While I was at my in-laws this weekend I didn’t have broadband so I installed OnSpeed to improve performance of my GPRS connection. I have been pretty impressed, here are the main advantages: For me OnSpeed seems to compress data by an average of 3-4 times, of course OnSpeed claims...
It seems that everyone now days wants to eliminate the poor old email attachment, and yet people still cling to this tried and trusted way of passing around files. For example Adam recently posted: Several people we’re not happy that in Notes 8.0, the ability to instantly email an attachment...
I try to focus on competing a few big things a week as I explained in this post. However partly because completion if difficult to define in my world and party because I have a lot of distractions completion doesn’t come easy. Scott provides a much needed critique of systems...
I just found out that the audios (and videos) of my favourite conference – POP!TECH – have all been published! The dialogue will cover a wide range of topics, from new ways of measuring humanity’s global impact and the promise of bottom-up solutions to global poverty, to the future of...
Chuck (from EMC) has a nice post on their behind the firewall experiments with social collaboration, and I particularly liked this quote: One of the ways people can work together is around a document. People contribute, edit, revise, approve and distribute documents, reports, and so on. Sure, people are interacting,...
Irwin Lazar asks: Is SharePoint a Web 2.0 platform? Is SharePoint a content management system? Is SharePoint a workflow manager? Is SharePoint a social computing platform? Or is SharePoint a portal to other applications? and concludes that although SharePoint is to some extent all of these things: Well…the answer to...
Mark Greiner (Senior Vice-President and leader of Steelcase’s WorkSpace Futures team) has a very interesting blog on a very neglected subject, at least in my view as I’m a big believer in workspace design and have posted often on the subject. I was pleased to see Mark discover the book...
On the flight home yesterday I was thinking about how I manage my time, and relaxing in a Cafe after a long walk I thought I would jot down some notes. First a little about me and my job: I am currently in a vision and strategy role, but really...
I quite like Lotus Notes, sort of grown accustomed to it over the years, but it’s handling of tasks really frustrates me. This is what I want: Most of my tasks come in via email When an email arrives that I want to turn into a task I want to...
In my home lab I’m always flipping between VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server (and clients), with the announcement of a new version of VMware server it looks like another flips on the horizon. Probably when I update the lab hosts to Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008 is looking very...