Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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Coincidence? Mark Shull, CEO of Digex, will be the keynote speaker at Web Hosting Magazine's Web Hosting Expo in Washington, D.C., next week.
WHIR reports that Web Hosting Magazine just awarded Digex "Best Hosts" award in the managed hosting category. Isn't that rather convenient? Makes you wonder about those awards, eh?
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:22:20 PM 
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Duh! Jupiter Media Metrix says, "Companies that continue to host their own sites will gain little competitive advantage and spend more money on staffing and technology than those that outsource these functions."
Also, "...over 80 percent of companies undertake Web development projects before their site hosting and technology infrastructure design is built. According to Jupiter analysts, nine out of ten of these ventures will face some form of avoidable rebuilding as a result." [Source: Mike Drach, The Web Hosting Industry Review]
Jupiter is presenting the Jupiter Web Enterprise Forum on September 12-13, in San Francisco. I think they need my upcoming book.
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:12:36 PM
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OPES is in trouble. "The Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES) group is still hoping the IETF will give it the go-ahead to become a formal working group. But the organization continues to face criticism about just what standards it is proposing -- the latest from a group that studies the future of the Internet." [Source: Joyce Routson, Stardust CDN Week]
I've been on the OPES mailing list for a few months and have been reading it half-heartedly. I also downloaded and read one of their drafts, Extensible Proxy Services Framework. Much of the recent debate on the mailing list has been about this document, and I have to admit I was entirely underwhelmed by its significance. OTOH, I haven't read any of the other drafts, so it's not fair to condemn the entire effort just for one document. Judge for youfself.
Content peering and application services will certainly exist at some point down the road. But whether this group can pull it off is another story, yet to be written.
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:34:34 PM
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Atomica. About a year ago I downloaded the GuruNet software and have been using it (and loving it) ever since. The company and the software are now called Atomica. Both URLs return the same content.
Atomica is a truly useful Web Service. With any active application (IE, Word, etc.) I just position my cursor over a word or highlight a block of text. I then hold the Alt key and click the mouse button. Atomica queries its server and returns a complete American Heritage dictionary lookup (including "did you mean..." spell checking) and encyclopedia, thesaurus, medical, translation and other reports. And if you click a button in the pop-up window you get the results of a Google search.
This application has never caused any trouble on my PC, and I use it at least once a day. Check it out!
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 11:07:54 AM
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Arthroscopic Surgery. My wife, Cessna, had arthroscopic knee surgery this morning to correct a torn meniscus. She has a black belt in Aikido, but has been off the mat for a year while contemplating the surgery.
Fascinating (good) experience. Arrived at the outpatient surgery center at 6am. Minimal paperwork (by hospital standards). Polite, thorough, efficient staff. A private hotel-like pre-op room. Medical history, a warm blanket, IV, and one of those beautiful designer hospital gowns. Only five minutes late for scheduled 7:30am procedure. (Like airline travel, early in the day is always best.) 45 minutes later, the surgeon found me in the waiting room and walked me through a dozen photos taken through the Arthroscope: before, during and after the surgery. Very cool, and he was clearly proud of his work.
They have awsome new anesthesias, and Cessna was awake five minutes after the operation. Fifteen minutes later (8:15am) we were talking in the recovery room. By 9:30am we were home.
The patient is resting comfortably in a Vicodin haze watching TV.
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:56:24 AM
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Colo Space Fire Sale. We all know that the glut of data center space has spawned a quiet price war between colocation vendors, but did you know there's a burgeoning niche of colo brokers? According to one of them, providers are "literally just giving away the space if they know they're going to make money on bandwidth or managed services." [Evan Koblentz, eWEEK]
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:30:01 AM
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