I heard of colleges, universities, and waterparks starting to do this. I think they were using a version of GPS. I think this has a lot more power in the long-term. Perhaps we won't be far off from having parent portable devices that would work in parks, malls, zoos, regardless of whether or not the service was offered there.
First post on the new View from the Isle location!
I guess I should log into my GMail account more often. GMail has added contact list import, signatures, and Safari support. I imported my contacts already (like 350ish), but haven't tried the signature yet. In truth, I don't use my GMail account often. But when I needed it on the road it sure came in…
I have seen this myself in my own site logs. Repeated requests for files I know don't exists, but all things that are default pages for server set up, etc. Hopefully if sharp sys admins hadn't caught these, they do now. And all those people who set up the small office servers themselves and didn't…
Although the name makes me think of something I'd pick up at the bakery with a coffee (“I'd like a raspberry bliki and a large coffee, double-milk”), the concept of blikis I find very interesting and I think these hold great potential, more than straight blogs or wikis for business collaboration use. I'm going to…
MS is really taking it on the chin right now. This is yet another problem with IE. I think this vulnerability is perhaps the scariest. The fact that a trusted site's content could be altered right under your nose is very scary. One minute there are links to other good and trusted site, then the…
Collaboration and telework isn't about technology. Technology enables people to telecommute, but there have to be processes in place and a willingness and perceived value in picking up the phone, IMing, e-mailing, blogging, to connect with all the people in the team or group. If part of the group decides not to bother anymore, the…
