On Business Models. Don Park and Tim Oren are engaged in an interesting discussion of business models in the wifi world. Don kindly makes a suggestion to have Access Point hardware vendors subsidise the price of the wifi Access Point (AP) by bundling it with a services oriented business model.  It's like a blast of deja… Continue reading On Business Models

More pleasant surprises, please. I want to be pleasantly surprised by software that notices when message patterns indicate the formation of a group or project, and volunteers to set up folders and filters for me. Likewise, I want to be pleasantly surprised by an RSS newsreader that notices how I save and organize items from… Continue reading More pleasant surprises, please

SMTP Virtual Server Learning…. The're's a new tutorial over at MSExchange.org that's definitely worth a read “SMTP Virtual Server Uncovered”…. The article provides “some insight into better SMTP queue management to improve your ability to cope when your queues get swamped with spam and… [MS Exchange Blog]

Exchange 2003 Deployment. Microsoft have published an Exchange 2003 Deployment Guide… it's available here…. [MS Exchange Blog]

Microsoft's new IM Server. “Microsoft Readies Messaging Server – Development ends on Office Live Communications Server, shipping in weeks.” (PCWorld.com) With instant messaging functionality not having been included within Exchange 2003 as it was with Exchange 2000, the Live Communications Server 2003 is Microsoft's… [MS Exchange Blog]

Exchange 2000 Rollup Patch. Another Exchange 2000 Post-Service Pack 3 Rollup Patch has been released… it “resolves problems that were found in Exchange 2000 since SP3 was released.”… [MS Exchange Blog]

More RPC over HTTP info…. Paul Robichaux has written a piece on the exciting new Outlook/Exchange 2003 feature that we mentioned a few days ago 'RPC over HTTP,' for Exchangeadmin.com. “…..Another solution, of course, is to use RPC-over-HTTP to connect your Outlook 2003 clients to… [MS Exchange Blog]

The origin of personas. Alan Cooper shares the background of Cooper's personas, but fails to acknowledge the considerable contributions of others to the concept. In particular, Geoffrey Moore describes very clearly the technique of archetypal users working through scenarios in 1991's Crossing the Chasm, and Victor points out other contributors to the technique from within… Continue reading The origin of personas

OpenAM. Alf Eaton has released a new version of OpenAM – his Amazon review tool. The return of OpenAm. Thanks for the feedback – here's the return of OpenAm! The OpenAm service is for easy linking to books on the Amazon site (music and DVDs to come – the web services don't allow that yet).… Continue reading OpenAM

Her comes Tribe.net. The Tribe.net has entered into a v 1.1 beta stage, where it's working out the kinks and getting it's act together.  Here's Ross Mayfield's assesment.  One cool thing is that Tribe.net is NOT closed.  Anyone can go to it – browse around in “lurk” mood and join – if they wish. Of… Continue reading Her comes Tribe.net