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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

Workflow via WebFeeds: Syndicating Enterprise Processes

By Dick Weisinger

WebFeed technology is growing in popularity and has the potential to dramatically change that way that users interact with their Enterprise systems. What are WebFeeds?  They are (usually) XML documents that describe frequently updated data.  WebFeed readers can efficiently check many WebFeed

Putting your finger on what Content Management is

By Dick Weisinger

There’s been a number of articles and blogs over the last week that show that the definition of ‘Content Management’ has become blurred and is continuing to change.  Jim Rapoza at eWeek says that things like collaboration, portals and wikis are ouside

Gadgets Unbind from Portals

By Dick Weisinger

The concept of a web Portal as a framework for integrating information from many different sources into one consolidated view has been popular for some time.  Portals are typically composed of pluggable user-interface components called portlets or gadgets.  Portlets are powered

Adobe's Flex Challenges Web 2.0's AJAX

By Dick Weisinger

After a year of consolidating Macromedia assets, Adobe is beginning to move forward aggresively with their FLEX product.  Yesterday they announced an updated FLEX 2.0 with a much more attractive pricing model. As an Adobe Solution Network Developer member, this announcement