NY Times

NY Times: “For many Iranians, America is a country full of the scantily-clad, available women of Baywatch and MTV. First-time visitors to the United States are often shocked by the more spiritual and socially conservative side of America. 'What surprised me the most when I came to the United States was how many churches there… Continue reading NY Times

Q&A with Peter Bogaards

Argus ACIA: Q&A with Peter Bogaards. Everybody with a background and experience related to people and their communication can become an information designer. If you have a passion for the motives, needs, emotions, cognition, circumstances and values of people, you are more than half way there. [Tomalak's Realm]

Andre Durand

Andre Durand, the founder of Jabber, Inc. has a new Manila Weblog.  Welcome!   This is a well done site and a good demonstration of why every founder, CEO, or clear thinking executive should have their own site(s).  Andre is able to post his point of view on current events, enhance his personal brand, and share his vision of where… Continue reading Andre Durand

Google Buys Xerox PARC Spin-Off's Assets

Interactive Week: Google Buys Xerox PARC Spin-Off's Assets. Search engine Google on Thursday announced that it will buy the intellectual property assets of Outride, an online information retrieval technologies developer that was spun off from Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. [Tomalak's Realm]

New DSL standard offers faster speeds

News.Com: New DSL standard offers faster speeds. Although DSL speeds vary widely, the new G.SHDSL could be two to three times faster than most versions of DSL targeted at business customers. The G.SHDSL standard also can deliver data farther than earlier DSL technologies, which are limited to a relatively short distance. [Tomalak's Realm]

The view from Beirut

The view from Beirut. An American in Lebanon warns that despite Bush's efforts, Arabs will likely view an attack on terrorism as a war on Islam. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

New York Public Library: Dealing with Disaster (via Ex Libris)

New York Public Library: Dealing with Disaster (via Ex Libris) – “72 of the 85 neighborhood branch libraries opened for business on Wednesday, where they were jammed with calls and in-person requests for information about the disaster. Librarians continued to provide that information despite occasional bomb threats that forced them to evacuate their buildings. With… Continue reading

New York Public Library: Dealing with Disaster (via Ex Libris)

CamWorld

CamWorld – Walter Mossberg (Wall Street Journal): “It's somewhat suspicious that software from some of Microsoft's fiercest rivals just happened to be partially disabled in some way by Windows XP.”

E-mail attachments are dead. 

May people won't open them due to the chance they are a virus.   They clog up e-mail databases as they spread throughout a company (sometimes you get two to three copies of the same attachment).  Corporate admins and security people are starting to put blocks on attachments at the firewall.  All in all, attachments are on the way out. 

To correct this, we need a new application (which may be a killer app):  an enclosures/attachments posting tool that integrates with the major e-mail packages.  Here is how it works:  When I select add attachment I get the standard browse window which allows me to select the file I want to attach.  However, instead of attaching the file to the e-mail my file is upstreamed to a storage server.  What is sent instead is a username and password for getting that file,  User name = e-mail address.  Password = randomly generated number. 

The benefits?  My inbox doesn't clog if I am on a dial-up.  Sys admins can block attachments at the firewall.  E-mail databases grow less quickly.  I can forward or receive multiple copies of the same pointer to the attachment without any increase in storage costs or bother.  I don't have a virus threat because the file isn't sitting on my desktop.  Also there is an archive of all my sent and received attachments, which I can use as I see fit (it would be even better if there was an annotation on the file). 

This would be a nice business.  Three client apps that attach to Outlook, Lotus, and Eudora.  A storage system with the ability to handle secure access and a small level of personalization (my attachments list and people that have accessed my attachments sorted by e-mail, date, and file).  Build this and companies would line up to buy it from you.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog

E-mail attachments are dead.  May people won't open them due to the chance they are a virus.   They clog up e-mail databases as they spread throughout a company (sometimes you get two to three copies of the same attachment).  Corporate admins and security people are starting to put blocks on attachments at the firewall.  All in all,… Continue reading E-mail attachments are dead. 

May people won't open them due to the chance they are a virus.   They clog up e-mail databases as they spread throughout a company (sometimes you get two to three copies of the same attachment).  Corporate admins and security people are starting to put blocks on attachments at the firewall.  All in all, attachments are on the way out. 

To correct this, we need a new application (which may be a killer app):  an enclosures/attachments posting tool that integrates with the major e-mail packages.  Here is how it works:  When I select add attachment I get the standard browse window which allows me to select the file I want to attach.  However, instead of attaching the file to the e-mail my file is upstreamed to a storage server.  What is sent instead is a username and password for getting that file,  User name = e-mail address.  Password = randomly generated number. 

The benefits?  My inbox doesn't clog if I am on a dial-up.  Sys admins can block attachments at the firewall.  E-mail databases grow less quickly.  I can forward or receive multiple copies of the same pointer to the attachment without any increase in storage costs or bother.  I don't have a virus threat because the file isn't sitting on my desktop.  Also there is an archive of all my sent and received attachments, which I can use as I see fit (it would be even better if there was an annotation on the file). 

This would be a nice business.  Three client apps that attach to Outlook, Lotus, and Eudora.  A storage system with the ability to handle secure access and a small level of personalization (my attachments list and people that have accessed my attachments sorted by e-mail, date, and file).  Build this and companies would line up to buy it from you.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog