Simon Scullion

Like many of you, I regularly follow a bunch of business-related blogs and check out dozens of others each week. Most of the new ones I check out have no value (for me) so I never return. I've been thinking about why I choose to pay attention to a blog vs. just cruise by after a quick check.

I've come up with my top 5 corporate blogging mistakes. These are the mistakes that I see again and again.

Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be embeded into any GNOME application.

On Tuesday, Gartner analysts Carl Claunch and Dave Cearley gave a crowd of IT leaders at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 a list of the top 10 technologies that will provide important strategic advantages to IT over the next three years. They encouraged the leaders to keep these technologies in mind as they formulate budgets and long-term plans.

Getting a Logitech Orb webcam working on Ubuntu.

What exactly is Dropbox?
Dropbox is the easiest way to share and store your files online.

The SlingCatcher is a universal media player for your TV. SlingCatcher's onscreen interface and remote control provide easy access to digital video from just about anywhere—from your Slingbox, from your PC, or from the Internet—with almost no restrictions on source or format. So sit back and relax, SlingCatcher brings the digital age to your TV screen.

Great list, title says it all!

This white paper provides the detailed steps and best practices for migrating an existing standalone IBM® WebSphere® Portal 6.0.1.1 environment to a standalone WebSphere Portal V6.1 environment. Included are pre-migration tasks and requirements, instructions for migrating core resources, post-migration tasks, and an explanation of common migration errors and messages.

A. Must. Read. Post.

A tutorial on how to get OpenSearch integrated with Lotus Connections

Britain will make foreigners carry RFID identity cards and will put us in a huge, Orwellian database: the rest of Britain will be next

There is a lot of talk these days about how the record industry is losing money because of pirating and illegal file sharing. I am a songwriter who has spent thousands of dollars of my own money, to recoup very little, and I have downloaded plenty of music illegally. I don’t think it is hurting the artists; it is hurting the labels. That is from the industries inability to adapt.

Describing the mechanics of any project is tough, especially if you're an insider. Detailing what's happened with ESME is particularly challenging because it is unlike any other project in which I have participated. At this stage (and remember we haven't yet gotten to the first TechEd), anything I say is preliminary and tinged with the sort of caution that any 'beta' release' brings.

Regardless of anything else, of one thing I am 100% certain. ESME is a case study in the power of community, the dynamics that can emerge, the value of active cooperation between 'suits' and 'geeks' and the results that are possible. Put another way, how else might the germ of an idea emerge to become a functional application in less than three months without the benefit of community?

some recommended practices for a social software PoC

The spectacular new MPC-L from Viglen is a compact PC designed for basic functionality such as web browsing and office applications. £99 gets you the basic box with a 40GB Hard Disk and a special preinstalled version of Xubuntu Linux. With no internal fans, the MPC-L is silent in operation and remarkably small, but its size isn't an obstacle to functionality with integral SXGA graphics, 10/100 Ethernet and multimedia audio. There is a wide range of compatible peripherals to choose from, such as a keyboard with USB port or a cradle to mount it to the back of any VESA monitor.

hitting this bug on Ubuntu destop

Way2SMS is an easy-to-use SMS tool which helps you to send SMS to your friends, family etc. Also, Send SMS to the Group contacts with single click.