As many have predicted, Microsoft is starting to tackle Google and Yahoo head on. I'll be interested to see what they offer, but I'm not likely to switch from Google, though. Microsoft prepares for search assault | CNET News.com: “SYDNEY–Microsoft plans to kick off a series of improvements to its search capabilities starting in July…
Commentary from Michael Sampson of Shared Spaces on Yahoo and AOL leaving the corporate IM market. I share his perspective on this issue. I think still, though, that there is room for solid, multi-network, business focused IM tools. We'll just have to wait and see I guess. Why all the fuss about AOL and Yahoo…
A very interesting article by Peter Coffee. It has me thinking about what the next generation of messaging will look like. It's hard to imagine in someways, but think about how you get the direct phone line of a person at a given company. Generally you get this information when you receive a business card…
With this standard being ratified, Wi-Fi will start getting more secure. Though, it is hotspots where I think there is still a security gap. I wonder how hotspot operators will implement security, if at all. Given that the idea of hotspots is to connect quickly and easily, putting up security barrier goes against the grain….
Nice article from South Africa on KM. Quick read, with (my favourite) good analogies. Sunday Times South Africa Jun 25 2004 2:27AM GMT [Feedster.com Results For: knowledge management]
This sounds like an interesting piece of software. Just keeping track of versions of documents is one of the hardest, but most important functions. I know it has been one of my major frustrations in collaborating on documents. Definitely a technology to watch. The developer demonstrates the upcoming release of an application code-name Project Chrome…
After discovering TheOpenCD.org project through an article in PCWorld, I found the free multi-network IM client called Miranda IM. Miranda IM works using a plugin architecture, one plugin allows you to post to your Blogger based blog through IM. This is a post through the interface. So far, so good.
View the demo provided in the article below. The demo is short and shows how this actually works. Of course, the assumption is that a company already has a Breeze server and team room set up. Still a good and interesting demo. Flash based Web conferencing tool now integrates with instant messaging to ease online…
Short article on some thoughts on Supernova 2004. Participants in the Supernova conference give insight into the social dynamics around the use of online social networking services, Weblogs and wikis. [eWEEK.com Messaging and Collaboration]
If you are a Trillian user, you're probably aware that Yahoo is blocking your access and although Trillian was patched to get their users back online, Yahoo has said it would keep blocking Trillian. Chris Cooper's article here touches on one of the fundamental flaws in IM, the lack of interoperability. Just because I use…