Sunday, December 06, 1998

Bernie De Koven's Connected Executives is a step-by-step plan to help connected executives do for meeting rooms what they have learned to do for their offices - to redefine the very nature of the workspace (the meeting room) and the work (the meeting itself).

Here's Bernie's definition of technography.

TeamWave Workplace provides an Internet forum where teams coordinate, collaborate and share information.

Hey, I just noticed that there's a new user interface for www.useit.com. How did I miss this?

Dan Gillmor: Small portals prove that size matters. Dan and I have been talking!

Toward the end of the piece Dan talks about JIT-SEs. I said the first search engine company that supported something like siteChanges.xml would jump into the lead. I believe that enough webmasters who would support the idea if one of the search engine companies did. Why? Because we want more hits from the search engines.

{mainResponder.discuss.cowskulllink ("The rep from Excite, quoted in Dan's piece says her company would love to do something like this, but can't even persuade most Webmasters to put meta tags on their pages. If Excite supported siteChanges.xml, would you support it in your website? I've started a discussion group thread, as usual, click on the cow skull.", 857)}

NY Times: Judging by the recent spate of announcements by high-profile Internet companies, the latest buzzword -- on the heels of "push," "personalized" and "portal" -- is "community."

Cringely: Patents patents patents.

News.com: Apple cuts PowerBook prices.

The SJ Merc ran this piece where repeatedly they said Sun is the only company that makes a computer that is not a Windows clone. What a crock! In San Jose of all place, you'd think they would know about Apple and the Mac. Do they think we're stupid?