Blogging Renaissance Blogs are experiencing a renaissance lately. If you're not familiar with blogs here's the short explanation. Blogs (short for weblogs) were developed as an online diary or journal about five years ago. Bloggers, as they are commonly known, would post entries on their blogs on what ever topic the blog was about or…
From Shared Spaces… Today's highlights: Linspire PhoneGaim; Are phone numbers dead?; Data Connection MeetingServer; admin-on-air; IMWatching; Linspire (previously Lindows) released PhoneGaim, a plug-in that adds voice-over-IP capabilities to the Gaim instant messaging client. Features SIP-based VoIP service. An optional gateway service is available for PC-to-phone calls. eWeek Guy Kewney posits that phone numbers are dead,…
Robin Good posted this interesting discussion on looking for a non-Western bloc hosting provider (therefore non-American, Canadian, or European, I gather). Is this paranoia? I'm not sure. I don't think that a site would go down, per se in the event of a terrorist attack. The Internet as a whole might slow down to a…
Blogs have reached the pont where, like e-mail and websites before them, they are a powerful tool for moblizing people in grassroots campaigns. Is this because they are better grassroots tools than e-mail or websites? To some extent yes, they do have the give and take of discussion board, but really I think their power…
On Thursday, while watching CSI, I wrote about MS buying Lookout Software and that I downloaded the application to try. Now to be honest I haven't had the need to find a something since I installed. So I don't have the “holy smokes it saved my butt” kind of review. This is pretty basic. The…
Creator of the web turns knightSir Tim! If there is one man in this world who has changed it so much in so little time (only ten years!), Tim Berners-Lee is the man. This is an honour well deserved. All because Berners-Lee is dyslexic and wanted a new way to organize information in a way…
Now isn’t this interesting. I was just looking at this tool a few days ago. Google is making a tool. Apple is working on a tool. X1 is a hot tool. I’ve just downloaded Lookout to give it a whirl. If I were MS, I would give the tool away for free. Just have it…
Earlier in the week I wrote about trying Macromedia's Breeze and Convoq's ASAP today I had the chance to put ASAP to the test. As it turned out this test not only tested ASAP but LiveMeeting and proved again why Boy Scouts are on to something. My meeting today was scheduled to be held over…
From Shared Spaces…July 16 updates Today's highlights: Microsoft LCS 2005 to link public IM networks; CourseForum ProjectForum 3.7 and CourseForum 3.7; eRoom.net Seminar; Microsoft announced that Live Communications Server 2005, due in 4Q2004, will provide gateway routing services to link users to all three of the public IM networks — MSN, AOL (AOL IM and…
Feed Readers: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been Amy's article isn't compelling for her reviews of different feed readers, it's compelling because it talks about another person leaving the Windows platform. I'm not a huge fan of Windows. I use it for necessity, really. I wonder if Amy isn't alone. Leaving IE, then leaving…
