The Virtues of Chitchat – Making I.T. Work – CIO Magazine May 15,2004

Since collaboration is one of the technolgy areas I track, this is very interesting. Beyond the potential security headaches, blogs and wikis do have the potential to be easy, short learning curve ways to transmit information and archive it for later. Now that there are tools to go from e-mail to blog (available in Blogger…

Yahoo! News – Google Planning Desktop Software Search Tool – NYT

A big news day for Google. The Google IE toolbar and beta deskbar are invaluable to me. I'm actually happy to share a little information on my surfing in exchange for these powerful tools. I fully expect I will try the Google desktop search tool when it becomes available. Yahoo! News – Google Planning Desktop…

Free Publishing Platform For Mailing And Discussion Lists: Google Groups 2 – RG News

Beyond the fact that Google is really trying to go beyond search, what I think is interesting is the ability to automatically publish a webfeed (Atom format) Excellent marriage of old (e-mail) and new (webfeed). Free Publishing Platform For Mailing And Discussion Lists: Google Groups 2 – RG News

Who owns your e-mail address? | Perspectives | CNET News.com

This article starts out with some interesting statements. The one that caught my eye was the dire prediction that spam, if left unchecked, could make e-mail as we know it useless and discourage those who aren't online to get online. Then Mark takes the article down the road of personal property rights…therefore the title. Personally…

Custom Webfeeds: Content to Support Customer Relationships: Contentious Weblog

This is an exciting development. Linking CRM systems to deliver key information to key customers. I expect many companies who might like to take advantage of this. Even suppling targeted non-company news feeds to customers. For example if you are a WebTrends reseller, syndicating content from ClickZ. This could be the beginning of an interesting…