Author: Vince Kimball

From a Slim Black Box, Shared Knowledge Streams Wirelessly. The Martian NetDrive Wireless sounds as if it might be a device capable of connecting you with extraterrestrial neighbors. Its reach is not quite that far, but it does allow people who are not in the same room to share data. By Thomas J. Fitzgerald. [New… Continue reading From a Slim Black Box, Shared Knowledge Streams Wirelessly

Fast Company has an RSS feed too. Bing! [Scripting News]

Microsoft Beefs Up Wi-Fi Security in XP. Microsoft releases a free XP download with support for Wi-Fi Protected Access, an alternative to the WEP protocol. [Internet Product News]

Yahoo News – Most IT Experts Do Not Trust Microsoft. SEATTLE (Reuters) – Three-fourths of computer software security experts at major companies surveyed by Forrester Research Inc. (Nasdaq:FORR – news) do not think Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT – news) products are secure, the technology research company said on Monday. While 77 percent of respondents in the… Continue reading Yahoo News

Summit Summing. Boxes and Arrows sums up this year's IA Summit with a superbly detailed, collective trip report. [Mark Bernstein]

Dennis Kennedy Launches Solo Career. Yes, I am leaving Thompson Coburn to start a solo career. The mix of what I want to do no longer fits within the context of a large law firm and I’ll be starting a couple of new enterprises. First, I’ll have a law practice that will look a lot like… Continue reading Dennis Kennedy Launches Solo Career

How Google runs its engineering. Here's a fascinating article in Fast Company about how Google is run. It has some very non-standard engineering management practices, which are working out pretty well for it: When Rosing started at Google in 2001, “we had management in engineering. And the structure was tending to tell people, No, you… Continue reading How Google runs its engineering

The Da Vinci Code: the review. Everybody likes a good conspiracy theory: shadowy secret organization holds some incredibly important information and/or wields vast power over most of the world's governmental organizationsmost of the world's governmental organizations … [Nobody Knows Anything]

Useit.Com: Intranet Portals: A Tool Metaphor for Corporate Information. Most importantly, at all the companies we studied, the key issues in building a good intranet portal were political and organizational — not technical. Basically, buying software won't get you a good portal unless you also manage internal company politics. [Tomalak's Realm]

RSS at MSDN: MSDN has RSS feeds… Tim Ewald posts the links. * [Archipelago]