Michael Porter

Whenever I go to a major conference or I deal with social collaboration or web 2.0 tools, I see a lot of widget options.  Here’s my take on the whole widget vs portlet question: 1. Widgets are great because they are easy to create and use RESTful services. 2. Widgets do have a problem if […]

It happens a lot.  Everyone wants a portal site that never goes down.  It has to stay up no matter what.  If an earthquake occurs, it has to stay up.  If a server dies, it has to stay up.   If the network croaks, it has to stay up.  The typical response will always be, “How […]

So can you take two cloud or SaaS applications and make them work together? The short answer is yes.  I find it interesting because of all the social collaboration, email, web conferencing and other capabilities you get in LotusLive can be merged with the CRM capabilities of Saleforce.com. Even more intriguing is the possibility of […]

Sun supported the open source Identity and Access Management (IAM) product called OpenSSO. It was free, easy to install, and had support through Sun.  Once Oracle completed the acquisition, they announced it was pretty much a dead product.  It didn’t take long for OpenSSO to fork the code stream and become OpenAM (Access Management).  You […]

Speedtest.com has compiled all that data from the tests we all run on it.  They have now published their results for the world.  It even allows you to drill down to the city.  South Korea tops out at 34 Megabits per second. The United States lags far behind that.

Yes, we all love testing.  OK, actually, we all hate it but recognize it as a key part of the cycle that lets us actually release code into the wild.  Our GDC China has a bunch of bright guys and Steven Si just blogged on the topic.  Worth a look. Sticking on the same subject, […]

So we blogged about JBoss and eXo teaming together.  What that meant is that they have ended the JBoss Portal project and created a new product called GateIn.  I don’t know how I missed it but it’s out.  You can see some screenshots here.  My interenet connection is really slow now so I’ll have to […]

I was reading through the news in Liferay’s blog and found they had put out a blog on new functionality they have in Liferay 6. The Semantic Web is an evolving development of the World Wide Web in which the meaning (that is, semantics) of information and services on the web is defined, making it […]

IBM announced a new reporting tool for the social collaboration tool, Lotus Connections.  You can find more information on the IBM site of just ping me and I can get more information for you. The Reporting Tool for Lotus Connections enhances and extends Lotus Connection’s built-in reporting tools: Snapshot and trend reports showing adoption, usage […]

So this week a number of us worked on a collaboration roadmap.  One part of the roadmap included team collaboration.  The other part is what I would term enterprise social collaboration.  Both have their place and both kinds should be able to work together.  Anyway, the question came up as to which version of Quickr […]

So I just read a blog about which hotels have the best wifi. It rates the hotels on service and on price.   This isn’t necessarily specific to portal but for anyone who ever stayed in a full service hotel and paid through the nose for poor wifi, this will help.

I attended Vishveshwara Vasa’s session on Portal and SOA and he gave me permission to post his slides on it.   It was a pretty good overview of options and he was able to into some detail on several items.