Inspirational Technology -Cool stuff

A few people have been commenting on Inspirational Technology (Sam Ruby and Jon Udell). The really cool aspect for me is that it is pointing the path to a truly distributed environment where persistence is in the background not the foreground of development.

Much of the work around orthogonal persistence in Java has stalled around synchronization of state between communicating applications. The middle ground that Kimbro takes shows the path forward to build a whole new set of collaborative applications that have persistence in the background.

I feel inspired to try and expand on the work of Kimbro and create some new services that allow data to flow with transparent persistence

Jeremy Zawodny's blog: RSS Auto-Discovery 2.0

Anything that makes it easier to connect blogs is a good thing. Therefore by definition RSS Auto-Discovery 2.0 is a good thing. The value of blogs apart from being fun; is connecting with others either in a machine or human readable fashion. Blogs are a major enhancement to the web in terms of structured relationships.

To keep blogs moving forward and creating more value through we need to keep the right balance between simplicity and power - weighted more to simplicity.