I have always been inspired by TED talks and make a point of watching 6 - 10 a month.  Today I reviewed a TED talk from Tim Berners-Lee - the inventor of the world wide web in 1989.  He drafted the first standards for HTML, HTTP, URL structures, etc. Here we are, 20 years later (incidentially I graduated from Shattuck-St.Mary's highschool in 1989).  My how things have changed.  Tim's first vision was for sharing documents (web pages or web paper) on the internet.  His new vision is for sharing RAW Linked Data.  In the wake of the NAR/DOJ settlement that [...]

SIMI VALLEY, Calif., February 26, 2009 - Rapattoni Corporation announced today that Goomzee Corporation, the text message marketing solution provider, has successfully completed their integration of the Single Sign-On (SSO) standard. With the SSO feature in place, MLS users can log on to the Rapattoni MLS system once and access Goomzee’s marketing and lead generation platform without requiring separate logons. Goomzee is the first mobile solutions provider to implement SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) with their system. SAML technology is the backbone upon which SSO is built. SSO and SAML allow the establishment of “trust” relationships between the Rapattoni MLS [...]

Many of you may have seen glimpses of the issues that the State of California legislature faced in passing their budget.  They were faced with closing a $42 Billion budget deficit. The final budget recently agreed upon but some voter resolutions that will need to be passed in order for the budget to work. Funding levels will need to be cut that impact citizen benefits like education, health services, and other key areas. Furthermore, revenues will need to be increased in areas like vehicle registration fees and sales tax.  These changes will not be popular, as they will touch everyone [...]