John Robb on dataBlogging

We're blushing. Some incredibly kind words from John Robb regarding dataBlogging:

Joe Reger's new datablogging venture is awesome. This is something that has been showing signs of life for years now, but nobody wanted to start a venture to capture its value. Early applications included a server status weblog and even a blog that pulled sales data from Siebel (a very popular weblog at a huge corporation that will remain nameless). Personally, I think this method of weblogging has more of a potentially to storm the enterprise than any other application.

Wow! More on his entry. But just that bit alone is... well... Wow! Thanks John.

John clearly grasps the vision of dataBlogging. He's on the path of the CIO lowering his cost to service his users. Every day CIOs get requests to track new data. In general they look for common off-the-shelf products to serve their user's needs. But when they can't they're forced to resort to something smallish like a Microsoft Access solution or something massive like a custom web application with a database back-end. Such solutions can be costly and often the users weren't sure that they needed the data in the first place. John Robb quickly points out that dataBlogging allows a "weblog model of data entry" which users can quickly adopt.

It's somewhere between Access and a custom web app. Quick and cost-effective. And since each custom log that a user creates has its own RSS feeds (and XML-RPC APIs coming soon) that data can integrate to other legacy systems.

Thanks again for the kind words and the linkage John! Keep up the great work with Global Guerillas and all of your other projects.