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World Wide Webfeeds

By Dick Weisinger

A webfeed is a low-bandwidth XML stream available on the network that can be easily consumed by custom or special webfeed reader applications.  In a previous blog I discussed how webfeeds often form the raw data to support mashup applications and have the…

Enterprise Search Technology remains Hot

By Dick Weisinger

The Enterprise Search heat wave continues.  Back in 2004, KMWorld declared Enterprise Search hot.  And now an updated report from Forrester last week says that the field is still scorching as we move into 2007. Forrester names the top three company…

Viability of the SaaS Document Management Model

By Dick Weisinger

Our take is that Document Management deployed as SaaS is very viable.  But interestingly, a McKinsey report from earlier this year says not so.  Last Friday’s Formtek blog was about ECM deployed as SaaS.  Since then I came across an interesting report by McKinsey/IDC that appeared in…

Degrees of Innovation

By Dick Weisinger

  The Wall Street Journal has selected Sun Microsystem’s DTrace Open Source Software as their Gold Award winner in the WSJ 2006 Technology Innovation Awards competition.  For the second time in two years the top award has gone to Sun. …