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Lotusphere on Twiiter
01538 days
In order to foster faster communication with everyone at Lotusphere, or even if you just wish to sit back and watch, there will be a Lotusphere channel you can follow and post to. Twitter is setting it up so if you set yourself to follow all the tweets, you can also post to it so everyone gets them. Talk about instant communication when not everyone can be on Sametime and there is breaking news, a vendor giving away cool stuff, when you want to find people or when a vendor has an open party. The possibilities are endless.
This is just a great idea! Whether you can attend or not, this will add to the buzz from Lotusphere in January!
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ChiefTech: Why aren’t we getting enterprise RSS yet?
21552 days
by Simon Scullion
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James Dellow over on his is talking about Enterprise RSS, and makes some good points regarding its slow adoption and an apparent lack of understanding:
for enterprise RSS to work you need both RSS content and RSS readers in place. From a technology point of view neither issue is difficult to overcome but we run into the old chicken and egg problem of supply and demand for RSS – It departments won’t invest in RSS if there is nothing to consume, and if there is no way of consuming then why create RSS content?
The other issue is that if you can overcome this first problem, then it would appear you don’t need a enterprise RSS system in place, however the problem I have is that I (and I think most knowledge workers) want an integrated RSS experience.
The chicken and egg situation is a big problem, putting the brakes on what should be relatively easy adoption of an enabling technology.
But I think there is also another aspect of this. RSS is raising its head as part of the conversations going on around social software adoption within the enterprise. This is not necessarily a bad thing, syndicated content is certainly key to these tools and their success. But why are RSS and ATOM not been given more attention outside this context, as part of more strategic thinking?
There is a lot more they can be used for than just blog feeds!
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James, I tried posting this in a shorter version as a comment on your blog, but having problems, any ideas?
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Active Worlds Embeds 3D Worlds in Facebook
31552 days
by Simon Scullion
in Internet
Some interesting developments bringing together social networking and virtual worlds:
announced today that they had launched the application, allowing companies and developers to build virtual worlds on the Facebook platform. The company says the application is based on Internet Explorer and ActiveX from Microsoft to build on existing standards and to allow certain elements of the virtual worlds to interact with more traditional websites and Web 2.0 applications. “Since our Active Worlds technology continues to be standards driven, we feel this release sets a new milestone on 3D Internet implementation,” said JP McCormick, chairman of Active Worlds, “The push is on for interoperability and a set of standards which will drive Virtual World technology into the future. We believe that many of these already exist. By continuing to enhance our already standards driven application we greatly increase our value to e- commerce, education, entertainment, and social networking sites, as well as our core business with Fortune 500 companies.”
I’m not so sure I agree with the idea that Internet Explorer and ActiveX can be considered a true standard, widely used yes, but not a standard!
Which somewhat goes against the grain with what comes next:
Active Worlds was present at the and confirmed its commitment there towards building out standards for virtual worlds.
idea jam – Linux support for Quickr Domino version
31556 days
I haven’t specifically blogged about the idea jam yet, I wasn’t lucky enough to be involved in the beta testing, but have since signed up and been having a look around
Today created my first idea!
and the guys have done a great job getting this up and running, now we need to support it by throwing in our ideas!
So if you haven’t already, !
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Moved feeds to Feedburner
01559 days
by Simon Scullion
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Finally got around to signing up to , and moving my feeds, it was something I had been meaning to do for a while.
In the end it was a painful process, with a plugin doing the magic on the end.
So, to my faithful reader, please feel free to re-syndicate my content again via the new feed!
Here are the links:
- Content:
- Comments:
Many thanks, and apologies for the inconvenience!
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The BBC "committed to platform neutrality"
01579 days
by Simon Scullion
in Internet
An , after the beeb apparently was trying to avoid committing to a download service for Linux and Mac OSX.
The BBC must deliver an online TV catch-up service that lets users of all computers download programmes, the corporation’s regulators have said.
A good example of where regulation can be a good thing.
Lets hope this can bring longer term benefits to non-Windows platforms as they get a higher level of attention from some pretty clever tech folk at the beeb.
Now if only this wasn’t restricted to UK residents!
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Web-based cartography
01657 days
by Simon Scullion
in Internet
is an interesting article (for anyone with an interest in maps!)
I’ve got Dad to thank for that!
It talks about how the internet is changing the way we think and use maps and map-based interaction.
I know I couldn’t imagine going back to a time without .
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