Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd: News for Today, May 18

From the Telework Times today: I think the remote McDonalds has got to be the strangest one of these tidbits. And it is interesting that in Washinton D.C. they have to reduce the number of teleworkers. I guess too many people were trying to claim what ever tax bonus available. Revision to Criteria Reduces Number…

After a brief hiatus while I was in Montreal, I'll have articles and updates today and over the weekend.

I was thinking over the weekend that I wanted to save a presentation I did in June in Flash to make available online. So I go looking (online of course) for PPT to SWF tools and I learn (or maybe am reminded of) OpenOffice can save presentations to Flash natively! A short (over DSL) download…

Sounds interesting. This is free service to embed chat into a webpage. Okay, sounds like great technology, now how are they going to make money? An interesting enough idea to try. The important factor is how it integrates with your existing web presence. Want To Interact More Directly With Your Customers? Get Chatango – RG…

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…

Robin Good has done a quick review of a new blog directory called BlogCatalog. The directory is in its early days, but I'll be submitting this blog as soon as I move it to its new URL (I'm switching over to Blogware very soon). Robin's review quotes that it is growing in popularity as a…