Obviously, it has been a long time since I have written a blog post. Life is busy. New company, new kid on the way, and some other excuses... ANYWAY, I'm back in the saddle again.
For my first "returning to blogging" post here I just want to comment on the announcement from NBC (covered on ZDNet here).
This is some pretty big news as far as a marketing story. I'm sure plenty of MS haters have...
Today, via my Google Alert, via ZDNet (http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6560), Gartner has published a list of what they view as the top 10 strategic technologies for 2008. #7 is "Web Platforms"... and I think they're right on the money. Especially since we'll be launching our Complete Web Platform in 2008! The article has this poignant quote: Longer term, however, Web platforms will be the model...
The team at Nth Penguin, LLC, of which I am a part, and whom collectively owns the WebWidgetry(tm) and MashupStudio(tm) vision, also owns quite a few premium domains that as mentioned in this post will be utilized for various pieces of our platform. Today, I'd like to point you towards what will be our new main blogging site: WidgetsAndMashups.com. There are only two posts up there right now, but...
So, last week Friday we took part in an Oracle User Group meeting, in which we presented our vision for the complete web platform (i.e. WebWidgetry(tm) and MashupStudio(tm)). The response was very interesting. It became apparent to us that the canonical enterprise today is still struggling quite a bit with where to find the value in many of the "Web2.0" concepts and tools. For a lot of people,...
Tomorrow (or today depending on what time I actually get this posted tonight) we will be giving a presentation of our web platform vision at an Oracle User Group meeting. We were invited by a Senior Solution Architect within Oracle, with an aim at eliciting insight from their customers on what they would like to see in such a platform. This will be both an education in market research and public...