[urls] Top 10 Urls: 25 July-1 August 2004

Monday, August 2, 2004

Dateline: China

 

The following is a sampling of my "urls" for the past eight days.  By signing up with Furl (it's free), anyone can subscribe to an e-mail feed of ALL my urls (about 150-350 per week) -- AND limit by subject (e.g., ITO) and/or rating (e.g., articles rated "Very Good" or "Excellent").  It's also possible to receive new urls as an RSS feed.  However, if you'd like to receive a daily feed of my urls but do NOT want to sign up with Furl, I can manually add your name to my daily Furl distribution list.  (And if you want off, I'll promptly remove your e-mail address.)

 

Best new selections (in no particular order):

 

* A Web Services Choreography Scenario for Interoperating Bioinformatics Applications (SUPERB, covering all the bases; might serve as the foundation for a blog posting)

* ICC Report: Software Focus, June 2004 issue (if you're not familiar with this monthly newsletter from Red Herring, it's worth scanning; this particular issue is their "annual" on enterprise software)

* Northeast Asia: Cultural Influences on the U.S. National Security Strategy (this might serve as the basis for a blog posting; EXCELLENT, broad-based review of cultural issues)

* Economics of an Information Intermediary with Aggregation Benefits (think B2B and e-markets, although the implications are wide-ranging)

* Top 10 Usability Blunders of the Big Players

* How to Increase Your Return on Your Innovation Investment (provides a link to an article published in the current issue of Harvard Business Review; good food for thought)

* From Information Retrieval to Information Interaction (ideas for life beyond search)

* Why Mobile Services Fail (insights from Howard Rheingold)

* A Global Power Shift in the Making (on China, from Foreign Affairs)

* Anything That Promotes ebXML Is Good (lots of good links; I'm an ebXML advocate, so the tone of this article is one which I fully support)

 

Examples of urls that didn't make my "Top Ten List":

 

> Grid Computing: Industry Standards and Business Benefits (webcast)

> Product Lifecycle Management Automation is Vital to Innovation, Yet Only Half of Consumer Firms Effectively Apply It, Says Aberdeen Group Study

> RightNow, Sierra Atlantic Announce Partnership to Deliver Enterprise CRM Integration (a trend in the making; I've talked about this quite a bit, i.e., systems integrators working with utility computing vendors)

> August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web

> China vs. India in IT Offshoring

 

and many, many more ...

 

Cheers,

 

David Scott Lewis

President & Principal Analyst

IT E-Strategies, Inc.

Menlo Park, CA & Qingdao, China

e-mail: click on http://tinyurl.com/6xeue

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http://www.itestrategies.com (current blog postings optimized for MSIE6.x)

http://tinyurl.com/2r3pa (access to blog content archives in China)

http://tinyurl.com/2azkh (current blog postings for viewing in other browsers and for access to blog content archives in the US & ROW)

http://feeds.feedburner.com/chinasourcingalert (RSS feed)

http://chinasourcing.blogspot.com/atom.xml (Atom feed)

http://tinyurl.com/2hg2e (AvantGo channel)

 

http://www.furl.net/members/goldentriangle (Furl)

http://www.furl.net/members/goldentriangle/rss.xml (Furl RSS feed)

 

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