucky enough to attend the collaboration and interoperability congress recently. The location was very beautiful and interesting, it was held in the mountains about two hours outside Denver, at the Stanley hotel, famous both for inspiring Steven King's novel "The Shining" and for attracting a lot of attention from the "Ghost Hunters" TV show.

My visit was prosaic - I didn't get to experience the ghosts the locals promised - but interesting, with some very informative sessions. I noticed one main theme - a lot of people were talking about Model Based Design (MBD), which is moving design and manufacturing away from 2d drawings and towards 3d models. 2d has some pretty deep roots in industrial manufacturing and there have been a lot of challenges encountered in making the leap to 3d.

One of the challenges discussed in several sessions was how to get model information out to the non-engineers in the company, which is a topic near and dear to my heart. In the 2D space, people without access to CAD software (for example, people assembling a product on the shop floor) can be given printouts of the design - it's not particularly efficient, and it definitely isn't very green, but it tends to work. There's no direct equivalent in the 3D space.

One of the ways that AutoVue is used in industrial manufacturing is to provide non-CAD users with an easy to use, interactive 3D view of their products - in some cases it's directly used by people on the shop floor, but in cases where paper is really ingrained in the process, AutoVue can be used by a technical publications person to create illustrative 2D views that can be printed that show all of the details necessary to complete the work.

Are you making the move to model based design? Is AutoVue helping you with your challenges? Let us know in the comments below.

Giant solar-powered yacht to circle globe

links for 2010-05-20

• @pevansgreenwood: People don’t like change. (Or do they?)
  "Creating a culture that embraces change, means changing the way we think about and structure our organisations and our careers. It means rethinking the rules of enterprise IT." -- Peter Evans Greenwood
  (tags: enterprisearchitecture change innovation)
• Karim Berrah: After IRON MAN 2
  "Nice demo of a robot serving a cup of coffee, from a Swiss based engineering company, NOSAKI, I visited last week. This movie is not a fiction (like IRON MAN 2) and is really powered by an Oracle Database." -- Karim Berrah
  (tags: oracle solaris ironman2 nosake)
• @myfear: Spring and Google vs. Java EE 6
  "While Spring and Rod Johnson in particular have been extremely valuable in influencing the direction of Java (2)EE after the 1.4 release to the new, much more pragmatic world of Java EE 5, Spring has also caused polarization and fragmentation. Instead of helping forge the Java community together, it has sought to advanced its own cause." Oracle ACE Director Markus Eisele
  (tags: google javaee spring oracleace java)
• Arup Nanda: Mining Listener Logs
  Listener logs contain a wealth of information on security events. Oracle ACE Director Arup Nanda shows you how to create an external table to read the listener logs using simple SQL.
  (tags: otn oracle oracleace sql security)

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Finally, an official Twitter iPhone app

The Internet's Running Out of Room

Today's Internet was built largely on the IPv4 or Internet Protocol version four, first introduced in 1980. Now, three decades on and with mobile Internet tracing a shining arc across the virtual firmament, the Internet is running out of available IP addresses. So maintain the 130 delegates to the IPv6 Summit in Ireland, meeting today at Dublin Castle.

"Despite having nearly four and a half billion addresses, predications estimate that IPv4 will reach maximum capacity by September 2011," according to Irish IPv6 Task Force chair, Mícheál Ó Foghlú.

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They assert three critical factors driving current demand for Internet addresses.

1. Users in developed nations employ multiple devices to access the Internet including mobile phones, laptops, desktops and servers, all of which require individual addresses; the trend is towards even more Internet-enabled devices such as TVs, game consoles and media players
2. Growing numbers of new users from developing nations such as China, India, and Brazil, amplified by the emphasis on mobile Internet access in many countries without good telecommunications infrastructure
3. The Internet of Things is increasing the pressure to provide connectivity, including smart grids for electricity, water and other utility services

The group promotes a newer technology, IPv6, which they say would facilitate over four billion addresses for every person on the planet. This is because unlike the current protocol, which uses 32-bit addresses, IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses.

One of the primary concerns when it comes to dwindling availability of IP addresses under the current protocol is the effect on the economy.

"Without IPv6," says the group, "new start-up businesses wishing to offer services on the Internet will find it very difficult or prohibitively expensive to secure globally routable addresses for new services, such as eCommerce websites. Addresses may even become a black market commodity, which could be a massive hurdle for businesses and would significantly slow Internet growth."

Some governmental and commercial outfits, in Europe and especially Asia, have begun to run the new protocol. It is far from being universally embraced, however. To do so requires running the two systems in tandem for a while on a large scale. That, in turn, introduces the complicating issue of cost in a time when neither public nor private groups find themselves with a lot of liquidity. From changing firewalls to cable modems, this is not a light undertaking.

What do you think? Is this an urgent issue or an eventual one? Or is it over-hyped altogether? If it is a necessary change, what is the best way to switch over?

Dublin Castle photo by GLIC

Geolorean: A Check-in App with Check.in Integration

Yesterday we looked at Check.in, the universal check-in Web application that provides a single interface for registering your location with several location-based social networking services like Foursquare and Brightkite. Today, we're learning of a native iPhone application that integrates Check.in's functionality: Geolorean.

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Not only does the new Geolorean application provide all the features of Check.in, it also provides an aggregated view of all your friends' check-ins across the applications it supports: Gowalla, Brightkite, and Foursquare.

Check-ins and Check-in Streams

The Web page for Geolorean answers the first question we had about this application: Is this new? The site reads: "What do you mean you've seen this? It's brand new."

Well, indeed it is.

Check.in only launched out of private beta yesterday and already here's an app taking advantage of the functionality it provides. The App Store, though, shows an "Update Date" of May 6th for Geolorean and the app itself launched back in late April. That means it actually launched even before Check.in went into public beta. If only we had known!

Geolorean (love the name, by the way) is a creation of two Chicago developers, Andy LaVoy and Max Beatty. With this $0.99 app you can view an aggregated stream of your friends' check-ins and you can locate your friends on a map where you can see the details of each check-in. And when you're out and need to check in somewhere, you can use the Check.in Web service, which is integrated into the application by way of a Web view. When selecting this option, Check.in launches within the app, not in an external Safari window.

The iTunes app description promises more "updates and expanded features soon," but apparently that won't include any additional location-based services for the time being. According to a Q&A on the app's homepage, it will add other services only "if another one gets popular." (Does no one use Loopt?) However, the site does mention that you'll soon be able to use the app to merge contacts across the three supported services into a single contact in order to better track their check-ins.

There isn't much more to this app, but I tried it this morning and it worked well without any crashes or noticeable bugs. Of course, I'm sitting here at home writing about it so I haven't been able to test the Check.in feature yet. But based on my previous experience with the standalone Web app, it should do just fine.

If you're interested in trying Geolorean for yourself, you can grab it from iTunes here.

UrbanSpoon Challenges OpenTable With iPad-Based Restaurant Reservations Service

Restaurant review site UrbanSpoon is slowly moving into OpenTable's territory. About half a year ago, the company launched a very limited test of a basic reservations tracking system for restaurants in the Seattle area. At that time, however, restaurant owners could only use UrbanSpoon to tell their customers whether they had last-minute openings. Now, however, UrbanSpoon is launching RezBook, an iPad app and online reservations platform that will allow restaurants to bypass OpenTable and manage their tables and reservation books.

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Currently, UrbanSpoon is testing the iPhone app with 5 restaurants in the Seattle area, but as the company's co-founder Ethan Lowry told us earlier today, the company plans to expand this program nationwide over the next few months. UrbanSpoon will first concentrate its marketing on large markets like Seattle and Los Angeles, but anybody with an iPad will soon be able to download the application and use it. The app will be available in Apple's store within the next few weeks.

UrbanSpoon will charge its customers a subscription fee of $99 per month and a $1 fee for every reservation that is made through its system (reservations through UrbanSpoon's widget will be free).

The application will store its data on UrbanSpoon's servers. Besides allowing restaurants to manage their reservations, the service will also include a customer relationship management database.

Manage Your Restaurant with the iPad

As Lowry told us, the iPad is an ideal device in the restaurant context, as it gives the host far more mobility than the regular large terminal that you can find in most restaurants today. Besides that, Lowry noted, the iPad is also very "cool and sexy," something that a lot of restaurateurs appreciate.

With this move, UrbanSpoon is clearly invading OpenTable's territory. According to Lowry, restaurateurs never really had an alternative to OpenTable until now. With over 8 million users, UrbanSpoon's iPhone app is already one of the most popular restaurant-related mobile apps and given that the company offers a cheaper subscription price and runs on relatively cheap hardware, the company, which has been working on this service ever since Apple announced the iPad, has a chance to make a dent in OpenTable's market.

Storm of Innovation: Google Partners with VMware for Apps, Clouds, and Widgets

Today, from Google's annual conference, I/O, the company brings the news of a partnership with VMware. This news immediately turned our mind to the scenarios of enterprise app developers.

What we found is that like like the parent companies, the partnership has a bit of genius embedded in the way it offers more tools and choice to developers for scaling, experience, and speed to market.

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Integration

One of the things offered in this partnership to publish to Google Apps Cloud as a target for the cloud.

In many ways, mobile is the killer app for apps in the cloud. It is the place where it is the clearest that change is happening - for the better - in opening up services to more form factors.

Spring is a lead Java development pattern that is used by a large number of enterprise Java developers. VMware's SpringSource organization is a leader in bringing tools to the Spring community. With this partnership, Google has partnered to bring its widget library to SpringSource and enable these widgets to developers.

One of the innovations in the Spring community is SpringRoo, a tool that helps quickly ramp up a data driven environment. Shown here is VMware and Google's view of the power of using Spring along with Google's presentation widgets for getting apps started in hours, delivering in days, and deploying in weeks.

What is new in Google Apps for Business: Buy, Buy, Build

The company is offering the opportunity for application developers to plug into the Google Apps Engine. This adds the ability to include local applications in the shared services in the Google Cloud, and for administers to provision both enterprise applications as well as Google and Google Marketplace to users.

New features for the Google Apps for Business include important features for managing applications.

Here, Google shares the landscape of the App Engine and the core premise of having scaling infrastructure on demand.

Google shares its pricing model for the preview. The cap on application provisioning costs is particularly innovative approach to getting attention in the enterprise.

Google App Engine for Business roadmap is shared with the public, making it easy to see what is being planned for the platform.

With the partnership with VMware, we see the Google's commitment to open source and the enterprise coming together.

What do you think, is Google helping make your work better?

Oracle Coherence 3.5 : Create Internet-scale applications using Oracle's high-performance data grid (By Aleksandar Seovic, Mark Falco, Patrick Peralta - PACKT Publishing)

Oracle Coherence

Coherence provides replicated and distributed (partitioned) data management and caching services on top of a reliable, highly scalable peer-to-peer clustering protocol. Coherence has no single points of failure; it automatically and transparently fails over and redistributes its clustered data management services when a server becomes inoperative or is disconnected from the network. When a new server is added, or when a failed server is restarted, it automatically joins the cluster and Coherence fails back services to it, transparently redistributing the cluster load. Coherence includes network-level fault tolerance features and transparent soft re-start capability to enable servers to self-heal.

Impact of Truncate or Drop Table When Flashback Database is Enabled

Recently I was working on a VLDB on the implementation of a disaster recovery environment configured with data guard physical standby and fast start failover.

One of the questions that come up was about the overhead of truncating and dropping tables. There are daily jobs on the database that truncate extremely large partitions, and as note 565535.1 explain, we knew there is an overhead for these operations.

But the information on the note was not clear enough, with the additional information I've got from Senior Oracle colleagues I did compile this document "Impact of Truncate or Drop Table When Flashback Database is Enabled" that further explain the case

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Python and Ruby in Tuxedo

With the release of SALT 11gR1, you can now develop Python/Ruby services/applications on Oracle Tuxedo platform. Python functions or Ruby classes can be invoked as Tuxedo services by other Tuxedo services or clients and, in addition, Python/Ruby applications can invoke existing Tuxedo services. SALT 11gR1 combines the proven scalability, reliability and performance of the Tuxedo runtime infrastructure with the agility provided by these dynamic scripting languages, providing a highly available and almost linearly scalable platform for Python and Ruby application development.

Another benefit of developing Python and Ruby applications with Tuxedo is that services are SOA enabled from inception by virtue of Tuxedo's comprehensive integration options with J2EE app servers, mainframe applications, Web services, etc.

Other interesting features are dynamic re-loading of scripts, where script changes are picked up automatically or when the administrator decides, and server-side typing, where Python functions and Ruby classes are given interfaces by way of the Tuxedo Metadata Repository.

More information can be found on the Oracle SALT 11gR1 documentation page. See also SCA Python and Ruby Programming and Python and Ruby Data Type Mapping.

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Google Buys Real-Time Video Communications Company

Google announced early this morning that it would acquire Global IP Solutions Holding. The company provides the VOIP engine behind Yahoo, AOL, WebEx and Lotus conferencing and had said last month that it would be the first to bring video chat to Android phones.

Google has offered $68.2 million for the company, which it has said it will use for real-time video and audio communications.

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"The Web is evolving quickly as a development platform, and real-time video and audio communication over the Internet are becoming important new tools for users," said Rian Liebenberg, an engineering director at Google, in a statement.

The question now is, what does Google plan to do with this acquisition? The company can keep hold of it and use it to power real-time video communication on Android. It could also create a direct competitor with Skype by adding video capabilities to Google Voice (such as are already possible with GChat, but with mobile capabilities). At the same time, Google could offer the technology to developers via API in an attempt to become a defacto place to look when deciding to add real-time communications to Web applications.

Larry Dignan at ZDNet also brings up an interesting point - what will become of GIPS' multitude of other clients, all of which happen to be Google competitors? According to the joint statement, GIPS CEO Emerick Woods said that "we are confident that our existing customers will continue to be fully supported while we continue to enhance and extend our products and technology at Google."

The purchase is part of a general push at Google in moving to an increasingly real-time web. Whether it's adding Twitter and Facebook updates to its search results or making Google Reader and the Google index itself real-time with PuSH, Google has consistently moved away from the old way of doing things, wherein updates occur on a timed schedule.

Yesterday, Marshall Kirkpatrick broke the story on a new version of Google's Feed API, which will push updates directly to a user's browser. He argued in that article that it was a sign of the times: "No more refreshing pages to see when new content is available - the real-time web comes to you live, nearly instantly as soon as it's published."

An API from Google incorporating this real-time video communication, pushing content in the same way as it will with its Feed API, would further enable this possibility. With Google's developing capabilities with speech recognition and translation, an embeddable and linked real-time video communication protocol could be revolutionary.

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What Makes a Good Design Critic? CHI 2010 Panel Review

Author: Daniel Schwartz, Senior Interaction Designer, Oracle Applications User Experience

Oracle Applications UX Chief Evangelist Patanjali Venkatacharya organized and moderated an innovative and stimulating panel discussion titled "What Makes a Good Design Critic? Food Design vs. Product Design Criticism" at CHI 2010, the annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The panelists included Janice Rohn, VP of User Experience at Experian; Tami Hardeman, a food stylist; Ed Seiber, a restaurant architect and designer; John Kessler, a food critic and writer at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; and Larry Powers, Chef de Cuisine at Shaun's restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia. Building off the momentum of his highly acclaimed panel at CHI 2009 on what interaction design can learn from food design (for which I was on the other side as a panelist), Venkatacharya brought together new people with different roles in the restaurant and software interaction design fields. The session was also quite delicious -- but more on that later. Criticism, as it applies to food and product or interaction design, was the tasty topic for this forum and showed that strong parallels exist between food and interaction design criticism.

Figure 1. The panelists in discussion: (left to right) Janice Rohn, Ed Seiber, Tami Hardeman, and John Kessler.

Apple spurred police in lost iPhone probe

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Confirmed, Facebook Automatically Bans Users: This Week in Online Tyranny

As we wrote a couple of weeks ago, Facebook has a "crowd-sourced" way of handling complaints. If a certain number of users register complaints against another user, that user is automatically banned and his or her profile is locked down.

We were told by a public relations representative, Simon Axten, that "(t)he assumptions made in the blog post are false." (We weren't really assuming, but OK.) "We don't take any action on a user report until it has been investigated by our professional reviewers, and they have positively identified a violation of our policies." This is contradicted by the facts as we know them.

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First, Sarah Roy, Facebook's public relations specialist in France, told our French editor, Fabrice Epelboin, that the bans were automated. Second, Epelboin's account was in fact blocked.

A group of Islamists have been targeting persons they find offensive and using this method to silence them. Fabrice has been a target a couple of times. See the latest below, where he was blocked automatically. He wrote to Axten after this happen and Facebook acknowledged that, "(i)t's possible there was a mistake." Well, that's one way to put it. If it's a mistake it has a long history now of being consistently made. It may well be that it is a negative effect of Facebook's crowd-sourced block policy. More on the background from ReadWriteWeb and ReadWriteWeb France (in translation from the French).

The Facebook page devoted to targeting people for blocking

Turkey sentences student to year in jail for Facebook. "The 4th Magistrate Criminal Court in Eski?ehir in north-western Turkey sentenced 22-year-old Erdem Büyük to imprisonment of 11 months because the university student posted a caricature of Büyük?ehir Mayor Yilmaz Büyüker?en on the social networking website Facebook." The U.S. notion of the offended party in a libel suite needing to prove malice, and guilt, is rare globally. The court deferred the sentence for five years. If the student commits a similar crime, the sentence will begin. A pretty clever way to ensure cooperation.

Facebook users in Columbia use the social networking site for violence. Antanas Mockus, a candidate for president in Columbia, and Jerome Uribe, the son of the current president, have both been issued death threats via Facebook. A Facebook page called "I promise to kill Antanas Mockus before the 30th of May" has been shut down and Colombian anti-terror police are investigating.

China to force all internet users to register names before posting. "A report in yesterday's issue of China Daily quotes Wang Chen, the minister of the State Council Information Office, as saying the authorities were 'exploring an identity authentication system' for users of online forums. Internet users are currently required to register before posting comments on these site but they can use a pseudonym to post. Wang said that, after preventing anonymous posting on major news portals and commercial websites, the aim now was to extend the system to online forums and chat websites.

Thailand interrogates U.S. citizen, and the U.S. government allows it. "Anthony Chai, an American citizen from California, was interrogated by Thai officials in Thailand and again later in the U.S. for allegedly insulting the monarchy in 2006. Originally from Thailand, Chai was granted US citizenship in the late 1970s. He faces possible arrest if he returns to Thailand...In 2006, Thai officials also contacted the company who hosted the website where comments about the Thai king were traced to Chai's business computer. It is believed that Chai's IP address was provided by the web hosting company without his knowledge. In response, the U.S.-based hosting company shut down the website." Thailand uses lese majeste laws to harass opponents.

U.S. state of Washington okays library censorship. "A Washington state supreme court issued a decision...supporting a public library's decision to fully filter Internet content, stating that such filtering could be considered 'collection development.'" This could provide a precedent for a library developing a collection that excluded, say, a political party or historical material on slavery.

Chávez's Twitter reaches almost 350,000. After calling it "terrorism," the Venezuelan president's three week-old Twitter account now has just shy of 350K followers. Number one with a bullet in Venezuela. Chávez has never been known as a big fan of conversation - more of making pronunciamientos- so Twitter doesn't seem like it will loosen him up much, especially given he follows only five accounts: a pro-Chávez newspaper, two political allies, his own party and of course Fidel Castro.

Russia arrests Islamic convert blogger. "Ethnic Russian convert to Islam Alexei Dudko was arrested around May 5 and has been kept locked, away from lawyers and relatives. His blog was mainly focusing on the events in Ingushetia in the North Caucasus, but also general events in Russia attracted his attention. He kept his real name in strict secret and, according to some sources, his arrest came days after his name somehow surfaced in the internet. Needless to say, that the person was very critical of the Russian authorities."

Britain finds Twitter bomb joker guilty. "Paul Chambers, who Monday was found guilty of tweeting 'a message by means of a public electronic message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character contrary to the Communications Act 2003.'" He was fined 1,000 pounds and now has a criminal record, for Tweeting he would bomb his local airport if it didn't get its act together and clean up the runway in a week so he could visit his girlfriend. Stupid, but deemed non-threatening by the security personnel of the airport in question.

Yemen sentences online editor to year in jail. "The former editor of the Sanaa Press website and owner of the newspaper Al-Tajdid, Al-Leswas was convicted by Judge Mansur Al-Sha'e of the Sanaa special court for press and publication offenses on 2 May for articles about alleged corruption within the Al-Bayda province power company...On 3 May, the day after the trial, the Mukhabarat (intelligence services) arrested Abdelsalam Mutabaq, the editor of the Al-Bayda Press website, for calling for Al-Leswas' release. After being held in a Mukhabarat detention centre, he was transferred to Al-Bayda's main prison. " Al-Leswas has fought harassment for years. He's a brave guy. Anyone who works in journalism in Yemen can be nothing less.

Uzbekistand tries to erase the Andijan massacre. Five years ago President Islam Karimov ordered Uzbeki government troops to murder hundreds of protesters in the city of Andijan. They subsequently ejected all foreign journalists for writing about it, purged domestic journalists - even sending the president's nephew, journalist Dzhamshid Karimov to a mental hospital - and blocked websites, which are still unavailable.

Cuba reduces blogger's sentence. Diana Virgen García was arrested and sentenced, in one day, to almost two years in prison for blogging. Her sentence was reduced to a fine of $12.

Egypt bans Skype. There has been a "government ban, announced in March but mostly unnoticed until this week, on using Skype, the popular Internet phone program." Egypt's mobile phone carriers are prohibited from hosting Skype.

Gizmodo warrant unsealed. The media suite to unseal the warrant used to seize computers and paperwork in the iPhone case has been successful.

Kuwait arrests blogger/journalist. "Muhammad 'Abd al-Qader al-Jasem voluntarily turned himself in to State Security officials on Monday, after being informed that a warrant for his arrest had been prepared." Kuwait's Prime Minister Al Sabah has filed five defamation complaints against him in court and another person close to the PM filed another 10. Smacks of harassment. Al-Jasem was on bail on appeal for a six month sentence for defamation. He said he would not stop posting his articles.

Indian blogger arrested. K.V. Shine was arrested in Kerala state for "denigrating the Nair community especially the Nair women." Sounds like a tool, for sure. But arrests of this nature make arrests for outright political goals much, much easier.

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Arabic script all that is left from Sanaa Press

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How Ticketfly Emerged from a Corporate Innovation Traffic Jam

Ticketfly, a startup that helps concert promoters leverage social media and sell tickets, announced earlier this week that it has raised $3 million in Series A funding from various firms and angels. Co-founded by Dan Teree and Andrew Dreskin, Ticketfly is - in a way - the rebirth of an earlier company, TicketWeb, which sold to Ticketmaster in 2000. After years of success, TicketWeb found itself unable to grow to its full potential, leading to the birth of a new venture, Ticketfly. Teree and Dreskin's story serves as a lesson to startups of how acquisitions by large, slow moving companies can lead to frustrated entrepreneurs.

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TicketWeb launched in 1996, becoming the first online ticketing service in the market. In May of 2000, Ticketmaster acquired the company for $35 million, which was six and a half times its revenue. With a solid return for its investors, TicketWeb's sale made a lot of sense at the time, and for several years the company saw significant growth in its new home.

In 2007, Teree left TicketWeb and joined forces with his former partner Dreskin, who had left the company shortly after the sale to Ticketmaster. A year later in 2008, the pair launched Ticketfly, building on the innovation they were unable to pursue while under Ticketmaster. Now the company has sniped 50 top venues from their former employers and just wrapped up a $3 million Series A round of funding to boot.

Had TicketWeb been allowed to grow under Ticketmaster, it "would have been way bigger and we would have been way farther along," Teree told ReadWriteWeb. Instead, Ticketfly is now launching on a foundation of technical skills, management skills and relationships in the music industry built by its founders over the last ten years. "It's allowed us to come out of the starting blocks far quicker than the average bear," added Teree.

Looking back, Teree doesn't regret the original sale to Ticketmaster because for a long time the relationship was good for TicketWeb. Since Ticketmaster has been too slow to adopt social media innovations, they are an easy target to compete with, Teree says. Ticketfly focuses on sales and marketing for venues and promoters within the music industry, and attempts to solve several problems these clients have.

Tradtional online ticketing platforms, like Ticketmaster, do not make it easy for promoters to get event information online in a timely and efficient manner. Ticketfly simplifies the process of promoting an event through web-based tools, whereas posting an event on Ticketmaster requires that the information pass through a Ticketmaster employee before it can go live. Ticketfly also places a strong emphasis on integrating with social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, eliminating the need for clients to re-enter their information in a handful of locations.

"Three years ago, you'd talk to a 45-year-old concert promoter in some city and you'd say 'Oh, Facebook, Beebo, Myspace,' - it's always gonna be something new," said Teree. "But now more than ever, there is a general agreement that Facebook and Twitter are winning platforms that are growing, that are huge already, that are very important and that you can't ignore." Ticketfly, he says, is designed to help promoters who are now beginning to realize that social media is critical to the success of their events.

With offices and employees in San Francisco, New York and Chicago, Ticketfly is able to meet face-to-face with many of their clients. But the benefits of the service aren't only on the promoter's end. Ticket buyers who use Ticketfly will pay 30-40% less in fees compared to Ticketmaster, and printing tickets at home comes at no added price. The site currently only supports the sale of concert tickets and Teree admits they aren't shooting for the lowest fees. Ticketfly instead sees itself as a direct competitor of Ticketmaster, but the service's plans to move beyond the music industry could place it head-to-head against popular online ticket vendor Eventbrite.

Investors in the company's Series A funding include High Peaks Venture Partners and Contour Venture Partners, both based in New York. Angel investors include Roger Ehrenberg of Information Arbitrage Capital Partners, and Howard Lindzon, known for his leading investments in StockTwits and other well known startups.

While the acquisition of TicketWeb by Ticketmaster was not an outright negative experience, Ticketmaster did, however, miss out on an enormous opportunity to expand their efforts in social media marketing. Instead, Ticketfly's founders left the company, and decide to innovate all on their own.

Photo by Flickr user Hamed Saber.

Update/Insert With ADF Web Service Data Control

The Web service data control (WSDC) in ADF is a powerful feature that allows you to easily build a UI on top of WS interfaces exposed by other systems.

However when you drag a WSDC to a page you usually get a set of output components where the data is shown. So how would you actually do an update operation on those values?
The answer is that you need a call to another method in your WSDC that does the update - but what if you want to pass to it the actual values that you get from the get method you invoked before?

Here is a demo showing how to do that:

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Changing the properties of items in the DC to be updateable - this gives you inputText fields instead of outputText fields.
And passing the currentRow.dataProvider to the update method (and choosing the right iterator for this).

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Ranching in the Cloud

This is a follow-up to our earlier post on RFID and rustling. This is the first draft of a blueprint for a grassroots method a rancher could use, free of federal involvement, to employ RFID against rustling. This is not the finished product.

Federal livestock-tagging systems have been tried before, most prominently in the wake of the mad cow disease scare. They have all been disastrous. Ranchers disliked the perceived imperiousness of a top-down implementation and resented the expense. Distrustful of federal authority, which has resulted in high-handed dismissal of ranching concerns at times, the centralized nature of a national data bank was also rejected. Organizations that do not exist on the federal level have also tried to encourage a centralized tagging protocol. The same issues inhered.

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We identified an issue that was of concern to ranchers alone and which was not being dealt with efficiently by anyone: rustling. Since the economy has tanked, cattle rustling has become popular again among the rural criminal classes. Remote areas, especially in the west, reduced law enforcement due to budget cuts and other issues have resulted in success for rustlers and pain for ranchers. We figured that RFID, implantable tracking devices the size of a grain of rice that use radio frequency codes, would be very popular. But, given the aforementioned top-down, centralized nature of government thinking and previous experiments, it is not being used to track missing cattle. In our previous article we noted first that it would never gain ranching support until those issues were removed, then we decided to create the blueprint for such a system.

This is the start of that blueprint for a self-administered, grassroots livestock tagging strategy that is rancher-guided and designed specifically as an anti-rustling measure.

The guiding motto of our strategy is this: THE RANCHER OWNS HIS OWN DATA.

There is no exception to this. Each rancher owns his, and only his (or her) own data. Government authorities are not and never will be involved in, or have access to, a given rancher's data of their own volition. In fact, no one but the rancher has access.

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In our system, the rancher, and only the rancher, decides that he wishes to tag his cattle. If rustling is a problem and the rancher decides the expense is worthwhile vs. losing X number of cattle at $1,000.00 a head, he sets himself up. The expenses will include buying the chips, tag inserter and scanner (we do not endorse any manufacturer), and maintaining a personal computer and Internet connection.

The RFID tags are inserted on the rancher's property, by either a ranch employee or a vet. The frequencies that the RFID chips produce are set by the rancher. Those frequencies are recorded by the rancher on his own computer, temporarily.

The lists of "correlations" (I term we're using that means which cow belongs to which frequency) will not reside on the rancher's personal computer, nor on a government server or a commercial server. It will, instead, reside in "the cloud." When using cloud computing, the rancher saves data onto, and only he can call that information back out of, the Internet. A protocol decides which servers will contain which packets of data. These packets are not like paragraphs or discrete pieces of information like a given RFID frequency, but rather the coding that eventually comes together to make a word or a number appear on your screen.

Cloud computing is analogous to an electrical grid. When you flick a light switch, the electricity that lights your kitchen does not necessarily come from the nearest source, nor all from the same source. A variable set of instructions decides on the spur of the moment - and with no way to tell beforehand - which sources are free to hand you your power. Imagine the same thing with your information. Can someone "download" or otherwise capture your information? No more than they can capture the light that comes out of your nightstand lamp.

You may be buying online storage from a specific company, much in the same way that you buy electricity from a single electrical company, but they do not have your data in boxes where they could be seized or otherwise compromised.

This will make it impossible for a rancher's information to be seized or intercepted by anyone.

Self-RFID vs. Rustling

Let's say a rancher has 500 head of cattle. He injects each cow, sets the frequency and scans it. He attaches a description of the cow to the frequency, enters this correlation in a spreadsheet and uploads it into the cloud. Additionally he positions RFID wands at the pinch-points on his spread the closest to access necessary for the trailers a rustler might use or a trailer a rustler would have to use to herd the cattle out of the rancher's area.

Several months go by and the rancher notices several dozen cattle are nowhere to be found. He suspects rustling. He checks the stats on his pinch-point wands [tech]. He investigates possible places that cattle might be. If his own investigation does not turns up the missing head, he sends a list of RFID frequencies that belong to the missing cattle to people of his choosing. He is the agent of the sharing of this information and he sends it only to the people he trusts. These may include local law enforcement, cattleyard administrators and buyers. If anything turns up on the wands, he might also communicate the possible point of egress for the cattle.

The most likely people for a rancher to contact would be local law enforcement, cattleyards and fellow ranchers. If a law enforcement authority found an individual engaged in suspicious actions, loading up cattle in an odd place for instance, normally the person would direct the officer's attention to the brands. Brands, however, prove nothing. They are easy to fake. But if the officer knows an area rancher has been rustled, he can scan the cattle in question. If the RFID scans match, the officer has the stolen cattle and probably the rustler. The same thing can be done by a yard owner when the cattle seem off. A fellow rancher can scan stray cattle or scan cattle being offered to him for sale. Again, if the RFID frequencies match, the cattle are found.

In the event that the information becomes part of a court case, it is merely the frequency, and the record the rancher made of that frequency's relationship to a certain cow, that is in possession. The rancher can go straight home after recovering cattle, change the frequency and upload the correlation into the cloud. Even people who had access to the previous correlations could make no use of it to identify specific cattle, again, until the rancher who owns the data makes that decision.

Preservation of individual initiative and data ownership

This system ensures a number of things.

• No one but the rancher owns and can manipulate cattle data
• The data cannot be seized
• Cooperation with anyone else is at the discretion of the rancher
• The information the rancher records is decentralized
• The rancher can keep track of his cattle and use that information to catch rustlers

An experienced computer security expert once said that if a party has infinite time and never-ending money, they can crack anything. The key idea there is infinite and never-ending. No party, including a government, has time and money in those proportions. But all they really need is enough of them to defeat the steps you have taken to guard your data. Conversely, all you really need to do is make sure your methods are two steps beyond what they are willing to do. Then, you own your own data.

That's it, brothers and sisters. It's not a final draft, it's a step. We welcome all input as we refine it. We especially look forward input from ranchers, manufacturers of the equipment mentioned and cloud computing types.

Thanks to Kin Lane for contributing his technical know-how and research skills for this article. That said, he's not to blame for it.

Photos of Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon and San Juan County in New Mexico by @thinkyiddish

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Had Enough Already? Quit Facebook Day is May 31

If you're jumping on the quitting-Facebook bandwagon, then have we got a website for you: QuitFacebookDay.com.

The site asks that, "if you agree that Facebook doesn't respect you, your personal data or the future of the Web" then you may want to join in quitting Facebook on May 31, the date it has declared as the official "Quit Facebook Day".

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The site is the creation of systems designer Matthew Milan and technologist Joseph Dee, who say that for them, "it comes down to two things: fair choices and best intentions". Milan writes that they "just can't see Facebook's current direction being aligned with any positive future for the web, so we're leaving."

Facebook has been facing yet another backlash after announcing further changes to its privacy policy during its f8 developer conference last month. Many users take issue with the social network's now-default opt-out inclusion of its users in new features and services, and "How do I delete my Facebook account" has become a top search suggestion on Google.

But while Milan and Dee quote a number of sources (including us) on what alternatives there might be to Facebook, the reality is that few exist. We've all heard of Diaspora now, but do we really believe that the future of social networking lies in an alternative that requires users to have their own server and install code?

Milan has an amusing take on what he'll do instead of continuing on with Facebook:

At this point I'd rather use 4chan to connect with my family and friends than Facebook. It might be full of pictures of prolapsed anuses and Japanese cartoon porn, but at least it has tripcodes and a healthy dialog (based in action, not words) around the evolving nature of online identity and privacy.

Milan also remains, well, realistic about Facebook's more than 400 million users, saying that he doubts that his act will compel many others to leave, but that it will show that he cared about his data. He also writes that "when there's a market need, it's not long before better options appear" and "the best thing to do is to contribute to that need - and that's what Quit Facebook Day is about."

We asked Milan if he had anything to add about why he was quitting Facebook and he said, "I want to reiterate is that privacy is not why I'm quitting FB - Privacy is a symptom of a set of larger issues, but for most, it's the easiest to understand."

The site has only been up for a couple of days, but as of right now, it has nine people signed up to quit.

If you're ready to make the jump, simply go to QuitFacebookDay.com and enter your Twitter handle, if you have one. Otherwise, you can enter your email address and, if quitting Facebook is something you'll need a reminder about, then QuitFacebookDay.com will send you one.

Will you make the commitment? Will you contribute to that need?

While I do not agree with many of Facebook's actions, there's one simple reality that I look to - all of my friends are on Facebook and until that changes, that's likely where I'll stay.

Weekly Wrap-up: How do I Delete Facebook, 3D Wikipedia, Firefox 4, And More...

It's not déjà vu - this week's top story was, like last week, about deleting Facebook: "How Do I Delete My Facebook Account?" A Fast Growing Query (Image). We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: We gave readers a rundown of the top Internet of Things blogs; in data portability news Facebook sued Power.com; and we took a look at the state of augmented reality in the aftermath of the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit. Read on for more.

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Story of the Week: How do I Delete Facebook?

• "How Do I Delete My Facebook Account?" A Fast Growing Query (Image)
• Wikipedia Goes 3D
• More Web Industry Leaders Quit Facebook, Call For Open Alternative
• 10 Internet of Things Blogs To Keep An Eye On
• Study: Twitter Is Not a Very Social Network
• Mozilla's Plans for Firefox 4: Faster, Sleeker Interface & Better Privacy Controls

More coverage and analysis from ReadWriteWeb

Mobile Web

• Why You Should Jailbreak the iPad
• The Slow Death of the Landline: Quarter of U.S. Households are Now Wireless-Only
• RWW Mobile Summit: Coverage Round-Up

More Mobile Web coverage

Augmented Reality

• State of the Augmented Reality Union from the RWW Mobile Summit

More Augmented Reality coverage

Augmented Reality for Marketers and Developers: Our Newest Research Report

We're pleased to announce ReadWriteWeb's latest premium report, Augmented Reality for Marketers and Developers: Analysis of the Leaders, the Challenges and the Future. This report will help you develop a sophisticated understanding of Augmented Reality (AR), the mobile and Web technology that places data on top of a user's view of the physical world. The research included will help you decrease your AR development time to market by learning from the first wave of early adopters. AR offers a new marketing and product paradigm for a high impact, high value customer experience. More than 1,000 AR campaigns were kicked-off last year and we expect to see many more in 2010. In this report, we profile key AR development companies, their campaigns as well as development lessons learned. For more information or to buy the report, visit here.

Internet of Things

• 10 Internet of Things Blogs To Keep An Eye On
• Ranching in the Cloud

More Internet of Things coverage

Data Portability

• Enki Sports Debuts Smartphone-Based Training for iPhone
• Facebook Suing Power.com for Auto-Logging

More Data Portability coverage

Real-Time Web

• Time.com Dips its Toes Into the Real-Time Stream
• Is Real-Time Search Still Waiting for Mainstream Adoption?

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Check Out The ReadWriteWeb iPhone App

We recently launched the official ReadWriteWeb iPhone app. As well as enabling you to read ReadWriteWeb while on the go or lying on the couch, we've made it easy to share ReadWriteWeb posts directly from your iPhone, on Twitter and Facebook. You can also follow the RWW team on Twitter, directly from the app. We invite you to download it now from iTunes.

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• When Entrepreneurs Should Ignore Advice
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• IBM Uses Emoticons, Social Media for Predictive Analytics
• Sharepoint 2010 Launch: A Chance To Make Some Comparisons
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Ha a h?tés nem elég a gépteremben: Sun Cooling Door a Database Machine-hoz

A Database Machine hatalmas teljesítményehez általában kisebb h?tési teljesítmény kell, mintha egy külön high-end servert és high-end storage-ot h?tenénk!
Ha viszont a géptermünk maradék h?tési kapacitása nem elegend?, és nem elégszünk meg a "hagyományos mosóporral", akkor újabb h?tési trükkre van szükség.
Erre kínálnak megoldást a Sun Cooling Door modellek, például az 5200-as és az 5600-as modellek.

Weekend Reading: Drive, by Daniel Pink

The businesses of the 21st century are rapidly evolving to incorporate radical new methods of running a business and managing employees, and no group knows this better than the startup community. Startups have been at the cutting edge of innovation not only in the products they create, but in the way they run their companies and treat their workers. In this week's Weekend Reading selection, we look into how years of scientific research has uncovered what motivates people to be outstanding employees and how successful companies are incorporating these methods.

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This week's book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by author Daniel Pink, attempts to uproot traditional business incentive models and teach us how we can be better motivated to produce amazing work. As Pink discusses in the book, humans are biologically wired to specific factors that can help them be more productive: autonomy, mastery and purpose.

Autonomy is our desire to direct our lives in the direction we want, instead of being told what to do, or where to go. When we choose to do tasks on our own, our ability to complete them in a timely and skillful manner skyrockets. Pink spoke earlier this year at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London (see video below) where he went over some of the lessons in his book. Software company Atlassian, he says, gives employees a day each week to work on whatever they want with whoever they want - an experiment that often produces bug fixes and innovative ideas that would have otherwise never been.

Humans also have an urge to learn new things and master new skills. As Pink puts it, our urge for mastery is the same reason why some people play a musical instrument on weekends. The same applies to the millions of people who contribute to open source software projects, like Linux, Apache and Wikipedia. People get satisfaction when a challenge is met with mastery, and the results are at a much higher quality level than those produced by less motivated individuals. Combine these factors with a purpose, and Pink says you have a recipe for success.

In his book, Pink dissects scientific studies that show how monetary incentives will often work contrary to how businesses want them to. When a task involves anything beyond purely mechanical skill, incentivizing higher performance actually produces worse results. We mentioned this a few weeks ago with Tom Wujec and the marshmallow challenge where teams building structures of spaghetti and tape performed worse with higher cash incentives. As Pink puts it the "carrot and stick" approach to motivation doesn't work to solve the problems companies face today.

Larger businesses move slowly, and smaller ones, like startups, are more agile and can institute change more quickly. Because of this, startups, with their smaller teams and greater acceptance of radical thinking, are more likely to benefit from the lessons Pink spells out in Drive. It's no mystery why when we are given a behind the scenes look at some of the world's most successful businesses that we find unique and innovative business practices motivating employees to produce amazing work. Entrepreneurs should look into this book and see how they can install a more friendly atmosphere of motivation early on in their young companies.

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Google Voice Now Open to All Students

Google just announced that it will now make Google Voice - the company's free VoIP telephony and voicemail transcription service - available to all students with a valid .edu email address. Currently, Google Voice is still only available by invite, though Google has gradually opened the service up to more users since its launch in May 2009. Last August, for example, Google opened up Voice for all active U.S. service members with a .mil email address. If you are a student, you can now get an invite by going to google.com/voice/students.

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After signing up, you should get aninvite within the next 24 hours. If you are not a student, but still have an .edu address (maybe from an alumni association), chances are that you will still get your invite.

If you are not familiar with Google Voice, have a look at this series of videos that explains how to set Google Voice up and use it.

Oddly enough, Google still hasn't opened up Google Voice to a wider public. When Google opened up Google Voice for all U.S. military personnel, we speculated that this was a move to garner some free publicity ahead of a larger public launch. This public launch never happened, however.

While Google is waiting, new competitors like Phonebooth.com and British Telecom's Ribbit have been able to establish a reputation for themselves by providing more fully-featured services geared towards individuals and small business.

6 ways to prioritize online friendships

TweetDeck is Working on Browser-Based Mobile Client

TweetDeck, the popular Twitter and Facebook client, will soon be available in a cross-platform mobile version. According to TweetDeck's founder and CEO Ian Dodsworth, the company's reason for putting resources behind a browser-based mobile version of the app is that HTML5 is "looming on the horizon, tempting us with all sorts of web-based goodness." Thanks to faster and cheaper mobile Internet access, as well as the arrival of standards compliant mobile browsers, developers can now build rich mobile apps in the browser, without having to develop multiple native applications for the increasingly diverse mobile ecosystem.

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For a small company like TweetDeck, being able to focus on fewer products instead of having to develop and support multiple native apps makes a lot of sense. According to Dodsworth, "by focusing our efforts on a single web based product we can provide the attention and resources to really make the experience shine. Web-based development is efficient and lean so you can expect new functionality to come fast and furious. "

Dodsworth also cites accessibility and enhanced battery life as reasons for why a browser-based version of TweetDeck will be better.

Going to the Browser Brings some Disadvantages as Well

It's worth noting, though, that browser-based apps won't be able to interact with the host operating system in the same ways as native apps can. Running TweetDeck in the browser means that you don't use a lot of system resources, but you also can't push local notifications or interact with other programs on the device. BlackBerry users also won't be able to use keyboard shortcuts to operate TweetDeck in the browser.

For the time being, we expect that TweetDeck will continue to develop and support its native iPhone OS and upcoming Android apps. The browser-based versions will surely allow TweetDeck to reach a wider audience without having to develop and support even more native apps. It'll be interesting to see if Seesmic and other developers will follow TweetDeck's lead. Seesmic already offers a very good web client for its Twitter client, though it doesn't offer a mobile web client yet.

You can sign up here if you would like to be among the first to test TweetDeck's new mobile client.

Why 'location' apps haven't gone mainstream

@Jesus Has Forsaken Me, But I Still Have Fake @SteveJobs

I went to bed last night and noticed my inbox was overflowing with notices from Twitter that I had new followers - 71 new followers to be exact. By the time I woke up yesterday morning there were 21 more. Today, there are even more. I was confused at first, but then I realized what it must be - that fake Steve Jobs Twitter account I made follow me using the "accept @username" bug on Monday.

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If you weren't around on Monday and closely paying attention to the tech world, then you might have missed it. There was a bug on Twitter that allowed any user to simply tweet "accept @username" and that person would automatically begin following you. It was a blast. People ran around getting whoever they could think of, from President Barack Obama to Bill Gates to Conan O'Brien, to follow them.

The bug was that an SMS code, normally used by those with private accounts to accept new followers using their phone, had this unexpected force-follow functionality. It had been originally found in Turkey days earlier by a 17-year-old named Bora Kirca but didn't make it to the mainstream until Monday morning.

Once Twitter got wind of the situation, they began working on the bug. At one point, everyone's follower/following count was reset to zero, the Twitter-verse went crazy, and then it all seemed to go back to normal. We watched as one celebrity after another unfollowed us and their following numbers slowly dropped back to pre-bug levels. But that's all we were really paying attention to - the big celebrities we had followed.

Twitter's last update on the cleanup said that it had finished its cleanup and the rest was up to you:

We've finished our cleanup of the spurious followings generated a result of this bug. If you are still seeing folks you are following who you didn't choose to follow, please use the block or unfollow tools to remedy.

According to Twitter spokesperson Sean Garrett, the fix was a "programmatic rollbak where we had a high-level of certainty of forced follows."

"Since users can manually unfollow, we erred on the side of not dissolving 'real' relationships. The reality is that verified users had the bulk of the rollbacks but certainly not all," explained Garrett. "Regardless of how we fixed the situation, this obviously never should have happened in the first place, and we are working hard to make sure that this type of thing doesn't happen again."

So if you're finding that there's this crazy spam Twitter account that you're now following that's clogging up your client, you might not be crazy - Twitter might have missed it. For me, though, it looks like me and good old fake Steve Jobs are pals and I'll continue to reap the follows of people who think I'm important enough to be one of six people the real Steve Jobs would follow.

State of the Augmented Reality Union from the RWW Mobile Summit

Last Friday, ReadWriteWeb hosted our second unconference event in Mountain View, California as experts from around the world gathered to discuss the mobile Web and its future. One of the hot topics I was eager to discuss going into the event was augmented reality (AR) - a top trend that we are tracking here at ReadWriteWeb. In case you weren't able to make it out to the summit, here is an overview of the discussions surrounding augmented reality from the event.

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One of the key things I took away from our discussions of AR at the summit was that large group round-tables can quickly devolve into an argument over what is and what isn't to be considered "augmented reality." This has been a conversation I've experienced not only when trying to describe the technology to someone unfamiliar with it, but also when speaking with experts in and executives in the field.

One company specializing in a specific form of AR riffed that another company, focusing on other initiatives, was "not really doing AR" while the other would argue they were. It would seem that the definition of augmented reality is very broad and more inclusive to some, and narrow and exclusive to others. I tend to fall somewhere in the middle, defining AR as something that can take many different forms but which should not be over used to define fringe examples or offshoot technologies.

As augmented reality evolves, I believe the accepted definition should also evolve to reflect the current state of the technology. The two words, "augmented" and "reality" should not be interpreted for their separate values. The ability to add data to a reality-based location, person, event, etc. does not automatically meet the prerequisites for what I would define as augmented reality. It is the implementation of this data into a visual display that makes it "augmented reality," rather than "augmented" "reality."

For the purpose of the mobile summit, we tried to focus on AR as it pertained to mobile devices. We discussed the issues surrounding standards and the impending compatibility issues between the various mobile AR browsers on the market. Personally I think the sooner augmented reality content can be standardized into a single markup language, the faster and more efficiently the technology can grow and become more widely accepted.

Another way that AR's acceptance will be accelerated is through publicity and greater awareness. As I've mentioned in earlier articles, AR was named a top trend to follow in 2010 by Time Magazine, and is currently being featured in a campaign on the Discovery Channel for their hit show Deadliest Catch. These are big steps forward for AR in that they place the technology in the spotlight in front of millions of eyeballs, but not all of the publicity is positive.

Personally I find the proliferation of impractical examples of AR to be a long-term detriment to the growth and acceptance of the technology. Unfortunately, the most popular iterations of AR come in the form of gimmicky promotions for movies, TV shows, cars and other products. While it is good to place the technology in front of large audiences, we are teaching people that AR is nothing but a fun trick. I have no problem with AR being used in toys to enhance playing cards, drone helicopters and the overall toy-buying experience, but when AR does nothing more than provide a cheap thrill, it's missing the point. AR for the sake of AR is, to me, pointless.

There are so many practical uses for AR being created that are largely overlooked because they aren't tied to a large brand promoting a popular product. Virtual mirrors let shoppers try on sunglasses, shoes, clothes, hair styles, make up and other products before purchasing them online or in a store. Mobile browsers let people see virtual tours, valuable government data and, eventually I hope, relevant hyper-local news results and alerts. These are just a handful of the practical uses for AR that will hopefully inundate its future.

We also pondered the various things, both technologically and otherwise, standing in the way of AR and a prosperous future with the technology. Many noted the various hardware limitations presented by smartphones and other portable devices, including camera, accelerometer and GPS quality and accuracy.

One of the more overlooked hurdles AR needs to overcome is the awkwardness presented by holding one's phone in front of their face when browsing AR content. The cure for this? Time. AR will likely need a few years to move into the public consciousness much in the same way that Bluetooth headsets did, eliminating the majority of the confusion that surrounded their use.

I think, however, that by the time the public becomes more accepting of seeing phones held up in the air, there will likely be a better technology suited for browsing AR content. Examples include fashionable head-mounted displays (HMDs) in the form of sunglasses or contact lenses, which would remove he need to hold a device in our field of vision.

What we all agreed on at the summit is that the future of AR looks promising, and the exponential growth of technology should help it expand rather quickly in the next several years. If you would like to learn more about augmented reality, be sure to read up on the top vendors in the space in our report, Augmented Reality for Marketers and Developers: Analysis of the Leaders, the Challenges and the Future.

MacSteamy

Game developer Valve has released Steam, its social gaming platform, for the Mac. Steam, which launched in 2004, is a social gaming app merged with a game store that allows a user to download a plugin, then choose games, including many in demo, to play. It has been a PC game to date. No longer.

"It's been a ton of work, but the Mac is great for the same reason the PC is great - they are both open systems that let gamers and game developers be as close as possible."

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Each Wednesday for the next few weeks, Steam will release games playable on the Mac. The games currently available include Civilization, Guns of Icarus, World of Goo, Zuma Deluxe, And Yet It Moves, Braid, Escape Rosecliff Island, Torchlight, Football Manager 2010, Quantz, Tales of Monkey Island and Brainpipe.

David Chartier pointed out on Macworld that this was not a slapdash job porting this over to the Mac.

This isn't some duct-taped Java port that limps along with a fraction of its Windows counterpart's features. Valve used native Cocoa tools, even going so far as to re-engineer the Steam client and store on Windows to use Apple's WebKit rendering engine

And yes, for the record, I am ashamed of the headline

Another iPhone prototype found, dissected

Egy klassz ADF el?adás

Túl vagyunk a Technology Forum rendezvényünkön, és én azt gondolom nagyon hasznos volt. Grant nagyszer? el?adást tartott. Címe Forms to ADF: WHy and How.
Szerintem maga a demó, ami persze nem letölthet? igazán hasznos volt nem csak Forms háttérrel rendelkez? fejleszt?k számára is.
Sok rendezvényünkön hintettük az igét ADF-vel kapcsolatban, de átüt? penetrációt nem értünk el vele a hazai piacon. Ennek persze több oka is van/lehet. Egyrészr?l még mindig azt gondolom (fejleszt?i múltamból fakadóan is), hogy Magyarországon mindenki saját fejlesztés? keretrendszerrel szeret dolgozni. Ezen persze órákat lehet vitatkozni pro és kontra amit akár egy másik bejegyzésben szívesen meg i teszek ha van rá igény. De tény az, hogy már elmúltak azok az id?k amikor nem voltak használható keretrendszerek, vagy ha úgy tetszik komponensek. Mégis, megéri manapság lefejleszteni pl: egy üzenetküld? (messaging) alrendszert. Hát szerintem nem, mint ahogy ma már perzisztencia kezel? réteget se állunk neki megírni. Persze ha a projekt elbírja, akkor kifizet?d?.
Szerencsére egyre több cég ismeri fel és várja el, hogy nem kell neki lefejleszteni egy komplett keretrendszert mikor számos használható van a piacon.
Visszatérve az alap kérdésre, az ADF-re azt gondolom, hogy egy f? vissza tartó er? volt a termék érettsége, funkcionalitása és leginkább jöv?képe. Nos e tekintetben elismerem, hogy bár több, mint 10 éves múltra tekint vissza korábban voltak buktatók, zsákutcák. Ugyanakkor nem szabad elfelejteni, hogy az Oracle maga ezzel fejleszti új generációs, modern Fusion Appplications (EBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft stb.) alkalmazásait. Tehát több mint ezer(!) fejleszt? használja nap, mint nap Java EE alkalmazás fejlesztésére. Nem kevés hangsúlyt fordítva az integrációs, testreszabhatósági képességekre. Olyannyira hangsúlyos eszköz lett, hogy az Oracle teljes middleware portfoliójában visszaköszön.
Ami pedig a funkcionalitást, a felhasználói felületet, a produktivitást illeti tényleg jó.
Persze az utolsó és egyben legfontosabb szempont kishazánkban az ár. Nos tényleg nincs ingyen. Pontosabban ha az ember vesz egy Weblogic szervert (amúgyis kell a futtatáshoz egy JEE szerver) akkor ingyenesen használható. A termékhez pedig dokumentáció, support, javítás, blogok, közösségi fórumok stb. áll rendelkezésünkre.
És akkor most újabb vita indulhat arról, hogy akarunk e fizetni a szerverért. Na err?l tényleg fogok indítani egy bejegyzést majd. Mert én azt hiszem, tapasztalatom, hogy itthon összekeverik az open source modelt az ingyenességgel.
Azért az alapigazság szerintem még mindig áll: ingyen nincsen semmi.
Kérdés csak az, hogy mik az igényeink, elvárásaink.

Újabb házassági terv az adatbázis piacon: Sybase és SAP

Az Oracle az utóbbi évben technológiai és alkalmazás oldalon több mint 50 céget vásárolt meg, legutóbb a hardver-operációs rendszer, Java, IDM, virtualizáció és számos más téren is innovatív Sun céget. Ráadásul az Oracle best-of-breed azaz iparági vezet? cégekkel és mogoldásokkal er?síti a portfólióját. Az Oracle hosszú évek óta az adattárházak (data wrehouse) területén is a Gartner szerint a piacvezet?k mágikus négyzetében van. Ennek a területnek vezet? megoldása az Oracle Database optimalizált hardveren futtatása az Exadata / Database Machine hardveren az Exadata Storage Server Software-rel. Az Oracle Database mind tranzakciókezelésre mind adattárház feldolgozásra, mind ezen megoldások egy környezetben futtatására optimalizált megoldás.
Az SAP korábban meglehet?sen elítélte az Oracle best-of-breed felvásárlási stratégiáját, mondván az nem vezet semmire. :) Most a megmaradék önálló cégek közül a Sybase-t szemelte ki. A BBC híre. Kicsit soknak t?nik az 5,8 milliárd dollár? Érdekes, hogy a cikk szerint a felvásárlási terv hírére az SAP részvény árfolyam 40 centtel esett.

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WebCenter .NET Accelerator - Microsoft SharePoint Data via WSRP

Platforms in the enterprise will never be homogeneous. As much as any vendor would enjoy having their single development or application technology be exclusively adopted by customers, too much legacy, time, education, innovation and vertical business needs exist to make using a single platform practical. JAVA and .NET are the two industry application platform heavyweights and more often than not, business users are leveraging various systems in their day to day activities that incorporate applications developed on top of both platforms.

BEA Systems acquired Plumtree Software to complete their "liquid" view of data, stressing that regardless of a particular source system heterogeneous data could interoperate at not only through layers that allowed for data aggregation, but also at the "glass" or UI layer. The technical components that allowed the integration at the glass thrive today at Oracle, helping WebCenter to provide a rich composite application framework. Oracle Ensemble and the Oracle .NET Application Accelerator allow WebCenter to consume and interact with the UI layers provided by .NET applications and a series of other technologies. The beauty of the .NET accelerator is that it can consume any .NET application and act as a Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) producer.

I recently had a chance to leverage the .NET accelerator to expose a ASP .NET 2.0 (C#) application in the WebCenter UI (pictured above) and wanted to share a few tips to help others get started with similar integrations. I was using two virtual machines for the exercise - one with Windows Server 2003, running SharePoint and the other running WebCenter Spaces 11g. For my sample application data I ended up using SharePoint 2007 lists and calendars (MOSS 2007) to supply results using a .NET API for SharePoint.

Swipely: And Why Would I Want To Share That?

If social networking around where and how you spend your money isn't your bag, then Swipely will likely make as little sense to you as Blippy, but it appears to make a lot of sense to some big names in the world of investors and backers.

Swipely has launched as a invitation-only beta service right now and, according to Venture Beat, is "more than just a Blippy clone."

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The site proclaims to "turn purchases into conversations" by pulling in all of your credit card purchases, and even other purchases and taken from emailed receipts, and sharing them with friends. The primary difference from Blippy is that Swipely does not share the precise amounts of each purchase, likely soothing some of the privacy concerns that some would have over this service.

While we're still somewhat confused by who would want to share everything they buy with the world, we're obviously not the target audience and there is a group of people who agree that this is something people want to do - to the tune of $8.5 million. The start-up currently has backing from several investors, including "well-known angel investors Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital, Keith Rabois of Slide, former Mint.com vice president Anton Commissaris, and prolific angel investor Ron Conway".

Swipely asserts that "every swipe tells a story" and this we can agree with, but we have one question - do we really want to tell that story? Then again, some might see their location as far more private information than what they're spending their money on and have the same argument over location-based check-in apps like Foursquare and Gowalla.

For my money, sharing based around purchases is an odd approach to the world and to social networking. Then again, I'm not much of a consumer and don't really see my identity as comprised of what I buy and where I spend my money. For others - people who like collecting purses and shoes or eating at fancy restaurants around town and telling their friends about it - Swipely could be the perfect way to strut their stuff. I have to say, though, that the second I start seeing what they bought when and where show up in my Facebook stream, they're getting the block. I just couldn't care less.

In the end, we're willing to bet that this will hit a niche market, but likely miss the mark when it comes to the general population.

And if you're of the Swipely mindset, then keep an eye out for Marshall Kirkpatrick's explanation later today of why Swipely is more interesting than I believe it to be.

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Don't Bore Your Twitter Followers: Link Different

As we noted yesterday, Twitter isn't so much a social network as a broadcast medium. For most Twitter users, broadcasting information mostly means sharing links. Whenever you share a link, however, there is always the lingering question if your followers haven't already seen this link in their streams before. Thanks to Link Different, you can now easily check if any given link has already appeared in your followers' streams.

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Getting Started

Of course, you can never be absolutely certain that any of your Twitter followers actually saw a link - and there is also some value in repeated postings - but if you want to make sure that everything you post to Twitter is as original as possible, give Link Different a try.

This project is the work of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign grad student Eric Gilbert. Gilbert told us that Link Different, which performs a distributed crawl using Twitter's APIs, should scale well for accounts with large follower numbers.

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Is Real-Time Search Still Waiting for Mainstream Adoption?

Real-time search is very different from regular search. After studying about 1 million queries on real-time search engine Collecta, researchers at Pennsylvania State University came to the conclusion that - relative to regular search - users of real-time search engines tend to search less for adult topics and focus more on technology, entertainment and politics. This, according to the researchers, reflects "both the temporal nature of the queries and, perhaps, an early adopter user base."

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API Accounts for Most Queries

According to the data the research team collected, most real-time queries come from third-party applications and don't happen on the search engine's own page. On Collecta, API queries account for about 60% of all queries and we've heard similar - and often even higher - numbers from other real-time search engines. As these API-based queries are often repeated multiple times throughout the day, real-time search engines also tend to see fewer unique queries than regular search engines.

Top Queries

The researchers also collected a list of the most popular queries on Collecta during a 190-day period at the end of last year. This data shows that the typical queries on real-time search engines are quite different from what we would expect to see on a regular search engine. Even the most popular search term ("naomi watts"), only accounted for 0.003% of all queries. According to Hitwise, "facebook" is currently the most popular search term on all the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing) and accounts for between 1.17% of all queries on Google to 2.6% of all queries on Bing.

Where's the Porn?

As the researchers note, Collecta registered almost no searches that were pornographic in nature. "Sex" was the ninth most popular search term and only accounted for 0.002% of all queries.

Early Adopters

As the researchers rightly note, the list of most popular search queries on Collecta reflects the early-adopter nature of the service. The fact that the second-most popular query was "jQuery CSS" is a good example for the nature of real-time searches. To some degree, of course, these numbers are also biased towards Collecta's users and the kind of applications that have been developed on top of Collecta's API.

It will be interesting to see what these numbers look like by the end of this year. If "jQuery CSS" is still in the top 10 of most often used queries, we can safely assume that Collecta - and maybe real-time search as a whole - hasn't reached a mainstream audience yet.

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