April 7, 2003

SharePoint Portal to be bundled with Office 2003

I’m not surprised by the following announcement and in my opinion, this could make SharePoint Portal as ubiquitous as Office; if Microsoft can find the pricing sweet-spot.

“Microsoft plans to add its SharePoint business portal software to its Office bundle, as the company looks to broaden the appeal of its desktop software. ” (via cnet)

April 6, 2003

Corporate Portal Single Sign-on via Jabber

Bryan over at SourceID posts about the Jabber + PingID single sign-on solution:

“Single sign-on, from corporate portal website, to 401k provider website, to Jabber window.” (via Doc)

April 5, 2003

BBC Reporters Blog

I’ve been trying to avoid posting about the war, but I just have to say that IMHO the BBC Reporters’ Log has been some of the best reporting about the war.

April 4, 2003

NextDraft Blog

Good news … Dave Pell has turned the NextDraft newsletter into a Blog.

However, it’s a shame that the new blog doesn’t have an RSS feed yet.

April 3, 2003

Outlook 2003 Beta 2

I installed Office 2003 Beta 2 the other day and for the most part I’m very pleased and feel much of the hype is justified.

In particular, I see a lot of potential with the native XML capabilities — especially with respect to InfoPath. Although, I’m puzzled by Microsoft’s recent announcement that InfoPath will not be included as part of the retail Office 2003 “system”.

Otherwise, I think they did an excellent job with the updated visual prioritization of information in Outlook 2003.

April 2, 2003

WiFi Community Networking

“… an innovative project within Linksys. Called the LinkSysCommunity Network, the company will provide fast, powerful and inexpensive solutions for Community LANs.”

April 2, 2003

InfoPath and OneNote not part of the retail Office suite

cnet: “Microsoft will not include InfoPath and OneNote as part of the Office suite sold at retail or installed on new computers.”

I think this is a missed opportunity to broadly push InfoPath out to the masses.

April 2, 2003

Interesting tidbits on the new version of Office

I found Woody Leeonhard’s interesting tidbits on Office 2003 Beta while searching Google Groups for info on installing SharePoint Beta 2.

Still no luck with SharePoint, but Wood’s tips are worth a read.

April 1, 2003

Ask Google?

AvaQuest has a neat Google hack called GooglePeople that demonstrates “it is possible to scour the Web for answers to questions using the vast data repository provided by Google.”

“GooglePeople uses your question to do a Google search. It then extracts the people names found on the top 10 result pages and chooses the likely answer to your question based on its scoring algorithm.”

March 31, 2003

Updated Pinto Photo Gallery

I finally updated the gallery of photos Catherine and I have taken over the last 4 years of our dog Pinto, who we believe is a mix between Great Dane, Fox Hound and American Bull Dog, but feel free to make your own guess … He’ll always be a 90-plus pound puppy to us.