Like many others, I woke up yesterday morning to find Twitter down. While I was trying to check Twitter, my wife was trying to get at her Facebook page and was surprised at how slow it was. “The internet is slow!” she exclaimed. A few minutes later I caught the report on the fact that Twitter had experienced a denial of service attack. Based on today’s reports, it appears that the denial of service attack was a Russian attack on a Georgian citizen who had made politically charged comments about the Russo-Georgian conflict last year. Organizations around the world see social media as the future of customer growth and they are spending large sums of money on very expensive people to advance their social web marketing agendas, and therein lies the risk…
Archive for August, 2009
Marines ban Social Media
Aug 4
The United States Marines today announce a ban on Twitter, Facebook and several other Social Media sites. This ban is to be in force for 1 year and it is being done because “These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries.”
No doubt that for the Marines themselves and their families this is a very disappointing thing.
SOA… Dead???… Really???…
Aug 1
“SOA is Dead; Long Live Services,” proclaimed Amy Thomas Manes on January 5th, 2009.
When I read Ms Manes’ post, I felt like the person standing on the sidewalk in a movie. The camera is focused on me and someone (SOA) steps out into the street. From the side of the screen, off-camera, a bus comes careening past and the person that stepped into the street is hit and taken completely out of camera and I’m left standing with my jaw on my knees.
No, Ms Manes, SOA is NOT dead
Aug 12
Posted by Bruce Gruenbaum in Commentary, SOA | No Comments
This morning my RSS feeds had an update from Ms Manes’ blog again. She points to an article by Dan Woods of Forbes.com and says of his article that she is “pleased to see that Dan read beyond the first paragraph, and he understands the core message of my post (i.e., ‘SOA has been disappointing and that services should be a key focus’)” …
I wonder if Ms Manes realizes that she advocated exactly the same thing that Mr Woods advocated and then went on to slam the idea? In her original post she argued that the focus should shift from SOA to building services, and yet here she is arguing that just building services will result in fragile, expensive systems. Ms Manes is just flat-out contradicting herself.
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