Salim Ismail interviewed by Tom Raftery
Our very own Salim Ismail was interviewed twice by Tom Raftery. You can read the blog posts and grab the podcasts here and and here.
Salim talks about the Pubsub service, structured blogging, and much more. Enjoy.
December 13th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
Salim - I’ve listened to the Tom R podcasts. I’m not sure I see any real difference between what you’re saying and what the likes of IBM/TIBCO and other EAI types have been doing at the enterprise app level. Also, I don’t see how you get the taxonomy together that makes sense on a global level for individual industries. Could we talk about this sometime?
December 16th, 2005 at 11:38 am
Dennis, very valid points… happy to chat anytime, but here’s a crack at answering your questions:
>> EAI/IBM/Tibco - yes, you’re right.. these folks have been doing this at an enterprise level, but the implementations are very heavy and cumbersome (and usually very expensive). Philosophically, they’ve been approaching it from a data-oriented point of view. Their presence is one of the reasons we aren’t focusing on the enterprises right now - it’s a noisy space. Where we shine is at the internet-scale matching, a problem where we seem to be quite unique and it’s perfectly suited to the consumer space. The other reason we’re in the consumer space is that we’re educating them that internet-scale alerting in real time is possible. We want a CEO showing up at his office saying “my daughter knows instantly when Barbie is mentioned anywhere on the web, why the hell can’t I have that in the office?!” - We’ll get to the enterprise space by essentially reversing into it (eventually!).
>> Taxonomy: Again, you’re right that for certain industries the taxonomies haven’t been worked out. However, many others (especially in the consumer space) have achieved consensus on taxonomies. For example, the form to search for a flight (city pair, date, etc) is pretty well the same on every travel site. We’ll crack those first, and quite frankly, we’re not yet set up to tackle others where some sort of best practice hasn’t been achieved.
Nice to have met you at LesBlogs, btw… say hi to David Tebbutt when you see him next…