SOA business case: smaller is better

There’s been quite a bit of debate as of late as to whether SOA should start small and incrementally, or be introduced from the top down as a transformative venture.

The word out of the recent BEA Systems executives annual Arch 2 Arch customer conference in Nice, France, is ‘start small, and build from there

Navy Medicine is finally maturing enough in it's IT structure to begin to look at our Architecture. Withthe recent hiring of a new Deputy CIO -who has a long history of enterprise architecture as his background we are all discussing how best to implement SOA into our long term vision. This article helps me understand how to proceed.

to read more:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=903

Oddcast Launches Automated Photo Conversion Functionality

From:MARKET WIRE Date: June 19, 2007

Web 2.0 Making the web more fun...everyday.

It is now possible to take any photo and "animate" it for fun or for business.(www.oddcast.com)
Yesterday I discussed the new sales site that utilizes a new technology that provides a video stream to help sell "stuff" (YouTube and CraigsList meet in video format).

For those looking for a simpler animated moment OddCast provides the ability to transform a photo into a customized animated talking avatar. This takes only a few minutes to accomplish and once purchased the characters can be further stylized with hair changes, outfits etc.

The company believes that this "personal touch" is what businesses are looking for to differentiate themselves in todays competitive market place.

The process is simple. Once the user has uploaded a
digital image, they are prompted to specify facial anchor points. The model is
then generated by the system and presented to the user for review and purchase.
(Note that to purchase the character the user must have a SitePal account.
SitePal accounts are available for as little as $9.99/month.) The cost to create
a customized character is $49.50, an introductory offer that runs through July
22, 2007 and comes with a 30-day money back guarantee.

to read more: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1Y1-107558969.html

Web 3.0 -utiltizes voice recognition!

Conversa Web 3.0.
From: Online



Conversa Web 3.0 lets users voice-activate elements on a Web page--including check boxes, radio buttons, and drop-down boxes--and also enter URL addresses and text entries by spelling with a pop-up military alphabet list. A "Read me the links" feature lets users listen to links being read, instead of reading from the screen. Version 3.0 retains Conversa's Saycons--voiceable icons representing toolbar commands, graphics, and other Web page elements.

Voice recognition is making more inroads! Another plus to those of us that are typing impaired


read more at: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-54891067.html

First Web 3.0 Site to Combine Video with Proven Ad Revenue Model: Realpeoplerealstuff.com.


From: Business Wire Date: May 15, 2007

Advertising helps lead the way for the new functionality of Web 3.0. Realpeoplereal stuff has taken the functionality, social networking and use of multimedia and brought in video to help in selling people's "stuff" . The site has been descibed as a craigslist meets youtube.

Newspapers currently earn over 17 billion dollars a year in classified advertising revenue. Realpeoplerealstuff hopes to tap into this billion dollar market. "we have all the bases covered: Advertising, marketing, sales, design and web usability. It's a powerful combination" noted their president.

The company is applying for a worldwide patent on their new efficient video streaming method andf their first-of-its-kind business method.

To see the new web site take a look at their video at: www.realpeoplerealstuff.com/videoad/2007/05/09/make-yourself-star

I believe this will be the first of many applications we will all be seeing as the web moves from 2.0 to 3.0 (and like Gene noted....3 is bigger than 2)

read more at:http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-163377616.html

WEB 2.0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Appears the big days of large Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) may be coming to an end.
(Just as we are looking to put together a formal overarching architecture for Navy Medicine!)

One of the hopes of SOA was to be able to offer systems that would easy work together with one another. The goal was to prevent "vendor lock in". (No longer would we be held prisoner by large health care applications that would not work with easily with other vendor's applications).

It appears the current state of SOA has gotten too big and often leads to large SOA suites being sold-not really able to fulfill the intention of SOA.

To help bring back agility and flexibility to SOA companies are now offering SOA hosted applications. This has helped IT shops utilize SOA without having to have SOA experts in house. Hosted SOA is in its early stages but promises to offer a valuable service for many organizations.

read more at:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=896