Shared Spaces Aug 5

From the Globe and Mail, With IM so pervasive, I expect to see far more features and tools added. I hope the Balkinization of IM ends, soon. Having multiple clients running or something like Trillian is like needing a different phone number for each country that wants to call you. Globetechnology

This is a very interesting development in my mind because now there is a future deployment platform for Breeze-based presentations to cellphones. Granted, Flash Lite might now support Breeze or cellphones don't have the bandwidth capabilities, yet. Yet, is the key word. InfoWorld: Multimedia goes mobile with Flash Lite 1.1: June 28, 2004: By Paul…

Not directly associated with technology, but a very important truism. Aim high, find your dream and set your mind that you will achieve it. When I was working for big pharma, my colleagues and others used to ask me: “How did you pull off moving from the Greater Toronto Area to British Columbia and start…

From Shared Spaces…July 16 updates Today's highlights: Microsoft LCS 2005 to link public IM networks; CourseForum ProjectForum 3.7 and CourseForum 3.7; eRoom.net Seminar; Microsoft announced that Live Communications Server 2005, due in 4Q2004, will provide gateway routing services to link users to all three of the public IM networks — MSN, AOL (AOL IM and…

John Dvorak has written a very interesting opinion piece making the statement that e-mail is broken. I don't agree, since e-mail seems to work just fine, with people you keep in contact with. What is broken is (or actually never really existed) is that e-mail wasn't designed to keep up or plan for changing e-mail…

From Contentious…two Canadian goverment sites are winners the National Research Council and the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. Beyond the Canadian pride in this, later in Amy's article she lists the points that the Nielsen Norman Group cites as Intranet best practices. Some of these have been published else where as well. Government Intranets:…