March 17, 2003

New version of Freenet released

There are some interesting new features in the latest release of Freenet:

Like for example, “Forward Error Correction and Healing” or FEC, which not only allows for larger files to be shared, it also provides a “healing” feature, so that parts of files can be re-created.

In addtion, “Anecdotal evidence suggests that FEC allows the reliable downloading of files as large as 600MB from Freenet at average download rates as high as 90k/sec on a broadband internet connection (which compares quite favorably to more conventional P2P applications).”

March 16, 2003

Social Network Datamining via Email

From Discover “… the software will create a remarkably sophisticated assessment of your various social groups, showing you not only their relative size but also the interactions between different groups.” (link via BoingBoing)

March 15, 2003

A brighter future for Knowledge Management

From Jon Udell’s latests InfoWorld column:

“Making knowledge more available gets easier with Weblogs, improved information sorting, better user connections”

“Bottom-up vs. top-down taxonomy is an old, ongoing KM struggle. But the emerging architecture of business process automation may help us cut that Gordian knot. XML documents, produced and consumed by Web services but also by people running a new generation of XML-savvy applications, will be the currency of the information economy. Richly structured, easily captured, and embedded in well-defined business contexts, they’ll be a godsend for tools that mine knowledge from documents.”

March 14, 2003

Mosaic Web browser 10 Years Old

I can’t believe it has been almost 10 years since NCSA Mosaic burst onto the scene. I remember making the jump from Gopher Servers and thinking, “Wow, this should make things interesting.”

It certainly did …

And Charles Cooper has an interesting perspective on What if Netscape had won?

March 13, 2003

Andrei Kivilev mourned at Paris-Nice

This is very sad indeed … I just leared via Jeff Veen’s blog that cycling great Andrei Kivilev died yesterday after a fall during the third stage of the Paris-Nice bicycle race.

Andrei “burst onto the international scene when he finished fourth behind Lance Armstrong, Jan Ullrich and Joseba Biloki at the 2001 Tour de France.”

March 12, 2003

Blog Evangelism at work

I’ve begun my blog crusade at my new job. So, I’d like to welcome Promit Chakrabarti to the BlogSphere. Do keep an eye on his blog, because Promit is wicked smart — especially in the area of business process analysis … Oh yeah, and of course he knows a thing or two about a “Balanced Scorecard”

March 11, 2003

Searching the BlogSphere

This is pretty darn cool. Micah Alpern has released a Google BlogSphere search tool (w/source in PHP) that will search across all the sites whose RSS feeds are found in your OPML list.

I think Micah describes it best:
“Until the semantic web arrives the best method we have to understand a users point of view is to examine the RSS feeds they subscribe to. I currently read RSS feeds from over 70 websites. This list of RSS feeds includes friends, publications, and domain expects; all people whose opinions I value. If Googling my weblog is like searching by backup brain, then searching all sites in my RSS news aggregator is like searching the brains of people I respect and find interesting.” (link via Sebastien Paquet)

March 11, 2003

I’ll have Big Mac, Fries and McWiFi — hold the WEP

According to this MSNBC article: “McDonaldÂ’s restaurants in three U.S. cities will offer one hour of free high-speed [WiFi] access to anyone who buys a combination meal.” (via Scobleizer)

March 11, 2003

Dichotomy of Email

Interesting Slashdot thread that argues the effectiveness of email, which is in response to this article.

March 11, 2003

Bike New York: May 4, 2003

Registration for Bike NY 2003 is now open. Last year was a blast — The best out of the 5 times I’ve ridden in “The Great Five Boro Bike tour”.

Hopefully we’ll be able to assemble another good group of people to ride with.

If you’re interested in riding with us … feel free to comment on this post.