Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd: News for Today, May 19

There is a new update available for this promising new collaboration and IM tool. The folks at Shinkuro have added a very interesting feature, the ability to share buddy/friend lists. Based off the principle of social networking you can request to see a friend's contacts, then add them to your set of friends. I can…

Blogging Renaissance Blogs are experiencing a renaissance lately. If you're not familiar with blogs here's the short explanation. Blogs (short for weblogs) were developed as an online diary or journal about five years ago. Bloggers, as they are commonly known, would post entries on their blogs on what ever topic the blog was about or…

There seem to be a lot of articles on metrics lately. This one is great for making the case that the basic glance at page views and visits isn't enough. Dig deeper, try to understand what users are trying to do. Then you find the real gems. With Data Analysis, Less Isn't More

Maybe a little off topic, but it this is so amazing I couldn't let it pass. Step into a box. Your body is scanned for measurements, and your custom fit clothes are ready in 10-15 days! Yes, this is a premium technology now, but the potential future applications are really amazing. Yahoo! News – Scanner…

News from Shared Spaces. The departure of David Fowler for IMlogic is certainly interesting and Michael makes good suppositions on the “why”. I'm also struck by how few Windows Server 2003 customers had implemented SharePoint. While I think SharePoint is interesting, I agree with Michael, I'm not sure it's ready for prime time. Today's highlights:…

Ah brainstorming. Like Amy says in her Artistic Aside post, brainstorming is often challenging and uncomfortable. I think the irony is for me that great ideas very often come from brainstorming sessions, but often the sessions are tortuous or worse, the great ideas are lost in the sea of corporate bureaucracy. Amy has two great…