AkaSigCongratulations to Plone and Freemind, two great open source software packages, which have celebrated weddings recently and have promptly released a new born “Plone Freemind v.1.0” extension product for Plone. I have been really fond of Plone and Freemind for several years now. It’s good news to learn that Freemind mindmaps can now be published […]
Yesterday, I attended a research seminar at the “Université de Paris 8″. Pierre Levy is a philosopher and professor and head of the collective intelligence chair at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He presented the latest developments in his work on IEML, which stands for Information Economy Meta Language. Things are taking shape on this […]
J’aime bien cette lettre ouverte de Philippe Coueignoux adressée à la Commission Européenne, au sujet du rachat de doubleclick par Google. Le message, sur le plan technique, est le suivant: la personnalisation de la publicité ne nécessite pas la collecte, la conservation, le transfert, bref l’agrégation de données personnelles. Pour que le consommateur bénéficie de […]
5 Ways to Mix, Rip, and Mash Your Data introduces promising web and desktop applications that extract structured data feeds from web sites and mix them together into something possibly useful to you. Think of things like getting filtered Monster job ads as a convenient RSS feed, along with job ads from your other favorite […]
Here are two things to go beyond Web Services (with ReSTfullness in mind):
the “Web-Oriented Architecture” (WOA) concept is a lightweight version of the “Service-Oriented Architecture” concept, in a more Web 2.0 fashion.
restlets are a Java framework for Web 2.0 applications; they replace servlets API and facilitate the composition of “mashups” or Web applications relying on […]
WikiCalc is a nice piece of GPLed software that pusblishes wiki pages that are structured like Excel spreadsheets are: one can view and edit tables, modify calculation formulas in cells, manage their formatting through the web browser, etc. It brings to spreadsheets the inherent advantages of many wikis: ease of use for Web publications, ease […]
On se souvient de Microsoft Passport et du rejet de cette technologie par la communauté des développeurs. Microsoft revient à l’assaut avec les InfoCards qui seront présentes dans IE 7, Active Directory et Windows Vista. Techniquement, cette solution paraît beaucoup plus intéressante et plus respectueuse de la vie privée. Son inventeur, Kim Cameron, est connu […]
Here are some pointers for learning more about the Ajax programming model and how to properly design your Ajax application :
Ajax is said to be the cross-platform successor to Java… huh… (David, thank you for this pointer)
Ajax should be ReSTfully considered before use
Is Ajax ReSTless and dirty ?
While I am mentionning the Representational State Transfer […]
A Gouri-friend of mine recently pointed me to Daisy, a “CMS wiki/structured/XML/faceted” stuff he said. I answered him it may be a nice product but not enough attractive for me at the moment to spend much time analyzing it. Nevertheless, as Gouri asked, let’s browse Daisy’s features and try to compare them with Plone equivalents […]
When dealing with identity management, one really appreciate having unique identifiers for describing individual identities. Having a common unique identifier available accross a whole information system is a terrific asset for the management of IT security. The problem is that information systems usually don’t have such a global naming convention or these naming conventions are […]
States have been precursors in building registers of persons. Here are some national practices and projects in civil registration systems, vital statistics and other administrative identity systems :
Internationally : UN’s state of the art about population registers, UN’s Handbook of Vital Statistics Systems and Methods, the production of legal identities proper to states, The ICCS […]
I wanted to give Alban and others pointers to my resources on the topic of transliteration. But I can’t find my transliteration documents any more ! Anyway, my experience is that transliteration is a tough problem and after having thought a little bit on this topic, we decided not to automate the transliteration of individual […]
La philosophie des carnets web, c’est d’écrire “avec sa vraie voix“. Gilles (celui qui est en vrac), fait encore mieux : il parle sur son carnet, avec sa vraie voix. Voici donc le premier carnettier francophone (que je connaisse) qui se met au screencasting, grâce au logiciel Camtasia. Du côté anglo-saxon, c’est Jon Udell qui […]
Ecartype est une forme originale de carnet web : il s’agit d’un carnet de conseils boursiers. A ajouter à la longue liste des usages innovants des carnets Web. Je suis neutre à positif sur Ecartype tant qu’ils s’inscrivent dans leur triangle haussier en matière d’usages innovants. Et, tant que j’y suis à découvrir un vocable […]
C’est pas moi qui l’ai dit :
SOA : nouvel acronyme, vieux problème.
The Drupal people produced insightful stock-market-like statistics about the popularity of open source CMS packages (via the precious Amphi-Gouri). But their analysis mixes content management systems (Drupal, Plone) with blog engines (Wordpress) and bulletin boards (phpBB). Anyway, it shows that :
“The popularity of most Free and Open Source CMS tools is in an upward trend.“
Bulletin […]
IBM a récemment acquis SRD, éditeur d’un logiciel qui met en correspondance :
diverses descriptions informatiques d’un même individu (jointure avancée d’identités),
les relations établies entre individus d’après leurs points communs (établissements de réseaux sociaux)
Bref, un logiciel tout à fait adéquat pour qui veut se constituer la parfaite panoplie du petit big brother.
Cette technologie semble un peu […]
The Central Authentication Service (aka CAS) is an open source lightweight framework that provides Web Single Sign On to big organizations (universities, agencies, corporations). It seems to be wildly used and seen as as much mature and reliable as the struts framework.
An existing server can benefit CAS WebSSO features if its technology is supported by […]
Le Gartner Group reconnait dans les wikis, les blogs, les logiciels de réseautage social et RSS un fort potentiel pour l’entreprise. L’attention portée par le cabinet d’analyse au mouvement de la gestion des connaissances “grass-roots” contribuer à apporter à celui-ci la légitimité (la consécration ?) qui lui permettront de prendre pied dans le secteur privé.
Depuis […]
Un nouveau concept vient d’être introduit par le Gartner dans le domaine de la gestion de la relation client : le Customer Interaction Hub désigne l’intégration en une seule plate-forme de toutes les applications liées à la gestion de la relation client.
Selon Phil Windley, la mise en oeuvre de ces concentrateurs de la relation clients […]