Monthly Archives: April 2004
More on E-mail for Everything
Ironically, the week my InfoWorld subscription seems to have lapsed in the renewal process, Jon Udell, in his latest column, makes some of the very same points I mentioned yesterday regarding the bastardization of email for file sharing. Jon writes: … Continue reading
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Stop Using Email to Share Files
It is increasingly vexing to me the way email is the defacto standard for sharing files. The reality is that email was never designed for sharing files. It is an all too common occurrence in a corporate setting where multi-megabyte … Continue reading
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Google and Flash Index Friendly
As some of my friends can attest one of my long-standing gripes regarding the usage of Flash has been its inability to be indexed by search engines. I suppose that argument is now moot since I just read that Google … Continue reading
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Big Blue Tiki Masala
This doesn’t seem like a spicy chicken dish to me… “IBM is set to unveil an upgraded version of its enterprise-level search technology. Code-named “Masala,” the new software is an improvement on Big Blue’s DB2 Information Integrator released last year. … Continue reading
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Lance 6.0 Beta
New York Times article on the technological advances going into Lance Armstrong’s equipment for this year’s Tour de France “This is a mathematical model,” he said, noting that other factors affect performance. “A rider could have a bad breakfast.” (Link … Continue reading
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InfoPath Hands-on Training
MSDN posted this week a series of InfoPath 2003 SP-1 Training Exercises for the recent preview of InfoPath 2003 Service Pack 1. I haven’t had time yet to run through the exercises, but they seem to be a good primer … Continue reading
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OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1 Preview
MSFT made a preview of OneNote 2003 SP1 available yesterday. In addition to being able to “Record video notes”, there are a number of other niceties too — like for example inserting documents from other Office programs into OneNote and … Continue reading
SENTINIX as a Secure Mail Server Cluster
After reading a bit about the Sentinix GNU/Linux distribution, I wasn’t entirely interested because it’s described as a Linux distribution for network monitoring intrusion detection, penetration testing, auditing, statistics/graphing and anti-spam. The anti-spam feature seemed to be a minor addition. … Continue reading
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Domain On Hold
Apparently, the hatch.org domain was erroneously marked as being “On Hold” last night. So if you sent mail to me @ hatch.org in the last few days it probably bounced. Although, neither I nor Register.com as been able to determine … Continue reading
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RSS Enclosures and PVRs
Congrats to Greg Reinacker! His newly released NewsGator Media Center Edition is a proof of concept for things to come. Specifically with the syndication of multimedia content via RSS enclosures. However, the combination of RSS and PVR’s is not new. … Continue reading
Enterprise Search Opportunity
Among the many interesting quotes in the recent Business Week Online Article regarding Microsoft’s Midlife Crisis, I found the following quote suggesting that one of the features scrapped from the initial release of Longhorn will be in the updated file … Continue reading
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Gopher Net Nostalgia
A back in my day, we surfed the net with rodents… Via Wired News: “Back in 1992, when “yahoo” was something cowboys yelled and “ebay” was just pig Latin, the University of Minnesota developed a new way of looking at … Continue reading
Flying the Two Way Web
After reading a bit about, Paper Airplane, my first impression is that it sounds a bit like Groove, but differs in that it’s integrated into the browser (Mozilla/FireFox currently) and built on-top of the Java JXTA and P2P Sockets framework. … Continue reading
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InfoPath Runtime Plea
At work, when I evangelize the benefits of using InfoPath as a tool for structured data collection and distribution, I talk about how, IMHO, InfoPath will someday unlock all the black-box business intelligence stuffed into Excel, Word, PowerPoint et al. … Continue reading
Yo! G! Cease the Desist and Extend Your API!
For a little over a year I have been using a modified version of Julian Bond’s Google News to RSS script to pull news searches into my aggregator. I even had it pulling news feeds into a corporate intranet until … Continue reading
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