by Nick Gall | September 19, 2008 | 6 Comments
In talking with clients about SOA, WOA, and application integration generally, the conversation often turns to best practices for their IFaPs (Identifiers, Formats, and Protocols). First I always stress, as Tim Berners-Lee does, that of the three (I,F, and P) — Identifiers are by far the most important to information sharing. After all, the Web [...]
Category: WOA extensibility information architecture Tags: extensibility, IFaPs, WOA
by Nick Gall | September 16, 2008 | Comments Off
I attended Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s “Mastermind Interview” at Gartner’s Web Innovation conference earlier today. It was very entertaining and insightful. My favorite takeaway BY FAR was this: Marc: “Your application? It’s all metadata.” Marc: “We run your metadata.” I find it refreshing that Marc calls this concept “metadata driven” instead of the more hifalutin [...]
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by Nick Gall | September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments
I’ve read Clay’s musings over the years (I even blogged about his concept of “mass amateurization” back in 2004 — but I’m embarrassed to admit I misspelled his last name as “Sharky”), but I’ve never heard him speak. Clay Shirky gave a keynote at the Gartner Web Innovation Summit last night and it was excellent. One of my [...]
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by Nick Gall | September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments
For those of you who want to subscribe to all 45 of the blogs in phase one of the Gartner blog network, here is an OPML file you can import into your favorite feed reader. Enjoy!
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by Nick Gall | September 12, 2008 | 2 Comments
This is my first post to the Gartner Blog Network.
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