SOA filling the Gaps

The trade offs  of the Web and Digital world are well known: Vendors do not charge Consumers for using their software products. Consumers pay by allowing advertisement content on their computers and Smart Phones screens. Vendors such as facebook , Google and many other vendors and service providers collect and analyze personal data.  When it comes to selling the Consumer Private Data  it is a different issue. The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Scandal is an example.  I am surely do not agree with selling Customers Private Data without their explicit permission, however, I am able to understand why some employees or some companies could sell the data. The motivation is earning more money. Not taking enough care of customers Privacy without any benefit is beyond my understanding.  You should not trust any company for protecting your Privacy do it yourself. It is a good practice not to publish private information, if not necessary. Your Private Data i...

Bob Dylan 's song  in is about The Times They Are A-Changin'. Information Technology Leading Vendors are also changing. If a company does not adapt to changes it may not Survive or it may Survive but no longer as The Market Leader.  The first three sections of the post are about Computers Industry Revolutions. The fourth is about, the current revolution. The sections following these sections, are a discussion of Microsoft's Survival probability. You can't compete with NCR Thomas Watson Jr. Source: Wikipedia When Thomas Watson Jr. replaced his father as IBM's president in 1956, he was told that he will not be able to compete with the Computers Industry Leader NCR .  In 1956 I was in a kinder garden. In the beginning of the decade starting on 1970, I was working as a junior Computers Programmer: IBM was the  Computers Industry Leader.   NCR is now a player in the Automatic Teller Machines, Retail Store Automation and Self-Service Kiosks mar...

Searching the Web  Search Engine is Google 's most strategic product. Some of its other products are using it as component of the services they provide.  Limitation or failure of it, as described in  Why we desperately need a New (and Better) Google  cited in part1 of this post , could negatively affect Google's market position. This is a major challenge facing Google.  Google has no control of some of the factors limiting its effectiveness. Challenges in Searching the Web The following bullets describe major Web Data problems, which could affect Web Search: The data is growing exponentially The amount of data is growing fast.  A Search Engine should handle larger amounts of pages and probably will find more and more number of pages in each search operation results list.  Implications:  Users will not read all entries in search results list. They will focus in the first entries. Search Engines results order should be accurate so us...

Image source: Wikimedia On August 4-6 I participated in Wikimania 2011 in Haifa ! The participants were Wikipedian from many countries, including Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales and all of Wikimedia Foundation directors, except one. The organizing team headed by Tomer Ashur, Wikimedia Israel's chairman and Deror Lin, Wikimania General Manager, achievements were exceptionally good both in the administrative aspects and the professional aspects.  Wikipedia is evolving and changing. It is not exactly the same community it was when I described it in one of my Web 2.0 for Dummies posts in 2008.  However, the challenges described few years ago in my post titled: Wikipedia: The Good the Bad and the Ugly  did not vanish.  Wikipedia case The evolution and challenges of Wikipedia and Wikipedia's Community are very similar to challenges facing other Web 2.0 projects and communnities, including Social Networking Services . However, there are also unique aspec...

In The 7 th post of Web 2.0 for Dummies I described Wikipedia. This post is dedicated to collaborators types named according to Sergio Leone 's famous film from 1966 The Good the Bad and the Ugly . The Good Most of community collaborators are included in this type: people who are trying to contribute to community project. Wikipedia's assumption as well as other Web 2.0 project assumption is that community members will contribute to the shared project according to the policy, guidelines and processes which were defined. In many cases this assumption is true and the Good guys are enriching and improving Wikipedia's content. However, as the old proverb says: "The way to hell is paved with good intentions", sometimes despite of the good intentions the deliverables are not good enough. I will try to support my argument by examples. Example 1: despite of a respectable reference I had to clarify a specific Configuration Management aspect, as part...