Brief hiatus

MessageCast has developed a way to RSS feeds into customers MSN IM boxes. Interesting idea. It does get around spam, it can sense if you're offline and send to through an alternate channel. Certainly a company to watch as they roll out this service to bloggers (see website). MessageCast Tests RSS for DeliveryAs the RSS…

Updates from SharedSpaces… News in the shared spaces world: Version 3.0 of Oracle Collaboration Suite (due 4Q2004) will add instant messaging services and collaborative work spaces (accessible from other messaging and collaboration applications via a Web services API). eWeek Scalix released Version 9.0 of its namesake Linux-based email and calendaring platform. New features: expanded desktop…

This is a troubling trend. Very often I'm presented with an interesting article from one of my RSS newsfeeds and I'm requested to register or purchase a subscription. This isn't just happening the the States. Here is Canada the National Post and other CanWest papers are starting to go that route as well. My personal…

This is an odd sort of post for this blog, but it is a good read. Think about how you develop ideas. How do they get going? How many are all set on the drawing board, but then don't get done? Just think and read on… Idea Analysis and the Parabolic Weenie RoasterJuly 15, 2004…

This looks like a very interesting tool. I've just started using/switched to AvantBrowser, so I'm not sure if I'll have to switch back to IE to really try it out. But the ability to annotate favorites and other power searching tools is what attracted me to it. It's free, but has an affiliate relationship with…

This sounds very interesting and compelling and if I had the shared drive and server, I would be interested in this. If you fit their criteria, I think it might be worth a look for basic team coordination. Virtual Global(TM) Offers Free Team Collaboration Software: “Virtual Global(TM) Offers Free Team Collaboration Software Monday June 28,…