Skype review from Robin Good

Here is the eWeek review of Groove Virtual Office. It's not as glowing as some others, but the one point I this is important is the lack of cross-platform compatibility. I also wonder how many organizations will be willing to pay for a system that allow duplicates e-mail and other systems. The strongest feature I…

This is a troubling trend. Very often I'm presented with an interesting article from one of my RSS newsfeeds and I'm requested to register or purchase a subscription. This isn't just happening the the States. Here is Canada the National Post and other CanWest papers are starting to go that route as well. My personal…

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…

This seems so much like Prohibition that it isn't even funny. P2P networks are a tool. A tool that, granted, is being used for some not good things. Trying to ban something like this just won't work. Groove is a P2P network. One could shuttle all kinds of information, completely encrypted, to a group of…

An interesting piece from Internetnews.com. Firstly it made jump right the the Trillian website to look for the plugins mentioned. Then there is my opinion. I see IM going a lot further. Granted Yahoo, AIM, and MSN are probably going to stick to some basic features, maybe add some new things here and there, but…

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…