This isn't earth shattering, but this is an interesting view of the future…will Google become like an OS? Who knows with GMail, Blogger, Search, and desktop tools coming down the pike. Should be an interesting year in technology.
I doubt this will come to pass, it's almost like the old urban legend that the U.S. Postal service will start charging for e-mail, but saddly this is a true story. After just having a conversation over Skype (side note: I was blow away. The sound quality really was better than a standard land-line). Something…
Wow, this is a really fresh approach to Knowledge Management (KM), think about how people actually work, what their roles are, and how that helps the organizations. According to the book The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations (Harvard Business School Press, June 2004) There are a few…
Good articles here. The one from FT is particularly good, so here's the link: FT: Collaboration fights the e-mail epidemic. The whole collaboration to e-mail transition one is hard and as much as I like Groove, some of the features overlap a little too much. But I think v3 due this summer will likely be…
I like to think of myself as a Mac person at hard. I started out on the Apple IIe then to Macs in University, right through to my “real” jobs in web design and development. But really for the past 6 years I've had to live in the Windows world. Eventually it would be nice…
Small, safe fuel cells are finally coming to pass. This is a fantastic development. This should decrease the size and weight of laptops and other devices while increasing the on-battery running time. TOBISHA TO MARKET THUMB-SIZE FUEL CELL: “TOKYO – Toshiba, one of the Japanese companies racing to develop electronic devices powered with a miniature…
I have yet to read the article cited, but I certainly support the sentiment. Too often IT department choose what is convenient, instead of really looking for what meats the real needs of users. Often, I've found, the “pilot” stage is really just “pre-implementation testing”. If it were me, I would have several small pilot…
