Gadgetopia

Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks, Combining Talents to Create Anytime, Anywhere Collaboration Products and Services: This is kind of a no-brainer. Micrsoft owned 25% of Groove, and it was only a matter of time until Groove got built into Windows. Microsoft Corp. announced today that it will acquire Groove Networks ...

Ray Ozzie's Weblog: Ray Ozzie gets medieval on the future of email here. "Anyone who is doing a critical business process online that involves substantial dialog between individuals should NOT be using email at this point in history, and many no longer are." That Ray feels this way shouldn't be ...

Architecture astronauts take over: This whole thing is great. Spolsky gets downright medieval further down. And what is this Windows Live Mesh? It s a way to synchronize files. Jeez, we ve had that forever. When did the first sync web sites start coming out? 1999? There were a million versions. xdrive, ...

PCWorld.com - Best of 2004: Some eye-openers here: Opera as Best Browser? Outlook as Best Email Client? Groove as Best Collaboration Tool? Panther as Best OS seems legit. I like the Dell Dimension 4600 as Best General Purpose PC because I just bought one. Microsoft Money unseating Quicken as Best ...

We've talked here before about Nvu -- the open-source WYSIWYG editor that wants to unseat FrontPage. I've played with it before, but -- despite my glowing reviews of the product -- I had never actually tried to build a site with it. However, this week, the preschool at my chuch ...

eRoom 7 Tour: This product has come a long way from when Documentum originally acquired it in late 2002 (link goes to a well-done Flash demo). It seems to have become very Groove-like (minus the peer-to-peer architecture) and may be approaching collaboration utopia. But, it's expensive and it runs on ...

Here's a thought: there's big money in collaboration apps. Not building new ones, but instead training and motivating people to use the ones they have. Is this a problem in your office? You get Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes or Groove or a packaged Intranet...then no one uses it. You ...

Where was desktop search when we needed it?: This is kind of old news for me, because I've done a fair amount of server-side search engine programming with ASP and the content indexing service. It's a very well-done service, and if you have a big Windows file share, you can ...

640KB ought to be enough for anyone: This was published a few weeks ago, and although I was beaten over the head with references to it in my aggregator, I just got around to reading it. I don't know what to think. The first part of the article is Ray ...

I don't want to talk about personal productivity too much, because there are other sites who do it better (warning: shameless inter-FM network plug). However, I've found a simple thing that helps keeps me from getting distracted -- Your computer is full of distractions. Windows for your RSS feeds, your ...

Essentials : Mark Pilgrim has listed his "essential" software tools for doing his job. I always like to see these the absolute, "can't live without" tools of people who do the same work as me. As the risk of being self-indulgent, here's mine: Email: Thunderbird or Mozilla Mail via ...

Joel on Software - Fire And Motion: I just found this two-and-a-half year old essay by Joel Spolsky, and I'm frankly aghast at how aptly it describes how I code. For me, just getting started is the only hard thing. An object at rest tends to remain at rest. There's ...

I've been putting off posting about The Building of Basecamp because I was trying to get my hands on a picture. Neither Joe nor I thought to bring a camera, and the workshop was the first thing we did in Chicago, before Joe bought a disposable to shoot this ...