Posted on October 6, 2004 6:01 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
If there’s any sign that wikis are become more popular, it’s the launch of a hosted application wiki by a startup called JotSpot. The company’s Web site currently is nothing more than a couple of e-mail links, one of which allows potential users to apply for beta status on the hosted service. According to a press release, workgroups can use the hosted wiki…
Posted on October 5, 2004 2:14 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
More companies are using instant messaging (IM) than ever. Osterman Research looks at the number of companies using IM every March and September, and last month set the record, with 50% of organizations using IM for business purposes. In March, 44% of companies were taking advantage of IM. When Osterman began surveying in 2001, only 21% of companies were leveraging…
Posted on October 4, 2004 4:52 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
Sony was one of the most paranoid of the music companies when it came to protecting copyright in the digital era. I bought an early Sony digital music player, but it only played its own proprietary format, making all the MP3 files I’d acquired useless. To protect the music it sold on CD, Sony built in restrictions that allowed an owner to…
Posted on October 4, 2004 7:35 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Given that Google has gobbled the search world (remember HotBot?), how can an upstart get any attention at all for its innovative approach to search? That’s the challenge facing Vivisimo Inc., which just released a beta of a new search engine called Clusty.
Hmm. Well, maybe if a few blogs mention it…
My favorite search engine used to be Northern Light, which nobody…
Posted on September 28, 2004 10:04 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
C|Net has created a video tutorial about RSS. The video, part of a page that introduces RSS to newcomers, “explains how RSS feeds give you the news you need, when and where you want it,” the site explains.
Thanks to CommonCraft for the link.
Posted on September 28, 2004 8:29 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
There are several wiki applications you can download for free, including the original wiki program developed by Ward Cunningham and pmWiki, the one I’m using for the Employee Communications Manifesto. Now you can add FlexWiki to the list. What’s unusual about that is FlexWiki is a Microsoft program.
It’s not the first application Microsoft has made available as an open-source program, according to an article in…
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