Spyware is driving me crazy. I thought I was pretty safe and clean until I tried PestPatrol's online spyware checker. Yikes! I don't think I was loaded by any standard, but because I had been running AdAware and SpyBot I figured I was cool. Nope. They might be good, but they don't catch everything. Not…
From the Globe and Mail today on wireless Internet access nearly everywhere: By air, sea or rail, travellers can stay connected Until recently, going on-line on the road meant Internet access from hotels and perhaps Internet cafés. Getting a connection while actually moving was more difficult and usually slow, using cellular modems and the basic…
Ah brainstorming. Like Amy says in her Artistic Aside post, brainstorming is often challenging and uncomfortable. I think the irony is for me that great ideas very often come from brainstorming sessions, but often the sessions are tortuous or worse, the great ideas are lost in the sea of corporate bureaucracy. Amy has two great…
Amy is definitely using GMail more than I am right now! But with Firefox's GMail extension GMail Notifier, that's changing. I have already started to use it as my newsletter e-mail and I'm starting (after Amy's suggestion) moving some of my non-critical newsletters to GMail. I still like getting the CBC and Globe and Mail…
Let's be clear here to start off with, this isn't an unbiased interview at all. The question “What competitive products did you consider?” wasn't even answered. That out of the way the article does bring up excellent point for why hosted services like Intranets.com are right to many companies. I think the most important is…
This is a must-read article for anyone with a website. Why? Because Robin sets out seven excellent steps you need to take to figure out what success will mean to your website and how to think about measuring it. I've said this in a number of posts, but web metrics and analytics are topics near…
Videotron, the Quebec cable and Internet company is joining the ranking of the other big providers in announcing that VoIP service is coming. Theirs will launch mid-next year. The other cable companies have announced launches as has Telus and Bell Canada. I wonder if the days of the standard POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) line…
Amy has a pair of great posts here that deserve attention. The first article in here lists some great KM articles and posts. I haven't gone through all of them, but some I have already read. Her second post delves into the whole information⁄knowledge duality. Another great article. The whole field of KM really does…
Update on all the buzz on deep search tools. Looks like Microsoft must feel like the heat is on. I wonder if Google will preview its tool soon? One can only hope. Lookout, mention in the article, is really cool and extremely fast. If you didn't download it by now, unfortunately you're out of luck….
I have seen this myself in my own site logs. Repeated requests for files I know don't exists, but all things that are default pages for server set up, etc. Hopefully if sharp sys admins hadn't caught these, they do now. And all those people who set up the small office servers themselves and didn't…