List of BitTorrent RSS feeds
This page lists BitTorrent RSS feeds and related plugins for various client applications.
Feeds
BT-Chat BT-Chat hosts torrents from EZTV, VTV, SoS, and other release groups.
Torrent Locomotive The site allows the user to perform a custom search and have the results in either viewable format or in RSS. In addition, predefined RSS feed are available for most recent torrent, most popular torrents and so on.
The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay is known in the online file sharing community as one of the more prominent websites which distributes torrents that point to copyrighted material.
tvRSS is a torrent-based broadcatching website, that provides RSS feeds for EZTV and VTV.
More Torrent Feeds
Rss Torrents
Torrentech
DinoTorrent
Torrentovore
BT Junkie
FullDLS
Piratic
TorrentMatrix
TorrentPortal
TorrentSpy
2 Torrent
BiteNova
Bush Torrent
MegaNova
Mininova
Monova
New Torrents
SloTorrent
TorrentBox
Torrent Valley
XTVi
Torrent RSS & Funny Junk
zoozle
FlixFlux Film Chart Feeds
Link collector of p2p links
Newly released torrent RSS
Tracker Temático Português
Applications and Plugins
BitsCast is a RSS news reader, podcast/vlog client, and BitTorrent client 3-in-1 application for Windows 2000/XP, capable of automating the RSS+BT attachment download.
ted is a Java application that searches for new TV show episodes and downloads their torrents.
WINted Searches for new TV show episodes, filter and download their torrents.
KatchTV is a broadcatcher for KDE.
TV RSS Gtk2-Perl Torrent RSS feed reader for linux.
Juice The cross-platform podcast receiver application with support for Bittorrent RSS.
TVTAD is a RSS feed reader that will automatically download newly released TV torrents.
RSS-TorrentFlux - an Add-On for TorrentFlux.
Torrentocracy a MythTV plugin.
WritTorrent is providing research, resources, standards, and software development for broadcatching and provides RSS 2.0 feeds for the Azureus BT tracker, and a plugin for automatic blog publishing of .torrent files.
SwarmTv is an RSS/bittorrent transport and subscription management library in the making.
[1] A complete P2P TV solution for RSS TV torrents
MySeasonPass Site allowing users to select and filter lists of their favourite TV show torrents. With RSS feeds.
torrenTools is a browser toolbar for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer; allows to search 41 specialized torrent search engine.
µTorrent Bit Torrent client with RSS Feed options included.
EZTV RSS over IRC A script for mIRC that creates an RSS feed based on torrents published in #eztv, a channel on EFnet where the TV show torrent distributor EZTV publish their torrents. Quicker than other feeds.
Xtorrent Torrent Client for Mac Os X with Torrentcast support.
WinMobile Fusion Torrent client with RSS feeds for Windows Mobile Pocket PC.
Related sites & tutorials
How to use RSS & BitTorrent to download TV shows.
RSS TV Torrents guide.
RSS plugin tutorial for Azureus.
RSS downloading tutorial for µTorrent.
Plazoo a search engine that allows searching for video and audio feeds (use searchfilter).
Thinkingest Commercial broadcatching via Atom and RSS feeds
AllThingsBittorrent Blog detailing some newer torrent sites featuring RSS feeds.
wikipedia
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Create Your Own Mashups
Popfly is a Web application that takes a building block approach to mashup creation, allowing you to connect services like Flickr, Twitter, and maps to your and create hybred applications limmited only by your creativity.
It provides a drag and drop interface like Yahoo Pipes.
Popfly is free to use, requiring only a Windows Live login and the Silverlight browser plugin.
It's currently in beta, It unfortunately creates a significant slow-down on your computer when using Popfly.
Mashups currently on the site include Flickr Mappings and Seattle Traffic via Virtual Earth.
http://www.popfly.ms/
It provides a drag and drop interface like Yahoo Pipes.
Popfly is free to use, requiring only a Windows Live login and the Silverlight browser plugin.
It's currently in beta, It unfortunately creates a significant slow-down on your computer when using Popfly.
Mashups currently on the site include Flickr Mappings and Seattle Traffic via Virtual Earth.
http://www.popfly.ms/
Friday, October 19, 2007
Virtualization 2.0 "A new era of competition"
VMWare was once seemed like the only chose for a virtualization platform. Now a new era competition is available from these contenders.
XenSource - The XenSource v4 Product Family enables businesses to deploy high-performance Windows and Linux virtual machines rapidly and easily, and to manage them and their related storage and networking resources from a single easy-to-use management console
Citrix - to provide multi-user remote access to centralized business resources, enables companies of all sizes to gracefully accommodate changes in hardware, software and end-user location. This in turn reduces the cost, time and effort to keep up-to-date tools and information in the hands of IT users.
Microsoft - Virtual Server 2005 provides a virtualization platform that runs most major x86 operating systems in a guest environment, and is supported by Microsoft as a host for Windows Server operating systems and Windows Server System applications. Including a comprehensive COM API, in combination with the Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) format and support for virtual networking, provide administrators complete scripted control of portable, connected virtual machines and enable easy automation of deployment, and ongoing change and configuration.
The data center run on the new era virtualization layer will provide:
Ubiquitous Hyper Visor
Enhanced provisioning
Policy based Management
Easy to deliver new services out to users
Enhanced Security
XenSource - The XenSource v4 Product Family enables businesses to deploy high-performance Windows and Linux virtual machines rapidly and easily, and to manage them and their related storage and networking resources from a single easy-to-use management console
Citrix - to provide multi-user remote access to centralized business resources, enables companies of all sizes to gracefully accommodate changes in hardware, software and end-user location. This in turn reduces the cost, time and effort to keep up-to-date tools and information in the hands of IT users.
Microsoft - Virtual Server 2005 provides a virtualization platform that runs most major x86 operating systems in a guest environment, and is supported by Microsoft as a host for Windows Server operating systems and Windows Server System applications. Including a comprehensive COM API, in combination with the Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) format and support for virtual networking, provide administrators complete scripted control of portable, connected virtual machines and enable easy automation of deployment, and ongoing change and configuration.
The data center run on the new era virtualization layer will provide:
Ubiquitous Hyper Visor
Enhanced provisioning
Policy based Management
Easy to deliver new services out to users
Enhanced Security
Modeling 2.0
The goals of a process model are:
To be Descriptive
Track what actually happens during a process.
Takes the point of view of an external observer who looks at the way a process has been performed and determines the improvements that have to be made to make it perform more effectively or efficiently.
Prescriptive
Defines the desired processes and how they should/could/might be performed.
Lays down rules, guidelines, and behavior patterns which, if followed, would lead to the desired process performance. They can range from strict enforcement to flexible guidance.
Explanatory
Provides explanations about the rationale of processes.
Explore and evaluate the several possible courses of action based on rational arguments.
Establish an explicit link between processes and the requirements that the model needs to
fulfill.
wikipedia
To be Descriptive
Track what actually happens during a process.
Takes the point of view of an external observer who looks at the way a process has been performed and determines the improvements that have to be made to make it perform more effectively or efficiently.
Prescriptive
Defines the desired processes and how they should/could/might be performed.
Lays down rules, guidelines, and behavior patterns which, if followed, would lead to the desired process performance. They can range from strict enforcement to flexible guidance.
Explanatory
Provides explanations about the rationale of processes.
Explore and evaluate the several possible courses of action based on rational arguments.
Establish an explicit link between processes and the requirements that the model needs to
fulfill.
wikipedia
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
What is Web 2.0
Web 2.0 Design Patterns
In his book, A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander prescribes a format for the concise description of the solution to architectural problems. He writes: "Each pattern describes a problem that occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice."
The Long Tail - Small sites make up the bulk of the internet's content; narrow niches make up the bulk of internet's the possible applications. Therefore: Leverage customer-self service and algorithmic data management to reach out to the entire web, to the edges and not just the center, to the long tail and not just the head.
Data is the Next Intel InsideApplications are increasingly data-driven. Therefore: For competitive advantage, seek to own a unique, hard-to-recreate source of data.
Users Add ValueThe key to competitive advantage in internet applications is the extent to which users add their own data to that which you provide. Therefore: Don't restrict your "architecture of participation" to software development. Involve your users both implicitly and explicitly in adding value to your application.
Network Effects by Default - Only a small percentage of users will go to the trouble of adding value to your application. Therefore: Set inclusive defaults for aggregating user data as a side-effect of their use of the application.
Some Rights Reserved - Intellectual property protection limits re-use and prevents experimentation. Therefore: When benefits come from collective adoption, not private restriction, make sure that barriers to adoption are low. Follow existing standards, and use licenses with as few restrictions as possible. Design for "hackability" and "remixability."
The Perpetual Beta - When devices and programs are connected to the internet, applications are no longer software artifacts, they are ongoing services. Therefore: Don't package up new features into monolithic releases, but instead add them on a regular basis as part of the normal user experience. Engage your users as real-time testers, and instrument the service so that you know how people use the new features.
Cooperate, Don't Control - Web 2.0 applications are built of a network of cooperating data services. Therefore: Offer web services interfaces and content syndication, and re-use the data services of others. Support lightweight programming models that allow for loosely-coupled systems.
Software Above the Level of a Single Device - The PC is no longer the only access device for internet applications, and applications that are limited to a single device are less valuable than those that are connected. Therefore: Design your application from the get-go to integrate services across handheld devices, PCs, and internet servers.
oreilly.com
In his book, A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander prescribes a format for the concise description of the solution to architectural problems. He writes: "Each pattern describes a problem that occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice."
The Long Tail - Small sites make up the bulk of the internet's content; narrow niches make up the bulk of internet's the possible applications. Therefore: Leverage customer-self service and algorithmic data management to reach out to the entire web, to the edges and not just the center, to the long tail and not just the head.
Data is the Next Intel InsideApplications are increasingly data-driven. Therefore: For competitive advantage, seek to own a unique, hard-to-recreate source of data.
Users Add ValueThe key to competitive advantage in internet applications is the extent to which users add their own data to that which you provide. Therefore: Don't restrict your "architecture of participation" to software development. Involve your users both implicitly and explicitly in adding value to your application.
Network Effects by Default - Only a small percentage of users will go to the trouble of adding value to your application. Therefore: Set inclusive defaults for aggregating user data as a side-effect of their use of the application.
Some Rights Reserved - Intellectual property protection limits re-use and prevents experimentation. Therefore: When benefits come from collective adoption, not private restriction, make sure that barriers to adoption are low. Follow existing standards, and use licenses with as few restrictions as possible. Design for "hackability" and "remixability."
The Perpetual Beta - When devices and programs are connected to the internet, applications are no longer software artifacts, they are ongoing services. Therefore: Don't package up new features into monolithic releases, but instead add them on a regular basis as part of the normal user experience. Engage your users as real-time testers, and instrument the service so that you know how people use the new features.
Cooperate, Don't Control - Web 2.0 applications are built of a network of cooperating data services. Therefore: Offer web services interfaces and content syndication, and re-use the data services of others. Support lightweight programming models that allow for loosely-coupled systems.
Software Above the Level of a Single Device - The PC is no longer the only access device for internet applications, and applications that are limited to a single device are less valuable than those that are connected. Therefore: Design your application from the get-go to integrate services across handheld devices, PCs, and internet servers.
oreilly.com
What is Enterprise 2.0?
The way we work is changing rapidly, offering an enormous competitive advantage to those who embrace the new tools that enable contextual, agile and simplified information exchange and collaboration to distributed workforces and networks of partners and customers.
Enterprise 2.0 is the term for the technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. Enterprise 2.0 makes accessible the collective intelligence of many, translating to a huge competitive advantage in the form of increased innovation, productivity and agility
Click link to see video:
See executives explain the Enterprise 2.0 phenomenon
Enterprise 2.0 is the term for the technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. Enterprise 2.0 makes accessible the collective intelligence of many, translating to a huge competitive advantage in the form of increased innovation, productivity and agility
Click link to see video:
See executives explain the Enterprise 2.0 phenomenon
Evolution to Enterprise 2.0
Enterprise 1.0 - Enterprise 2.0
Hierarchy -Flat Organization
Friction - Ease of Organization Flow
Bureaucracy - Agility
Inflexibility - Flexibility
IT-driven technology/ Lack of user control -User-driven technology
Top down - Bottom up
Centralized - Ease of Organization Flow - Distributed
Teams are in one building/ one time zone - Teams are global
Silos and boundaries - Fuzzy boundaries, open borders
Need to know - Transparency
Information systems are structured and dictated - Information systems are emergent
Taxonomies - Folksonomies
Overly complex - Simple
Closed/ proprietary standards - Open
Scheduled - On Demand
Long time-to-market cycles - Short time-to-market cycles
Rewards hording information - Rewards sharing information
Hierarchy -Flat Organization
Friction - Ease of Organization Flow
Bureaucracy - Agility
Inflexibility - Flexibility
IT-driven technology/ Lack of user control -User-driven technology
Top down - Bottom up
Centralized - Ease of Organization Flow - Distributed
Teams are in one building/ one time zone - Teams are global
Silos and boundaries - Fuzzy boundaries, open borders
Need to know - Transparency
Information systems are structured and dictated - Information systems are emergent
Taxonomies - Folksonomies
Overly complex - Simple
Closed/ proprietary standards - Open
Scheduled - On Demand
Long time-to-market cycles - Short time-to-market cycles
Rewards hording information - Rewards sharing information
Folksonomy
Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging , social classification, social indexing, social tagging, and other names) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is not only generated by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keywords are used instead of a controlled vocabulary.
Folksonomies became popular on the Web around 2004 with social software applications such as social bookmarking or annotating photographs. Websites that support tagging and the principle of folksonomy are referred to in the context of Web 2.0 because participation is very easy and tagging data is used in new ways to find information. For example, tag clouds are frequently used to visualize the most used tags of a folksonomy. The term folksonomy is also used to denote only the set of tags that are created in social tagging.
Typically, folksonomies are Internet-based, although they are also used in other contexts. Folksonomic tagging is intended to make a body of information increasingly easy to search, discover, and navigate over time. A well-developed folksonomy is ideally accessible as a shared vocabulary that is both originated by, and familiar to, its primary users. Two widely cited examples of websites using folksonomic tagging are Flickr and del.icio.us, although it has been suggested that Flickr is not a good example of folksonomy.
As folksonomies develop in Internet-mediated social environments, users can (generally) discover who created a given folksonomy tag, and see the other tags that this person created. In this way, folksonomy users often discover the tag sets of another user who tends to interpret and tag content in a way that makes sense to them. The result is often an immediate and rewarding gain in the user's capacity to find related content. Part of the appeal of folksonomy is its inherent subversiveness: when faced with the choice of the search tools that Web sites provide, folksonomies can be seen as a rejection of the search engine status quo in favor of tools that are created by the community.
Folksonomy creation and searching tools are not part of the underlying World Wide Web protocols. Folksonomies arise in Web-based communities where provisions are made at the site level for creating and using tags. These communities are established to enable Web users to label and share user-generated content, such as photographs, or to collaboratively label existing content, such as Web sites, books, works in the scientific and scholarly literatures, and blog entries
wikipedia
Folksonomies became popular on the Web around 2004 with social software applications such as social bookmarking or annotating photographs. Websites that support tagging and the principle of folksonomy are referred to in the context of Web 2.0 because participation is very easy and tagging data is used in new ways to find information. For example, tag clouds are frequently used to visualize the most used tags of a folksonomy. The term folksonomy is also used to denote only the set of tags that are created in social tagging.
Typically, folksonomies are Internet-based, although they are also used in other contexts. Folksonomic tagging is intended to make a body of information increasingly easy to search, discover, and navigate over time. A well-developed folksonomy is ideally accessible as a shared vocabulary that is both originated by, and familiar to, its primary users. Two widely cited examples of websites using folksonomic tagging are Flickr and del.icio.us, although it has been suggested that Flickr is not a good example of folksonomy.
As folksonomies develop in Internet-mediated social environments, users can (generally) discover who created a given folksonomy tag, and see the other tags that this person created. In this way, folksonomy users often discover the tag sets of another user who tends to interpret and tag content in a way that makes sense to them. The result is often an immediate and rewarding gain in the user's capacity to find related content. Part of the appeal of folksonomy is its inherent subversiveness: when faced with the choice of the search tools that Web sites provide, folksonomies can be seen as a rejection of the search engine status quo in favor of tools that are created by the community.
Folksonomy creation and searching tools are not part of the underlying World Wide Web protocols. Folksonomies arise in Web-based communities where provisions are made at the site level for creating and using tags. These communities are established to enable Web users to label and share user-generated content, such as photographs, or to collaboratively label existing content, such as Web sites, books, works in the scientific and scholarly literatures, and blog entries
wikipedia
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Enterprise 2.0 Benefits
Democratic and egalitarian
Easily deployed
Quickly learned
Immediate Productivity Increase
Communicate and collaborate inside and often outside the organization,
Inherently viral
Manifest Organically
Easily deployed
Quickly learned
Immediate Productivity Increase
Communicate and collaborate inside and often outside the organization,
Inherently viral
Manifest Organically
Jive Software
Jive Software's Clearspace X is enterprise software built from the ground up for companies to use when building an all-in-one customer community. Clearspace X unifies community content like blogs, wikis and discussions and organizes them by the topics your community is interested in. Now they can find what they're looking for and participate right away. Clearspace X has all the features that Clearspace does with important differences that make it perfect for an easy, out of the box experience.
Includes a reputation system (like eBay) to know whether a user is generally trustworthy and accurate in the information
Structure
Hierarchical organization
Organize by topic rather than content type
Limit spaces to certain types of content
Space-level access control
(New) Personalized content views
Tagging
Author-based tags
Tag clouds
Tag filtering
Multiple Content Types
Documents
Blogs
Discussions
Files
Automatic content relation and suggestion
Authoring
Consistent experience across blogs, wiki-documents and discussions
Image picker
Embed YouTube videos
Reward points
Wiki Style Documents
Rich Text Editor
Wiki markup syntax
Preview Pane
Work on drafts before publishing content
Comments
Version History
Side by Side Version Comparison
Attach files
Include images
Blogs
Rich Text Editor
Wiki markup
Preview Pane
Individual and group blogs
Control who can post where
Publish immediately or at a certain time
Post using blog authoring tools compatible with the MetaWeblog API, the Movable Type API and portions of the Blogger API
Attach files
Notification
Personalized RSS
Personalized email notification
Group content subscriptions
Email content to anyone
Discussions
Rich Text Editor
Wiki markup
Preview Pane
Question/Answer workflow
Convert to a document
Attach files
Realtime
See user presence inside Clearspace(requires Openfire Enterprise)
People
User Directory
Search for users based on profile content
Presence-enabled (requires Openfire Enterprise)
Flexible profiles
Includes a reputation system (like eBay) to know whether a user is generally trustworthy and accurate in the information
Structure
Hierarchical organization
Organize by topic rather than content type
Limit spaces to certain types of content
Space-level access control
(New) Personalized content views
Tagging
Author-based tags
Tag clouds
Tag filtering
Multiple Content Types
Documents
Blogs
Discussions
Files
Automatic content relation and suggestion
Authoring
Consistent experience across blogs, wiki-documents and discussions
Image picker
Embed YouTube videos
Reward points
Wiki Style Documents
Rich Text Editor
Wiki markup syntax
Preview Pane
Work on drafts before publishing content
Comments
Version History
Side by Side Version Comparison
Attach files
Include images
Blogs
Rich Text Editor
Wiki markup
Preview Pane
Individual and group blogs
Control who can post where
Publish immediately or at a certain time
Post using blog authoring tools compatible with the MetaWeblog API, the Movable Type API and portions of the Blogger API
Attach files
Notification
Personalized RSS
Personalized email notification
Group content subscriptions
Email content to anyone
Discussions
Rich Text Editor
Wiki markup
Preview Pane
Question/Answer workflow
Convert to a document
Attach files
Realtime
See user presence inside Clearspace(requires Openfire Enterprise)
People
User Directory
Search for users based on profile content
Presence-enabled (requires Openfire Enterprise)
Flexible profiles
Baynote
Baynote providing powerful tools that even leverage user's Database of Intentions continuously throughout the day to provide content just-in-time to support business activities.
This from the Baynote Website:
Baynote Recommendations are based on observing the implicit actions of your visitors using a simple HTML tag.
By silently observing more than twenty different user actions on your site, Baynote identifies virtual communities of like-minded visitors who have similar intent. These communities include every visitor on your site and each visitor is completely anonymous.
Baynote identifies emerging patterns among the visitors which represents the collective wisdom of the crowd. These emerging patterns represents the true intent of the visitors. As a result, Baynote is able to guide visitors to their intended content much faster than ever before.
Getting Baynote up and running on your website is a simple two step process.
Step 1: ObserverSix lines of code is all Baynote needs to monitor user actions on your website. Insert this javascript in your website template and Baynote handles the rest.
Step 2: Display RecommendationsWhen a visitor arrives at a page, a small snippet of javascript code tells Baynote to deliver appropriate Recommendations, in real time. Baynote Recommendations are also available via a full web-services API.
The Recommendations are completely customizable using CSS.
eCommerceProfit from the Long Tail by dynamically merchandising your store for increased upsell and cross-sell with Product Recommendations. MediaKeep visitors engaged and increase impressions with relevant and popular Content Recommendations. Read more... MarketingIncrease lead generation and reduce bounce rates while creating an intuitive user experience by making content easy to find.
SupportSpeed up issue resolution and reduce support costs by providing smart navigation to visitors and support agents.
When a visitor arrives at a page, Baynote delivers appropriate Recommendations in real time via a small snippet of javascript code.
This from the Baynote Website:
Baynote Recommendations are based on observing the implicit actions of your visitors using a simple HTML tag.
By silently observing more than twenty different user actions on your site, Baynote identifies virtual communities of like-minded visitors who have similar intent. These communities include every visitor on your site and each visitor is completely anonymous.
Baynote identifies emerging patterns among the visitors which represents the collective wisdom of the crowd. These emerging patterns represents the true intent of the visitors. As a result, Baynote is able to guide visitors to their intended content much faster than ever before.
Getting Baynote up and running on your website is a simple two step process.
Step 1: ObserverSix lines of code is all Baynote needs to monitor user actions on your website. Insert this javascript in your website template and Baynote handles the rest.
Step 2: Display RecommendationsWhen a visitor arrives at a page, a small snippet of javascript code tells Baynote to deliver appropriate Recommendations, in real time. Baynote Recommendations are also available via a full web-services API.
The Recommendations are completely customizable using CSS.
eCommerceProfit from the Long Tail by dynamically merchandising your store for increased upsell and cross-sell with Product Recommendations. MediaKeep visitors engaged and increase impressions with relevant and popular Content Recommendations. Read more... MarketingIncrease lead generation and reduce bounce rates while creating an intuitive user experience by making content easy to find.
SupportSpeed up issue resolution and reduce support costs by providing smart navigation to visitors and support agents.
When a visitor arrives at a page, Baynote delivers appropriate Recommendations in real time via a small snippet of javascript code.
Attensa
Enterprise RSS Workflows The applications for putting web feeds to work touch every corner of the enterprise. These workflows are based on extensive customer input from IT professionals and information workers in some of the world’s largest corporations including the leading companies in global logistics services, energy, financial services, investment banking , insurance, pharmaceuticals and health care. RSS Workflows for Business and Competitive Intelligence Combining the power of persistent search with internal CRM data can help you keep one step ahead of the competition. Up-to-the minute information from the Web, the blogosphere, and premium content sources can be used as an early warning system that can automatically alert you to market opportunities and competitive threats. The Attensa Feed Server and Attensa for Outlook give your teams the ability to constantly monitor industry trends, and conditions and competitive and customer news with easy to use persistent search tools that can be customized through Attensa Connect to access valuable premium content sources. Attensa's unique Attention analytics and reporting can help you identify how effectively expensive premium content sources are being used. RSS Workflows for Sales Keeping the tip of the arrow sharp and accurately aimed is one of the biggest challenges facing marketing communications and product management teams. RSS, Atom and XML web feeds are an incredibly effective way to get competitive G2, qualified leads, forecast updates and the latest product training materials to a distributed sales force in the field. Sales leads, opportunities, forecasts and other pertinent sales operations information from Salesforce.com and other CRM systems can be sent directly to a sales person's mobile phone or delivered to specific Outlook folders as soon as the opportunity surfaces. This slashes response time and empowers your sales team to strike while the iron is red hot. By packaging product information, strategic marketing communications and sales training materials into audio or video podcasts, your sales team can receive the information in a compelling format that can be listened to or watched directly in Attensa for Outlook or on and iPod or other MP3 player. With Attensa for Outlook, podcast are automatically loaded into clearly labeled iTunes or Window Media Player playlists. Sales reps can listen to the podcast when it's convenient. Attensa's unique Attention analytics and reporting gives your marcom team a clear picture of which communications channels are most effective. RSS Workflows for Technical Service Teams RSS web feeds can be used to efficiently deliver the most current technical bulletins and training materials to a field service team. Technical writers can create technical bulletins and publish them to a secure internal blog. PDFs of the bulletins can be appended to the blog. As soon as the bulletin is published, the Attensa Feed Server instantly channels the bulletin to the service team who can access the bulletin in Outlook or on their phone. The PDFs can be downloaded automatically and stored by the service technician for future reference. Attensa's unique Attention analytics and reporting gives your service management and tech writing teams a clear picture of how effectively your team is using the the most current technical information
KnowNow
KnowNow bridges the enterprise information gap by overcoming online communication overload and providing a controlled means to access any content that is publicly available, available by subscription, or internal. KnowNow offers two solution suites: Business Communications and Business Event Notifications.
Business Communications
In a world where enterprise information exists on disparate systems and platforms, KnowNow simplifies and ensures the delivery of critical content to employees, partners, or customers.
For Customers
Outside enterprises, critical customer information gets lost or trapped in spam filters. KnowNow provides a unique solution, which ensures information delivery and lets customers “opt in” according to their needs and interests.
For Employees
Within enterprises, critical communications needs to reach the right people at the right time. KnowNow provides a consistent, reliable method for corporate communication, even for those without email.
For Partners
As an extended part of the organization, partners often face communication challenges. KnowNow provides consistent, reliable, and relevant communications for partners, even those without an extranet.
Business Event Notifications
KnowNow enables business agility and responsiveness by persistently monitoring internal systems and/or the market for material events, and notifying the appropriate people immediately through a variety of touch points.
For Market Intelligence
To drive market share and revenue, marketers need brand, market, and competitor information, instantaneously. With KnowNow, organizations can turn newly discovered information into an organized, shareable, and actionable resource.
For Non-RSS Systems
Decision makers need critical information the minute it’s available to respond to business threats or opportunities. For organizations that understand the power of syndication, KnowNow turns static IT systems into active, proactive systems that notify users of critical changes.
Business Communications
In a world where enterprise information exists on disparate systems and platforms, KnowNow simplifies and ensures the delivery of critical content to employees, partners, or customers.
For Customers
Outside enterprises, critical customer information gets lost or trapped in spam filters. KnowNow provides a unique solution, which ensures information delivery and lets customers “opt in” according to their needs and interests.
For Employees
Within enterprises, critical communications needs to reach the right people at the right time. KnowNow provides a consistent, reliable method for corporate communication, even for those without email.
For Partners
As an extended part of the organization, partners often face communication challenges. KnowNow provides consistent, reliable, and relevant communications for partners, even those without an extranet.
Business Event Notifications
KnowNow enables business agility and responsiveness by persistently monitoring internal systems and/or the market for material events, and notifying the appropriate people immediately through a variety of touch points.
For Market Intelligence
To drive market share and revenue, marketers need brand, market, and competitor information, instantaneously. With KnowNow, organizations can turn newly discovered information into an organized, shareable, and actionable resource.
For Non-RSS Systems
Decision makers need critical information the minute it’s available to respond to business threats or opportunities. For organizations that understand the power of syndication, KnowNow turns static IT systems into active, proactive systems that notify users of critical changes.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Enterprise Web 2.0 Enterprise
Web 2.0 Era
Pull business models
Open source software
Customer self-service
The Long Tail
Social Media
Customer community relationship
Decentralized product development
Latest movements:
wikis
blogs
RSS
podcasting
content tagging
mashups
social networking.
Pull business models
Open source software
Customer self-service
The Long Tail
Social Media
Customer community relationship
Decentralized product development
Latest movements:
wikis
blogs
RSS
podcasting
content tagging
mashups
social networking.
The Web platform.
"This is the model for services in the future. An example is the cloud computing announcement this week by Google Inc. and IBM, which are jointly offering a platform for use by universities for application development initiatives, including Web 2.0 projects. "Put this on your radar screen,"
Computerworld
Cloud computing is a popular phrase that is shorthand for applications that were developed to be rich Internet applications that run on the Internet (or "cloud"). In the cloud computing paradigm, software that is traditionally installed on personal computers is shifted or extended to be accessible via the Internet. These "cloud applications" or "cloud apps" utilize massive data centers and powerful servers that host web applications and web services. They can be accessed by anyone with a suitable Internet connection and a standard web browser.
wikipedia
Computerworld
Cloud computing is a popular phrase that is shorthand for applications that were developed to be rich Internet applications that run on the Internet (or "cloud"). In the cloud computing paradigm, software that is traditionally installed on personal computers is shifted or extended to be accessible via the Internet. These "cloud applications" or "cloud apps" utilize massive data centers and powerful servers that host web applications and web services. They can be accessed by anyone with a suitable Internet connection and a standard web browser.
wikipedia
Social Software
This article is about computer software. For the Social Procedure field of research, see Social Software.
The term Social software is normally applied to a range of web-enabled software programs. The programs usually allow users to interact, share, and meet other users. This computer-mediated communication has become very popular with sites like MySpace and YouTube and has resulted in large user bases and billion dollar purchases of the software and their communities by large corporations (News Corp purchased MySpace and Google purchased YouTube).
The more specific term collaborative software applies to cooperative information sharing systems, and is usually narrowly applied to the software that enables collaborative work functions. Distinctions between usage of the terms "social" and "collaborative" are in the applications or uses, not the tools themselves, although there are some tools that are only rarely used for work collaboration.
Social technologies or Conversational technologies used in organizations, in particular a network-centric organization, are other terms used to describe knowledge creation and storage that is carried out through collaborative writing. Constructivist learning theorists such as Vygotsky; Leidner & Jarvenpaa explained that the process of expressing knowledge aids its creation and conversations benefits the refinement of knowledge. Conversational KM fulfills this purpose because conversations, e.g. questions and answers, become the source of relevant knowledge in the organisation. Conversational technologies are seen as tools to support work units and the individual knowledge worker.
Many advocates of using these tools believe (and actively argue or assume) that they create actual communities, and have adopted the term "online communities" to describe the resulting social structures.
wikipedia
"Social software includes podcasts, blogs and wikis -- anything that fosters the development of social networks. One IT manager at the session, Ted Stoddard, director of operations at Federal Signal Corp. in Oak Brook Ill., a company that makes security and safety products, said he suspects that many people, as he has, have already assembled their strategic plans for next year. While some of the items on Gartner's list, such as virtualization, are part of his plan, he hasn't considered others, such as social networking technologies like blogs. Those are probably worth looking at, Stoddard said, "but there are more important things to work on now."
Computerworld
Tools for online communication
"The tools used in social software applications include communication tools and interactive tools. Communication tools typically handle the capturing, storing, and presentation of communication, usually written but increasingly including audio and video also. Interactive tools handle mediated interactions between a pair or group of users. They differ from communication tools in their focus on establishing and maintaining a connection among users, facilitating the mechanics of conversation and talk. Communication tools are generally asynchronous. Interactive tools are generally synchronous, allowing users to communicate in real time (phone, Net phone, video chat) or near-synchronous (IM, text chat).
We can add to this distinction one that describes the primary user experience of each: communication involves the content of talk, speech, or writing; interaction involves the interest users establish in one another as individuals. In other words, a communication tool may want to make access and searching of text both simple and powerful. An interactive tool may want to present as much of a user's expression, performance, and presence as possible. The organization of texts, and providing access to archived contributions differs from the facilitation of interpersonal interactions between contributors enough to warrant the distinction in media."
wikipedia
The term Social software is normally applied to a range of web-enabled software programs. The programs usually allow users to interact, share, and meet other users. This computer-mediated communication has become very popular with sites like MySpace and YouTube and has resulted in large user bases and billion dollar purchases of the software and their communities by large corporations (News Corp purchased MySpace and Google purchased YouTube).
The more specific term collaborative software applies to cooperative information sharing systems, and is usually narrowly applied to the software that enables collaborative work functions. Distinctions between usage of the terms "social" and "collaborative" are in the applications or uses, not the tools themselves, although there are some tools that are only rarely used for work collaboration.
Social technologies or Conversational technologies used in organizations, in particular a network-centric organization, are other terms used to describe knowledge creation and storage that is carried out through collaborative writing. Constructivist learning theorists such as Vygotsky; Leidner & Jarvenpaa explained that the process of expressing knowledge aids its creation and conversations benefits the refinement of knowledge. Conversational KM fulfills this purpose because conversations, e.g. questions and answers, become the source of relevant knowledge in the organisation. Conversational technologies are seen as tools to support work units and the individual knowledge worker.
Many advocates of using these tools believe (and actively argue or assume) that they create actual communities, and have adopted the term "online communities" to describe the resulting social structures.
wikipedia
"Social software includes podcasts, blogs and wikis -- anything that fosters the development of social networks. One IT manager at the session, Ted Stoddard, director of operations at Federal Signal Corp. in Oak Brook Ill., a company that makes security and safety products, said he suspects that many people, as he has, have already assembled their strategic plans for next year. While some of the items on Gartner's list, such as virtualization, are part of his plan, he hasn't considered others, such as social networking technologies like blogs. Those are probably worth looking at, Stoddard said, "but there are more important things to work on now."
Computerworld
Tools for online communication
"The tools used in social software applications include communication tools and interactive tools. Communication tools typically handle the capturing, storing, and presentation of communication, usually written but increasingly including audio and video also. Interactive tools handle mediated interactions between a pair or group of users. They differ from communication tools in their focus on establishing and maintaining a connection among users, facilitating the mechanics of conversation and talk. Communication tools are generally asynchronous. Interactive tools are generally synchronous, allowing users to communicate in real time (phone, Net phone, video chat) or near-synchronous (IM, text chat).
We can add to this distinction one that describes the primary user experience of each: communication involves the content of talk, speech, or writing; interaction involves the interest users establish in one another as individuals. In other words, a communication tool may want to make access and searching of text both simple and powerful. An interactive tool may want to present as much of a user's expression, performance, and presence as possible. The organization of texts, and providing access to archived contributions differs from the facilitation of interpersonal interactions between contributors enough to warrant the distinction in media."
wikipedia
Computing Fabric
"Server designs that use a resource-sharing approach."
"computing fabric involves treating memory, processors and I/O cards as a pooled resource instead of a fixed arrangement. Blade servers allow you to do some of this pooling with I/O, Claunch said. "Be aware of this, because blades are not the final step,"
Computerworld
"computing fabric involves treating memory, processors and I/O cards as a pooled resource instead of a fixed arrangement. Blade servers allow you to do some of this pooling with I/O, Claunch said. "Be aware of this, because blades are not the final step,"
Computerworld
Real World Web
This is the name of the computing experience made possible by ubiquitous access to networks of even-increasing bandwidth via mobile technologies. Thanks to the Real World Web, users can have ready access to all kinds of information, including travel information or the location of a jar of pickles in a grocery store.
Computerworld
Computerworld
Business Process Management
"This is not a technology, its a way of using technologies to enable companies to simulate, model and design the processes that run their businesses. A key trend is the evolution of the business process management suite, Cearley said. This may include, model-driven development, content and document management, collaboration capabilities, system connectivity, business intelligence activity monitoring and management, rules and systems management."
Computerworld
Computerworld
Mashups
"A mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool; a typical example is the use of cartographic data from Google Maps to add location information to real-estate data from Craigslist, thereby creating a new and distinct web service that was not originally envisaged by either source.
The term mashup originally referred to the practice in pop music (notably hip-hop) of producing a new song by mixing two or more existing pieces.:
wikipedia
Mashup tools allow users to take things from multiple Web sites and combine them together to create a Web-centric composite application. "You want to start building mashability into everything you do,"
Computerworld
The term mashup originally referred to the practice in pop music (notably hip-hop) of producing a new song by mixing two or more existing pieces.:
wikipedia
Mashup tools allow users to take things from multiple Web sites and combine them together to create a Web-centric composite application. "You want to start building mashability into everything you do,"
Computerworld
Virtualization
"In computing, virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources. One useful definition is "a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact with those resources. This includes making a single physical resource (such as a server, an operating system, an application, or storage device) appear to function as multiple logical resources; or it can include making multiple physical resources (such as storage devices or servers) appear as a single logical resource."
wikipedia
Virtualization technology is critical, but not just for consolidation; it also offers a way to mirror production systems for disaster recovery. In Gartner's view, Virtualization is now into its 2.0 version, as software vendors begin to ship their software in virtual machines with the operating system and needed middleware. This approach avoids the "deleterious effects of one piece of software on another,"
Computerworld
wikipedia
Virtualization technology is critical, but not just for consolidation; it also offers a way to mirror production systems for disaster recovery. In Gartner's view, Virtualization is now into its 2.0 version, as software vendors begin to ship their software in virtual machines with the operating system and needed middleware. This approach avoids the "deleterious effects of one piece of software on another,"
Computerworld
Friday, October 12, 2007
Metadata Management
Metadata or "data about data" describe the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of data. it's structured information about resources
This is becoming important as companies integrate data -- for instance, customer and product data and warehouse data.
The successful development, operation and use of complex informational system heavily depends on the effective use and management of metadata. This metadata is needed for analysis, system design, development, usage and solving interoperability problems.
Metadata Management Tools
Ascential's MetaStage
Informatica's SuperGlue
CA Advantage Repository (PR/MVS or PR/OEE)
ASG Rochade
Adaptive
MetaMatrix
DAG MetaCenter
This is becoming important as companies integrate data -- for instance, customer and product data and warehouse data.
The successful development, operation and use of complex informational system heavily depends on the effective use and management of metadata. This metadata is needed for analysis, system design, development, usage and solving interoperability problems.
Metadata Management Tools
Ascential's MetaStage
Informatica's SuperGlue
CA Advantage Repository (PR/MVS or PR/OEE)
ASG Rochade
Adaptive
MetaMatrix
DAG MetaCenter
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Business Process Modeling
"The term process model is used in different contexts. For example, in Business process modeling the enterprise process model is often referred to as the business process model. Process models are core concepts in the discipline of Process Engineering.
Abstraction level for processes Process models are processes of the same nature that are classified together into a model. Thus, a process model is a description of a process at the type level. Since the process model is at the type level, a process is an instantiation of it. The same process model is used repeatedly for the development of many applications and thus, has many instantiations. One possible use of a process model is to prescribe how things must/should/could be done in contrast to the process itself which is really what happens. A process model is roughly an anticipation of what the process will look like. What the process shall be will be determined during actual system development."
wikipedia
Abstraction level for processes Process models are processes of the same nature that are classified together into a model. Thus, a process model is a description of a process at the type level. Since the process model is at the type level, a process is an instantiation of it. The same process model is used repeatedly for the development of many applications and thus, has many instantiations. One possible use of a process model is to prescribe how things must/should/could be done in contrast to the process itself which is really what happens. A process model is roughly an anticipation of what the process will look like. What the process shall be will be determined during actual system development."
wikipedia
Green IT
The environmental benefits are many … reduced use of fossil fuels, lower quantities of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere, less consumption of basic raw materials, reduced amounts of materials going to landfills, and avoidance of exposure to unhealthy or toxic materials.
Many people are familiar with the “three R's” of the environmental movement: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The Green IT approach to design and management of IT systems includes the three R's but starts with an E … Eliminate.
Eliminate
The first step in environmentally responsible design and management is ensuring that every item purchased and used actually is needed. Frequently IT systems include unnecessary, redundant, or overlapping components that can be eliminated through detailed analysis and forward-looking design. Careful management can also identify existing system elements that are no longer needed. Electronic equipment that doesn’t exist doesn’t use raw materials, consume electricity, or end up in a landfill.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Compared to other industrial goods, production of electronic devices is energy and raw material intensive in manufacturing and distribution. Electronic equipment also tends to have a much shorter useful life than other commercial equipment. All IT and communications equipment consumes electricity and produces heat. All systems produce packaging waste at initial delivery. Many systems produce significant volumes of solid waste through use, including toxic wastes. At end of life, very few IT systems are recycled.
Awareness of the negative environmental effects of IT equipment is growing, and so is the application of the three R’s to those systems. For all elements of IT systems, there are an increasing number of options to reduce the amount of equipment needed and the power consumed, to find a new use for existing equipment, and to properly recycle system components that have truly reached the end of their useful life.
Reference Material from:
http://www.greenit.net/benefits.html
"Green IT. This is a path that more and more companies are taking as a socially responsible strategy. A green approach is multifaceted and can affect data center operations in a number of ways, such as moving workloads based on energy efficiency and using the most power-inefficient servers only at times of peak usage"
Carl Claunch
Many people are familiar with the “three R's” of the environmental movement: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The Green IT approach to design and management of IT systems includes the three R's but starts with an E … Eliminate.
Eliminate
The first step in environmentally responsible design and management is ensuring that every item purchased and used actually is needed. Frequently IT systems include unnecessary, redundant, or overlapping components that can be eliminated through detailed analysis and forward-looking design. Careful management can also identify existing system elements that are no longer needed. Electronic equipment that doesn’t exist doesn’t use raw materials, consume electricity, or end up in a landfill.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Compared to other industrial goods, production of electronic devices is energy and raw material intensive in manufacturing and distribution. Electronic equipment also tends to have a much shorter useful life than other commercial equipment. All IT and communications equipment consumes electricity and produces heat. All systems produce packaging waste at initial delivery. Many systems produce significant volumes of solid waste through use, including toxic wastes. At end of life, very few IT systems are recycled.
Awareness of the negative environmental effects of IT equipment is growing, and so is the application of the three R’s to those systems. For all elements of IT systems, there are an increasing number of options to reduce the amount of equipment needed and the power consumed, to find a new use for existing equipment, and to properly recycle system components that have truly reached the end of their useful life.
Reference Material from:
http://www.greenit.net/benefits.html
"Green IT. This is a path that more and more companies are taking as a socially responsible strategy. A green approach is multifaceted and can affect data center operations in a number of ways, such as moving workloads based on energy efficiency and using the most power-inefficient servers only at times of peak usage"
Carl Claunch
Unified Communications
Unified Communications is a commonly used term for the integration of disparate communications systems and media, desktop computers, applications and mobility. This potentially includes the integration of voice both fixed and mobility , e-mail, instant messaging, desktop and advanced business applications, Internet Protocol (IP)-PBX, voice over IP (VoIP), presence, voice-mail, video streaming, fax, audio video and web conferencing, unified messaging, unified voicemail, and whiteboarding into a single environment offering the user a more complete but simpler experience.
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