Simon Scullion

• just fired up the laptop, been in meetings all morning! #
• just read a nice email from the @dopplr team, saying thanks for being part of the beta, nice touch! #
• @mastermark, Asturias isn’t bad either! Just don’t go telling too many folk! #
• wow, nice email from amazon.co.uk assuring me that my order will arrive in time for Christmas… #
• even if it means them upgrading the shipping option, at no extra cost to me! Nice one amazon! I just hope my order makes it! #
• thats me done workwise until 2008!! #
• so, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all, in case I don’t tweet again this year! Will be enjoying a disconnected xmas period! #

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• reading up a bit more on Atlas for IBM Lotus Connections, can’t understand why this has to be bought, should be part of the product #
• @stuartmcintyre "a 2002 way of doing things" a great way of putting it! #
• @stuartmcintyre exactly. IBM should be leading the way in extending the API and showing us how to take advantage of it #
• @stuartmcintyre Thanks, lets hope they take the criticism on board and look at a change in the future #
• @yellowpark yes I’d love a seesmic invite if you still have one going spare #
• @monkchips Blush! #
• off for lunch #
• giving in, trying twhirl, was a bit reluctant to instal Adobe AIR, no real reason though! #
• so far I have been twittering via my IM client, pidgin, no real complaints #
• @mastermark well here goes! #
• well I must be in dumb-user mode, can’t login to twiiter with twhirl, how embarrassing! #
• @chuckstar76 @mastermark thanks guys, I’d managed to get that far, but get an authentication failed msg #
• dumb question coming up, does twhirl work behind a proxy? #
• welcome new follower @michaelramm hello sir! #
• well gents, thanks for the support, but twhirl looks like a no-goer for me, shame #
• so, snitter doesn’t let me login either! #
• @sdownes1972 thanks, but I think I need to find out where AIR is picking up its proxy settings from, if at all #
• @vitorpereira hi there! give it a go for a while, follow a few people you know, and see what you think, let us know in the new year! #
• first tweet from twhirl! #
• for the record, AIR seems to pick up proxy settings from IE! It had changed without me realising, doh!! #
• thanks guys! @twhirl @stuartmcintyre @mastermark @chuckstar76 @sdownes1972 !! #
• maybe more later, off home, if not, then tomorrow! #

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• Realtime Soft UltraMon
  UltraMon is a utility for multi-monitor systems, designed to increase productivity and unlock the full potential of multiple monitors.
  (tags: monitors windows software UltraMon)

IBM, more than other enterprise software outfits, groks the new naming conventions. “syn.chron.ous” etc http://snurl.com/1vj33

now it just needs to understand the business models…

Redmonk’s James Governor, via Twitter, comenting on the debate surrounding  the announcement of Atlas for Lotus Connections.

Tags: IBMRedmonk Twitter Atlas Lotus+Connections

• very cold here this morning, not used to this! #
• @stuartmcintyre a twitter plugin for notes 8, that is a great idea! #
• @stuartmcintyre you had me worried for a moment there!! #
• @peibolsang Welcome to Twitter! #
• I hadn’t heard of this coming, IBM Atlas for Lotus Connections, sounds nteresting, announced this AM #
• more on IBM Atlas for Lotus Connections http://tinyurl.com/2hd9qa #
• @mastermark it looks like a tool to let you visualise relationships with your social netowrking #
• sorting out some photos, big backlog but making headway! #
• just uploaded a few more photos from the summer http://www.flickr.com/photos/siscu now time for bed #

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• BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft trials XP on XO laptop
  Microsoft trials XP on XO laptop, this has to be a joke right!?
  (tags: olpc microsoft xp windows XOLaptop)
• Collaborative Thinking: Social Software Vendor Roundup
  Social Software Vendor Roundup
  (tags: enterprise2.0 social socialsoftware tools collaboration software socialnetworking)
• Graham Chastney (oak-grove): Assessment, Assessment, Assessment - Time for Some Assimilation
  Some good links to personal development resources
  (tags: personal development)

• still very cold this morning, though things are thawing out #

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This post has been in a “draft” status for too long, I meant to get it out there ages ago!

A few of my colleagues having been commenting on some Sharepoint news thay have noticed lately, which for a number of reasons I found interesting.

Firstly, James over on his ChiefTech blog points out a CMS Watch article claiming that:

“although Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 brings improved collaboration facilities over previous editions, it comes at the cost of a dearth of enterprise management services, leading to rampant, viral proliferation and instances of uncontrolled content, as well as major compliancy risks.

Which seems to be bourne out if we are to believe the numbers Steve uncovered via networkworld.com (but presumeably quoting the same CMS Watch article):

CMS Watch says its clients include a North American bank that found “more than 5,000 uncontrolled and unaudited instances of SharePoint,” and a major energy company that “reported finding more than 15,000 previously undetected instances of SharePoint.”

But lets not worry too much, Stu has learnt that Microsoft is here to save the day with their new “SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool”!

The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool is a set of free models of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) which allow you to explore the necessary infrastructure based on usage requirements. This tool uses the System Center Capacity Planner 2007 (SCCP) as an engine to provide for data collection, visualization, simulation and report writing. The tool can be used in pre-sales and feasibility study of a deployment project to give you a rough estimate of hardware requirements.

Isn’t that good of them!

Hang on a sec, let me read that again….

“The tool can be used in pre-sales and feasibility study of a deployment project to give you a rough estimate of hardware requirements.”

Ah! So that would be before the viral proliferation then, it just ensures we splash out on a big enough box to make sure this virus can spread!
But in all seriousness, this does remind me of the early days with Lotus Notes, when databases were created by users, before the IT department came in and put controls in place. Controls which I assume will be coming soon, to a Sharepoint installation near you.

I wonder whether these controls and things like departmental charge-back will have the same effect at stifling this virus, as it did on the adoption of Lotus Notes applications?

Tags: Lotus+Notes, Sharepoint

• last minute Christmas shopping - online thank god! #

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• @chieftech: congrats on the paper, looking forward to hearing more! #
• @chuckstar76: congrats! Just in time for Christmas, nice! Don’t tell too many folk, beers’ll be on you! #
• @mastermark: point well made!! #
• quote from Carr "Innovation emerges from indirection", I like that! though indirection sounds too much like lack of direction, not the s … #

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