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Comment: It's truly a geekish one, it's good!

:: w.bloggar ::

Comment: Looks good, let's try it out now...

Download details: Windows XP Creativity Fun Pack: Windows Media Player 9 Series Blogging Plug-in Blogging Plug-in for Windows Media Player 9 Series Add more personality to your blog with this plug-in that adds the artist, song, and album name to the Windows Media Player 9 Series title bar. Blogging clients like LiveJournal, w.bloggar, Semagic, and others can then easily add that information to your next entry while you compose.

Comment: Okay...we might be getting somewhere here... I like this concept of sharing more info and context ...this helps in the long run.... when communicating with remote offices or individuals, putting things into ctx are a good way to better communicate...I'm not sure that what's your listening to makes a whole lot of sense in the ctx of work but maybe in other ctx it can be...

Recycling not easy for PC makers | CNET News.com That's a lesson the computer industry is learning the hard way as it tries to develop workable plans for recycling the millions of PCs, monitors and printers that have been assembled in recent years.

Comment: This is good that this process is now in gear. With HP now offering rebates to upgrade with a trade-in of older machine, maybe we will have a recycling "consigne" to pay for our computers from now on...

Gizmodo : SARS cellphone alert system in Hong Kong

Comment: This is sick and useful, I'm not sure just yet.

About Freevo & Current Status Freevo is an open-source digital video jukebox (PVR, DVR) based on Linux in addition to a number of open-source audio/video tools. MPlayer is used to play audio and video files. MPlayer is an excellent media player that can play most popular file formats. Freevo can be used both for a standalone PVR computer with a TV remote, as well as on a regular desktop computer using the monitor and keyboard

Comment: Interesting....V-interesting...another one of those project when I have some time....

An old boys network of 0s and 1s? | CNET News.com The Spoke software "discovers" relationships that could come in handy in a sales situation, according to Spoke cofounder Chris Tolles. A key feature is that although the system requires very little effort on the part of employees entering data, it's able to gather detailed information about how well people know each other and in what context, Tolles said.

Comment Some privacy concerns over this, but I think this is a pretty good idea...

Apparently Apple is in talks to buy Universal music. Like Dan Gillmor I have high hopes, but he has a good point it hasn’t served Sony or AOL very well to have content… More from Dan’s….

 

A couple of years ago I predicted that Weblogs would emerge within the enterprise as a great way to manage project communication. I'm even more bullish on the concept today. If you're managing an IT project, you are by definition a communication hub. Running a project Weblog is a great way to collect, organize, and publish the documents and discussions that are the lifeblood of the project and to shape these raw materials into a coherent narrative. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

 

Here at Macadamian we’ve been evangelizing the use of the intranet to let anybody publish information for several years. We developed a technology to actually implement this easily in Corporation; we call it Syndeo Project Server. We got a handful of Corporations going.  We’ve spent much time working at convincing organization of the value of power to the people to publish what they want. We’ve had a hard time convincing them.

• If it’s not in the corporation culture, it tough a tough sell.
• E-mail is in there culture though, and we should leverage that medium.
• In corporations we deal with, several employees have their own website(s)
• We’re asking them to give this up, and work with a central one. Big no-no now that I think about it.
• From Corpo stand point bad, we thought, since no formalism in presentation, impossible to find info on all dif sites.
• Weblogs have a shot here, because they actually encourage multiple websites, and RSS ties it all together for the corporate knowledge hive
• The ROI is hard to quantify, just like any knowledge management techno if you ask me.
• weblogs are  simple, and it’s about techno/concepts that in the mind of the potential buyers have been around for ages,  they’ve all thought about it but didn’t consider complex, important enough to pursue.
• ASP toolkit coming up with a weblog sample gives them credit for that.

 

Anyhow my 2cents…it’s very interesting, and I’m continuously thinking about it.

 

BlogWeaver Visual editor for Blogger

Blogweaver, integrates directly with Blogger to give you a visual editor. It’s not much to look at I will tell you that. But it’s nice to be able to do that, integrating directly with the form. Also it has this very useful feature called SAVE…If you ask me this is one major limitation to writing on the web right now, we should implement automated save, just like other writing tools.

Slipstick Systems This is a shop doing Outlook and Exchange solutions.

Unofficial Blogger Pro FAQ

Comment: Usefull site when using BloggerPro...

Blogroots | Home

Comment: Blog information and a book I didn't know about. A chapter is online about using blog in businesses. I haven't read it yet, more on that later....

Small Business Resources: How-to Guides

Comment: Interesting source of information for business matters...

Gizmodo : Mini-joystick for cellphones

Comment: Hey this was bound to be... riiight!

Yes, the days of large IT shops are over - Tech Update - ZDNet My colleagues who wish to remain very technically rooted in IT face competition from a source that US manufacturing labor faced - and lost to -- decades ago: the outsourced overseas labor force. The cost of a technical function being performed offshore is being weighed against the same service done domestically, and the offshore cost is dramatically less. We all acknowledge that outsourced and offshore IT projects take more time because of logistics and quality issues; but, ultimately, economics will determine how and where IT projects are performed.

Comment: Cost cost cost... if we look at it like a pendulum and quality is the other end of the pendulum swing, there is absolutely no balance right now, it's all cost...