Privacy: An important but complex right
Separating legal from moral rights is a key to understanding What is this so-called right to privacy and where does it come from? After my previous columns on privacy, some readers wrote in to ask about privacy in general and…
Vignette manages content
Execs discuss how content management unifies data assets across the enterprise AS A PIONEER in the content management space, Vignette rose to prominence along with the rise of the Internet economy. Today content management has evolved well beyond a task…
The role (or non-role) of ads in building your traffic
Search engine referrals may be enough for profitability I’ve written for the past two weeks about ISBN.nu, a one-man e-commerce site that makes a healthy profit by showing price comparisons among different online booksellers that carry a particular book. Webmaster…
Heart of the Web services revolution
During the past few years, BPM (business process management) has quickly become one of the hotter trends in the world of EAI (enterprise application integration). And why not? With BPM, companies can take separate pieces of business logic and organize…
Déjà vu all over again
BEA moves ahead to take the lead in the Java pack, closing in on a familiar rival using a familiar team IT FELT LIKE we’d been this way before. Up on the stage, the CEO stepped off his motorcycle and…
Make those bold moves
CTOs should be company visionaries, moving forward on new technology instead of reacting to it LAST WEEK, I wrote about making unpopular decisions and taking risks to drive a technology vision. In difficult times, leadership is on the minds of…
Finding the mutual benefit of IT infrastructure
Last week I had the privilege to moderate a panel at the Global Ecommerce conference at the United Nations in New York. Even as delegates and private-sector people from around the world showed keen interest in the possibilities of e-commerce…
Services briefs
WorldCom, Compaq join to advance Web hosting WorldCom, Compaq join to advance Web hosting Compaq and WorldCom announced this week that they have joined to co-market Web hosting and Internet collocation services under the WorldCom brand using Compaq hardware and…
Talking the BizTalk
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 makes b-to-b EAI work, but with considerable effort IN THE OLD days of document management, quick-fingered clerks would clean up and reformat data as they entered it, sifting out invalid documents and keeping information moving through…
Your flicks for free
Readers recommend a downloadable multimedia program to convert your .mov files to .avi I DEVOTED MY column a few weeks ago to AutoProducer, a program that automatically edits your video clips into a slick-looking music video (see ” Muvee makes…
