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Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Web Services Pipeline: WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 to Ensure Web Services Interoperability:
"Merely adhering to core web services standards such as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI is not enough to ensure interoperability between web services. The WS-I Basic Profile aims to solve that by providing a set of clear web services interoperability conventions and best practices."
Posted by Kelly Abbott
6:00 PM
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Web Services Pipeline: WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 to Ensure Web Services Interoperability:
"Merely adhering to core web services standards such as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI is not enough to ensure interoperability between web services. The WS-I Basic Profile aims to solve that by providing a set of clear web services interoperability conventions and best practices."
Posted by Kelly Abbott
6:00 PM
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Web Services Pipeline: WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 to Ensure Web Services Interoperability:
"Merely adhering to core web services standards such as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI is not enough to ensure interoperability between web services. The WS-I Basic Profile aims to solve that by providing a set of clear web services interoperability conventions and best practices."
Posted by Kelly Abbott
6:00 PM
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Ximian Developer Site : Projects : Mono: "The Mono Project is a community initiative to develop an open source, Linux-based version of the Microsoft.NET development platform. Incorporating key .NET compliant components, including a C# compiler, a Common Language Runtime just-in-time compiler, and a full suite of class libraries, the Mono Project will enable developers to create .NET applications and run them on Windows or any Mono-supported platform, including Linux and Unix. Besides greatly improving the efficiency of development in the open source world, the Mono Project will allow the creation of operating-system-independent programs. "
Posted by Kelly Abbott
10:43 AM
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Monday, June 28, 2004
tim.oreilly.com -- Various Things I've Written: Tim's Archive: The Open Source Paradigm Shift
This article is based on a talk that I first gave at Warburg-Pincus' annual technology conference in May of 2003. Since then, I have delivered versions of the talk more than twenty times, at locations ranging from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the UK Unix User's Group, Microsoft Research in the UK, IBM Hursley, British Telecom, Red Hat's internal "all-hands" meeting, and BEA's eWorld conference. I finally wrote it down as an article for an upcoming book on open source," Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software," edited by J. Feller, B. Fitzgerald, S. Hissam, and K. R. Lakhani and to be published by MIT Press in 2005.
Posted by Kelly Abbott
6:20 PM
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Friday, June 25, 2004
Thursday, June 24, 2004
NEITHER RAIN, NOR SNOW, NOR SPAM ...
The number of messages in your e-mail box could double in the next four years, according to eMarketer's E-mail Marketing Report. The research firm estimates total e-mail volume in the U.S. last year was 1.5 trillion messages, which could grow almost 15 percent a year to 2.7 trillion in 2007, according to a report in MediaPost's MediaDailyNews.
E-mail is used by 91 percent of people on the Internet. "Besides e-mail's popularity, it's a way for companies to get closer to their customers -- at least those customers who give permission," said David Hallerman, eMarketer senior analyst, in a statement.
Posted by Reid
3:16 PM
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ClickZ Experts on How to Build CRM Strategies: "Twenty percent of user segments yield eighty percent of your profits. For marketers, it's an age-old game to figure out who the 20 percent are and market to them. "
Posted by Kelly Abbott
10:54 AM
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Monday, June 21, 2004
You have to check out the new binocular feature on Ask Jeeves. It definitely speeds up the search results filtering process a little.
Posted by Reid
10:43 AM
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Friday, June 18, 2004
Find.com - True Business Search
Initial impression: still some kinks to work out. Scripting errors are signs of poor planning. Somethign tells me this site won't last.
Posted by Kelly Abbott
8:36 AM
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Thursday, June 17, 2004
MX Developer's Journal: "CSS has been around for years, but many Web designers still do not think it is ready to be used extensively because of the host of browser rendering inconsistencies that exist. However, by knowing a few CSS hacks and tricks, you can learn how to write code that is cross-browser compatible and allows you to fully separate your content from its presentation."
Posted by Kelly Abbott
2:19 PM
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More Payment Choices, More Sales
In a recent study reported by eMarketer, CyberSource finds that North American e-commerce Web sites offering four or more payment methods get, on average, sales conversion rates of 72%. More options, more sales.
Sales Conversion Rate For Ecommerce Sites By Number of Payment Methods Offered
4+ methods 72%
3 methods 71%
2 methods 66%
1 method 60%
Source: CyberSource, May 2004
The report finds that nearly all sites offer general purpose card payments (payments made with Visa, American Express, Master Card or Discover cards.) 46% offer gift certificate payments and 41% allow consumers recurring billing options. Over 20% offer choices like PayPal or electronic checks.
Types of Payment Methods Offered (% of respondents)
General purpose cards 99%
Gift certificates 46%
Recurring billing 41%
Electronic checks 27%
PayPal/other non-card 25%
Instant credit 19%
Private label card 14%
Source: CyberSource, May 2004
The survey also found that shopping cart abandonment rates decline with increases in the number of payment methods. Cart abandonment for survey respondents offering only one payment method was 40%. The rate dropped to 34% for retailers offering two payment methods, 29% for those with three and 28% for those with four or more.
"To get dramatic steps of improvement, retailers need to move to whole new payment categories beyond cards," said Doug Schwegman, director of market intelligence for CyberSource.
Source: Center for Media Research, June 17, 2004
Posted by Julie Rosefsky
11:30 AM
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ClickZ Experts on Email Marketing Optimization: "Even the most vigilant opt-in e-mail marketer has likely had a run-in with spam filters. Recent research by Assurance Systems showed that, on average, 15 percent of legitimate e-mail messages are filtered as spam; one ISP was found to be blocking over 25 percent of legitimate messages entering its system. Many e-mail marketers I work with cite spam filters as the number one obstacle they face.
What to do? Some see salvation in RSS, which stands for real simple syndication or rich site summary, depending on whom you ask. This decade-old technology, originally introduced by Netscape, is the talk of electronic publishing circles. It may be a key to filter-free electronic delivery of marketing messages."
Posted by Kelly Abbott
9:44 AM
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The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Art Unfolds in a Search for Keywords
SNIP
An Internet search can resemble the psychological process of free association. Just as an online search for the word robin may yield results that range from chirping birds to merry men, a mind that's wandering through a storehouse of memories might stumble across thoughts of Batman's sidekick or that cute third-grade classmate.
This parallel is explored in a new high-tech artwork in Chicago, "Imagination Environment," which was created by David Ayman Shamma, a doctoral candidate in computer science at Northwestern University, and Kristian J. Hammond, director of Northwestern's Intelligent Information Laboratory.
"Imagination Environment" starts with a live television news broadcast that is displayed at the center of a wall-mounted array of nine computer monitors. A software program scans the broadcast's closed-caption stream and selects keywords that prompt Internet searches for images. Seconds after the live audio is heard, the news broadcast is surrounded by pertinent photographs and illustrations on adjacent screens, as well as some images completely unrelated.
SNIP
Posted by Kelly Abbott
9:41 AM
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004
What Our Machines Don't Know: "But as the late Isaac Asimov warned us almost 50 years ago, we can't ever expect machines to be as devious as people. "
Posted by Kelly Abbott
9:41 AM
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Friday, June 11, 2004
The New York Times > Technology > New Service by TiVo Will Build Bridges From Internet to the TV
The Internet, in jumping past the personal computer and into the living room television set, is starting to give viewers the possibility of bypassing traditional cable and satellite services.
TiVo, the maker of a popular digital video recorder, plans to announce a new set of Internet-based services today that will further blur the line between programming delivered over traditional cable and satellite channels and content from the Internet. It is just one of a growing group of large and small companies that are looking at high-speed Internet to deliver video content to the living room.
The new TiVo technology, which will become a standard feature in its video recorders, will allow users to download movies and music from the Internet to the hard drive on their video recorder. Although the current TiVo service allows users to watch broadcast, cable or satellite programs at any time, the new technology will make it possible for them to mix content from the Internet with those programs.
Posted by Kelly Abbott
10:42 AM
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