Posted by Rajesh Shetty
on January 05, 2005
After Six Apart’s acquisition LiveJournal (Six Apart to Buy LiveJournal), Typepad and MoveableType under their belt, it will become one of the biggest Blog Hosting providers. . Is this the game between SixApart , Google ’s Blogspot/Blogger and New MSN Spaces
Looks like MSN has given its own twist to msn spaces, by collaborating traditional blogging with photos, that makes them close to Blogging + Flickr. Even though they are not as good as flickr today, in terms of innovation in photo blogging and cool derivation of fundamental blogging with its technical elements like tags, community etc. I guess one advantage MSN will have on all these blog hosting sites, that it will let you blog from your MSN Instant Messenger, which makes it blogging on your desktop while you are chatting with your friends, may be you can convert you useful chat conversations into blog content with intelligent filters.
Its definitely worth testdriving msn spaces and see how far they go with this. Race is on…
Posted by Rajesh Shetty
on January 04, 2005
People who wants to run .NET framework or webservices part of it on a standalone, self-contained environment, without going thru the hassle of getting whole Microsoft IIS server setup. There are couple of viable solutions
Use Cassini : Cassini, Microsoft’s own lightweight webserver (Old day Personal webserver for ASP applications), which is light in footprint. Also check for CassiniEx
Use Mono: Mono’s ’s XSP or mod_mono, Best part is You can envision running Microsoft .NET on Apache, using mod_mono module plugin for Apache HTTP Server.(Neat!!..:). Irony is this plugin is suppose to be working only for Unix/Linux I guess, not for Windows.
Use Cassini On Apache: Drop Cassini on top of Apache. This is one of the wonderful ideas, because Apache can serve your Java and .NET Both. There is a true collaboration or whatever you call it as.
That makes Apache a true winner across the Architecture/Frameworks.
Posted by Rajesh Shetty
on January 01, 2005
This partially explains why Google and Sarbanes Oxley are going to be one of the Top two things to watch in 2005. Sarbanes Oxley Policy Forbids GDS article says, corporate IT needs to make an strong decision about Google Desktop Search, either supporting security factor for outcome of GDS install on all the computers or strictly banning the usage of GDS inside organization.
Sarbanes Oxley will keep going deep inside big organizations making every business unit Compliance Orinented, and Google will keep doing cool things which appeal to the masses. But when these two collide in the matter like personal intrusion subject, because GDS and Policy compatibility.