February 24, 2003

NewsGator 1.0 released

Greg Reinacker has released NewsGator — .Net-based RSS news aggregator for Outlook.

Congratulations Greg! I’ve been using NewsGator since the early betas and my favorite feature has always been its tight integration with Outlook.

However IMHO, it would make the experience complete if you could also post to a blog via the MetaWeblog API or some-such.

February 23, 2003

Digital Rights Management in Office 11

Dubbed ‘Information Rights Management’ in the upcoming Office relesae, which is described as a ” … persistent file-level technology from Microsoft that allows the user to specify permission for who can access and use documents or e-mail messages, and helps prevent sensitive information from being printed, forwarded, or copied by unauthorized individuals…”
(via Microsoft Watch and Slashdot)

February 22, 2003

Recent Blogs With Context

Technorati has an interesting new ranking of blogs by number of new links from blogs in the last 24 hours

February 21, 2003

Things to know about InfoPath

Jon Udell on the 10 things you need to know about InfoPath (aka XDocs)

February 19, 2003

Ad Blocking via Host file

Heh, this is probably old news to some, but I just read about this clever hack in PC Mag to block ads by modifying your local host file

February 18, 2003

URL-based Magnetic Poetry Generator

Ha! This is very cool. Mark has created a Magnetic Poetry Generator that will create a word list based on the content found within a page you reference at the end of the path.

For example:
http://diveintomark.org/magnetic/http://news.google.com

BTW, Mark also has a hilarious 404 page as well.

February 17, 2003

SharePoint as a Weblogging tool?

Matt Williams of Micosoft says, “DUDE! Sharepoint is not a weblogging tool!” (via Scripting News)

However, as I mentioned back in November that SharePoint Team Services could be used as a Weblogging tool and that many Office users didn’t even realize that have it.

February 16, 2003

Google buys Blogger

Dan Gillmor: “Google … has purchased Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the increasingly popular personal and opinion journals.”

I’m sure this is going to be interesting.

February 15, 2003

Matisse Picasso

For Cat’s birthday, I got her tickets to the Matisse Picasso exhibit at the MoMa in Queens and I definitely recommend checking it out if you’re in the NYC area before May of this year.

February 14, 2003

Business Programming

Quotes from Jon Udell’s interview with Ward Cunningham:

“Most of business programming is about getting a wrong program to do the right thing by being even smarter. People resent these systems because that’s what they have to do. The program is a boat anchor dragging down the pace of business, and it’s almost set up so that it can’t be anything but.”