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The Google Maps API blog has announced support for the hCard microformat to Google Maps results. I won't go into why I think this is cool right now (no time!), but it is cool. If you haven't heard of microformats or understand why the standard is getting...
Ray Ozzie's briefing this week provided quite a bit more detail around Microsoft's "Software Plus Services" strategy. It's definitely worth a read (or a look , and if you're feeling too lazy for either you can read Nick Carr's summary ). It's been a year...
Dare has written up RESTpectful comparison of the programming models of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data API for querying relational data over the web (RESTful data services). Both these APIs also happen to support operations for changing the...
<warning: the following post meanders , is unstrucutured and doesn't arrive at any conclusion> In the middle of last year, I invited Dion to meet with me and other members of Microsoft's Data Programmability team to discuss REST in the context of...
I caught up with Pablo Castro, who announced Codename Astoria - Data Services for the Web earlier today at MIX07 . Here's the video of our chat together. In the meantime, there have been a number of blog posts commenting on the Astoria announcement via...
Pablo Castro has announced a very cool project , Microsoft Codename "Astoria": Data Services for the Web. So, if: You build data-aware web applications (are there web devs that don't?) You are interested in data access over the web (data over the web...
I'll be heading down to MIX07 tomorrow. Let me know if you want to hook up (ping me at ) There will be a torrent of Microsoft product announcements over the next few days - Sam Sethi has made a number of predictions on what some of these will be....
Danny dropped by and asked me : "Hi Alex, do you happen to know of any half-decent definition of "the cloud"?" I know it sounds corny, but 'good question'!! So I'll give it a go. Now, I could get textual, but I'll first try to answer with a few pics....
If you don't like roller-coasters, do not check out this interpretation of US house pricing data (adjusted for inflation) since since 1890 to today. Via information aesthetics .
Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon.com spoke at Supernova 2006 on the topic of Scalability at Amazon and the talk is available as a podcast at IT Conversations ( thanks to James Governor for the link ). I made some notes as I listened this morning and thought...
Assaf's post cracked me up this morning - JSON Assessment Questionnaire: Are you ready to make the transition? . Here's a sample: The problem with JSON is … (item: true) [ ] I never used it, so I wouldn’t know. [ ] That’s why...
Last week I quoted a footnote to this post trying to convey the size of an exabyte: " an exabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 10 18 bytes - there 1024 petabytes in an exabyte or 1,073,741,824 gigabytes in an exabyte. To give you an idea...
IDC and EMC have released a new study today - 'The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010' . (press release here ). It's fascinating stuff. The research follows previous work conducted at the University...
Via Josh Porter 's del.icio.us links , I saw this post on Business Intelligence Lowdown, claiming to 'cover the top 10 largest databases in the world'. Great idea, shame about the execution, as just reading from the comments shows they've...
A couple of weeks ago Dr Peter Chen , inventor of the Entity-Relationship model (ER model), visited the Microsoft Campus to provide a lecture sharing his thoughts on the ADO.NET Entity Framework . As we were planning his visit, he was very keen to make...
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