Warchalking takes off: News.com covers the nascent warchalking meme, in which simple glyphs chalked on sidewalks or public surfaces identify the presence of nearby Wi-Fi access points, public or otherwise. Matt Jones continues the dialog on all manner of subjects related to warchalking. You were there: birth of a meme.[80211b News]
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IBM Ups Portal Platform [1]….
IBM Ups Portal Platform. Shipping of WebSphere Portal 4.1 includes new portlet partners, embedded app server, all around fuller-featured portal framework [Line56: B2B News]
Roll your own IM-bot [1]….
Roll your own IM-bot. WiredBots: simple toolkits for making AIM and MSN Messenger IM bots. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]
Day 12: Using color safely…
Day 12: Using color safely. This tip is a general rule that applies to many areas of web design, but I will focus on a specific example that is common among weblogs: link text. There are two potential problems related to color. First, your link text may not contrast sufficiently with your background color. Any very light color on a…
RSS, Blogs and Events [1]….
RSS, Blogs and Events. Have been doing some more thinking on the Digital Dashboard and how it needs to be put together. The thinking has also been motivated on how best we can integrate the work being done internally by three different teams as part of the BlogStreet, Digital Dashboard and Enterprise Software projects. [E M E R G I…
Email Search Utility [1]. Information…
Email Search Utility. Information Management for the Desktop: “I’ve wondered from time to time, however, how I might use the database to centralize all the information on my system. For example, I have some useful information floating around in e-mail archives, never to be read again. I suppose I could learn the search/grep [E M E R G I C…
Could bad IA get you…
Could bad IA get you arrested?. The Intranet Focus Blog is, from what I understand, the only public blog dealing specifically with intranet issues. A recent post entitled Enron ? The Intranet Implications talks about how, with all this talk lately of document retention policies and email backups, little attention is paid to how documents are stored, accessed, and kept…
TECH TALK: Rethinking Enterprise Software:…
TECH TALK: Rethinking Enterprise Software: Digital Dashboard (Part 3). The two themes central for the New Desktop are Chronology and Events. A blog (a personal journal or diary) lends itself to capturing thinking and displaying based on time. [Examples of blogs: John Robb, Mine] We would be expected to narrate events, tell stories about the work we are doing, [E…
How to boost employee productivity…
How to boost employee productivity by using a news aggregator.. An interesting claim. “A small change in the way we work could shave 45 minutes off of the average workday. That small change is to use a news aggregator to get news instead of gathering it by hand.” – John Robb via Jeff Cheney: Radio. It might even be true; it feels…
vCalendar Answer! [1].
vCalendar Answer!. Phil: “Click here to add this event to your Outlook or Netscape calendar.” Me: “Phil, how did you create the vcs file??!! I’ve wanted to learn how to automatically generate these in our online calendar at work, but I don’t know enough about vCalendar.” Phil: “How did I do this? Manually, for now.” Me: “Phil, you da man!”[The…