Technology Mashup

An interesting statistic from BBC Tech News: Firm makes one billionth mouse - Amid claims the computer mouse will soon be history, the world's biggest manufacturer of the device rolls the billionth one off the production line.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Cross-posted from Circumference of a Moose:

Ignore this post, just testing out some lightbox features at the minute...

1. Thumbnail to full image Lightbox (no title)

 2. Thumbnail to full image Lightbox (with title)

3. Text links to G Video

Google video example - custom size

Google video example - default size

Social Networking in the Enterprise Survey - (cross posted from Circumference of a Moose)

Some info on running WAS on System p and AIX...Running IBM WebSphere Application Server on System p and AIX Optimization and Best Practices from IBM Redbooks | Just Published:

Draft Redbook, last updated: Fri, 1 Aug 2008

- System p and AIX configuration strategies for IBM WebSphere Application Server

- Under the hood: how the JVM runtime and WAS interact with the AIX platform

- Implementation Scenarios

Check this post Web Services Feature Pack for WebSphere Application Server V6.1 from IBM Redbooks | Just Published:

Redbook, published: Mon, 4 Aug 2008

- Asynchronous

- Reliable

- Secure

The WebSphere® 6.1 Feature pack for Web services offers a new and improved implementation of Java Web services and improved usability.

Interesting thoughts on Cuil from Popular Mechanics...

Why Cuil Can't Keep Up With Google's Search Power: Analysis - A new search engine launched yesterday, claiming to be the next, best alternative to Google. But if you've spent any time on the site-and we've spent a lot-you probably noticed that it's certainly not the most effective one.     

Developments in Online Advertising

By Steve Nimmons

Online advertising has been with us since the earliest days of the Internet and where ‘eyeballs meet content’ advertisers will always be close by. We have travelled an immense distance in the last 15 years. The first Web portals were (almost uniformly and tastelessly) bedecked with every imaginable flashing widget that might attract a valuable click-through. I will spare the early designers blushes but some sites would today come with health warnings for photosensitive epilepsy.

They've not been looking at all of the groups on LinkedIn and Facebook then!

Study revives six degrees theory - A US study of instant messages suggests the old theory that we are all linked six steps away to anyone else may be right.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Achieving Enterprise Process Agility Through BPM and SOA -

Running IBM WebSphere Application Server on System p and AIX Optimization and Best Practices - Draft Redbook, last updated: Fri, 1 Aug 2008

- System p and AIX configuration strategies for IBM WebSphere Application Server
- Under the hood: how the JVM runtime and WAS interact with the AIX platform
- Implementation Scenarios

Business Activity Monitoring with WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1 - Redbook, published: Wed, 30 Jul 2008

- Monitor processes in WebSphere Process Server, MQ Workflow, and FileNet
- Monitor WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Adapters
- Learn by example with practical scenarios

High Availability and Scalability for IBM WebSphere Presence and XML Document Management Servers - Redbook, published: Tue, 29 Jul 2008

- Go from base to highly available and scalable environments
- Architecture, topology, and configuration
- Sample implementation

WebSphere eXtreme Scale Mediator Pattern - Redpaper, published: Tue, 29 Jul 2008

- Solution design considerations
- Application pattern
- Sample implementation

The IBM® WebSphere® Extended Deployment provide dynamic and high performance computing infrastructure across range of application servers and execution environments. [WebSphere Redbooks]

Soup up your BPM implementations...

IBM WebSphere Business Process Management V6.1 Performance Tuning - Redpaper, published: Wed, 23 Jul 2008

- Learn valuable tips for tuning
- Get the latest best practices
- Try the example settings