Harold Jarche (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Dion Hinchcliffe has a good overview of the leading technology platforms for communities of practice, ranking Joomla and Drupal at the top. I’ve used Mambo, from which Joomla developed (forked) and have used Drupal is several cases. I find Drupal to be exceptionally powerful but it requires a skilled team to implement it. If Joomla [...]
Real World SOA (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
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Open Gardens (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Dion Hinchcliffe has been a good friend and a long time associate. Hinchcliffe and Company have brought their popular Web 2.0 University model to London. You can see more at Web 2.0 university London
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Dion Hinchcliffe writes ... The announcement this week of the launch of Amazon’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) has added another vital piece to the overall cloud computing picture. The EBS announcement is particularly significant since it takes the gloves off when it comes to meeting the demanding needs of enterprise class computing requirements. The Elastic Block Store finally makes it practical, cost...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dion Hinchcliffe: Are we ready to declare the "time of death" for the enterprise data center? Joe McKendrick: Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval'...
Mashable (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
For the very first time in the UK, the Web 2.0 University is running a one day Executive Bootcamp on Tuesday 30th September in London. Designed by Dion Hinchcliffe & O’Reilly Media, the Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp is a one day event for a management and executive audience to gain a thorough brefing on the state of Web 2.0 and why it matters to any business. If you’re building and delivering next-generation...
Dion Hinchcliffe (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it can sometimes seem, customer communities often sprout up on the initiative of passionate customers. Successful...
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Dion Hinchcliffe always does great visuals but I really like this one because I think it will translate well for audiences that perhaps don't swim in water as steeped in technology as all of you reading this. This is a...
Dion Hinchcliffe (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Last week’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston has been over for a few days and coverage continues to pour out in the mainstream press and the blogosphere, including here on ZDNet where fellow bloggers David Howlett, Oliver Marks, and others have had excellent coverage. I was there early in the week and there was a palpable sense of interest from attendees to understand the current state of this emerging...
The FASTForward Blog (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008
In his latest analysis, Dion Hinchcliffe reports fest-breaking progress in the area of user-created applications, or mashups. For example, he noted that there were at least nine different announcements around Web-based mashups coming out of the recent Web 2.0 conference. Dion said that many business end users — still accustomed to forwarding their requirements over to [...]
Dion Hinchcliffe (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in this space, many around the business flavor of this emerging new type of ad hoc Web applications. These...
ChiefTech (Free subscription) | 21/04/2008
From Dion Hinchcliffe, discussing how Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA and in his of 4 things that define what WOA ( Web-Oriented Architecture ) will look like in the enterprise: " A rich web of REST resources. Instead of a few point SOA services, enterprise data will be exposed through millions of granular REST resources (like the Web itself), which almost any application than...
Web 2.0 Expo Blog (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
"What does "next generation" mean compared to what we were doing a couple of years ago with Web 2.0?" This is the question Dion Hinchcliffe asks, ponders, researches, and answers in preparation for his workshop at the conference next week....
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
Respected developer, adviser and thought leader Dion Hinchcliffe has posted a watershed blog that develops a compelling rationale for Web Oriented Architecture's (WOA's) advancing role in enterprises. The logic is not to supplant or dismiss Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), but rather to examine how WOA -- also...
Dion Hinchcliffe (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
The striking contrast between the stories that we’ve been hearing about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise compared to the vibrant and rapidly growing ecosystems similar to them on the consumer Web has been generating a lot of debate and discussion in the enterprise IT community recently. ZDNet colleague Joe McKendrick recently reported on Burton Group’s Anne Manes stating that it...
