Dancing to your own drummer ? ubiquitous music and face to face communication
Two really good sections of this article. First is on a legal Russian music download service. I used Puretracks myself with no problem. Of course I had a $10...
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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/Netera...
iPods pose security risk for enterprises, Gartner says
Paranoid? Actually not really. Have you seen "The Recruit" with Al Pacino and Colin Ferrel?. Okay, if you haven't this is a spoiler...but the data is being s...
Recent articles
Some recent articles from Gillian Kerr of Toronto. I especially like her review of Smart Meeting. I haven't used it, but my gut tells me...cool, but not yet....
About Furl, File Sharing, and Copyright
I tried Furl, thought it looked interesting, but chickened out on doing some of the sign ups...now I'm going to try it again. Amy Gahran has been writing a g...
One of the exciting new capabilities within the soon-to-ship version 3.0 is…
This feature is very much like Shinkuro. And it is powerful. Making sharing files easy and secure should be one of the core requirements of any good collabor...
RSS Round-up: SharpReader and FeedReader
This is the second of recent articles on RSS (webfeeds). The PC World article is longer and gives a good list of tools whereas this one focuses on just Sharp...
Scriptless IE Not Worth It
A good piece of opinion. I'm surprised, actually, at how many sites didn't break with scripting and ActiveX turned off, but having your banking site kack out...
Using personas in intranet projects
I don't think this is a terribly new idea, but one that has been used under the guise of "Typical user", etc. Regardless, the philosophy behind personas is p...
Is Groove Notes Done Right?
Interesting snipets from an Internet with Groove's Ray Ozzie. > Internetnews.com yesterday posted an interview with Ray Ozzie. Reporter Susan Kuchinskas caug...
TOBISHA TO MARKET THUMB-SIZE FUEL CELL
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 whi...
Company Plugs RSS as Alternate to E-Mail Marketing
I think everyone who blogs and uses RSS to some degree knew this would be coming. But it really only makes good sense. If I want to know about the new widget...
Fear of RSS
"If you build it, they will come." That was definitely the mantra of the online world for the first few years. Then, people became obsessed with building tra...
KM tools put users in control
Obviously, this space is heating up. Notice how many new P2P collaboration applications there are lately? With all the problems of Napster and Kazaa, many sp...
Microsoft posts work-around for IE flaw
I downloaded this myself earlier today. So have I switched back to AvantBrowser or IE? Nope. I'm only using IE (or AvantBrowser) if there is a site that does...