These are my links for January 6th:

• Ada Lovelace Day - More on Ada Lovelace Day.
• ‘I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire’ - PledgeBank - In support of raising the profile of women in technology on Ada Lovelace day, sign up to pledge to write a blog post about a woman in tech who you admire.

These are my links for January 5th:

• Application Platform Strategies Blog: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services - SOA, the "great failed experiment". I especially like the graphic of the SOAsaurus about to be hit by the economy meteor.

These are my links for January 5th:

• il blog del BPM: Un’altra tesi sul BPM - If your Italian is better than mine (which isn't difficult, since mine is limited to food-related terms and asking "Which way to the cathedral"?), you can read this university thesis on human process orchestration in BPM. I'm very encouraged by the increase in academic programs related to BPM.

These are my links for January 1st:

• How to unlock your 3G iPhone - Unlocking your iPhone for use with other carriers.

These are my links for December 31st:

• Damir Systems Inc. » Blog Archive » GPS Event [2] - My intrepid other half, bored over the holidays, teaches himself Python, hacks his GPS and starts experimenting with pushing the data into CEP.

Another paper that you can write, even if you’re not up for heading to Ulm this year: the Workflow Management Coalition’s BPM and Workflow Handbook for 2009. The spotlight this year is on BPM in government, and the deadline for abstracts is December 31st which doesn’t leave a lot of time. Completed papers are due February 22nd, and the book is out in June.

These are my links for December 29th:

• ZapThink :: Research - Balancing Repeatability and Situationality with Process Mashups - Enterprise process mashups: combining applications via a flexible interface.
• SOA/BPM Reference Demo Project - Samples of using SAP NetWeaver BPM. Not really useful as templates, but good training documents if you’re just getting started and want to see how to put together a process with the product.
• Jay Goldman » Blog Archive » Top 10 iPhone Power User Tips - Great tips for iPhone/iTouch usage: I learned several new things from this list.

Earlier this year, I went to Milan for the International BPM conference for a look at the academic side of BPM conferences, and was completely won over: in my coverage, I highly recommended that BPM vendors send someone from their architecture/design team to listen in on the BPM research that is being done in the private and university labs, or even submit a paper on their own innovations.

Next year, the conference will be held in Ulm, Germany from September 7th-10th, and Michael zur Muehlen lists all the details. If you’re interested in submitting a paper, the deadline is March 15th.

In a post about collaboration, of all things, a Gartner analyst shows how not to interact with his blog’s readers. If you’re a frequent reader of Jim Sinur’s blog, you know that in most posts he invites conversation with open-ended questions at the end, e.g., “What is your experience with this issue”, presumably to feed ideas into his research on the topic at hand.

In this post, he refers to the increasing number of BPM vendors that are including collaboration features, and his first commenter asks him to list some of those vendors. Jim’s response? “We will be writing research notes on this topic going forward that will identify those vendors that have unique solutions.” In other words, “I’m happy to collect your ideas for free as part of my research, but you have to pay for the results.”

These are my links for December 23rd:

• Twitter / ttcupdates - Toronto Transit service interruption updates now on Twitter (unofficially). Too bad that we can't get SMS Twitter updates here anymore.