I am amazed that I missed this, but back in March Google acquired Docverse a startup founded by ex-Microsoft veterans Shan Sinha and Alex DeNeui. Shan Sinha worked at Microsoft for over 3 years in the SQL and SharePoint product strategy group, while Alex DeNeui worked on SQL and WinFS. It appears that these guys [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Google Docverse
Posted: 27th May 2010 by Paul in Google, linkedin, MicrosoftTags: 3 Years, Alex, Docs, Google, linkedin, Meantime Check, Microsoft, Product Strategy, Real Game, Real Time, Shan, Sinha, Sql, Storage Area, Strategy Group
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Becta bites the big one !
Posted: 24th May 2010 by Paul in Education, linkedinTags: Axe, Becta, Cfh, College Sector, Difficult Questions, Guidance, Jisc, Lib, Liking, linkedin, Microsoft Schools, Nhs, Organisations, Public Sector, Service Providers, Solution Offerings, Standardised, Student Information System, Toothless Tigers, Valuable Service, Vle
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As part of the £6.2billion public sector cuts, the new Lib-Con government have decided to axe Becta, the government quango responsible to IT strategy within the school and college sector. I am sure powers within Becta will claim that they provided a valuable service to the school and college sector, and indeed some of the [...]
Google Wave released !
Posted: 20th May 2010 by Paul in GoogleTags: Academic Research Papers, Art Classes, Business Co, Clear Channel Radio, Climate Change, Communication Conference, Creative Collaboration, Education University, Global Youth, Google, Google Apps, Google Labs, Googlewave, Invaluable Feedback, Latin Poetry, Multimedia Content, Poetry Translations, Project Communications, Project Education, Virtual Art
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From http://googlewave.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-wave-available-for-everyone.html Starting today, we are making Google Wave openly available to everyone as part of Google Labs. You no longer need an invitation to wave — simply visit wave.google.com and sign right in. Likewise, if you are a Google Apps administrator at a business, school or organization, you can now easily enable Google Wave [...]
Where does IAM need to go ?
Posted: 18th May 2010 by Paul in Identity, linkedinTags: 10 Years, Challenges, Databases, Db Products, Drawing Board, Email Systems, Fim, Hard Time, linkedin, Management Solutions, Markup Language, Microsoft, Nettle, Novell, Oasis, Oracle, Oracle Db, Ping, Spml, Sun Microsystems, Tivoli
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There are many proprietary Identity Management solutions out there, I should know I’ve worked with most of them from Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Novell, IBM Tivoli and now Microsoft FIM. Each have developed a way of accessing and provisioning to databases, but there must be a better way. But wait, there is and it’s called “Service Provisioning Markup Language” [...]
Google 3D desktop ?
Posted: 3rd May 2010 by Paul in GoogleTags: 3d Desktop, Bump, Desktop Interface, Google, Start Up Company
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Google has acquired Bump Technologies, a start-up company that offers a 3D desktop interface known as, well, BumpTop. You will be able to download this software for one week only from www.bumptop.com, check out the video below.