Tag Archives : AOL

We all have far too many accounts to maintain. We all know this. However, too many communities ask us to join YET ANOTHER NETWORK to participate. To be effective, communities should let me members be themselves, not just in how they express themselves but also in how they identify themselves…

The 2009 Gartner Hype Cycle Special Report evaluates the maturity of 1,650 technologies and trends in 79 technology, topic and industry areas. New Hype Cycles this year include cloud computing, data center power and cooling technologies, and mobile device technologies. Here are my Web 1.0 reflections and Web 2.0 prognostications based on this report…

A few weeks back, I shared an observation from one of AOL’s former CTO’s that the US Constitution was the best architecture document in history (my apologies to my colleagues from other countries). As we approach US Independence Day, I thought it would be appropriate to begin a series that presented the Architecture Constitution ten years ago and how I am still applying these key concepts five software generations later.

Yesterday morning (12am EDT to be exact), Facebook opened the doors to allowing its members to register and bind easy-to-handle usernames to their accounts (company and organization names are coming soon). This is yet another step along the road that will eventually make it impossible for new organizations to brand themselves using plain simple language…

In 2000, AOL’s Chief Technology Officer held an offsite for all of the Chief Architects from AOL, Netscape, CompuServe, ICQ and MapQuest (this was before the closure of the merger with Time Warner. After he posed a question to all of us, “What do you think was the best architecture document in history?”…

In the Web 1.0 world could use different approaches to scale static and dynamic data. This does not translate well into a Web 2.0 world where most content is dynamic (i.e., user-generated content) that can come from ANYWHERE…