The new Google program Sitemaps is now available free to web administrators
and owners, no matter what the size of their websites. "This collaborative
crawling system will allow our crawlers to optimize the usefulness of
Google's index for users by improving its coverage and freshness," the
company said.
Sitemaps calls for Web administrators to place a Sitemaps-formatted file on
their Web servers. This allows the Google crawlers to see which pages are
present on a site and which have been changed. Web administrator create an
XML file to use Sitemaps, and need to know how to run scripts. The Sitemap
Generator requires Python 2.2 or higher.
Google describes Sitemaps as "an experiment in web crawling." The company
says that this program is intended to let Google expand its web coverage and
"improve the time to inclusion in our index." The company said that the
program ... (more)
As organizations introduce service orientation as a computing theme formally
supported through enterprise architecture, they are encountering several
obstacles. Service orientation promotes the sharing of capabilities across
traditional enterprise system, information, and application boundaries. In
this session we will review how we can reduce friction and manage the
organizational change associated with the introduction of an enterprise SOA
program and the common governance models that are emerging. We will also
discuss how the discipline of enterprise architecture governance is... (more)
(February 13, 2002) - It began last December when Tim Ewald, a principal
scientist at component software think-tank DevelopMentor - and who
specializes in the effective application of cutting-edge component
technologies to the production of scalable distributed systems - teamed up
with DevelopMentor colleague Martin Gudgin to write an open letter to Santa
Claus.
Their request? "Dear Santa," they wrote, "all we want for Christmas is a WSDL
Working Group."
Each to his own, you may say. But the request from Ewald and Gudgin was
unusual, for both are members of the World Wide Web C... (more)
(April 10, 2002) - No one can predict the future accurately, far less the
I-technology future. So it was perhaps a little surprising that U.S. District
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly turned down a Microsoft Corporation objection
this week to written testimony by Sun Microsystems’ Jonathan Schwartz,
their chief strategy officer.
Schwartz stated in his testimony to Judge Kollar-Kotelly that Sun fears
Microsoft is poised to leverage its Windows OS monopoly, via XML-based Web
services and its .NET platform, into an MS monopoly of the Internet itself.
Sun isn't entitled to speculate lik... (more)
(February 11, 2003) - To bring the advantages of Web-based development and
content delivery to interactive voice response applications, the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) has published VoiceXML 2.0 as a W3C Candidate
Recommendation. Advancement of a W3C Technical Report to Candidate
Recommendation is an explicit, public call for implementation.
Since 1999, W3C has been working on its Speech Interface Framework to expand
access to the Web to allow people to interact via key pads, spoken commands,
listening to prerecorded speech, synthetic speech, and music. With the number
of tel... (more)