April 13, 2001

MS Word to Manila

check it out … this guy wrote a MS Word macro that will post into Manila via XML-RPC …. pretty slick: Word 2 Story Code [thanks john]

April 12, 2001

Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration

an interesting paper on collaboration by jon udel: “The goal of Internet groupware should be to reclaim the original vision of the Web as a medium of collaboration. It’s no accident that vision arose in a scientific milieu since the enterprise of science is so deeply rooted in collaboration.”

From: Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration / Draft #3

April 12, 2001

Report: Building a Collaborative Environment

“Collaboration is a fundamental process in any enterprise, as well as between enterprises.” a quote from The Gartner Group’s report on Building a Collaborative Environment: Who Needs What?

April 12, 2001

Freenet gets $4M from Intel ;

“Uprizer Inc., the peer-to-peer upstart of Freenet founder Ian Clarke, today picked up a $4 million in funding from chipmaker Intel Corp. and other investors.”

From: Ian Clarke’s Uprizer Gets $4 Million

April 11, 2001

Boobytrap;

while exploring some of the community Groove spaces, i was given a link to Boobytrap.org i’m not sure what it is, but wow, is that done in flash?

April 11, 2001

Guess the job title ;

“Do you like being famous for accomplishing great things? Do you enjoy working with people of like minds? Do you look for flexible hours? Do you desire full health benefits with the world renowned Captain Dentist and Dr.Feelgood? Then you are exactly what we are looking for.”

Give up? Answer here!

April 11, 2001

Vendors eye Web services opportunity

“Senior executives from leading application development providers … speaking at the Software Development and Expo agreed the adoption of universal XML-based standards promise a huge shift in enterprise adoption of Web-services.”

From: InfoWorld

April 9, 2001

Dave Winer in the Times

“… Winer has accused Microsoft of seizing control of the industry standards-setting process to the benefit of the company’s broad-based Internet initiative, called .Net.”

From: The New York Times

April 9, 2001

Geek Toy: Visual Trace Route

ever wonder how you can test if a web site is down and where it’s acutally located? check out the VisualRoute Server

April 9, 2001

P2P on drugs ; Groovy!

Groove lands the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline as a customer; with over 100,000 employees, GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to purchase 10,000 copies of Groove 1.0.

Groove Networks also announced the release of its Groove Development Kit 1.0 (GDK), which allows users to create “p-to-p applications using just XML and scripting languages such as JavaScript.”

From: Groove ships p-to-p platform