The season for learning [KMWorld]
IBM announces the IBM Learning Management System.
Technology of the Year: Publish/Subscribe
Technology of the Year: Publish/Subscribe. A new breed of middleware vendors brought pub/sub messaging down to the desktop. With Kenamea and KnowNow, you can subscribe a spreadsheet cell to a topic that’s managed out in the cloud. An event published to that topic — such as an inventory update — automatically updates the spreadsheet. It’s true that you could do this kind of thing a decade ago, using NetDDE (Network Dynamic Data Exchange) on your Windows for Workgroups LAN. But pub/sub at Internet scale is far more compelling. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] … [Jon’s Radio]
Mozilla tool
Blog from AIM?
Check out this thread from the Scripting News. I didn’t know you could make Radio blog posts from AIM. That sounds handy. The thread talks about different things people are doing or might want to do with regard to integrating AIM and Radio.
The value of storytelling
References on the value of storytelling in an org at McGee’s Musings. Chris K., a guy that used to work at Nav once talked about the value of storytelling. I got the gist but never dug deeper. These books might be a good start.
Five biggest mistakes in CMS selection. Lisa Welchman has written an article on the five biggest mistakes in CMS selection[Column Two]
Switching news aggregators. I’ve been using AmphetaDesk for a while now, but I’ve finally made the switch across to another system. While AmphetaDesk has many desirable features, what was crippling me was the inability to mark items as “read”. When you are reading… [Column Two]
I’ve pretty much abandoned AmphetaDesk in favor of Radio’s aggregator. But, for internal folks who aren’t ready to maintain their own blog may want to use it or the other aggregator recommended within this post to aggregate blog feeds and other news sources.
Opera 7
Opera 7 Released. Opera Software today unleashed the final Opera 7 for Windows, complete with a smaller overall code size and an additional feature for the final release. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
Open Letter to the Community. This is an Open Letter adressed to the Community and to Zope Corporation and the decisionmakers in the New Zope.Org project. [Zope.org]
Even if the debate about what to use for the new Zope.Org site doesn’t interest you, the essay and the discussion thread that follows contains some interesting tidbits about Zope and Plone. If you have played around with Zope but have never tried Plone you have to check it out. If you need a basic CMS with a portal-ish interface it is hard to beat, particularly for zero acquisition cost.
Microsoft acquires PlaceWare
A Groovy Move? Microsoft Snaps Up PlaceWare. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it purchased Web-conferencing vendor PlaceWare for an undisclosed amount. Resulting new products will fall under the newly minted Real Time Collaboration group under former Microsoft Research employee Anoop Gupta. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] Does this move Microsoft closer to competing with Groove and/or QuickPlace? [Tom’s Blog]