Joe Mahoney

David Winer: Joe Mahoney writes to say that Kmeleon is “the Netscape 6 rendering engine in a very IE like shell. It loads pretty quickly, and renders all the sites I've seen really well. . . . Most importantly it hasn't crashed, unlike Netscape or Mozilla.” I didn't know that. Good idea! [Scripting News]

.NET magazine

Robert Scoble: Congratulations to Fawcette Technical Publications (I used to work there). I just got my .NET magazine and I like it. It's very nice. You can get a free copy on the Web site. Yeah, I wish I were going to New Orleans for this month's Web Builder conference that I helped plan too,… Continue reading .NET magazine

Don Box

Don Box has told friends and folks he works with that he's leaving Developmentor (he was one of the founders of Developmentor and is the most visible person there since Don is well known in the programming industry). The news that Box is leaving Developmentor rippled through the training industry this week since Developmentor is… Continue reading Don Box

The New Paradigm: Back to Basics

The New Paradigm: Back to Basics. After the dot.com shakeout, online businesses old and new are rethinking their strategies. The old rules still apply in this new world of the Net. By Ken Hablow. [WebReference News]

K-Log Community Cloud Services — How to build a knowledge network: There are many ways to provide community functionality to K-Loggers inside a corporation.  No one technique is best, but in combination they provide a good way to find useful content and bright people.  Here is an overview of community info that provides the basis for a corporate knowledge network (not in order of priority):

1) K-Log referrers (referers for techies).  Who linked to my K-Log?  Where is my traffic coming from?

2) Page views.  How much traffic is my K-Log getting and when is it getting it?

3) Top 100 list.  Who is has the most interesting K-logs?  Who is a trusted resource?  (note: Despite the potential problems, this is key to the identification of good resources.  Also, it points people to examples of good K-Logs they can emulate.)

4) Most popular links.  Which links are the most popular?  What are other people in the company looking at?  (note: this should include the time line for who posted this link first and so on until the last post.  This allows people to follow a thread of an idea across K-Logs)

5) Recent Updates.  Which K-logs have been recently updated and when?  (note:  if a favorites feature is deployed you can answer — which of my favorite K-logs have been recently updated?)

6) Search.  How can I find recently updated K-logs that contain this keyword?  What are the most popular search terms?

Additionally community functionality that may help, but I have not seen deployed yet:

7) Organizational directory of K-logs.  Who in the organization has a K-log?  When was it last updated?

8) K-log communities.  Which K-logs routinely link to each other (usually using a static blogrolling list)?  (note:  this would make a nice affiliation map that could work better and more simply than collaborative filtering).

9) Key word maps.  Which K-logs are most tightly associated with certain keywords?  How do they rank based on popularity?  (note:  this could help locate key domain experts)

10)  Most often cited K-logs by specific K-log.  Who are certain K-Loggers pointing to on a regular basis?  (note: this may be esoteric but it answers the question:  who are smart people I have identified pointing to?)

11) Project-based K-Log rings.  Which K-Logs are affiliated with specific projects?  How is a specific project progressing?  (note:  this is similar to the organization map, but can be set-up to allow ad-hoc groups to be set up)

There are many more.  But these should get you started.  A good K-Log cloud server will have support for most of the core functionality and the ability to program additional Knowledge network functionality as needed (UserLand has built one for Radio).  Once a good source is found, a subscription to it will cement the relationship (UserLand's Radio has an RSS subscription capability built-in). [John Robb's Radio Weblog

K-Log Community Cloud Services — How to build a knowledge network: There are many ways to provide community functionality to K-Loggers inside a corporation.  No one technique is best, but in combination they provide a good way to find useful content and bright people.  Here is an overview of community info that provides the basis for… Continue reading K-Log Community Cloud Services — How to build a knowledge network: There are many ways to provide community functionality to K-Loggers inside a corporation.  No one technique is best, but in combination they provide a good way to find useful content and bright people.  Here is an overview of community info that provides the basis for a corporate knowledge network (not in order of priority):

1) K-Log referrers (referers for techies).  Who linked to my K-Log?  Where is my traffic coming from?

2) Page views.  How much traffic is my K-Log getting and when is it getting it?

3) Top 100 list.  Who is has the most interesting K-logs?  Who is a trusted resource?  (note: Despite the potential problems, this is key to the identification of good resources.  Also, it points people to examples of good K-Logs they can emulate.)

4) Most popular links.  Which links are the most popular?  What are other people in the company looking at?  (note: this should include the time line for who posted this link first and so on until the last post.  This allows people to follow a thread of an idea across K-Logs)

5) Recent Updates.  Which K-logs have been recently updated and when?  (note:  if a favorites feature is deployed you can answer — which of my favorite K-logs have been recently updated?)

6) Search.  How can I find recently updated K-logs that contain this keyword?  What are the most popular search terms?

Additionally community functionality that may help, but I have not seen deployed yet:

7) Organizational directory of K-logs.  Who in the organization has a K-log?  When was it last updated?

8) K-log communities.  Which K-logs routinely link to each other (usually using a static blogrolling list)?  (note:  this would make a nice affiliation map that could work better and more simply than collaborative filtering).

9) Key word maps.  Which K-logs are most tightly associated with certain keywords?  How do they rank based on popularity?  (note:  this could help locate key domain experts)

10)  Most often cited K-logs by specific K-log.  Who are certain K-Loggers pointing to on a regular basis?  (note: this may be esoteric but it answers the question:  who are smart people I have identified pointing to?)

11) Project-based K-Log rings.  Which K-Logs are affiliated with specific projects?  How is a specific project progressing?  (note:  this is similar to the organization map, but can be set-up to allow ad-hoc groups to be set up)

There are many more.  But these should get you started.  A good K-Log cloud server will have support for most of the core functionality and the ability to program additional Knowledge network functionality as needed (UserLand has built one for Radio).  Once a good source is found, a subscription to it will cement the relationship (UserLand's Radio has an RSS subscription capability built-in). [John Robb's Radio Weblog

Why do Intranets Fail?

Darwin Magazine: Why do Intranets Fail? The fact that many internal corporate websites go unused–or worse, waste employees' time–is vexing, given the alluring promise of intranets. The same technology that made the Internet a revolutionary communications tool was supposed to revolutionize the corporation as well. [Tomalak's Realm]