Xconomy – First of all, please don’t call it a search company. Not even a “semantic” search company (one that uses natural-language processing of text), which is what its technology is based on. Evri, a Seattle startup backed by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, is about more than search—it’s about browsing, understanding content, and “connecting the rest of [...] read more
InternetPCMech – I don’t like Google Docs. I don’t like Microsoft Office Live either. But I do like OpenOffice. A lot. Wondering if there was any means of using the OO suite online, I did some searching and found that yes, there is a way. It’s done thru Ulteo’s web site.
After signing up for a free account with Ulteo you’re greeted with [...] read more
FASTforward Blog – I’ve been having quite a series of discussions over at the ZDNet site (here and here and here) on the growing popularity of Web Oriented Architecture, versus the more dour image of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Everyone, even the most technophobic, seems to get what WOA means and how it works. SOA… well, even the best [...] read more
Jason’s ASP.NET Blog – In IIS7, there are two modes for ASP.NET application pools: classic mode (only mode available for IIS6) and integrated mode. Integrated Mode offers quite a bit with IIS7 and is the recommended mode for application pools (more details at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/244/how-to-take-advantage-of-the-iis7-integrated-pipeline/). One of the changes is that the Integrated mode does not have access to the HttpContext during the Application_Start method in the global.asax. It also [...] read more
