Brian O'Leary
BeyondPrint Offers Helpful Review of StartWithXML
A review of the StartWithXML forum and research paper supports the effort but questions why we are silent on the quality of XML tools.
Can XML Help you Avoid a Disruptive Innovation?
This semester, I'm fortunate to spend my Wednesday nights teaching management to students who are part of NYU's M.S. in publishing program. Although a significant share of the course is given over to management fundamentals, the students are for the most part already working in publishing, so they also look for connections between lessons learned and their real-world application. One…
When it Comes to Search, How Low Can You Go?
Discussing futurist Paul Saffo's observation on search.
XML and APIs: Perfect Together
This week's formal announcement of the first three APIs for Google Book Search provides a frame for the "why" in StartWithXML: Why and How? Although Google has confirmed just a few APIs, or application programming interfaces, the firm has clearly opened the door to making book content more easily searchable and findable and, through the use of some standard identifiers,…