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EMC unveiled its massively scalable cloud storage Monday, the stuff that it's been working on for a long time now under the code names Hulk and Maui, Hulk for the hardware and Maui for the software, branding the whole megillah Atmos as it moved out the door. Some features like compression and de-duplication that are usually add-ons are thrown in for nothing. read more

I found this post today What Makes A Beautifully Designed Website? which provides some great suggestions for making a nice Web page. He covers issues like layout, color, typography, and...

According to the Mac Security Blog a fake version of WordPress has been found. It's actually a trojan horse. It is a non-existent version 2.6.4 that has pointers back to...

Google Ad Planner now support search queries (surprise!) and geo-targeting, which means you can drill-down to specific states or metros (region or cities in geographies outside the US). You can also choose among three new ranking methods to display results from the sites you're considering running your campaigns on, and there's also a new interactive 'bubble chart' which should help you compare demographics, frequency, traffic, and unique visitors visually.read more

The explosion of cloud computing providers dramatically lowered the barriers to entry for web entrepreneurs and innovative projects. However, the lack of interoperability and consistency across services keeps many businesses from adoption. There have been several calls for standards to help make services from different cloud providers interoperable and ultimately more useful to businesses. Uncertainty abounds, with questions such as "Are standards really needed?" "Who should be involved?" and "What are potential consequences?"read more

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become mainstream technology for integrating disparate systems and applications. For building composite applications, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has emerged as the standard for business process flow orchestration and application integration within organizations. Many IT organizations are deploying composite applications that use BPEL to automate critical business processes.read more

Active Endpoints has announced a contest for the 2008 holiday season. Bring SOA Home for the Holidays offers evaluators of the ActiveVOS visual orchestration system for SOA and BPM applications the chance to win one of three Lenovo IdeaPad netbooks. The contest rules are simple. Evaluators visit www.soaholiday.com to register for a free, supported 30-day trial of ActiveVOS. This automatically makes them eligible for the contest.read more

I've been thinking about design and how it impacts popularity. For example, does a website become popular because it's design is similar to other popular sites? I agree with the...