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How Microsoft and Jive Might Get Microblogging Wrong
Microsoft SharePoint and Jive SBS are the two biggest players I know of in the one-size-fits-all enterprise collaboration world. Thanks to the two year lag between consumer web product innovation and enterprise collaboration followup, we now see microblogs gaining recognition as a must-have feature for the biggest players in this market.
This is great news but there’s [read more...]
Get started building your own web apps with the Google App Engine
I’ve only been at this for an hour or so, and already I’ve gotten a dev environment installed and working properly on this Vista laptop. This is a big step up from my attempts to install & run Ruby on Rails via Ubuntu Linux. I’m stepping through the Google App Engine howto docs [read more...]
Why I’m choosing YouTube over Seesmic for instant video publishing
Image via CrunchBase
UPDATE: Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur showed up shortly after this post went up with a strong defense of his product. Check the comments at the bottom of the post to see his contribution!
Let’s start here: embedded Seesmic videos don’t show up in Google Reader. I can’t say for sure what fraction [read more...]
Tim Tebow, Steve Carell, Justin.TV, and the Future of Television
Image by Getty Images via Daylife
Last night was a bit of an eye-opener for me in terms of mixing passive entertainment with a more active online crowd. I wanted to watch the second half of the college football BCS Championship game between Florida and Oklahoma.
I don’t have cable or an antenna or anything, [read more...]


