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April 26, 2007

RSS Made Simple

I get asked about RSS almost every week. I've been using a feed reader for longer than I can rememeber but that doesn't mean I am good at explaining why you should. Here is a quick 3 minute video that does an excellent job.

View the video at CommonCraft.com

It can be addicting I read over 60 blogs everyday. But with RSS it takes me less than 90 minutes.

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April 23, 2007

Web 2.0 Expo - Continued

Interview with Leaptag's Cuneyt Özveren, Ph. D., Chairman, CEO and Founder. A time saving approach to Web 2.0. The leaptag system helps you funnel highly useful and significant content to a single platform. I'm using it and it works great!!

Listen to Podcast (15 minutes so be patient for download)

Technorati Tags: Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0, business Intelligence, Leaptag

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April 17, 2007

Web 2.0 - Tuesday - Bungee Labs Interview

Interview with Bungee Labs: Online Application Development and Deployment Platform
Brad Hintze - Marketing Manager
Lyle Ball - Vice President, Marketing

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Technorati Tags: Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0, business Intelligence, Bungee Labs, Application Development,

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Web 2.0 Expo - Tuesday - Denodo Interview

Podcast Interview with Suresh Chandrasekaran, Vice President of Marketing Denodo Technologies.

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Web 2.0 Expo - Tuesday

Goodbye Passwords – Hello Security
As I mentioned yesterday it continues to impress me how so many Web 2.0 companies are finding ways to serve the enterprise. This post should be especially interesting to any company in the banking and finance industries or for that matter any company that serves customers who “login in” or who have employees that access system that you want to secure.

A new company launched this morning here at the Web 2.0 Expo and it’s possibly the most brilliant yet simple solution I’ve encountered here. So let me lay this out, I’ll use a banking example. The common approach for you and I to access our online banking system is to use a username and password. The problem is that most of us can’t remember more than a couple passwords so what happens is that in the end we use the same one for just about everything we do. Very Insecure! Plus anyone who has spyware on their machine can be compromised the first time they use their password.

The other issue is with many security features like the code on my American Express card the security number feature exists where someone else could access it. If I lose the card or it’s stolen the person who ends up with it has the code.

So, here’s how the Vidoop system works to eliminate the authentication issues. They have a new approach to the “login in issue”. When you sign into the system for the first time you’re prompted to select several categories that you find easy to remember. They are associated with images you will receive when logging into a secure system. So let’s say you choose planes, trains and automobiles.

When you arrive at a login in screen enabled with Vidoop you will see a grid of random images each image has a letter next to it. The user looks for his categories in this case planes, trains and automobiles and enters the corresponding numbers as the login instead of a password. The great thing here is the images and codes change every time but its easy and secure because the only person the knows which numbers on the grid to use is the person who knows the categories to look for, plus the images change for every login so the plane on the first login might be a jet and the next time a bi-plane. To make it even more interesting when using Vidoop from a computer the system passes a token to the computer on the first interaction and from then on the Vidoop system looks for the token as well as the correct image recognition.

This is a powerful solution but on the surface it’s extremely simple to administer and distribute. If you’re challenged by security issue you should really look at these guys.

Technorati Tags: Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0, business Intelligence, Security, Vidoop, Banking

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April 16, 2007

Web 2.0 Expo - Monday

The term Web 2.0 has been around for a while now but recently its found its way into our world of Business Intelligence. Many people are using the term Enterprise 2.0 to discuss how this new direction online is effecting the business world. Colin White wrote a great article on the subject back in July of 2006 (Colin is always ahead of his time) What Does Web 2.0 Mean to the Enterprise? in the article Colin mentions the Web 2.0 Expo which is where I am this week. I'll be covering the show and speaking with the solution providers that are leading the way in this space.

Companies that you will recognize are Denodo, Sun, IBM and FAST just to name a few. The cutting edge Business Intelligence companies see the connection between Web 2.0 solutions and the enterprise. Stay tuned to hear more.

Technorati Tags: Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0, business Intelligence, Sun, Fast, IBM, Denodo

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