Tuesday, August 14, 2001

>>>> Paul Nakada: AOL Instant Messenger provides real-time info on recently updated Weblogs. This is great. Everything seems to be linking up. Naturally. This is the next phase of the Internet. The basis of the next explosion of creativity. 5:55:32 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

>>>> First UDDI and WSDL. Now WSFL: Web Services Flow Language (yet more garbage people are stacking on the Web Services framework). When will it stop? 11:59:51 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

>>>> Reuters: AOL to lay off people. ``The cuts reconfirm that the business has slowed and in order to have any chance of making their $11 billion in EBITDA, more of the cash flow will have to come from cost controls given that revenue won't come through as the economy is not likely to rebound,'' said Fred Moran, analyst at Jefferies & Co. 10:22:05 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

>>>> Mark Pilgrim: Groove doesn't work. I agree. Monolithic programs like Groove don't work. They bog people down with useless overhead. However, I thought the same thing about Notes. What made Notes take off, despite its problems, was secure e-mail replication. No one I know uses any of the other features of Notes. IBM bought Notes for its e-mail. The last time I checked, Notes was on over 40 m desktops. Does Groove have an e-mail style feature that companies want? It may be secure file replication or secure instant messaging. Ray is trolling for IBM to purchase him, that's why he focused on the VPN functionality first. Companies in IBM's world are obsessed with security. It is the first checkmark on their evaluation form. My Groove killer would include: A personal Weblog. A way to post e-mail to my Weblog (promoting it). Instant messaging. Web apps. Plenty of them that do cool things. Simple file transfer. File and Weblog search. Shared file directories (I want to see what other people have in their shared folder but I don't want to download all of it). An outliner. An ability to mail out short surveys and other interactive items. There are probably more features here. Send ideas to jrobb@userland.com 10:07:06 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

>>>> Hey, I made the Flangy News link farm! 8:06:04 AM    Comment_ Trackback []