PCWorld.com – Mapping the New Internet

Who says there's no intrigue on the Internet anymore? Now, I'm not a fan of either Notes or Exchange, but I do like Michael's writing and take on these topics, and this seems to be the story that just keeps going. My post on this Radicati paper, the fallout, and the subsequent META group paper…

This is a vision of the future. Maybe scary, but real. Being able to connect online wherever you are is powerful. BBC NEWS | Technology | Estonia embraces web without wires: “Wireless net access, or wi-fi, is quickly becoming the rule, not exception, in the Estonian capital. “

Funny what you get in your Feedster searches, sometimes dreck, sometimes great stuff. This is the later. I had similar experience, or nearly, on LinkedIn. There was someone I wanted to contact for some reason, maybe to pitch an idea or just a friend of a friend kind of connection. It could also have been…

A landmark in computing and cryptography. When I think of Colossus I think of Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. BBC NEWS | Technology | Return of Colossus marks D-Day

Although some say that IM spam (spim) is becoming a problem, I haven't seen it and Dina Mehta makes good points at why the IM model, for example Skype, works. The default setting is to require permission to contact you and you can deny permission at anytime. Sure, this would make e-mail a little more…

Sadly, this is very, very true. Tod Mafin of the CBC did a couple experiments where, essentially, he was able to get in and wander the halls of a company armed with nothing more than a clipboard and saying he was “from IT”. We all have to raise our level of savvy in this area…