Author: Vince Kimball

Always-on identification.  David Weinberger's recent essay, There's No “I” in “Identity”, advances a notion of real-world identity that's so different from mine I had to sort out why. David writes: In the real world, we don't identify everyone. We only identify those about whom we have doubts that we have to resolve for some purpose.… Continue reading Always-on identification

Can E-Mail Be Saved?. The cover story of Monday's InfoWorld is Can e-mail be saved? Reporter Paul Boutin solicited the opinion of six industry insiders to answer the question. Here's the section of the article that includes Ray Ozzie's viewpoints on the topic: Creator of Lotus Notes, the groupware used by 100 million people, Ray… Continue reading Can E-Mail Be Saved?

Rural Folk May Yet Get Broadband. In the latest effort to bring high-speed Internet access to rural areas, the FCC proposes letting wireless service providers share airwaves currently used by satellites and radar. Satellite companies hasten to protect their slice of the spectrum. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]

Why your mass e-mail requests get ignored. Harvard researchers have discovered that a long-used practice in e-mail communications actually discourages responses. [CNET News.com] I have always wondered about this – now some research. [Scott Young's Radio Weblog]

Why Content Management (& KM) Fails. Jeffrey Veen at Adaptive Path discusses why content management endeavors fail. With respect to web site content, many organizations complain that their sites are “woefully out of date, growing out of control, and generally a complete mess. Almost unanimously, these companies have chosen to solve the problem by handing… Continue reading Why Content Management (& KM) Fails

Blog vs. Conventional Web Site. Jeff Beard has a typically well-thought-out summary of the reasons why a lawyer might want to use a blog instead of a conventional web site…. [Netlawblog]

InfoWorld: Can e-mail be saved? Paul Boutin. Instead of tinkering with ever more complex anti-spam filters and gateways, it's time to rethink the way e-mail works in the enterprise. With that in mind, we rounded up a half dozen successful software entrepreneurs — plus one unrepentant spammer — and asked them how they would change… Continue reading Can e-mail be saved?

Thinking about how to make a living as an entrepreneur software developer. As I move back into the world of trying to make a living through product development as a very small software developer, I'm struggling with figuring out the way I should structure things. Here is some thinking about different models, mainly focusing on… Continue reading Thinking about how to make a living as an entrepreneur software developer

Scoble's an edge-case when it comes to screen resolution. Jeff Sandquist is making fun of me in email. Turns out that the user experience team here did a survey of Windows users and found that only 2% run their screens at a resolution of 1600×1200 or higher. That's the res I work at. People come… Continue reading Scoble's an edge-case when it comes to screen resolution

How do you persuade?. How do you persuade someone to change their mind? I've been thinking about this a lot. Why? It's my job. I'm an evangelist at Microsoft and I'm paid to persuade you to write software for an operating system that none of you have even seen yet. But, let's avoid talking about… Continue reading How do you persuade?