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  • Social computing explained

    David Tebbutt’s article in The Register on Friday has the simplest answer I’ve yet seen to the question “What is social computing?” – Think of social computing as a platform upon which people can collaborate in ad hoc groups, where…

  • Two degrees of separation

    Whew! What a scorcher! The heat wave here in Amsterdam and across much of western Europe that we’ve had for the past week continues unabated. Here’s the temperature at about 4.30pm today – 32.2 degrees Celsius or 90 degrees Fahrenheit.…

  • Shaking the trees at Microsoft

    Much talk in the past 24 hours over another key employee leaving Microsoft and going to Google. While most focus is on that, I found this commentary on Mini-Microsoft of more interest, discussing the broader effects in the Microsoft organization…

  • PubSub’s numbered days

    Rumours have been flying lately about the demise of PubSub.com, writes co-founder Bob Wyman yesterday: […] I can’t deny that things are not going well for us. Our days are numbered. A recent attempt to execute a merger has been…

  • Blogging from Word 2007

    Testing the blogging functionality in Word 2007 beta 2. Just installed Office Professional Plus 2007 beta 2 which includes Word. I’ve held off on doing it until now principally as I wanted to be sure that NEO Pro, my email…