After a great lunch, we settled in for the four remaining sessions of the conference. Rob Erskine of the Software Practice at Sun Microsystems kicked off the afternoon’s proceedings with Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and the Participation Age. Rob didn’t use a Mac. He started by showing the […]
The final session prior to lunch was presented by Mark Carroll, an Architect, Developer and Platform Strategy Group from Microsoft New Zealand. His traditional focus is the enterprise. He didn’t use a Mac. The Future of Office Applications There are 35-60 Office suites available on the market. The […]
After a light morning tea (and coffee!!!), Paul Grover, the Technical Director at Observatory Crest Ltd here in New Zealand, spoke on The Need for Speed: Accelerating the Next Generation Web. He didn’t use a Mac. Agenda: the need for speed, web acceleration, and reaching maximum speed. The […]
The second formal presentation of the day was by David Boloker, the Chief Technical Officer for Emerging Internet at IBM entitled Web Services and the Semantic Web – the Driving Forces Behind Enterprise Mashups. He used a Mac. David works in the strategy department in IBM, and has […]
John Lewis, a Production Designer at Intergen kicked off the formal conference with a setting-the-stage presentation entitled Introducing Web 2.0 Concepts. He used a Mac. Major change in the landscape last year, with the announcement by TIME Magazine that “YOU” are the winner of the Person of the […]
I left home at 5.45am this morning to catch a flight up to Auckland for the BrightStar conference entitled Emerging Web Technologies and Trends. The flight was 1h20m, and the taxi drive through Auckland was 45 minutes. I arrived just in time at 9am. I hope to blog […]
Wow, life is ever so busy at the moment … and finding quiet times to write and think are few and precious between. Four things of note that I wanted to share: My PhD Proposal is Almost Done … I’ve been working on my PhD proposal for the […]
Team Collaboration Cisco Buys WebEx for $3.2 B … Wow, Cisco bit the bullet and announced the acquisition of WebEx for $3.2 billion in cash. “Cisco believes the network is a platform for all forms of communications and collaboration, and WebEx’s technology and services portfolio complement Cisco’s leadership […]
Team Collaboration Microsoft Links Dynamics and SharePoint … Microsoft announced an integration option linking its Dynamics ERP solution with Microsoft Office and SharePoint, enabling users of Office and SharePoint to access data and reports in the Dynamics engine. “This new package, Microsoft Dynamics Client for Microsoft Office and […]
Team Collaboration Case Study: Project Blog … Bill discusses the use of a project blog for a hospital advisory panel, and the benefits experienced by the group during the 8 months of using the blog. “Panel members could now search the archive to find recurring themes, as well […]
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