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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…

While e-mail creaks and groans under the weight of spam, worms, hyperactive filters and false positives, RSS offers the chance for a new context, eWEEK's Steve Gillmor says. Gillmor might be exaggerating, but RSS is definately getting legs. I expect that RSS will take over the newsletter distribution part of e-mail very soon. As E-Mail…

Webfeeds and blogging must be important if Microsoft wants to get their figures into. I'm sure they'll use their money to launch a free Blogging site to complete with Blogger and link it to MSN. Then they'll add interesting features, but will only work if you use IE…then the marketshare daemon will raise it's ugly…

And I thought I was the only one who jumped when the phone rang thinking “What is that strange sound? Oh, the phone!” I definitely prefer e-mail and IM to phone calls. My wife and I IM between my and her home offices. The phone is great and I often “resort” to it when the…

Robin's short summary of the longer article is very good. Read it, then read the longer article for specific things to do. I thinking about presentations I give, I know now that I need to determine what my one main message is, and keep tying the presentation and talk to it. Regardless of the length…

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…