Mark Polly

IBM just announced new mobile social applications.  IBM has been a leader in the social marketplace over the last several years and this announcement continues their leadership status. The announcements cover applications for iOS, Android and Blackberry devices, so they have the major players covered. Here are the new applications IBM announced: New social networking […]

IBM DeveloperWorks recently published an article by Joe Lennon titled Get started with Dojo Mobile 1.7, in which he does a good job of explaining the new mobile features in Dojo 1.7.   Using Dojo is a great way to develop once for multiple browser support;  the Mobile features extend this to iOS, Android and […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]

Some confusion exists in the portlet development community, because many vendors tout their compliance with JSR 168 standards and less rarely talk about JSR 286 compatibility.  I think this is mostly due to the fact that prior to JSR 168 becoming mainstream, the standards were loose and vendors built to their own specifications.  So becoming […]

A colleague presented me with this question today:  Under what conditions does it make sense to use JSF portlets and when doesn’t it?  This is a good question and can be applied to several frameworks, such as Struts and Spring MVC. Now before I answer, let me give you some of my background. I’ve been […]

No, this won’t be a post about what’s better, Android or iOS.  Instead, I was looking at the site visual.ly and came across some cool information about the status of the mobile market.  Hunch.com collects user feedback and created this great looking chart detailing lots of statistics.  I’ve reproduced the chart below, or you can […]

Over in CNNMoney.com, Kevin Kellehar is trying to argue that Google is a really a web portal (see Face it Google, You’re a Portal).  The logic is that if you aggregate content on the web, then yes, you are a portal.  Yahoo and MSN are web portals too, but we kinda knew that.  But Google?  […]

Over at CMS Wire, Scott Jamison (@sjam) has posted an article about SharePoint 2010 titled: The Executive Perspective: Top 7 Things You Must Consider for SharePoint 2010.  Aimed at those companies looking to implement SharePoint 2010, Scott explains the following 7 things to consider: Go All-in or don’t bother.  I echo that.  I’ve seen too […]

Forrester has just released The Forrester Wave for Mobile Collaboration, which does a very good job of highlighting who the leaders are in this market.  The image below shows the Forrester Wave; you can access the full report at forrester.com. What is interesting is that the report includes only those companies that have native applications […]

When IBM created their new JSR 286-based Web Content portlet they included only a local rendering version.  This means you have to have IBM WCM installed on the same server as Portal to render WCM content.  In IBM’s previous versions, they shipped both a local rendering and a remote rendering portlet.  The remote rendering portlet […]

You want to build a an application once and deploy it to lots of different devices without much rework.  That’s an age-old problem that we once thought would go away with modern web browsers.  But now we have a new take on this issue:  Web vs Native applications on mobile devices. Well, two products are […]