Two days after wowing Wall Street with earnings handily beating all estimates, Amazon held an event wooing local (Seattle area) web developers and venture capital firms alike. Perhaps its just a coincidence after adding US$7 billion in market capitalization the last two days, but money definitely seems to be following Amazon's investment in Web...
Reports from Forrester and The Leading Edge Forum serve as bookends portending either to a bubble bursting, or the next golden era. Who's right? We will find out, but technology will have little to do with deciding the winner. Two reports have been released by major big business think tanks in the last two weeks...
A new report from the Leading Edge Forum proposes a new course for Enterprise IT - abandon the notion of creating the perfect intranet and instead live on the web. In May of 2003 Nicholas Carr put forth the argument that IT Doesn't Matter. In case there was any lingering doubt about Mr. Carr's views...
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/programming/Amazon_s_Series_of_Fortunate_Events'; Way back when I was in high school I found myself in a high school science class. It was your typical experience, replete with bunsen burners, saftey goggles and a science teacher named Norbert. But one day Norbert had an inspriation - he let the class watch a video of James...
By John Milan. This is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 is here. What will the software solutions of tomorrow look like? They will be forged by four powerful elements: The Internet, Open Source, Mobile Devices and Web 2.0. We can debate the merits of each, but taken as a whole they will...
