Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd: News for Today, May 19

I've used Skype only once I think. The concept is good, the problem is that Skype becomes yet another IM-like tool. I feel that I can keep only so many apps like this running on my machine at one time. I have three apps like this running right now :Convoq ASAP, Chatango, and Miranda (for…

Steve Gillmor's latest article makes the claim that because MS has been focused on fixing IE's security holes they unwittingly paved the way for RSS. Hmm, I'm not sure. But I'll say one thing for sure, because MS has been abcent from this space there has been some great devlopment in this area. Gillmor cites…

I'm going to briefly depart from my usual blog topics to comment on two holidays early in July that are important to me Canada Day and The Fourth of July. I was reminded today by a post on Contentious by Amy Gahran about National Public Radio (NPR) in the States doing their annual reading of…

GMail is truly a Google coup. I like having the extra e-mail address and I do think the interface and technology is really cool. I think techies/geeks/Neterati love being in select groups…I love private beta tests. You really get to feel like you're helping make a product better and when a friend uses the tool…

So now that AOL has followed Yahoo and abandoned the corporate IM game, I guess that Redmond is going to be free to take it over. I know that there are many robust corporate IM clients, but the fact remains that if you're a Microsoft shop and you have Exchange server 2003/4 installed, they are…

News from Shared Spaces… Today's highlights: New release of eRoom.net from Documentum; AOL and IMlogic on Enterprise IM; Government use of Secure Mail; Microsoft a 'collaboration lightweight'; Yahoo drops Business Messenger; Standard Life gets 50% process improvement via Enterprise Search; New client for Lois Paul & Partners: Documentum released a new version of eRoom.net, its…