BBC NEWS | Technology | Instant messaging grows up

The buzz surrounding VoIP continue. Hopefully some interesting announcements will come out of this conference. Companies are satisfied that Net phones work, but now they want cool new apps, say experts at the Supercomm 2004 conference. [CNET News.com]

MessageCast has developed a way to RSS feeds into customers MSN IM boxes. Interesting idea. It does get around spam, it can sense if you're offline and send to through an alternate channel. Certainly a company to watch as they roll out this service to bloggers (see website). MessageCast Tests RSS for DeliveryAs the RSS…

Perhaps it's the fact that being your own boss is the only real job security, but the short summary paragraph the post on the Groove blog really does sum it up. Technologies have matured to a point where you really can work with clients in any corner of the wired world from anywhere in the…

Good articles here. The one from FT is particularly good, so here's the link: FT: Collaboration fights the e-mail epidemic. The whole collaboration to e-mail transition one is hard and as much as I like Groove, some of the features overlap a little too much. But I think v3 due this summer will likely be…

I'm going to briefly depart from my usual blog topics to comment on two holidays early in July that are important to me Canada Day and The Fourth of July. I was reminded today by a post on Contentious by Amy Gahran about National Public Radio (NPR) in the States doing their annual reading of…

I haven't read the paper, yet. I have make a PDF copy for safe keeping though. Way back when I was part of implementing KM at a former employer. Overall the process was so difficult to succeed that the words “knowledge management” would pretty much kill any project brough up for time or funding. The…