From the website: "OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine."

Continuing my series about my mistakes and successes on running a profitable website. This time, I talk about content.

Recently, while working with a partner to integrate their software into our Jini infrastructure, I employeed a simple pattern which I have used many times.

I'm posting this entry to address what I believe are some of the most interesting misconceptions that have surfaced in conversations regarding my original post.

Join the conversation about what, if anything, we've learned in the last 30 years in the computing industry.

Maximize your ability to effectively and efficiently find information on the 'net from this tutorial.

The explosion in the popularity of blogging - and all the people that have cool things to say but previously had no outlet - has made my old knowledge management techniques untenable.

This article was originally conceived to show that incentive programs have failed due to inherent management and personnel problems. The work environments where reward programs are typically used are also very hierarchical and politically charged. No matter how many carrots are put out there, employees can’t get past the day-to-day atmosphere.

The future is upon us - will we in IT be able to make the leap from 2 or 3 interacting systems to millions or billions of systems?

Jini aficionados of the first hour will probably remember the discussions about UPnP and Jini. Where Jini successfully continued in the non-device arena UPnP seem to die away slowly, until Web Services came to rescue...

It always seems that developers are more willing to agree on music, one of the most diverse forms of self-expression available, than they are to agree on their development environments

If developers don't "get it", then it makes great sense to find out why. One issue in particular jumps to the forefront.

There are a lot of people asking what does Jini provide that J2EE doesn't. There are people who would like better information on where to start with Jini. Here's some information about how one might invest time and effort with learning and using Jini.

After reading many texts, both in print and online and many discussions on the Internet a realisation slowly crept over me

With powerful personal computers and local area networks easily affordable even to the smallest businesses, many software companies are making big bets on providing small business software. But any soul braving that market would do well to carefully think through their business model: they might find something completely unexpected.