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Feb26
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For the last year or so, Stanford Law professor and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig has been writing his follow-up book to Code online, in a collaborative experiment hosted by JotSpot. It has involved over 400 people and has developed a kind of hierarchial structure complete with "chapter captains". Stanford Magazine printed a story about it a few months ago, wherein we read: “Part of what makes this exciting is the motley group of contributors,” says project director Jake Wachman, a senior majoring in science, technology and society. “An expert in intellectual property law could be editing alongside a high school student with a passion for copyright cases. And that student could be more on-point and make better edits. At least that’s the hope.” The Wiki won't host the final version of Code v2. Instead, it will be published in the traditional way (Basic Books), with the profits going to Creative Commons. Lessig plans for the Wiki to continue as a living document, which, in turn, may make the third version of the book a very simple task indeed.
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Feb26
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Imagine that your familiar neighborhood was washed away; that you were alive in the midst of that rubble, and that your only hope at rescue was to tell someone from Homeland Security where you are. 99 times out of 100...
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Feb24
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I've written about the dog versus cat paradigm in controlling creative content. I was happy to see that Robin Good has a similar strategy. This, from his website: 1. Make it easy for people to download complete or fair-use extracts...
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I've recently been writing a training module to be presented over Microsoft's Live Meeting, and in my design stage, I interviewed a sampling of the audience for that training. One of the most requested features of an online tool was...
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Feb23
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The news of a joint Earthlink - Google bid to offer Wi-Fi throughout San Francisco raised all of my creative hackles. What a perfect technology to bring to a such an exciting and intellectually-stimulating urban environment. I hope that a...
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Feb22
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Om Malik and Jackson West wrote about coffee houses in San Francisco becoming the new business incubators for technology start-ups, thanks in large part to prolific Wi-Fi hotspots and web-based applications that allow developers to work online, download the tools...
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Feb21
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BlogBurst sounds like a pretty cool idea. It finds blogs that are filled with interesting and informative content (like this one apparently!), and then finds major media outlets to broadcast that content, giving the participating blogs much greater visability and...
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A reader recently asked me how this exciting service will be implemented. I've started making inquiries at Microsoft today, and don't have all the details yet, however it now appears that it will first be available for Microsoft's enterprise customers....
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Feb20
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A few days ago I mentioned that there were changes coming with FrontPage and Office 2007. Dennis Reilly at PC World talks about it today in a very interesting article.Now I've never been a fan of FrontPage for web design,...
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The recent discussion on Digital Rights Management at Tim O'Reilly's blog and here, has prompted me to think about other models that might be used to illustrate how similar the Sony:Apple approach is to evolutionary biology.Thankfully, I don't have to...
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Personally, I really dislike mobile phone companies. Part of it is because I used to work for Qwest. Part of it is that I've built up a collection of expensive phones that are useless with any other carrier. Part of...
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Feb19
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Tim O'Reilly blogged about this today, and it's worth rementioning because it's an object lesson for every company who's in the information business.Sony does it all. They create movies, music and the devices that allow users to enjoy them both....
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Feb18
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So far on my list of things I like to see in collaboration software are: 1 - Designers who have a broad base of experience in RTC 2 - Simplicity in design 3 - No Fee or Low Fee 4...
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Feb17
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If you need another reason why you should be investigating collaboration software, you can find it in Rich Faulk's recent article in Network World entitled The Future is On-Demand Software.Here's the relevant bit: "Tomorrow's business challenge will be how to...
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An article at Network World, talking about the new collaboration tools with the upcoming release of 2007 Microsoft Office, had this to say: “Microsoft is emphasizing collaboration again,” say Chris LeTocq, principal analyst with Guernsey Research. LeTocq says that while...
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Feb16
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As I was scanning tech.memeorandum's headlines for today, I saw an entry on Campfire. It was in 37 Signals' blog Signal vs Noise, and it helped crystalize this new service in a couple of ways. First, are any of you...
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Here's a cool collaboration app from the folks who brough us WriteBoard. It's called Campfire and it seems like a great way to collaborate via Chat and some shared files. Here's a few of the services as described at the CampFire site:...
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Feb14
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First, a recap of the things I like to see in RTC products so far:1 - Designers who have a broad base of experience in RTC2 - Simplicity in designThe third thing that really catches my eye, particularly in enterprise-level...
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Accomplice is an activity management software that was featured at DEMO2006 earlier this month. I've been using it for a week or so, and frankly, I'm very impressed.I must confess that organization is not one of my skills. As a...
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Feb13
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The second thing that I really love to see in real-time collaboration software is simplicity in design. Please, please please make it simple for me to use. Think about ways to design the User Interface (UI) that anticipates what I'll...
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There's a lot going on in the world of real-time collaboration (RTC) software, and in order to help weed out the truly innovative from the wannabes; the elegantly simple from the ridiculously complex, I've decided to begin a series of...
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Feb12
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There's Writely, Writeboard, Jotspot, and more; ajaxed-up Word processing applications that are completely web-based. And they work well! But what's missing, and this is important, is integration among other online applications.For better or for worse, Web 2.0 developers who want...
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I read Scobleizer this morning and was happy to see that Robert Scoble addressed the same post by Paul Kedrosky that I did. Scoble pointed out something that I didn't know, which is that MSN has been offering the same...
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Feb10
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Is Paul Kedrosky really recommending that you sell your Microsoft shares short 'cause Google is experimenting with G-mail for domains? Well, considering that the coolest innovations coming with Outlook "12" haven't been released yet, I guess I can't blame him,...
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TechCrunch has a great write-up on this new social networking / collaboration site called Collective X. Personally, I'm not much of a social networker, particularly on the Web, but I'm definitely going to explore this service. Like many writers, I'm...
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Feb 9
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Don't get me wrong. I love memeorandum. It's one of the first blogs I read each day. But when did a "meme" become a headline? Where's the "meme" as the word has been defined since the publication of Richard Dawkins'...
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Feb 8
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Thanks to Jason Feinsmith, co-founder and CEO of Accomplice, I've loaded a confidential beta release of their collaboration software. This was one of my picks from the DEMO2006 conference, and I'm looking forward to working with it. I'll be checking...
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Well, it seems Michael Copeland of the Business 2.0 blog agrees with my DEMO2006 pick on Multiverse. He writes: "Coolest concept of the morning came from the Multiverse Network, which has developed a platform to easily and (more) cheaply build...
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While I love to see these types of conferences, because they’re one way of sampling the “best” of what’s new in software applications, they tend to remind me of Hollywood ’s approach to making movies. If one break-out film does...
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Feb 6
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Web 2.0 is one of those un-definable terms, which makes it hard to create a distinction between it and Collaboration applications. If you'd like to see an up-to-date listing of web-based applications, check out this really cool Web 2.0 map....
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Feb 5
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There's been a lot of confusion of late regarding what we can and cannot write about regarding Office 12. Check out Ed Bott's Feb 4th entry, along with comments. Clarification soon came from Microsoft's top blogger and world-renowned MS technical...
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Feb 3
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Sharing, tagging, social networking and real-time collaboration are all part of the Web 2.0 movement towards developing communal web-based applications. Now, thanks to the folks at 83 degrees, we can collaborate with our calendars. Their beta release of 30 Boxes is scheduled for Super...
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Hello, and welcome to my first post in the brand new KnowMoreMedia blog - Do Real Time. I’ll be writing about one of the most exciting trends in Web 2.0 software applications today - Real Time Collaboration. First, who am...
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