Is the real-time web streaming data in the wrong direction?

Posted by on Apr 11, 2012

Examples of web streaming have become rather predictable and yawn-worthy. It’s always some variation of streaming real-time stock market data, news and status updates from the cloud to your browser, tablet or phone – classic filtered fan-out data distribution. Sure, there are a few upstream bits like the character inputs used for real-time keyword search completion, or chat applications, but...
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Evolving the Digital Nervous System

Posted by on Oct 5, 2010

Metaphors in enterprise architecture are a dime a dozen and I find that many of them just don’t work for me.  However, I have always liked the concept of the digital nervous system. Despite the term getting extensive use in Bill Gates’ 1999 book Business @ The Speed of Thought, it is unfortunate that the concept remains largely that – a concept – more than a decade later. The idea is...
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An emergency response demo that was a real train wreck

Posted by on Oct 7, 2009

Standards body meetings aren’t usually all that exciting, but last week’s National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Training Event and OASIS Emergency Management Interop was an exception. The centerpiece of the Interop was a demo designed to show how NIEM, Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) standards could help a dozen government agencies share...
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Dude, where’s my car?

Posted by on Jul 2, 2009

I must admit to having a fondness for stupid buddy movies, dating all the way back to Cheech and Chong. While Up in Smoke may be a timeless classic, I’m afraid that Dude, Where’s My Car? and more recently The Hangover are destined to show their age more quickly. Why? Because they’re based on the premise of losing track of where you’ve been, and that’s about to become...
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10GigE; What will fill the pipes?

Posted by on Apr 23, 2009

It seems to me that every time a new generation of high-capacity networking technology makes its debut, there’s an accompanying list of applications ready to use up all that bandwidth. It’s taken for granted that applications will always find new and creative ways to use up all the available bandwidth. I’ve been disappointed, however, with the list of interesting use cases for 10GigE....
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Activating the World of GIS with Real-time Routing

Posted by on Feb 10, 2009

According to Wikipedia, a geographic information system (GIS) “captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that refers to or is linked to location”. What could we possibly add to that seemingly all encompassing definition? Here’s a hint: note how passive and reactive all of those verbs are. Until now, most GIS systems have been like big libraries. They store information (linked...
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