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...
I really like this idea by Alan Lepofsky, he’s asking his readers to share things that they need to get done during their normal working days. There’s no mega business processes here, just the simple stuff that fills most of our time and is often still poorly optimised despite much...
Back in September of last year I wrote a post on the lack of support for authenticated RSS feeds and the BIG issues that this was going to cause enterprises trying to do rollouts this year. Jon Udell recently mentioned this and the comments and his post are quite useful. In...
A post on the SharePoint blog on the potential for SharePoint to replace file servers has stimulated a good debate. I replied to it here and Joel (the original author) replied to me here (thanks for taking the time and effort Joel!). Initially I was left feeling less than convinced that...
Graham points to a pretty good article on the SharePoint team blog about when to use SharePoint and when to use a file server. Whilst I think the article is largely technically correct, it doesn’t address many of the points I raised in this post. The key ones being: pretty...
I have recently been thinking a bit about Enterprise RSS and getting frustrated by key features that seem to be missing, confusing or partially implemented, two examples being: Lack of unread status syncing between multiple clients of the Windows Common Feed Store Lack of support for basic authentication in the Windows...
Just by chance I came across a vision document for the Chandler open source Personal Information Management (PIM) client application which has a very innovative design and ambitious plans for sharing, extensibility and cross-platform support. Even if you have no interest in Chandler as a product I recommend you have...
Watch the Microsoft demos and the offline capabilities of SharePoint look really slick, but dig into the details and you find that it’s not as rosy as you first thought, in fact in some areas, like Excel 2007 integration with SharePoint 2007 it’s actually worse than in the 2003 products. ...
One of the more interesting business trends is increasing mobility and how it will change many lives, it’s certainly changed mine allowing me to work from home, out walking, from cafes and restaurants and hotels. So I was pleased to find this very interesting open survey on this critical dimension of...
RSS has grown up on the public Internet and it seems that authentication will be problematic when it moves into the Intranet. On Intranets expect to find the following authentication mechanisms: NTLM kerberos Digest Forms based Basic (usually combined with SSL) Only the last of these mechanisms can be assumed...