By ashvil on 6/18/2001 2:53 PM

>A gaggle of computing giants will release Monday a new version of a key Web standard, the UDDI directory, that provides some common ground on how competitors such as Microsoft, IBM and Sun Microsystems view the future of the Internet.

By ashvil on 6/12/2001 7:54 PM

>That\'s the premise behind shareware, a concept that dates to the early days of personal computers. Essentially, creators of shareware ask users to pay for their software if they try it and find it useful. Some use a bit of coercion, building time limits into their programs or requiring payment for access to some features. Games and utilities are the biggest shareware hits, but complete sets of business applications are also sold this way. As the name implies, shareware developers are happy to have people share their products, because they can ultimately benefit when the software is copied far and wide.

By ashvil on 6/7/2001 7:55 PM

>With the bursting of the high-tech bubble, the prevailing social mood is shifting from Internet worship to cynicism. The attitude that \"the Internet changes everything\" has given way in some quarters to denigration of the Net as a fad, the citizen\'s band radio of the 1990s. Yet just as the early tone was overoptimistic, the new one could easily become unjustifiably pessimistic. To avoid overreactions, it might be useful to analyze what propelled the dot-com craze to the ridiculous heights it reached in 1999 and early 2000

By ashvil on 5/28/2001 7:56 PM

Jon Udell talks about using weblogs as Project management tools.

By ashvil on 5/24/2001 10:22 PM

Antarcti.ca\'s Visual Net  software transforms networks into places; data into virtual maps. Visual Net creates maps of networks to help users visualize data and find what they\'re looking for.

By ashvil on 5/17/2001 11:57 AM

It funny but people give different responses on the same question depending on the context. That I always feel that asking a user a hypotetical set of questions is never going to get you the right answer. The best method as Jeff describes is to put the tool in the users\' hands and watch them use it and learn from that experience.

By ashvil on 5/16/2001 4:19 PM

The Simple Object Access Protocol, better known as SOAP, is aimed squarely at this data consolidation problem. Recently approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), SOAP uses XML and HTTP to define a component interoperability standard on the Web.

By ashvil on 5/16/2001 4:57 AM

Tapestry is a new, powerful, all-Java framework for creating leading edge web applications in Java. This is the closest someone has come to using the IDBA style of templates for web app development.

By ashvil on 5/12/2001 3:51 PM

A good article on creating client interfaces for .NET Web Services.

By ashvil on 4/25/2001 8:18 AM

Simputer is a very low-cost computer built around a design licensed under terms similar to that of the GPL. The intent behind Simputer is to provide low-cost (<$200) machines to people living in rural India. The interview here is with various members of the Simputer team and they discuss the reasoning behind the licensing scheme they chose, the design decisions they made, and more.