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I just participated in an online seminar hold by BEA and Divine about CMS and portals, and it seems like Divine have some great portlets for BEA, SUN and IBM Portals. They did not mention Oracle, but I am trying to find this information.
A lot of this can be read on this page.
A great thing was that you get portlets, workflow and editor for $25k, which is pritty cheap :-)
My old Nokia died Friday, so I had to get a replacement. I bought the Sony Ericsson T68i, because it got so great reviews in most magazines, like T3. It is a great phone, but I stroke against it all weekend, but the problem was basically that the account I used with my ISP (Tele Danmark Internet - Opasia Basic) was not for mobile phones. Well, after that it is great. Now I can get my emails everywhere - and the T68i is so easy to use, and extremely powerful.
Now I am just waiting to get one of the great Cordless Bluetooth earphones - but I am primarily waiting for the BlueSpoon, which weight less than 10g and fit into your ear - it takes your voice from your bones!! And it got 100 hours standby time and 6 hours talking time - this is just cool and made in Denmark too.
Another cool thing is now I can record films and pictures with my Sony IP7BT and use bluetooth for attaching the films and images to emails! So great, when you are on the road! Did I mention, that you now can browse ordinary HTML pages on the camcorder? Ok, this is more fun than usefull.
Last nights playing around with graphs did become handy, because now we need some graphs for ASP. Dundas is a great product as far as their website is demonstrating, but the price is between $699 and $2999, depenbding on what kind of graphs you would like.
A list of other relevant utilities is found on Developers Dex.
GSgraph is a free product, but it's without any demos.
If you have tried to generate graphs on the fly for a website, you have probably discovered that it takes a lot of programming.
If you are into PHP, I found the ultimate source library from a Swedish guy living above the polar circle - you can see from the quality, that the winter is long up there.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." (Bill Gates, 1981)
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."(Ken Olsen, Digital Equipment Corp, 1977)
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." (Popular Mechanics, 1949)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." (IBM's Thomas Watson, 1943)
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." (Western Union internal memo, 1876)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." (Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899)
This is probably very interesting, so I might need to read about people which can upload part of their personality to a global network and WANs between brains and computers.
Article: Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance
According to analysts, the portals, CM, KM and Collaboration systems are fading, but will not disappear. They will be bundled into Smart Enterprise Suites (SES) to empower the virtual workplace inside companies and between them
This doesn't come as a surprise to me, because this is exactly the same evolution as the ERP, where we started with small systems, then new ideas and business rose and the different vendors started to specialize in different areas (like CRM, HR, Project management, etc.), but now most main ERP vendors has put all the different areas into one major buzz-word: ERP.
Companies like Microsoft, IBM, Divine and Hummingbird are all working on such systems, but Gartner Group does not expect SES to emerge until 2004.
Gartner has an ok description on the Target Functionality for Smart Enterprise Suites.
I just found this dutch (!) reference CMS which contains links to articles etc.
More CMS relevant stuff is found on Intranet Journal where I found a great list of CMS-vendors - It looks a year old though!
If you want to compare a lot of CM systems, use this great scheme.
I just looked into the editor edit-on Pro from RealObjects and it seems to work great. It is fully customable so you can interface to your own images in you CMS system or where you do have them.
A lot of low end CMS vendors is using a simple ActiveX component, but it is not very stable and does only work on MS platforms. Here is a list of a lot of vendors - it is not prioritized:
I found this here...
A way of remembering all the stuff you have entered in your blog is to get it available on the PDA - This is pritty simple in movabletype, I found a great description.
What I need the most is the possibility of entering blogs from my PDA, but this is not as trivial. I just discovered an avantgo interface in PHP, but I need to test it tonight. I found it here.
One of the things still to come is VR. In the late 80's everybody was talking about it, but we haven't seen anything usefully out yet.
As always, the military is working on making soldiers more efficient and is working on using VR on top of the real world. This is seen in the Battlefield Augmented Reality System.
Colombia university has taking this technology and think more of using it in everyday situations, like value adding what tourists are seeing. This is probably because American tourists newer know what they see, when they are in Europe. As a friend of mine experienced in Pisa where two American ladies were looking at the Pisa Tower: Beautiful - This must be Paris today!.
You don't have to! At TVeyes they have a service where you can enter some words, and when these words is spoken on one of the channels, you will get an email, Instant Message or a wireless notification.
If you need the same service on the radio, these guys also have this feature.
Have you ever wanted to buy a cheap cell phone and then throw it away when it is out of calling minutes, you simply throw it away or return it and get a $5 discount on the next one. The price is $40 and it should soon be available from hop-on.com.