e-Clippings (Learning As Art) (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Dion Hinchcliffe always does great visuals but I really like this one because I think it will translate well for audiences that perhaps don't swim in water as steeped in technology as all of you reading this. This is a...
Dion Hinchcliffe (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Last week’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston has been over for a few days and coverage continues to pour out in the mainstream press and the blogosphere, including here on ZDNet where fellow bloggers David Howlett, Oliver Marks, and others have had excellent coverage. I was there early in the week and there was a palpable sense of interest from attendees to understand the current state of this emerging...
The FASTForward Blog (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
In his latest analysis, Dion Hinchcliffe reports fest-breaking progress in the area of user-created applications, or mashups. For example, he noted that there were at least nine different announcements around Web-based mashups coming out of the recent Web 2.0 conference. Dion said that many business end users — still accustomed to forwarding their requirements over to [...]
Dion Hinchcliffe (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in this space, many around the business flavor of this emerging new type of ad hoc Web applications. These...
ChiefTech (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
From Dion Hinchcliffe, discussing how Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA and in his of 4 things that define what WOA ( Web-Oriented Architecture ) will look like in the enterprise: " A rich web of REST resources. Instead of a few point SOA services, enterprise data will be exposed through millions of granular REST resources (like the Web itself), which almost any application than...
Web 2.0 Expo Blog (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
"What does "next generation" mean compared to what we were doing a couple of years ago with Web 2.0?" This is the question Dion Hinchcliffe asks, ponders, researches, and answers in preparation for his workshop at the conference next week....
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Respected developer, adviser and thought leader Dion Hinchcliffe has posted a watershed blog that develops a compelling rationale for Web Oriented Architecture's (WOA's) advancing role in enterprises. The logic is not to supplant or dismiss Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), but rather to examine how WOA -- also...
Dion Hinchcliffe (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
The striking contrast between the stories that we’ve been hearing about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise compared to the vibrant and rapidly growing ecosystems similar to them on the consumer Web has been generating a lot of debate and discussion in the enterprise IT community recently. ZDNet colleague Joe McKendrick recently reported on Burton Group’s Anne Manes stating that it...
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Dana Gardner submits: I'm watching Dion Hinchcliffe and a small group of other observers and developers create a Google (GOOG) App Engine [GAE] application live via Twitter . We're on the cutting edge of using social media and near-real time collaboration tools (free) to learn and use GAE for free, and then blog on the process (also free). The price is obviously right, and the ease and transparency...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
ZDNet's Dion Hinchcliffe compares Amazon's approach to providing infrastructure services with Google's, and Garett Rogers looks at pros and cons of entrusting applications to Google's cloud.
Dion Hinchcliffe (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
The announcement this week that Google released a beta version of a robust cloud computing platform called Google App Engine that lets anyone build apps on Google’s renowned and highly scalable infrastructure underscored a key trend in the software industry today. Namely that software platforms are moving from their traditional centricity around individually owned and managed computing resources and...
The FASTForward Blog (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
Is Web 2.0 a potential peril to productivity? Is there a risk of employees spending their time on the company dime engaged in superfluous online activities, like trashing ex-girlfriends/boyfriends or watching music videos on YouTube? Both Andrew McAfee and Dion Hinchcliffe have publicly stated that they are seeking examples of serious productivity issues resulting from Web [...]
SOA in Action Blog (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
Beth Gold-Bernstein, my colleague here at ebizQ, recently hosted an extremely compelling online panel discussion on the growing convergence between SOA and Web 2.0. Beth was joined by luminaries including Dion Hinchcliffe, whom I would consider the leading analyst...
Dion Hinchcliffe (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
The announcement earlier this week that IBM has put together an open approach for making user data secure inside of Web mashups, known as SMash, was the most recent step in an unfolding story about the way the industry is trying to bring structure and order to the rapidly growing and frequently unruly world of Web mashups.
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Despite mega-investments in a variety of integration technologies and strategies (including SOA), businesses have seen very little return for their efforts. That's the view of ZDNet blogging colleague Dion Hinchcliffe, not too mention plenty of other industry observers. However, unlike the naysayers, Dion says all is not...
