Bloglines - Another BPM blogger

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Need to sub to this feed.

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Column 2 Sandy Kemsley's blog on business process management, enterprise architecture, business intelligence and technology in business.

Another BPM blogger In BPM Keith Swenson, chief architect at Fujitsu Software (and therefore of their Interstage BPM product), now has a blog. He's involved in the WfMC and BPM standards, which I heard him speak about at the Gartner BPM Summit earlier this year.

Bloglines - jackyan >> Version 0.4c and Change of Development Team (TeamBlog)

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Lead Developer Merlin is quitting and moving. I never did find out what is real handle is. Pity. He did good for coComments.

I wish him the best too :)-

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jackyan >> Version 0.4c and Change of Development Team (TeamBlog) jackyan says: Merlin, I’m sorry to hear of your departure as you have been a great help to my issues with coComment. Good luck with whatever you are doing and I look forward to meeting the new members of the team.

Bloglines - Microsoft, Return of The Beast

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The Graphs , dont make sense at all. I wonder why out "st.stephens fellow" is screwing with my mind. Or am Ijust a dimbo here ??

And NO- they are not "back for an encore" - how can they be..when they have a opt out process. Its only when IE is config'ed to be part of the main coomponent of the OS, will MSFT face another DOJ crisis !!
Note Toself : Watch Om's graphics- a pic tells a thousand words -but is it worth it ?

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GigaOM a daily report on broadband, VoIP, and next generation Internet

Microsoft, Return of The Beast By Om Malik on Google A few things are a constant in life - taxes, death, broken hearts and of course Microsoft waking from some kinda slumber, finding an upstart to hate and then crushing them. The IE7 drama that is currently being played out today should be dubbed The Return of The Beast. This default thing works well for Microsoft - they did it once before, got into trouble with Justice Department, played humble for a while, and well, they are back for an encore. Except, this time around it is a wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing highlighting that its all about the user. “Whatever behavior happened in the past, the guiding principle we had is that the user is in control,” said Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the Internet Explorer group. [NYT] Not that it easy to find compassion for Google these days. At least not amongst those who are extremely jealous of its money making abilities. Google is complaining that Microsoft is using its market domination and defaulting to Microsoft’s in house search engine. Hello Reality! (Microsoft may claim that is easy to switch search engines. In reality that is possible if you really know the browser innards, as outlined here.) You know, what they say market predicts the future… Take a look at these two charts of Microsoft stock from 1996 and 2006. In December 1995 Bill Gates wrote the now famous Internet-or-nothing memo, and rest is history. Similarly late last year Microsofties got a Web 2.0 or nothing memo. History in the making? Comments

Bloglines - World of Warcraft Sucks

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He wants his moeny back. WoW sucks and this is the first time that I am hearing a gamer want their $'s back !!

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World of Warcraft Sucks By Anthony Townsend So I paid $44.95. Then I waited a week for a package. Then I spent an hour installing 5 CD-ROMs. Then I spent 1/2 hour trying to sign up for my guest pass on a web site instead of inside the WoW client. Then I had to give up a credit card number and pledge to pay another $15.95 per month after my 10 day trail is up (for a game that, as far as I know has no single player mode). Then I get this crap. Blizzard, you were once Starcraft, and Battlenet, and a place where I could throw the smackdown of Protoss vs. Zerg in a 30-minute frenzy of TAB-clicks and ALT-clicks. Where are you now? Just a bunch of weak infrastructure and lame D&D derivative story lines. I want my money back.

Bloglines - State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 2: On Language and Tagging

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another analysis fr Dave Sifry & State of the blogsphere

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State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 2: On Language and Tagging By dsifry Late last month, I gave a high-level overview of the growth of the blogosphere, covering the overall size of the data sets that Technorati tracks, the number of new blogs created each day, the number of posts per day, and the issue of splogs or spam blogs. To recap, here's the highlights of Part 1: Technorati now tracks over 35.3 37.3 Million blogs The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour Strong International Growth Back in April 2005, Technorati started automatically tracking the primary language of each blog that we tracked. We did this so that we could easily allow people to filter out posts in languages other than their native language. This is available in a pull-down menu on every search results page. We also wanted to get some idea of where the worldwide growth of blogging was taking place, and what trends we could glean from the data. There are three very important caveats in the data sets that I'm going to describe below. The first is that we are using automated language analysis software (based on languid), and it may have bugs, thus over or undercounting a particular language or group of languages. We're going to be continually improving the capabilities of this software, but we are pretty confident in its ability to work reliably, especially over the large data sets that Technorati tracks (over 35 million blogs at this time, and over 1.2 million posts each day). Second, we believe that we are grossly undercounting the Korean blogosphere, mostly due to the fact that the largest Korean blog and hompy services (like Cyworld or Planet Weblog) are not being indexed by Technorati at this time. In addition, we believe that we're somewhat undercounting the French blogosphere, in particular because our indexing of skyblog is poor. We'd love to rectify this - if anyone at these (or other) blogging services is interested in being indexed, please drop me a line. Last, Japanese bloggers appear to write shorter posts more often. This could be a result of blogging from mobile phones, and may be skewing the results, given that we are tracking the total number of posts in this analysis. Another key point to remember is that language breakdown does not necessarily imply a particular country or regional breakdown. For example, Spanish and English are spoken in a large number of countries around the globe - and this analysis doesn't attempt to determine from which country a blogger is writing from - only the primary language of her post. The following charts show the relative volume of blog posts based on the primary language of the post, on a month by month basis: Here's a more detailed breakdown of the last 6 months of data: Something that may come as a surprise (at least to the English-speaking world) is that English isn't the biggest language of the blogosphere. In fact, English isn't even the primary language of one third of all posts that Technorati tracks anymore. Another interesting finding is that the Chinese blogosphere, which grew significantly in 2004 and 2005 (launches of MSN Spaces in Chinese, Bokee.com saw a peak of 25% of all posts in Chinese in November 2005) seems to be slowing down somewhat this year. One of the further topics for research is to investigate the language breakdown of posting activity based on blog hosting site or software type. My hypothesis is that various language communities have often grown on one service or another, often for viral or historical reasons, showing a disproportionate language breakdown for that service. For example, livejournal.com hosts a large number of Russian language journals/blogs, and MSN Spaces hosts an overrepresentation of Chinese language blogs. Tags and Categories Tagging, the act of categorizing posts with simple words or phrases, continues to grow, and the number of posts with tags or categories has grown past the 100 Million mark since Technorati began tracking tags in January of 2005. Nearly half (47%) of all blog posts have an author-generated category or set of tags associated with the post. For this analysis, Technorati excluded generic or default categories, like "General" or "Diary", which some services put into each post if the author doesn't specify a particular tag or category. We only counted posts that used a non-default tag or category. Many bloggers use this tagging capability to help get their content found by people who are searching for a particular topic, even if that topic isn't listed as a keyword in the post. Of course, one of the remaining open questions is whether or not that will lead to massive gaming of the system, but current trends seem to present evidence that large-scale gaming is not occurring. In fact, my belief is that because tags are built as hyperlinks inside the document, and thus visible to the reader, that a strong social pressure to use appropriate tags (or at least to not use inappropriate tags) manifests itself, especially with bloggers who want to cultivate influence and readers. In Summary: The blogosphere is multilingual, and deeply international English, while being the language of the majority of early bloggers, has fallen to less than a third of all blog posts in April 2006. Japanese and Chinese language blogging has grown significantly. Chinese language blogging, while continuing to grow on an absolute basis, has begun to decline as an overall percentage of the posts that Technorati tracks over the last 6 months Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and German are the languages with the greatest number of posts tracked by Technorati. The Korean language is underrepresented in this analysis Language breakdown does not necessarily imply a particular country or regional breakdown. Technorati now tracks more than 100 Million author-created tags and categories on blog posts. The rel-tag microformat has been adopted by a number of the large tool makers, making it easy for people to tag their posts. About 47% of all blog posts have non-default tags or categories associated with them. Technorati Tags: blogging, blogosphere, blogs, blogsearch, charts, international, language, microformat, microformats, posts, search, search engine, sotb, sotb2006, statistics, stats, study, tags, technorati, technoratitag, weblog, weblogs

Bloglines - Resumebay.net

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yeah and Alec forgot to mention - "..and there an't no stinkin beta release !!"

Randy, luanching full time Product roll out !!

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Resumebay.net By Alec on Uncategorized Billing itself as an open standards job search site, Resumebay is the latest brain child of Randy Morin.  Job search is a big market!  Good luck Randy. Tags: Uncategorized

Bloglines - Your Google Base Attributes

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Interesting - sme are being used. Google++ =mechturks ??

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Google Blogoscoped Google, the World, and the World Wide Web, Weblogged

Your Google Base Attributes In Search Google is asking experts in different fields to help them build fitting attributes for Google Base. (For example, for photography fitting attributes might be "print size", "camera" etc.) Google is more actively integrating community feedback lately... just yesterday, they were asking for Google Talk feature suggestions. This kind of interaction leads to what Googler Matt Cutts calls "Google++" ("to listen to users, webmasters, advertisers, and publishers whenever you can"). (Full post)

Bloglines - My Thoughts Are My Password, Verify Me

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an interesting theory

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Techdirt Easily digestible tech news...

My Thoughts Are My Password, Verify Me By Mike It seems that every few months a story pops up about advances in mind-controlled computer interfaces. It's important research in many ways, especially for people who have been paralyzed. However, it's clearly only at the earliest stages -- and some question if it will ever get that much further. Wired News is looking at the possibility of one day being able to use your thoughts as your password for better security. The idea being that the computer would recognize your specific brainwaves, that couldn't easily be copied by someone else. Some people believe this will never happen, as distinguishing on that fine a level of brainwaves might be impossible. However, even if it was possible, you have to wonder how effective it would be. It could work for normal logging in... but how does it work when you don't want to log in, but someone else wants you to? Ever try to not think about a certain thing? Our brains aren't really wired that way.

Bloglines - steph >> Swiss Blog Awards: cool down (Lunch over IP)

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What is steph yak yakin on this thread ? and what is the fight about ?? I kind lost the thread of converstions as I am only sub'ing to Stephs feed..

Anyhoot - "linguistic disbalance" =-seems new to me.. how does one become disblanced because of what language they speak ?? ..need to follow up and read more

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steph >> Swiss Blog Awards: cool down (Lunch over IP) steph says: Bruno, I agree with what you say here. In particular, I'm totally convinced that there was no "evil design" in the way things were planned and went along. However, I'm not entirely with you (for the moment) when you say the organizers have recognized the mistake in their nomination process ("They have recognized it and already committed to correct that in a way or another, transparently, next year...") When I hear Jan say this: "the linguisic majority argument does not hold up imho. not at all, i must say. of course swiss germans are the numeric majority in this country. but lets have a look at bloggers and things look quite different." "i am therefore still convinced, that had the a-list romandie bloggers pulled in their weight and mobilised their readers via their blogs we might easily look at quite a different picture right now, with 4 of the 5 being from romandie/ticino. and that would have been fine according to our approach." I get the feeling he is laying the blame on the French/Italian-speaking bloggers themselves. If they did not get nominated, it is not becauseof a botched mechanism, but because we didn't do what we should have to be nominated. I hope I'm over-interpreting Jan's comment about this, but for the moment I don't see the SBAW taking responsability for the linguistic disbalance in the nominees.

Bloglines - [Meta] Top Forum Members

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Embedded is a live and ticking count of the forum users. This is great way to monitor activites and membership !!

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[Meta] Top Forum Members In Internet There's a new top forum members lists here. [Thanks Wouter Schut!] (Full post)