I guess I should log into my GMail account more often. GMail has added contact list import, signatures, and Safari support. I imported my contacts already (like 350ish), but haven't tried the signature yet. In truth, I don't use my GMail account often. But when I needed it on the road it sure came in…

John Dvorak has written a very interesting opinion piece making the statement that e-mail is broken. I don't agree, since e-mail seems to work just fine, with people you keep in contact with. What is broken is (or actually never really existed) is that e-mail wasn't designed to keep up or plan for changing e-mail…

Interesting post. I had heard about this earlier. Groove is an interesting choice for this. I think, really, any decent web-based collaboration tool, could've done the job. Earlier this month, Sanjana Yajitha Hattotuwa, a Rotary World Peace Scholar at the University of Queensland, spoke at the Third Annual Forum on Online Dispute Resolution in Melbourne,…

Sometimes you have an epiphany that you'd like to post to your blog, but maybe you're on the bus, or ferry, or some other place where you're not connected to the Internet. Okay, you could use notepad or other text editor, write your thoughts down and then copy and paste into your blog through the…

Here is the eWeek review of Groove Virtual Office. It's not as glowing as some others, but the one point I this is important is the lack of cross-platform compatibility. I also wonder how many organizations will be willing to pay for a system that allow duplicates e-mail and other systems. The strongest feature I…

Robin Good has done a quick review of a new blog directory called BlogCatalog. The directory is in its early days, but I'll be submitting this blog as soon as I move it to its new URL (I'm switching over to Blogware very soon). Robin's review quotes that it is growing in popularity as a…

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…

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…