![]() Now companies like Microsoft now have to deal with angry customers who complain that our tools reject their schemas which were authored with the "industry's leading XML tool" or which have now become standards in their particular business sphere. I've seen a few standardized XML schemas in vertical industries are actually invalid schemas but made it all the way to becoming standards because the schema authors used XML Spy as their XML editor of choice. Read the rest in How Firefox earns $US55million a year | APC Magazine Friday, October 19, 2007 One of the most attractive things about Firefox is the plug-in eco system and I think it's amusing to watch Microsoft trying very, very hard to replicate that, but their plug-in eco system is full of "pay $30 to register this", "pay $50 to register that" - it's all commercialware and I think it is testament to the fact that in your open source model it's not easy to replicate that unless you are actually open source. When Networks Collide | PBS Wednesday, November 28, 2007 The appearance of motion: it's sad, wouldn't you say, when this is what American business has come to. ![]() ![]() The company's intent right now is to show the appearance of motion. We will, no doubt, see similar behavior from Verizon as it slowly releases network interface specifications then embarks on a certification program that will surprisingly reject as incompatible a lot of perfectly fine mobile phones. It was the same excuse used to keep old guys like me from wearing jeans in high school. If you are old enough you may remember AT&T expressed great fear back then that telephones not from its Western Electric subsidiary (now Alcatel-Lucent) would somehow "damage" the telephone network. Verizon's move is straight from the playbook of the old AT&T back in the 1970s, when that company was trying to keep third-party telephone handsets from being connected to its network. mobile operator actually intends to open its wireless network to non-Verizon devices and services. Tim Bray on the xml-dev mailing list, Monday, Wednesday, December 5, 2007Ī similar decision will have to be made by Verizon Wireless, which this week applied ITS reality distortion field to trying to make us believe the second-largest U.S. Anyhow, because XML has all these verbose labels saying what each chunk is, it tends to be more change-resistant than most of what has come before. Same thing for XDR - in fact direct object serialization is almost always *wrong*. Change your RDBMS data dictionary and TSV instances out the wild often become toast. ruby - a rebuttal (sort of) Saturday, Decemone advantage XML offers over things like TSV and XDR is a certain measure of future-proofing. They are health authorities, school district administrators, community services providers, companies looking for ways to come at their data in different ways without locking themselves into one and only one view. Most of the clients that I deal with when building XForms applications are not, in fact, looking at building another community site. The beauty of most XForms applications is that they are in fact quite customizable, usually without a huge amount of work, but that they recognize that data is complex - multilayered, having complicated interdependencies, conditional, and frequently transient. Where XForms comes into its own is when you’re dealing with data - lots and lots of data. Read the rest in Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) Friday, December 28, 2007 Only two forms of Web ads actually work: search ads and classified ads (such as eBay and real estate listings). ![]() Sooner or later they'll discover that Web advertising offers almost no ROI. Marketing managers won't remain clueless forever. This is why search engines profit from sucking up the work of content sites (where users exhibit strong banner blindness). ![]() People go to search engines when they're explicitly looking for a place to do business. What a fallacy - brought on by ignorance of the basic Web user experience. They think that because search advertisements generate lots of business, other Web ads must work just as well. Right now, considerable advertising money is sloshing through the Web because most marketing managers remain clueless about how it works. It would be much more sustainable if companies aimed to create services that users valued enough to pay for. The number of companies that chase the same advertising dollars as their only business model is a sure sign that we're at the peak of Bubble 2.0. ![]()
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