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Assembly Oriented Architecture

Posted by Jeff Potts on 18 Dec 2009

The trouble with software architecture is that it keeps getting re-invented and new acronyms appear followed by a slew of large unreadable books explaining why this new architecture is going to change everything. This is actually a widespread phenomenon in the software industry of many emerging approaches/solutions/tools/languages/frameworks/patterns/protocols where adoption rules supreme resulting in a form | View post »

WordCamp NYC, WPBook, WordCamp Boston

Posted by John Eckman on 14 Nov 2009

Here’s the slides from my presentation this morning at WordCamp NYC. It was in the “beginning developer” track so I tried to focus on the overall structure of how the plugin does what it does and the hooks/actions/filters used. Hard to fit the talk into 30 minutes with time for questions and roadmap – there’s | View post »

VRM – controlling your own data

Posted by Andrew Webb on 16 Oct 2009

I first came across the concept of Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) in a new chapter by Doc Searls for the 10th Anniversary Edition of the Cluetrain manifesto. Meeting Doc Searls recently and then attending the London VRMHub meetup has given me a better idea of what is happening in the VRM space. Having worked in the | View post »

Free as in What, Exactly?

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Oct 2009

Free Software advocates have for a long time worked to draw a distinction between free of cost (“Free as in Beer”) and free of restrictions (“Free as in Speech” or as I prefer “Free as in Freedom”). The challenge stems from the fact that we use, in idiomatic English, the same word “Free” to refer | View post »

The Assembled Web: Notes Toward a Manifesto

Posted by John Eckman on 22 Sep 2009

In the spirit of (and heavily inspired by) the original Cluetrain Manifesto and the recent 10th anniversary edition, I offer the following definition and 10 principles of what we at Optaros have been calling the Assembled Web. The Assembled Web is not experienced as a set of discrete web applications and sites, neatly separated from | View post »

5 barriers to entry for corporate social media

Posted by Andrew Webb on 14 Sep 2009

For many organisations the biggest concern is over losing control if they enter the social media jungle. Drilling deeper these concerns include the following Fear of opening the floodgates to customer views in public Ability (and therefore associated cost) to respond and engage with the volume of discussions being generated Damage to their image/values caused | View post »

Who Pays for Content? What’s in it for Me? Vote!

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Sep 2009

Pardon the brief, self-promotional nature of this post, but I just realized if I don’t get one up soon I’m going to miss the deadline – voting for SXSW Interactive 2010 ends this Friday! Photo by ehnmark, cc-by license I’ve submitted two panel proposals this year – each is described below with a voting link. | View post »

Web Content Management evolved

Posted by Andrew Webb on 25 Aug 2009

Web Content Management (WCM) seems to mean different things to different people. This of course can lead to confusion. The term Web Content Management has been around for a while, since the mid 1990′s, but two key things have changed since the term was first adopted namely the web and the type of content available | View post »

Architecting to scale in the cloud

Posted by Andrew Webb on 14 Jul 2009

Cloud computing is most often associated with scalability (see Amazon CTO Werner Vogel’s definition of scalability). One commonly held view is that you can simply move an application onto cloud based infrastructure and it will then “magically” scale on demand. The reality is that there is no free lunch. Simply throwing additional CPU cycles or | View post »

Open Source and Design: Ideologies Clashing (SXSW Extended Content)

Posted by John Eckman on 17 Jun 2009

One of the panels I proposed for SXSW Interactive 2009 was on the intersection of open source and design: Thesis: Open Source and Design are fundamentally philosophically incompatible. Antithesis: Open Source and Design are profoundly similar in core beliefs and approaches. This talk works to articulate a meaningful synthesis between these two positions. The talk, | View post »