Sarbanes-Oxley IT Security Compliance Checklist

Web-based applications and the technology that enables them are fantastic, but they’re bringing a new set of security considerations and challenges along with. This is destined to become a bigger and bigger issue as Web 2.0 applications gain…

Content Leeches

One of my biggest gripes with the Internet in general is what I’m calling “content leeches”. These are companies that people use to create and publish content (TypePad for publishing my blog, for example), but that hook themselves into the content in such a way that extracting it from that

Reinventing the Internet, part six: How to Make Money with Open-Source Social Networking

I only have two planned posts left in this series. One’s about the user interface and one’s about making money. I really wanted to do the user interface one next, but I’ve seen…

Cross-domain SOAP from the browser

You know, writing about SOA vs. Web 2.0 earlier got me thinking. I think the real missing piece that needs to be addressed is a way to consume SOAP Web services, cross-domain, from the browser. That’ll make it possible to use SOAP services in a pure AJAX environment…

Product Idea: Whiteboard Wiki

Since I have new product ideas almost daily and absolutely zero time to act on them, I’ll just start dumping them here in hopes somebody will take them and run.

This one’s simple: a whiteboard that can be integrated into a wiki. I love whiteboards…

Google Box now searches Oracle, Salesforce.com and Cognos

Google is announcing partnerships with several of the biggest enterprise software vendors. I’ve seen Cognos, Salesforce.com, Cisco, Employease, and Oracle mentioned as partners.