Monthly Archives: September 2006

links for 2006-09-29

How to fail in the transition from VoIP to Unified Communications - Messaging and Web Security
Ken Camp: “You can invest your time and effort in saving money on phone calls. But phone calls are minutes, and minutes are cheap. Minutes are damn cheap.”
(tags: voip communications)

links for 2006-09-28

Wired 14.07: What Kind of Genius Are You?
(tags: career creativity innovation inspiration intelligence psychology toread)

Creating Passionate Users: It’s not too late to be a genius
Kathy Sierra: “So… to all the hares out there… watch your back! We’re coming. Just really, really s l o w l y.”
(tags: achievement business career creativity)

tecosystems: links for 2006-09-28
How meta… […]

links for 2006-09-27

alexbarnett.net blog : Does Web 2.0 have to mean OWO (Only Works Online)
Browser-only versus occasionally connected computing.
(tags: web2.0 office2.0 browser synchronizedweb)

Berkun blog » Blog Archive » How to run a great unconference session
(tags: collaboration conferences howto unconferences)

Where’s the Gantt gone? at disambiguity
“it’s quite interesting that both 37 Signals and WeBreakStuff have not used any visualisation […]

Email Infrastructure Goes On A Diet

Christine Herron is blogging from DEMOfall, where new technology is exhibited to a crowd of venture capitalists, journalists, entrepreneurs, and business executives. I was intrigued to read Christine’s description of PostPath, a Linux-based replacement for Microsoft Exchange server. After the onslaught of web-based Microsoft Office replacement wannabes, it’s nice to see a company aiming at […]

Scatterbrained

I cannot focus. I have too many pressing things to do: plant Apricot Beauty tulip bulbs and grape hyacinths around my new skyline honey locust tree, pretty up the chat capability for the podcast jam website, review a load of database design docs for a client, hire an afterschool nanny so I don’t turn into […]

links for 2006-09-25

Here we go again…Podcast debate… « Marketing Nirvāna — by Mario Sundar
“ideally a podcast should be around 5 minutes in length unless it’s super-interesting content (think NPR, MTV). Even if you’re listening during your commute you are inclined to doze off on the wheel after 15 minutes on a topic.”
(tags: podcasting podcastjam)

Is podcasting an ambient […]

Software Development Tradeoffs: A Lesson from Web-Based Chat

Effective software development requires attention to design tradeoffs. You can’t get everything you want all at once. For example, sometimes it’s better to use flat files for data storage instead of a DBMS. Yes, databases give you all sorts of nice features: structured data, transaction control, easy querying and analysis, better protection against data corruption. […]

links for 2006-09-24

AjaxChat: Chatting, the AJAX Way!
Ajax and chat go together like chocolate and peanut butter.
(tags: ajax chat coding toread tutorial javascript)

AjaxChat.org
A free Ajax-based chat. We’re testing this for use on the Office 2.0 Podcast Jam website.
(tags: ajax chat podcastjam)

Creating Ourselves through Dialogue

The power of blogging is not that it allows us to broadcast our voice and ideas to many people, but that it supports human scale interactions, dialogues between and among people that wouldn’t otherwise happen. This is what Jeneane Sessum has called M2Y, me to you, and it’s what ProBlogger Darren Rowse wrote about today […]

links for 2006-09-20

Women researchers, designers & artists working in pervasive computing-related fields
(tags: where-are-the-women design pervasive-computing research)

Business 2.0…Big Innovations: Coghead - Sep. 18, 2006
“More fundamentally, Coghead could completely upend the balance of power in the software game — putting users, and not coders, in ascendancy.”
(tags: coding web2.0 software enterprise2.0)