Thursday, May 2, 2002

Clay Shirky warns of the danger of XML pixie dust (Software Development) "XML is one of those dangerous technologies," Clay Shirky told a packed hall of SD West attendees during his Thursday afternoon keynote. "It's one that managers know about; you can almost see them sprinkling the magic pixie dust, saying 'Well, you should be able to do that, it's XML, right?' Meanwhile you're saying, 'You shouldn't even know that word!'" The audience members' rueful laughter revealed that many had been there. "XML is going to make the standards wars worse," Shirky continued. "That's the bad news. If it's easy to write up a standard, everybody's going to write one." [IBM DeveloperWorks: XML News] 1:30:00 PM     Tibco launches support for securing and managing web services. Web services is the transport mechanism, but security is the point of the product. Making sure that a company knows who is on the other end of the web line.Tibco rolls out new integration platform [IDG InfoWorld] 1:14:31 PM     Another way to chain XSLT processes xmlto: XSLT processor front-end (xmlhack) [IBM DeveloperWorks: XML News] 1:11:32 PM     Not much data here, but it's interesting to see that people believe Scalable Vector Graphics is going to be a threat to Flash. Vector graphics for your handheld (infoSync) [IBM DeveloperWorks: XML News] 1:08:53 PM

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