Business Weblogs and Social Software. Interesting post over at “How To Save the World”, Dave Pollard's weblog, on business weblogs and social software, detailing the areas where social networking and knowledge management could (or should) intersect: Social Software Tool #4: Knowledge Traffic Management Tool This tool would identify areas of knowledge sharing 'congestion' (people who… Continue reading Business Weblogs and Social Software

More IE5/Mac perspectives. Tantek, father of the Tasman rendering engine, tells how he learned his product was dead. Eric Meyer explains the benefits of innovations IE5/Mac introduced, all of which helped the cause of web standards, and most of which found their way into the browser you probably use, no matter which browser or platform… Continue reading More IE5/Mac perspectives

Conspiracy theory. Dave Winer puts the death of IE5/Mac into context, concluding it took Bill Gates ten years to erase the web as a threat. The timing of recent events bears out Dave's thesis, at least as far as Microsoft's INTENTIONS are concerned. A blow by blow analysis of who did and said what when.… Continue reading Conspiracy theory

R.I.P.. The rumors flew all day, but we held off writing about this until we had it from an unimpeachable source. Jimmy Grewal is a key member of the Mac Internet Explorer team and a stand-up guy. He confirms that IE5/Mac is dead. There is much that could be said, and we say some of… Continue reading R.I.P.

2005? Are they kidding?. Scoble says Longhorn will be available in 2005. Which is another way of saying IE/Win won't change for at least two years. It is not good enough to stay as it is. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]

Take My Data Center, Please. These are glum times for Web hosting businesses in the United States, with two of the industry's largest players announcing they are pulling up stakes. It's yet another example of continuing fallout from the dot-com bust. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]

Scout Portal Toolkit: Open Source Digital Library Application. Since I blogged the Gassie presentation earlier, I thought I should mention one of the applications she chose for the digital project. Scout Portal Toolkit is an open source (requires PHP and MySQL) application that allows an organization to maintain a library of resources via a web… Continue reading Scout Portal Toolkit: Open Source Digital Library Application

MIT Technology Review: Spam Wars. Despite deep divisions among this assemblage on who has the best tools for eradicating spam, there's broad consensus on one point: if there's one thing worse than a piece of junk e-mail, it's the prospect that a spam filter will stop a legitimate message from reaching its recipient. [Tomalak's Realm]

Crypto-Gram: The Risks of Cyberterrorism. Even during the war in Iraq, which was supposed to increase the risk dramatically, nothing happened. The impending cyberwar was a big dud. Don't congratulate our vigilant security, though; the alarm was caused by a misunderstanding of both the attackers and the attacks. [Tomalak's Realm]

Microsoft Offers Improved Developer Tools. Fueling its desire to keep code writers in its camp, the software giant releases updated toolkits for .NET and Windows Embedded systems. [Internet Product News]