June 6, 2001

Scour: The Resurrection

found this one on geeknews: “A couple of months ago, as you all may remember, Scour Exchange took a dive, but said they were planning a resurgence … Anyway, Scour has finally released the beta software.”

June 6, 2001

New company targets corporate portals

“American Express and software partners Tibco and Infosys launched a new company on Tuesday aimed at giving customers an easier way to access business-management software, services and content via the Web.”

“The new venture, dubbed Workadia, will provide companies a corporate portal where employees can log on to access certain business applications, e-mail, calendars, expense reports, corporate travel, human resources and a list of other products and services.”

From: New company targets corporate portals – Tech News – CNET.com

June 5, 2001

IDC believes success for the ASP model is guaranteed

“Despite the barrage of criticism and the financial knocks ASPs have had to endure, the industry is set to grow enormously over the next few years.”

“By 2005, global revenues for the ASP industry will amount to $24bn, representing annual growth of 89 per cent, according to research group IDC.”

From: ASP Still Going Strong

June 1, 2001

Open Web Services

from slashdot: “Clay Shirky has an interesting article on Hailstorm on OpenP2P.com. He looks especially at how MS mixes decentralization with strong control of third party development and user data. Think of it as an authentication-centric, rather than hardware-centric system.”

June 1, 2001

Fostering the Collaborative Creation of Knowledge: A White Paper

From: IBM Research: Knowledge Socialization: White paper

May 31, 2001

Weblogs: A New Source of News

Doc Searls, says: “Weblogs will inform old media. They will increasingly be a source of information that traditional media will rely on.”

From: OJR J.D.’s Web Watch: Weblogs: A New Source of News

May 31, 2001

Corporate Portals Ready For The Big Time

“The use of corporate portals continues to pick up steam among large companies. The key seems to be the desire for organized information and a place to direct internal marketing.”

From: Corporate Portals Ready For The Big Time – Report

May 30, 2001

Subliminal messages for your PC

bizarre … “A US company has produced a gadget that reacts to audio signals embedded in TV programmes and tells your PC to surf over to webpages related to that show.”

From: BBC News | SCI/TECH | From goggle box to chatterbox

May 25, 2001

More net convergence: Flash meets TV

“The entertainment industry is learning new tricks from the Web that could dramatically reduce costs and recast a widely used Net animation technology as a significant offline production tool.”

i’ll be on the lookout for “The Martoon Channel” on my cable system soon!

May 23, 2001

Collaboration is one of the top three trends of 2000

“The onslaught OF dispersed work forces along with increased competition and shorter product cycles means collaboration between employees and business partners is at a critical juncture. Collaboration tools are an important means for turning the travel time and expense of old into work time and increased profits.”

From: Create working offices on the Web