This article and Amy Gahran's post on Contentious finally pushed me over the edge. I'm trying Firefox and so far am enjoying it. I do have Opera installed, but I'm finding it cluttered. MS really needs to deal with this asap. Can you say “negligence”? They've admitted it is a flaw, they've admitted that it…

I had a chance to hear Ray Ozzie talk about collaboration and webcasting today at Robin Good's Kolabora event today. Ray talked a little about how Groove is used within the military. A good webcast, if nothing else just to hear Ray pan whiteboards in applications like Groove and Netmeeting as pretty much useless. Boston…

This is a very important first step towards pulling ad-supported, free software off the blacklist. I hope Qualcomm does the same thing soon with Eudora. I really liked Eudora and didn't really mind the ads too much. Somewhere buried in the user agreement was a privacy clause, but a public statement like this will go…

This is a really good article from BusinessWeek on how businesses are taking adavantage of blogs both for external PR, but also helping people be more productive. Blogging with the Boss' blessing: “Blogging With The Boss's Blessing More companies are helping employees to speak freely — and bond with customers “

This looks like an interesting offering for OS X users. Nice interface and solid features. There is a trial version available. Near-Time Flow content management software debuts: “Near-Time Flow content management software debuts By Peter Cohen pcohen@maccentral.com June 28, 2004 10:50 am ET Near-Time Inc. on Monday announced the release of Near-Time Flow, a peer-to-peer…

An interesting step as blogging moves more into the mainstream and more companies (even CEOs) see the powerful potential of blogs as a communications medium. Sun's Schwartz Ponders Blogging: “Sun's Schwartz Ponders Blogging By Darryl K. Taft June 29, 2004 SAN FRANCISCO–The president of Sun Microsystems Inc. is looking at ways to express his views…

Although the name makes me think of something I'd pick up at the bakery with a coffee (“I'd like a raspberry bliki and a large coffee, double-milk”), the concept of blikis I find very interesting and I think these hold great potential, more than straight blogs or wikis for business collaboration use. I'm going to…

This is an exciting development, but as the article continues, MS is still the holdout with no native support for IE. Now this concerns me because it seems that whenever MS finally decides to jump on a bandwagon they hijack it and we're all drawn down a different path. I'd really hate for webfeeds to…

This is an interesting article, one of several of it's ilk lately, and I often reflect on my own technologies choices and path. Years ago I was an unabashed, even evangelistic, Mac person. Then I moved to Canada and became part of a large pharmaceutical company that was decidedly anti-Mac. So, though my Mac was…

Microsoft is moving, as I would expect, quickly to take advantage of Yahoo and AOL's departure from the business IM space. If they start offering tools to migrate from Yahoo or AOL to MSN, then that would be really interesting. Picking Up the Im Pieces: “The retreat of Yahoo Inc. and America Online Inc. from…