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…

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.

Single Sign-On for the Web — Part 2: The Solution?

Update:

I’ve been catching some heat for this post, as I kind of figured I would. A couple points of clarification before you read on:

1. Directly authenticating with your email server would…

Microformat Standards

I appreciate the efforts of the Microformats.org guys, but really, who is policing these standards? Not only are the names of the formats not consistent (hCard, XOXO, XFN), but the way they’re used isn’t consistent either.