tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133243082011-10-04T17:33:50.685+02:003D essays (unblog) about Space, Time and the MachinesMuli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.comBlogger841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-46530299805849081532011-01-06T12:46:00.008+02:002011-01-06T18:47:03.384+02:00

I've just finished watching the 2nd & final season of Dollhouse. All in all, it is a great show that succeeds in telling an important story about Identity, an intriguing dystopia, a Matrix variation (it's a positive connotation).In the Matrix, humans are nothing but a network of shells, "living" a computer-generated reality. Only few evolve beyond this embryonic stage and become "aware" of their

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-5895399911223570772009-06-05T18:10:00.003+03:002009-06-06T21:17:19.180+03:00

Like that old lady that had a view of the universe as "Turtles all the way down", I find myself repeatedly condensing information-marketplaces into that reservoir known as Twitter. "It's Twitter all the way down", I say, "especially in the Real-Time Enterprise".More than 3 years ago, I wrote a post about Twitter and its essential role in the mission-critical, real-time Enterprise. In that post,

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-20425653399374191942008-10-22T09:17:00.010+02:002008-10-22T14:48:21.795+02:00

Wired Magazine: Promoting the FathersNow, Wired claims that we should stop blogging; that we've been wasting our time with a futile medium; that blogs have created an inflation of useless information nobody's interested in; that the "real" blogs are actually professional magazines, or in other words - ran by professionals, not laymen (not you, not me); that Facebook, Twitter and Flickr should be

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-11766646588537146252008-07-17T16:47:00.005+03:002008-10-22T14:46:27.080+02:00

A trend, or rather a necessity, exists to tunnel all tech discussions into that magnetic field called Twitter. But strange it seems only to those considering Twitter as yet-another-stupid-service-for-the-crowds, which is essentially true – on the surface. Yet beneath the shallow appearance, there's another Twitter: a prototype for, or a component of a globally distributed management

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1325802058599475302008-06-15T00:30:00.002+03:002008-06-18T09:14:44.173+03:00

Twitter(1): "Anything goes" into Twitter->Go to 'tweet scan' and search for what u want->Subscribe to RSS on that filter/results 10:35 AM June 02, 2008 from webTwitter(2): No [longer] need to pick Feeds from the Blogoshpere. Each "Blogject" to log itself directly into Twitter, and then see Twitter(1) 10:37 AM June 02, 2008 from web Twitter(3): The problem: two kinds of info for the same Topic:

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-67146993426458833912008-06-02T20:44:00.005+03:002008-06-04T10:01:18.496+03:00

Links are deadIt took me a while to grasp the essence of what this creation called Twitter had turned into – certainly not a service, more likely the virtual consciousness of the entire mankind.Who'd have thought that in 3 years or so, the RSS Information River would be taken over by "Twitter" - a Galactic Information Pot that has fundamentally changed the infrastructure of producing and

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-32970562953171812612007-08-13T08:18:00.001+03:002007-08-15T18:17:44.567+03:00

Jean BaudrillardSeveral months ago, I read an essay by David Brin, the Sci-Fi author, titled The Matrix: Tomorrow May Be Different, its main argument being that Neo is far from being the only One: millions of us, maintains Brin, have experienced this eerie sensation about the [hidden] System, and have been patiently waiting ever since for their computer to ask them to follow the white

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-33828684899369347902007-07-08T16:46:00.000+03:002007-07-08T16:55:48.169+03:00

If you want a clear-cut demonstration of what's Crowdsourcing and where it can lead us all, then I suggest that you watch Human Computation by Luis von Ahn, a hosted session by Google TechTalks. You will learn [from the 6th minute on] that people of Earth are spending & wasting 9 billion human-processing-hours on playing Solitaire, an outrageously unproductive activity, and that if tricked into

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-4281262615879105652007-06-11T09:06:00.000+03:002007-07-10T07:50:08.578+03:00

Online Crowds are the elementary components, the infrastructure of New Flatland's business processes. Without the Crowds being online the world remains pretty much round; the short tail remains dominant; marketing has to go through traditional, cumbersome, not-fast-enough channels. It is, therefore, in the deepest interest of all global business2.0 companies that we all become Digital Sobjects,

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-26444184700054377632007-05-21T12:01:00.000+03:002007-07-10T07:52:10.226+03:00

(This is a sequel to The Birth of a Crowds Nation)The Crowds are threatening traditional businesses. That's interesting, but not as much as the fact that the crowds exist - online!The Memes, for their part, are extremely happy with this new situation: humans are coming to them now; the hassle of expanding around the globe in order to locate more human containers is no longer needed. I suspect

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-53049447519861708522007-05-09T14:03:00.000+03:002007-07-10T07:53:30.796+03:00

In The Wisdom of Crowds, one of those formula books that populate our Zeitgeist, Surowiecki suggests that agents Mulder and Scully were actually right: the truth is, indeed, out there. Moreover, there's a way, although long and cumbersome, to get to that truth, using You! and You! and You! and You! and…You! In other words, the truth is out there, and the out there is no other than - the

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-54446811228772100022007-03-29T01:01:00.000+02:002007-03-29T07:01:08.269+02:00

Not long ago I have published a post about the soul of the Internet, where I depicted the Web as a living organism. Now that the digital sphere contains not only objects but also sObjects, the living organism is becoming less of a metaphor and more of a reality. And so it occurred to me that every newborn in this virtual world, i.e. every new web page, could well have some sort of genetic

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-30095851954327368992007-03-05T14:26:00.000+02:002007-07-10T08:00:21.593+03:00

“All media work us over completely”, said Marshall McLuhan, meaning that whenever a new media, a new medium, takes over, the function human= f(medium) returns a different value. Currently, f(medium) defines human as a SObject, a limbo creature, half here in the physical, half there in the virtual.In the previous Digital SObjects posts I have described an old spec, the memex, interpreted by some

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-75445498802503315552007-02-23T12:34:00.000+02:002007-07-10T08:02:27.640+03:00

In The Memex Reloaded, I have discussed a certain spec (The Memex) and mentioned several of its implementations (such as MyLifeBits) that bring into existence a new kind of human – a Sobject – which is a real-time digi-replication/reflection/representation of a real human. Whatever we sense, whatever we do, whatever we produce, as well as whatever we think is being digi-replicated into a virtual

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-61086514715052199802007-02-13T01:21:00.000+02:002007-07-10T07:57:56.719+03:00

What will happen when our digitization process will come to an absolute perfection, with our virtual representation capable of providing a real-time information about what we see, hear, feel, think, read, write, say, do, receive, give, and take; our blood pressure, heart beat, actually any biometric info, plus our exact geo location, the simulation of our movements and anything else you may think

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-68317502952855458522007-01-30T22:44:00.000+02:002007-01-31T12:33:16.681+02:00

"The past is never dead. It's not even past.", FaulknerWhen my daughter asked me how Second Life has been created in the first place, I instinctively had those neurons of Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab and Startup firing up, a sketch of a story being already under construction. But then some uninvited images burst into the scene, depicting some strange submarines, black-and-white spaceships,

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1169158155995007032007-01-19T00:07:00.000+02:002007-01-25T21:56:46.003+02:00

My thesis, as presented herewith, is that the web2.0 revolution has failed; that we’re currently living, not the revolution, but the counter-revolution; that unlike what we've been constantly told, no essential power has been transmitted to the people, but rather old forms of power have reshaped and refurbished themselves.Back in 2005, when I first placed my legs on the itinerary2.0 I had an

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1168879971148699312007-01-15T18:52:00.000+02:002007-01-15T18:52:51.166+02:00

While speaking to one of my friendly customers I had this image of Google and Y.T. We were talking about FSTR and the acceleration of just about everything, about Real-Time and about how many are left behind, incapable of keeping up with this ever increasing speed. As my friendly customer put it, only few can drive a 300 km/h racing car. It’s true for both people and businesses.Google’s

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1166484912900509972006-12-19T01:34:00.000+02:002006-12-24T16:46:30.190+02:00

On Wednesday morning, while at Fnac, a small book caught my attention. I picked it up. It said "Yves Klein, L'aventure monochrome". On the cover, a suited man was walking straight ahead, his eyes staring at me. Behind the man there was a white and empty background. His walking triggered a vague and undefined association, as if I knew him from somewhere. I went through the first pages – it looked

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1164112011444591042006-11-21T14:26:00.000+02:002006-12-03T15:53:20.536+02:00

I remember my fascination while reading Barabasi's Linked: The New Science of Networks and learning that the physical architecture of the Internet (scale-free networks) is similar to that of an organic system. I bring this up because with every passing day the distinctions between the man and the machine, the organic and the mechanic, are getting blurred, to the point that some are asking when

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1162833796811958752006-11-06T19:22:00.000+02:002006-11-06T19:31:47.960+02:00

"A fan edit is a version of a film modified by a viewer, that removes, reorders, or adds material in order to create a new interpretation of the film. This includes the removal of scenes or dialog, replacement of audio and/or visual elements, and adding material from sources such as deleted scenes or even other films", from Fanedited.org

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1162461581889034702006-11-02T11:51:00.000+02:002007-02-26T12:33:55.563+02:00

Choosing Your Goggles Matz (Ruby), Larry Wall (Perl) , Guido van Rossum (Python) , DHH (Rails)While listening to Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby, I realized that the process of selecting a programming language has a brand new and highly important step, more important even than downloading the tutorials and experiencing with some sporadic scripting.

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1161861776639242502006-10-26T13:20:00.000+02:002006-10-26T13:22:56.660+02:00

Quote:CIO Today, October 24th, 2006:"In its second service-oriented architecture blitz of the year, IBM has detailed a range of products and services aimed at helping companies (mk) extend their service-oriented architecture deployments.Six months ago, IBM released 11 new SOA products, 20 product upgrades and eight new service offerings. This time around, IBM delivered four new products, 23

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1161602101619309492006-10-23T13:02:00.000+02:002006-11-21T09:48:51.386+02:00

Desktop Regions, by Dibau Naum H, is a thematic flickr set that caught my attention a while ago, but it's only recently that I figured out what does it mean for me. It's a human-centric, multi-layered work that captures three different worlds and two competing desires. I think of it as a Web2.0 Schizophrenia.The following is my personal interpretation of this interesting work.Iceland Region

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1161330702812310012006-10-20T09:46:00.000+02:002007-01-25T23:14:44.420+02:00

Around this time last year, when blog posts were still legitimate citizens of Google's Great Master Index, I happened to read a bunch of articles that were discussing the frustration of innocent users who have fallen prey to a horrible mischief, namely 'Blog noise'. Although they were googling for "facts", the returned result sets contained an awful lot of non factual, personal opinions from the

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1160383691187246152006-10-09T10:47:00.000+02:002006-11-10T05:15:56.970+02:00

On our way home, my daughter told me that I must see the new collection of Crocs' boots. She then took my hand and pulled me over to the local store, where the display windows have been completely redecorated with piles on piles of unbelievably bulky, ugly and tasteless Crocs' boots.georgie, by CrocsA couple of hours later, as if by pure coincidence, I stumbled upon the following newsbit:CROCS,

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1159915555138352812006-10-04T00:36:00.000+02:002006-10-13T16:43:14.303+02:00

"We didn’t create the Internet for our own benefit but basically it used us to create itself, to spread around the planet"Dr. Susan BlackmoreClick to listen: The Internet is using us!29 seconds (449 KB) from Dr. Susan Blackmore's lecture at Pop!Tech 2005A Meme Machine using an Audio-Memes Injector in the pre-iPOD eraAre you subscribed to more than a 100 feeds? Are you switching RSS readers

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1159261496787889862006-09-26T11:57:00.000+03:002006-12-17T11:30:32.876+02:00

I recently had a conversation with Elazar Benyoëtz, a German poet-o-philosopher, about the object called a book. He believes that "people are misunderstanding the function of books; books are not meant, necessarily, to be read".Benyoëtz's library consists of thousands and thousands of books that are practically everywhere: walls, floor, closets, boxes, jackets' pockets... He lives with his books

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1158155375028974692006-09-13T16:45:00.000+03:002007-01-24T23:13:04.536+02:00

My first visual post – Shifting Extensions – almost made this blog famous, as Dave Winer spotted out the picture and wrote about it. Only, he referred his readers to Flickr, rather than to this blog...This is only to say that one picture has been proved to worth, if not a thousand words, then at least a thousand views by scripting news' readers.Symbols2.0 - how did we get here? is my second

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1157116496111898012006-09-01T16:14:00.000+03:002006-09-02T22:59:18.586+03:00

I don't remember where I read/heard about the artistic trend that seeks to eradicate the cemetery-like ambience inside museums, i.e. the 'Do not touch!' and the 'Do not speak loud' rules that put the visitor in a position of attendee rather than participant – to use Dave Winer's nice distinction between passive (web1.0) and active (web2.0).Coming back from a visit to Barcelona I couldn't stop

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1156085376927946092006-08-20T17:47:00.000+03:002006-08-28T16:02:04.740+03:00

Yesterday I met an old friend whom I didn't see for the last twenty years or so… He's a formal genius, dedicating his time and energy to building a chess game."Is this a network game, where adversaries play against each other?" I asked, but then when I saw his puzzlement I understood my mistake; after all, this guy has been spending years on building an algorithm, so a network game where the

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1153051512293638112006-07-16T14:53:00.000+03:002006-08-11T11:06:27.216+03:00

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1152096149750710452006-07-05T13:39:00.000+03:002006-07-05T17:36:51.823+03:00

Second Life goes far beyond MMORPGs, by laying the foundations for a shifting reality, meaning that in the future (we might still be hanging around…) it will replace what today is consensually perceived as the "real" world. There are already people whose primary home exists, cognitively and emotionally, inside Second Life, whereas their physical home serves as nothing but a vat hosting their body

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1149701009294386962006-06-07T20:22:00.000+03:002006-06-07T20:25:40.296+03:00

Digital Identity is a subject that sends its tendrils to almost any technology aspect. The current conversations around this topic tend to exalt two architectural principles: Decentralization and User control (or User-Centricity).Decentralization is usually referred to as a technical and non-functional requirement for an internet-scale architecture, i.e. a scalability and availability concern.

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1148447110369048852006-05-24T08:02:00.000+03:002006-05-24T10:05:25.720+03:00

Yet another wonderful TechEd came to an end in the always sunny city of Eilat, and this year I decided to bury myself in the Software Development track – an Enterprisey in Geeksland – and for a very good reason: I was dead curious about WinFS; after all, it has been almost three years since I first met this marvelous creature in the Strategic Architects Forum in Redmond.At that event, three years

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1147671332475231602006-05-15T08:32:00.000+03:002006-05-15T20:11:22.986+03:00

This is awesome: the largest database ever, so it's been said, is the artifact of the latest Bush / NSA tapping affair, as part of which the call records of almost any American have been collected and stored for further analysis. The reaction to this "Bushgate" consisted of the usual adjectives, i.e. "scandalous", "shocking", "frightening" and, on more practical grounds, of a bunch of lawyers,

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1146845657726636242006-05-05T19:11:00.000+03:002006-05-08T00:45:14.823+03:00

The following is a transcript of a naked conversation recorded inside a global, distributed Enterprise adhering to the Enterprise SOAaaS2.0 principles. The conversation demonstrates how globally distributed transactions, consisting of endless, recursive, mashed-up services, applications and hardware components can be tracked down in real-time for an on-the-spot enforcement of Enterprise Policy;

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1146587170997544422006-05-02T19:25:00.000+03:002006-05-03T09:02:26.526+03:00

Jeremy Zawodny commented the latest Google-Microsoft Wrestling round, where Microsoft has been accused by Google of an unfair grabbing of web traffic and advertising dollars. And why's that? Because the new Microsoft IE7 "includes a search box in the upper-right corner that is typically set up to send users to Microsoft's MSN search service".Zawodny points to discrepancies in Google's alleged

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1146491720982277272006-05-01T16:54:00.000+03:002006-05-01T16:58:21.460+03:00

As a side note on the Ruby on Rails vs. J2EE vs. the rest of the world of programming languages, I'd like to offer a SaaS-oriented perspective on the matter, arguing that all these infantile image and perception wars are soon to fade away. Software development companies will finally have the freedom to choose whatever language and whatever platform they consider most appropriate for their job, be

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1146124275146225482006-04-27T10:50:00.000+03:002006-05-03T14:29:46.886+03:00

I was listening to Phil Windley's AJAX Progress and Challenges when the bells rang. While describing the JavaScript programming that is taking place inside the Browser's guts, Windley pointed out that browser-based client applications have become O/S indifferent. Operating systems have been finally abstracted out from the entire transaction chain.And then the inevitable metaphor ("Everything is a

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1144656113434514022006-04-10T10:58:00.000+03:002006-04-10T11:04:07.116+03:00

I'm not sure whether it's Steve Gillmor's long-time Attention crusade, or whether it is that people simply gave up the idea of protecting their Identity, after the latest DoJ-Giants affair – anyway, it seems to me that another sacred cow has been slaughtered: Identities have become a tradable currency.Bob Tedeschi's "Every Click You Make, They'll Be Watching You", describes Claria, the company

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1144137281743841602006-04-04T10:49:00.000+03:002006-04-05T00:05:30.600+03:00

In the previous post, Organizational Architecture for the Real-Time Enterprise, I described an Infra group incapable of coping with endless, unpredictable events. Systems were falling, customers were angry, and employees were eroded and frustrated. Things like that don't happen out of the blue, and therefore an environmental context, which I believe was the root cause of these phenomena, was

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1143796394468599182006-03-31T12:11:00.000+03:002006-03-31T18:37:22.066+03:00

I was known to be a "Reorg" freak, pooling out people from their daily jobs and giving them an ad-hoc assignment based on their talent. In these unexpected attacks on my descent, hard-working employees I was entirely disrespectful to their title, official expertise or their department. Whoever had the required combination of skills and personality was a candidate for a reassignment. Thus, for a

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1142862097419635902006-03-20T15:30:00.000+02:002006-03-31T04:24:38.506+03:00

I have never thought about Open Source as a mean to protect the users at the ends of the network. Open Source has been injected into my knowledge system as a great way for bootstrapping a project and having quality software and quick bug fixing; as a genial door opener (through a no-cost software) in what has been for years the unique playing field of Enterprise Software Gorillas; and as a

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1142238897510657982006-03-13T10:33:00.000+02:002006-03-14T18:02:21.610+02:00

Faustian DealsMany of us are still pretending it is nothing but a harmless win-win exchange deal: The Internet Giants (Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN...) provide us with free services that we like, and in return we allow them to implant ads wherever they see fit; we gain a choice of great, free services, and they make their living through advertising - a fair deal.Only, there always has been an untold

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1141218490716449622006-03-01T15:05:00.001+02:002006-03-19T08:20:18.760+02:00

Chloe O'BrianThe first season of 24 gave me a lot of ideas. Well, I wish it was related to Jack Bower, but no, it was more related to Chloe O'Brian (Michelle Dessler, I think, at that time). I was simply stupefied by the way Information was flowing and flying from one side to another.Later on, while at work, I started talking to my teams about the need to liberate all the Information pieces that

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1140627375114158962006-02-22T18:55:00.000+02:002006-03-19T08:22:50.250+02:00

Enterprise Architecture is an infrastructure and a set of Machines constructed in order to manage a chaotic, dynamic, unpredictable, complex, organic, prone to error, frustrating, Enterprise IT, which has to support an ever increasing, dynamic portfolio of products and services, through constant "ASAP, Now, Right-Away" modifications of business processes.That is a formulation of my practical

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1140359058238398462006-02-19T16:22:00.000+02:002006-02-19T16:25:20.830+02:00

OK. I am abandoning the direct injection, highly-limited version of my Podlinks feed and open an annexed blog, Technopod. I warmly invite you to visit me there as well. I decided to migrate from the direct injection feed into a separate blog, after receiving some mails from Juice users who subscribed to the feed and expected to have the podcasts automatically downloaded to their laptops. The

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1140121753099835812006-02-16T22:26:00.000+02:002006-02-19T15:28:52.380+02:00

I have created a sub-feed named Muli Koppel's Podlinks to which you can subscribe here:There's no site behind this feed - I will inject the Information directly to the river...The post content will be standard-enabled, i.e. incredibly simple: a URL to the podcast, a short post-listening commentary/description and my personal rating. I added my last 10 Podlinks to this blog sidebar, so you could

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1139574192960574302006-02-10T14:21:00.000+02:002006-03-19T08:48:27.480+02:00

This time I will explain why the ex-UDDI Registries, re-branded as SOA Governance solutions, have a disruptive potential to the SOA Management Market. This new Governance category might be on its way to realize Stephan Haeckel's Management-by-Wire concept, or in more conventional words: Management-by-Information. It is a Top-down approach to Management (and actually, the only reasonable one)

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1138790893573857502006-02-01T12:47:00.000+02:002006-03-19T08:50:53.246+02:00

This is a sequel to You Only Live Twice - The Death and Life of UDDI. On mid December last year, I met a colleague from Mercury Interactive who was part of the Systinet acquisition process. "Did you hear?" I told him with a large "told you so" smile on my face, "UDDI is dead!" Several hours later we met again and he tried to explain: "that's just the Internet UDDI. Inside the Enterprise

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1138279368370607992006-01-26T14:31:00.000+02:002007-03-28T07:19:32.614+02:00

The death of the UDDI Business Registry was far from being natural. This post restores the dramatic moments of an untold story.Disclaimer: in this post the characters and events are either the product of the author's imagination or they are used entirely fictitiously.With Web2.0, the vision of the Internet-as-a-platform has become omnipresent, and its vocation understood. The ultimate goal of the

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1137510328312663602006-01-17T17:05:00.000+02:002006-01-24T14:57:47.193+02:00

Tim O'Brien, a group manager platform strategies at Microsoft, challenged recently the scalability of web2.0 applications: "When you look at Web 2.0 companies out there, they have user bases on order of 300,000. The question is when the base goes to three hundred million, how do you deal with that?"Undoubtedly, there are several answers to the above challenge. But only one got 2.6B$ (and if all

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1136983782384695662006-01-11T14:46:00.000+02:002006-01-15T12:40:30.430+02:00

I was researching several, unrelated narratives - one on SOA and Web.20, the other on VoIP and the future of Telecom - when suddenly the narratives got remixed into a surprising mashed-up synthesis, involving all these pro-tag-onists: Web2.0 and [the global] SOA; stupid networks vs. intelligent networks; Free Internet, two-tier Internet, and broken Internet; the forthcoming Telco War, [the

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1135269523280668862005-12-22T18:38:00.000+02:002006-01-05T23:53:43.956+02:00

Last week del.icio.us went down for several days, creating a domino-effect of failures all across the web, as many sites (myself included) were mashing-up the del.icio.us APIs for information retrieval. This was an acute reminder of the inherent, hidden fragility of SOA implementations – Enterprise or WWW alike. But this time, I am going to offer a solution.This will be a longer post than usual,

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1134988162565548582005-12-19T12:26:00.000+02:002005-12-21T18:25:11.296+02:00

This phenomenon deserves its post: a selection of [tagged] comments from the del.icio.us blog.tag: addicts- uarghhhhhhh uarghhhhhh can't.....wait...any..more..must...post...to..de..lii.ciii...ous~- badtrip. i'm a delicious addicted.- oh God, where the del.icio.us/popular, i need it right now.- i miss you so much! hope you come back soon- Sorry to hear about the problems. This is good for me

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1134733410066337982005-12-16T13:42:00.000+02:002006-03-16T10:01:00.870+02:00

In this post I'll explain through a comparative analysis of Gspace and G2G Share, two Google-based web 2.0 mash-ups, why Google is the Real-World SOA*, and why we should be alert and watch our steps.We have an intuitive-protective understanding of the sentence "Organizing the Information of the World". This "Information" is something that sits in web sites, congress libraries and dusty government

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1134497289802883802005-12-13T20:04:00.000+02:002006-03-16T10:07:42.533+02:00

Last month I listened to a podcast by Dan Farber from ZDNet, SAP's Shai Agassi: Unplugged, in which Agassi is promising that future releases of SAP will have ten to twenty thousands Services. A week later, in an InformationWeek's article titled SAP's Architecture Shift, AMR research analyst Jim Shepherd was quoted saying "Until they [SAP] take that giant application and break it into thousands of

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1134037242341876322005-12-08T12:07:00.000+02:002005-12-29T08:21:19.543+02:00

In SOA, Matrix I have described SOA as the foundation for the ultimate Management and Control System (unlike the common conception of SOA as a mean to enable Integration, Interoperability, Reusability etc.). The Management and Control market reveals a deserted landscape, incapable of managing and controlling complex systems, such as an Enterprise, a State, or the Internet. SOA is the first

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1133270383125189142005-11-29T15:19:00.000+02:002006-01-05T21:49:06.646+02:00

My sequel to SOA, Matrix is still under construction, so in the meantime - a kind of a childish "told-you-so" post that I couldn't resist :). Here it is.Last week IDC published its Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker report, presenting current Server sales figures and market segment analysis.Will you be surprised to learn, that for the first time (in history) Windows is the Sales Leader across all

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1132876500812543502005-11-25T01:53:00.000+02:002006-02-07T21:18:17.133+02:00

I have decided to explicitly (try and) explain why SOA is a fundamental paradigm shift that will change our lives. I'll start by briefly tracking the current whereabouts of the SOA meme, just to take the discussion far away from Integration and Interoperability.Last month, OASIS published its early seeds of an SOA reference architecture. In the introduction, Steve Jones from Capgemini, gave his

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1131836877705075432005-11-13T01:07:00.000+02:002006-01-09T14:59:47.176+02:00

I had some interesting meetings recently with both Enterprise Customers and Enterprise Software Vendors around the subject of Enterprise Integration and Web Services. Known for my Telco-Grade SOA implementations, I've been invited as the SOA incumbent. What has happened in these meetings resembled a shock therapy. Well, the therapeutic effects are yet to be proven; but judging by the number of

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1131018315472122772005-11-03T06:00:00.000+02:002006-02-05T18:51:51.960+02:00

It's time to conclude the (unplanned) saga about social pressure and technological decision making (Pressure and The man in the Web 2.0 Mask). As you might have noticed this pressure farewell-post took me a while to accomplish. The reason is that the issues raised are far from being limited to technology decision-making: they touch the basic conflict & tension between the Individual and his/her

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1129759823211706912005-10-20T00:09:00.000+02:002006-03-02T16:44:11.933+02:00

In the last post I discussed the social pressure behind technology acceptance and technological decision making. To the already long enough list of social pressure sources, a new channel was recently added – the Web 2.0 with its "folksonomic blogo-podo-sphere" – a new viral marketing streamed to your laptop in real-time. Yet this time it's for the people, by the people, and it is so stylish, kewl

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1129415953411260812005-10-16T00:38:00.000+02:002006-02-05T18:50:31.916+02:00

Social pressure has never been so present in technological decision making. Vendors' sales and marketing, viral marketing, blogospheres, O'Reilly radars, podcasts, open source geeks, conventions (Web 2.0 sold-out) and cocktail parties – all create levels of social pressure unseen before. I would like to bring some figures, to portray the typical prey and to try and give some advices.The

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1128685269980781302005-10-07T14:37:00.000+03:002006-01-05T22:07:38.253+02:00

It seems so fantastic and it smells like teen spirit: 386 Linux distributions (and growing) to pick from! The truth is, though, that in the Enterprise sphere, there's no need for DistroWatch, as the number of alternatives is aggressively squeezed into two or three. As Todd Oseth, EMC's Software VP, told me earlier this year, EMC will only support Red Hat, SuSe and Asianux, the Asian Linux. We can

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1128237185689423122005-10-02T00:11:00.000+03:002006-03-03T08:49:11.520+02:00

In continuation to A Hell of a (SOA) Day, there are two issues I would like to discuss:The first is related to the WS-*: who said that SOA and web Services are interchangeable? I know of a fabulous SOA realization, linking 250 applications through 300 services with millions of invocations a day – yet nothing in this implementation is prefixed with "WS-". Given that the WS-* standards are work in

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1127594160709463762005-09-24T23:32:00.000+03:002006-01-05T22:09:49.813+02:00

Today it happened. I knew something is going on underneath, an effervescence of some kind, and yet I was surprised to get it in such a straight, blunt manner in my mail this morning. I am using Google Alerts on many topics, so every day I get a mail with all the publications Google has indexed the other day. One of the topics is SOA, and usually I get what I quickly dismiss as yet another PR made

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1127285322628364072005-09-21T01:00:00.000+03:002006-01-05T22:11:09.930+02:00

I have been recently summoned by a large financial institute, located somewhere in the world, to review the architecture of a core, mission-critical project they have outsourced to a major software development house.While hearing and seeing the architects of the software house explaining the different solution's functional components and their interactions, I felt an ever growing uneasiness.

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1126690998078138572005-09-14T12:39:00.000+03:002007-07-24T08:31:24.143+03:00

This is the 2nd post on the subject of the Recursive Enterprise.In the previous post I have described a fractalized, recursive Enterprise - a Babushka of Service inside a Service inside a Service. I terminated the post wondering how we could possibly pinpoint the location of a potential problem in such recursive-yet-distributed business process architecture and suggested that Enterprise Logging

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1126380879316612132005-09-10T22:33:00.000+03:002006-01-05T22:14:20.573+02:00

Two weeks ago I had a couple of posts on the subject of ontologies, in which moral issues were raised. I followed the traces left by Udi, who commented these two posts and bumped into Udi's LiveJournal. In the journal, probably as a follow-up on his comments in this blog, I found a text which I think got some poetical essence in its structure and content. I've asked for Udi's permission to bring

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1126165944034078332005-09-08T10:50:00.000+03:002006-01-05T22:15:57.963+02:00

In most of my previous posts I have described nowadays Enterprise IT as a holistic and organic system. From an IT macro-perspective, all business processes, business applications and the hardware that supports them are hubs and nodes in a multi-dimensional, highly complex and integrated graph, serving the business needs for information storage and retrieval.What's amazing in this story is that IT

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1125954178945063772005-09-06T01:02:00.000+03:002006-01-25T01:52:57.626+02:00

It was one of those annoying days, with all chasing down their potentialpart in a "system is slow" fault – really nothing we've never met before. Yet this fault happened in a very peculiar time: we have just installed the 1st shipment of our newly bought Linux-designated Suns v40 machines, and in a week or two we were supposed to receive the 2nd, significant, shipment for our Linux migration

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1125784828716829412005-09-04T00:46:00.000+03:002006-01-05T22:19:08.556+02:00

I remember those few occasions in which I dropped some sentences about our new virtual self and waited to see what the reactions would be. Sometimes I could go on with my thoughts; sometimes I saw the puzzlement on the face of my interlocutor.The axiom I start with is communication. Without communication we don't exist. There's no I without a Thou (Martin Buber, "Ich und Du"), and there's no

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1125499902662340342005-08-31T17:20:00.000+03:002006-01-02T22:33:21.433+02:00

This is the second post on Enterprise IT, Disorder, QoS and SLA.If you thought things are complicated, wait till you encounter Web Services.Web Services are making things worse.Enclosed are Exhibits A and B, taken from an IBM article on the subject, named Use SLAs in a Web services context, Part 1: Guarantee your Web service with a SLA.Exhibit A:Figure 1. Architecture for a Web service covered

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1125348343499642482005-08-30T23:00:00.000+03:002005-12-28T23:01:03.293+02:00

The numbers in the title of this post represent combinations of order and disorder in a one hundred elements' system. When all hundred elements are up – system's in order. If one element out of the hundred is down, the system is in a disordered state. Of course, more than one element can be down at any one time.A question: how many combinations of elements up/down in a 100 elements' system are

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1125308517598209992005-08-29T12:17:00.000+03:002006-01-05T22:23:21.596+02:00

There's already a considerable number of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks around, accompanied by yet a greater number of Enterprise Architecture definitions. Here's one of those: "EA is a tool to find potential savings hidden in organizations". And yet more definitions and frameworks are conceived almost every quarter or so. Last month, I was asked if I would be ready to summarize a brand new

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1125045364815164902005-08-26T11:34:00.000+03:002006-03-26T22:00:36.253+02:00

For years I have earned my living in creating P2P solutions for integration problems. P2P stands for both point-to-point and peer-to-peer. The technical architecture used back then was point to point; the responsibility for the solution was peer-to-peer.Point-to-point integration has a strong tactical essence. Two programmers from two different departments find themselves in an ad-hoc team that

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1124925814657639992005-08-25T02:06:00.000+03:002006-01-05T22:25:26.653+02:00

In the previous post on this matter, I have defined Utility Computing not as a technology but rather as a "goes-without-saying", trivial, merciless business requirement for today's real-time, adaptive, partially or entirely virtual Enterprises. I have defined GRID as the technical solution for the Utility Computing business requirement. Also, in a very simplistic, yet deliberate manner I've

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1124880239370585012005-08-24T13:43:00.000+03:002005-12-28T22:48:34.930+02:00

There is a theological aspect to ontologies that I'd like to share with you.I call it ontheology.I remember the disappointment I had after attending, for the 1st time, a W3C lecture on semantic web and ontologies. I expected to get a clear explanation on how a MACHINE can understand the meaning of words by using ontologies. I thought I'd see something like a dictionary entry surrounded by all

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1124748274409200582005-08-23T01:02:00.000+03:002005-12-28T22:50:47.296+02:00

There's a considerable dissatisfaction and confusion around the actual, practical meaning of GRID and Utility computing concepts. Are Grid and Utility interchangeable, partially overlapping or different? Add to that soup the on-demand concept, and you're beaten-up.I was recently contracted by a Utility-computing startup and used the word GRID in some of my presentations. The CEO insisted on

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1124716726913180872005-08-22T15:42:00.000+03:002006-01-08T22:44:58.863+02:00

The article PHP, Perl and Python on the wane? brings indications to a decline in Enterprise utilization of the 3 Ps of lamP: Php, Python, Perl. Still, most of the article discusses PHP and not Perl/Python. The Foucs on PHP is evident, as Oracle and IBM have invested some millions in PHP just recently.A note on Perl & Python: these two scripting languages are sophisticated; they have the power and

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1124692204056842962005-08-22T09:14:00.000+03:002006-04-05T12:04:51.043+03:00

I have just searched "python" in Technorati. Suddenly, pictures from flickr bearing the tags "python" were presented to the right of my search results screen, along with lines from other blogs. Though I knew this feature of technorati/feedster, it was the 1st time I really saw it in action. Web 2, with del.icio.us, last.fm, flickr and more is wrapping us. The change is so fundamental; Internet is

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-1119515886019436182005-08-20T23:38:00.000+03:002005-12-28T22:19:56.113+02:00

I have decided to launch Architecture To Go Ltd after ~5 years of being the Chief Architect of Orange Israel - a mobile gsm/3G Hutchison Whampoa LTD company."Who's afraid of Enterprise Architecture?" was the recurrent theme of the first couple of years. Eventually, though, Enterprise Architecture proved itself to be well rewarding, business and socially-wise.This Blog was conceived with the

Muli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.com0