PIMs and Information Clients. Roland Tanglao points to a survey of emerging Personal Information Managers software applications. “There is a new breed of PIMs emerging that I’m *very* excited about. They are all addressing, in different ways, that fact that email clients have been unspeakable abominations for the last few years. The email client paradigm was okay when it was…
Top news sites and directories…
Top news sites and directories. Rich Gordon pulled together data from Nielsen/NetRatings to create this chart of the top news sites and directories/local guides. He explains what he did in today’s E-Media Tidbits…. [JD’s New Media Musings]
RSS with a hands on…
RSS with a hands on approach. Sun recently developed a RSS Utilities Package that is geared towards non-technical editors of web sites that use RSS for aggregating news content. The goal behind this project according to Sun Microsystems was to simplify the use of RSS, thus making syndication more viable in the long run. The results of this project were…
Test-driven development [1]. Programmer and…
Test-driven development. Programmer and author Dave Johnson shared an anecdote on his weblog last year about what happened when his 5-year-old son walked up behind him while he was coding. “He saw the JUnit green bar on the screen,” Johnson reports, “and said ‘Dad, you did good.’” There’s more to this touching father-and-son moment than meets the eye. The idea…
Note: to publish any PowerPoint…
Note: to publish any PowerPoint or Word doc to my Radio weblog, all I have to do is save the file as a Web page to Radio’s WWW folder. In a couple seconds, the files are uploaded. I click on the link for the uploaded document in Radio’s “events” page (on the main menu) and it takes me to the link…
From managing knowledge to coaching…
From managing knowledge to coaching knowledge workers. I’m continuing to work out the implications of shifting attention from knowledge management to knowledge work. It may not sound like a big difference, but I believe it will prove to be a crucial shift in perspective. One important view of organizational design is the long standing notion that certain parts of the…
Adjusting to P-time [1].
Adjusting to P-time. Earlier I wrote about P-time. I’m now trying to see if I can create a work style around it. I am getting up at 5-6am, sitting in my living room with all of my IM buddy lists, IRC and mail tracking the presence of as many people as possible. I have iTunes and iChat Streaming Icon on…
IBM’s WebFountain [1].
IBM’s WebFountain. ResourceShelf writes about an exciting web search technology, described by IBM’s Paul Horn as “Google on steroids.” The company has high hopes for Web Fountain, which was originally developed for a record company. The technology reads and understands text, and uses natural language to make correlations between words. Unlike traditional search, Web Fountain searches everything on the Web,…
Listening to Linux [1]. Good…
Listening to Linux. Good news in the continuing the Linux installation saga: I’m now using my Linux box as a tunes server. Well, actually, all I’ve done is move my mp3s onto it and am playing them through xmms. The slightly impressive bit is that Mandrake’s samba recognized the mini-drive I have plugged into a USB port on my XP…
*Strategic Positioning: How Professional Content…
Strategic Positioning: How Professional Content Can Profit From Individual Context. : What can premium content vendors learn from premium search techniques: an interesting and important story by John Blossom, of Shore Communications…”Premium content vendors may sniff at auctioned ad placement as a concept, but if they take the time to… [PaidContent.org]