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Sandy Carter's big six takeaways from IMPACT '08
Sandy Carter, IBM VP for SOA and WebSphere, joins me for a quick seven minute wrap-up on the big announcements made earlier this month at IMPACT 2008. She talks about IBM SOA leadership growth, industry viewpoint, capabilities and new offerings around business process management, new WebSphere sMash and the IBM Mashup Center, the IBM Smart SOA social network, and related services. This IMPACT press releases listing has more detail and a cool video.
Check out tomorrow's (April 30) webcast featuring IBM executives and customers laying out a roadmap for aligning business and IT for maximum impact.
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IMPACT video highlights on the IBM TV Impact Channel.
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Apr 29 2008, 03:36:01 PM EDT
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InformationWeek's David Berlind talks unconferencing
Tech journalist David Berlind stopped for a few minutes to chat with me at IMPACT 2008. We talked about the SOA Camp he was facilitating in conjunction with IMPACT and about the refreshing experience of unconferencing where the trappings of a traditional conference are set aside for a more interactive, peer-to-peer experience.
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About David Berlind
David is General Manager, Alternative Events in Live Events Group of TechWeb; Editor-At-Large, InformationWeek.com; Executive Conference Director, Interop. Prior to his career in tech media, David spent eight years as a software developer, network engineer and IT manager. David's career in media started in 1991 when he joined Ziff-Davis' PC Week to write technology reviews. After eventually becoming the Director of PC Week's testing lab, he moved over to ZD's Windows Sources Magazine as Editor-in-Chief and then to Computer Shopper as Editorial Director. In 1998, David joined ZDNet where he led the site's family of business technology properties and eventually helped to lead CNET Networks' (ZDNet's parent company) push into new media such as blogging, podcasting, and, what he calls "near broadcast quality video on near YouTube economics." David joined TechWeb in January 2008 when his event production startup Mass Events Labs was acquired by TechWeb's parent company, United Business Media LLC.
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: [ impact | mashups | soa | unconferencing | web2.0 ]
Apr 28 2008, 04:30:57 PM EDT
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Scott Hebner previews RSDC 2008
Scott Hebner, Rational VP of Marketing and Strategy, gives a quick preview of this year's Rational Software Development Conference, coming June 1-5 in Orlando, Florida. Big keynotes, guest speaker William Shatner, comedian Mitch Fatel, and Grammy-winning rock band The Wallflowers top off a full lineup of more than 300 technical sessions, hands-on technical workshops, complimentary IBM certification classes, technology demonstrations and a multitude of networking opportunities. Register here!
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: [ jazz | rational | rational-team-concert | rsdc ]
Apr 21 2008, 10:19:00 AM EDT
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IMPACT 2008 -WebSphere sMash a hit with ZSL
 
Here's a second engaging discussion on WebSphere sMash and a beta development partner's experience. Rob Nicholson, Senior Technical Staff member with the IBM Java Technology Center, and Naveen Noel, Senior Solutions Architect for ZSL joined me for a windy 23 minutes by one of the pools at the Las Vegas MGM Grand. They talk about WebSphere sMash, it's impact on ZSL's application development, and next steps in the evolution of sMash.
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Apr 21 2008, 07:01:22 AM EDT
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IMPACT 2008 Thursday keynotes - Smart SOA technologies are the gold standard
Day 4 IMPACT 2008 keynotes focused on Smart SOA technologies as the gold standard. A Smart car was given away to the attendee who answered a list of questions about SOA in the shortest time. And a few attendees/wannabe songwriters had their SOA-focused lyrics, created in honor of WebSphere's birthday, performed by a live band at the final day opening session. The tunes were well short of breathtaking but easily rivaled Amy Winehouse's Rehab lyrics, in the opinion of this humble critic.
Keynote segments below.
LISTEN Patty Dudek opening - WebSphere birthday song winners; morning focus; recap of week's announcements (12:09)
LISTEN Rob High, Jr. - IBM Distinguished Engineer and SOA Foundation Chief Architect talks service-component architecture (10:05)
LISTEN Jamie Thomas - VP Rational Software Development talks about SOA governance as the glue in SOA, and demos Rational Team Concert (10:03)
LISTEN David Saul - CISO of StateStreet talks about striking gold with Smart SOA approaches (16:01)
IMPACT video highlights on the IBM TV Impact Channel.
April 30 webcast featuring IBM executives and customers laying out a roadmap for aligning business and IT for maximum impact.
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Apr 15 2008, 02:00:00 PM EDT
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IMPACT 2008 Tuesday keynotes - Lean and green with SOA
Day 2 at IMPACT 2008 in Las Vegas featured an opening session focused on getting lean and green with Smart SOA approaches. It also featured high desert winds and a return, for me, to multiple walks down what has to be the longest hotel hall in the world. But more on that later.
LISTEN Craig Haymon - IBM approach to business process management (12:23)
LISTEN John Soyring - How SOA helps with carbon management (9:12)
LISTEN Gary Cripps, Delaware Electric Cooperative - Another customer story on the huge transforming effect of SOA (7:01)
LISTEN Rich Lechner - Green-by-design infrastructure for supporting SOA (8:25)
LISTEN Elizabeth Smith - SOA best practices and IBM SOA Healthcheck (10:46)
Check out video keynote segments on the IBM TV Impact Channel.
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Apr 08 2008, 09:31:03 PM EDT
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Bumper crop
I have the most amazing rear car bumper in the world. Things goes for a ride on it and never fall off. I was on the expressway the other day and after driving for about five miles at 65 miles per our, another car pulled up next to me and the driver motioned that there was something wrong at the rear of my car. After pulling over, I found my organizer perched on the bumper where I had set it down when I was putting groceries into the car. And it wasn't even sitting flat. It was standing on end. Wow! What a bumper. Then I left one of my kids swim trunks on the bumper another time and it made a long winding trip home. Beverage cups don't seem to fair as well, probably because I leave them on the roof without that wind protection that things get back on the bumper.
For some reason, I have a long history of leaving things vulnerable at the rear of whatever vehicle I'm driving. Years ago, I was hauling a drumset home from a performance in the rear of a friends pickup truck when I gazed in the rearview mirror and saw the bass drum rolling down the interstate highway, cars dodging this way and that frantic to avoid the percussion projectile. I remember thinking, "where's a good bumper when you really need one?"
Back when I edited the developerWorks newsletters, now so ably piloted by John Swanson, I used to try to draw some weak parallel between these personal reflections and technology, like saying that the lesson here is that it's OK to be a little late getting on the road with a leading edge technology as long as you can at least catch the rear edge of it as it goes by. But I won't go there.
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Mar 26 2008, 09:10:54 AM EDT
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UCLA and IBM partner on open source adventure class
   
In this 23-minute podcast, hear about an innovative computer science class at the University of California at Los Angeles that offers students the opportunity to choose an open source project adventure, focused on Web 2.0 technologies, and interact with professionals from IBM during the project. UCLA computer science professors Paul Eggert and Jens Palsberg join IBM project lead Gergana Markova and classroom assistant Gabe Nataneli in the discussion.
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Related resources:
The Class of 2.0 IBM Teams
With Universities on 21st Century Skills (Marketwire)
Youstayfly student project: Mash-up that allows users to search for songs, browse lyrics, find similar artists and songs and provide related game quizzes. Uses last.fm, LyricsFly and SeeqPod.
Virtual Music student project: A Web site built using Ruby on Rails that allows users to create accounts, upload music for later play via browser, create and share playlists, and play music quiz games.
Instant Attractions Mash-up student project: Provides a Web interface where people can quickly find information, allowing them to determine the available activities in the immediate area that are occurring in the immediate future. Utilizes Google Maps API,and the Google Movie listing.
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Mar 25 2008, 06:19:26 PM EDT
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Downloads update: Lotus Quickr and developerWorks ekits
developerWorks' Robin Langford joins me for a quick update on some new download offerings.
--Lotus Quickr is a Web 2.0-based team collaboration offering, which transforms the way everyday business content such as documents and rich media (such as photos and videos) can be shared and enables more effective team collaboration across organizational boundaries. This is a 90-day free trial.
--developerWorks e-kits give you a collection of tutorials, articles, webcasts, podcasts, and demos about a particular product, task, or role.
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Mar 25 2008, 06:07:12 PM EDT
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