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Latest Articles from Jeremy Geelan
By Jeremy Geelan  The inaugural iTVCon - Internet Video Conference & Expo (November 12-13, 2007) is building out its program and the Conference Advisory Board is busy sorting through the hundreds of proposals for technical and strategic sessions that have been coming in. Final deadline for proposals is ... Sep. 6, 2007 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 37,660 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  'It's likely that the speed of the iPhone's rise to competitive dominance in its segment is unprecedented in the history of the mobile-handset market,' said a report by research group iSuppli yesterday, as it was revealed that Apple's iPhone outsold every other type of smartphone in th... Sep. 5, 2007 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,750 | By Jeremy Geelan  JackBe CTO John Crupi, IBM CTO for Emerging Internet Technologies David Boloker, Kapow Technologies Founder & CTO Stefan Andreasen, ITerating Executive Nicolas Vandenberghe, Roundarch RIA Practice Leader Charles Fiesel, Rubicon Consulting Founder Nilofer Merchant, Symantec Developer Ro... Aug. 30, 2007 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 21,867 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  'BPEL has the potential to make BPM easier to implement by adding the flexibility required in a world where collaboration time is measured in months not years,' Mark Taber, newly-installed CEO of Active Endpoints, Inc., told SOAWorld Magazine in an exclusive interview. Aug. 27, 2007 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 15,411 | By Jeremy Geelan In true Web 2.0 style, Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz this week gave an inadvertent masterclass in how those who live by the blog also die by the blog, when he publicly blogged an advance heads-up that Sun is about to 'retire' its historic NASDAQ ticker symbol 'SUNW' and replace it with '... Aug. 25, 2007 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,118 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  What company, well-known for pushing the frontier of desktop-like user experience, has pioneered an open source platform that allows developers to combine the rich user interface capabilities of desktop client software with the universally accessible, no-download features of web-delive... Aug. 22, 2007 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 24,088 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan Just three years after it was founded, XenSource has gotten itself acquired for half a billion dollars by Citrix Systems Inc., demonstrating the rising value and power of virtualization. Aug. 16, 2007 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,393 | By Jeremy Geelan  The single-day, multi-track Real-World Java Seminar will be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on August 13. Produced by SYS-CON Events, this is the largest Java developer event on the East Coast, and features a business track as well as two technical tracks. All attendees will ha... Jul. 13, 2007 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 31,854 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  SYS-CON Events has created a hands-on, immersive learning experience for all Web developers who want to know the how, what, and why of the tools and concepts behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), the popular user-interface approach to creating Rich Internet Applications. AJAXW... Jun. 10, 2007 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 21,682 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan Kyle Gabhart, SOA Lead with Web Age Solutions, will be presenting 'Service Oriented Patterns and Anti-patterns' at the 11th International SOAWorld 2007 Conference & Expo in New York City, June 25-27, 2007. Jun. 2, 2007 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 12,948 | By Jeremy Geelan  A war of words has broken out in the world of Web 2.0 - between the software developer who created or was a lead contributor to several of the most popular XML dialects and APIs related to web publishing (RSS 2.0, XML-RPC, OPML, and the MetaWeblog API), Dave Winer, and the founder of ... May. 23, 2007 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 25,930 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan  'There have been a number of language coming up lately,' noted James Gosling today at Sun's World Wide Education & Research Conference in New York City. 'PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems but they are scripting languages and get their power through specialization: they just gener... May. 12, 2007 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 111,865 Replies: 18 | By Jeremy Geelan  Already, even in pre-release, Adobe's Spry seemed to catch the imagination of many Web professionals wrestling with how to integrate new AJAX frameworks into existing workflows. Created with designers in mind, Spry uses regular HTML tags, CSS, and JavaScript, and is easy to use - boili... Apr. 16, 2007 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 23,768 | By Jeremy Geelan  The conjunction of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 this month with the publication of the 600-page blockbuster Real-World AJAX, the announcement by the OpenAjax Alliance of the OpenAjax Hub and OpenAjax Conformance, the release by Laszlo Systems of OpenLaszlo 4.0 and the Laszlo Webtop... Apr. 13, 2007 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,660 | By Jeremy Geelan  In order for company to describe itself as an 'open source' company, need it merely help you make the switch to open source in your company - or does it have to be one that lets users freely download, compile, and use the software in question? Where is the dividing line? How open is 'o... Apr. 10, 2007 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 15,726 | By Jeremy Geelan  Gartner says that the total number of bloggers will peak during the first half of this year at around 100 million, causing John R. Patrick to ask rhetorically whether spring 2007 truly is The Peak of Blogging? Apr. 4, 2007 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 21,062 | By Jeremy Geelan Matt Quinn , SVP of product strategy for TIBCO Software, contends that many companies with large SOA deployments face two major challenges: how to promote service reuse and how to manage the complexity of a heterogeneous, distributed SOA that includes Java, .NET, and various legacy and... Apr. 2, 2007 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 17,436 | By Jeremy Geelan Nowhere in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence did Thomas Jefferson reference the Internet, eBay, Skype, or Flickr. But if he'd lived another 180 years, to 2006 instead of 1826, I feel certain he would at some point have said something like this... Mar. 11, 2007 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 23,429 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan Alex Haley once said it very succinctly. 'Anytime you see a turtle atop a fence post,' he once wrote, 'you know it had some help.' I was immediately reminded of Haley's remark when out of the blue at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East where I was yesterday awarded the Roundarch 2006... Mar. 7, 2007 08:15 AM EST Reads: 25,764 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan  These are curious times just now for Java. In one and the same month, Steve Jobs stands up, and declares - referring to language support on the new Apple iPhone - 'Java's not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It's this big heavyweight ball and chain.' And in the same month a... Mar. 6, 2007 09:00 AM EST Reads: 30,601 Replies: 12 | By Jeremy Geelan In order to describe itself as an 'open source' company, need a company merely be 'a company that will help you make the switch to open source in your company' - or does it have to be one that lets users feely download, compile, and use the software in question? Where is the dividing l... Mar. 1, 2007 05:00 AM EST Reads: 81,286 Replies: 18 | By Jeremy Geelan The significance of blogging is not the word 'blog' whether used as a verb or a noun, but its role as a harbinger of the game-changing Web-as-platform revolution. In particular, the migration of blogging from the individual toward the enterprise... Feb. 25, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 36,488 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East speaker John Eckman has been summarizing on his blog a recent digital fracas between Lawrence Lessig and Nick Carr on what it means to be a Web 2.0 company. Feb. 23, 2007 06:30 PM EST Reads: 26,017 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan  Stowe Boyd, internationally recognized authority on social tools and their impact on business and society and editor of /Message, the blog on 'what is happening at the edge, and its impact on the center,' will be speaking at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East, being held 19-21 March... Feb. 23, 2007 06:30 PM EST Reads: 31,295 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan In Estonia, where since 2002 an electronic identification card has been mandatory for all citizens above the age from 15, the success of e-voting in local government council elections last year has spurred the authorities to extend the scheme to the country's upcoming national election... Feb. 23, 2007 10:15 AM EST Reads: 16,961 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan Frances E. Allen was yesterday named the first ever woman recipient of the prestigious Turing Award. In 1989, Allen was the first woman to be named an IBM Fellow. But she is not the only 'i-Technology Heroine' - many inspired suggestions of others have been coming in recently, reports ... Feb. 23, 2007 09:15 AM EST Reads: 20,653 | By Jeremy Geelan  As the biggest-ever i-Technology event devoted specifically to AJAX-compatible Rich Internet Application technologies, it is hardly surprising that AJAXWorld Conference 2007 had an entire track devoted to Flex. Feb. 21, 2007 11:00 PM EST Reads: 27,311 | By Jeremy Geelan At the end of 2005, 30,000+ SYS-CON.com readers enjoyed the benefits of industry legend Mitchell Kertzman's prescience about virtualization. Already back then, Kertzman - now at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners but still famous for having been the founder and CEO of Powersoft, which mer... Feb. 19, 2007 03:15 PM EST Reads: 16,733 | By Jeremy Geelan 'Social Computing,' I wrote back in August 2006, 'is about to turn the Web world upside down.' Now Helge Städtler of the University of Bremen has been kind enough to quote - and amplify - my assertion. Feb. 19, 2007 02:30 PM EST Reads: 31,984 | By Jeremy Geelan When Bruce Eckel wrote 'It's clear that we can't wait for Sun to fix all of Java's problems,' he possibly hadn't reckoned that his essay would provoke a huge response the length and breadth of Javaland. Feb. 16, 2007 01:45 AM EST Reads: 31,182 | By Jeremy Geelan His paternity leave having developed into eternity leave, Marc Fleury is quitting Red Hat. Feb. 10, 2007 09:30 AM EST Reads: 23,884 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year? Feb. 7, 2007 10:00 AM EST Reads: 32,249 | By Jeremy Geelan What do Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart, Claude E. Shannon, and Konrad Zuse (to name but a few) all have in common? All were missing from the initial round-up I recently published in an attempt to nail down - by consensus - the top 100 or 150 contributors of all-time to i-Technology, to ... Feb. 6, 2007 07:00 AM EST Reads: 25,882 Replies: 9 | By Jeremy Geelan  How easy/difficult is it to nail down the most significant 100 contributors to i-Technology history? No sooner had I begun my attempt to do so than developers and IT professionals Web-wide began to send in their 2c... Feb. 5, 2007 04:45 AM EST Reads: 152,881 Replies: 48 | By Jeremy Geelan  These are curious times just now for Java. In one and the same month, Steve Jobs stands up, and declares - referring to language support on the new Apple iPhone - 'Java's not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It's this big heavyweight ball and chain.' And in the same month a... Feb. 2, 2007 06:15 AM EST Reads: 46,264 Replies: 11 | By Jeremy Geelan  Early in 2006, before the general Internet-using public was aware of what I began referring to in editorials, blog entries, and SYS-CON's Internet TV Webcasts as 'The AJAX Moment,' there was a strong sense among industry insiders that AJAX-like approaches, if not actually AJAX itself... Jan. 25, 2007 04:30 PM EST Reads: 20,123 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  The year 2006 in which YouTube became culturally ubiquitous, Flash video became the de facto Internet video standard of the Web, Microsoft beta-launched Vista, and the Wii entered our lives - was also memorable for one or two other real-world events such as the hanging of Saddam Hussei... Jan. 18, 2007 03:00 PM EST Reads: 23,200 | By Jeremy Geelan Combining 'the best things about television with the social power of the Internet' is precisely what The Venice Project, which yesterday came out of stealth and announced itself as Joost, is all about. Jan. 17, 2007 07:45 AM EST Reads: 28,642 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan Don Ferguson, who guided IBM's strategy and architecture for SOA and Web services, and co-authored many of the initial Web service specifications, has been hired by Microsoft. He is now Microsoft Technical Fellow in Platforms and Strategy, in the Office of the CTO. Jan. 15, 2007 07:00 PM EST Reads: 41,020 Replies: 7 | By Jeremy Geelan When in October Brandon Werner made his impassioned 'Why can't Java EE be more AJAX-like?' plea, 34,526 SYS-CON.com readers read what he had to say. Cincinnati-based Werner enjoined the Java community to 'Think AJAX' - by which he meant that, unlike Java, with AJAX you are free to use ... Jan. 15, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 19,429 |
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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new 
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