Michael Helfrich's Radio WeblogObservations from the trenches...(Untitled)- August 24, 2003 MICRO-CLIENT INTERFACES: I have been a big fan of micro-client's and Google's Tool Bar was the first client that I installed. It was lightweight, provided really useful functionality, and made the whole notion of searching that much easier. The other day I fired up IE and was delighted to find two new enhancements. First, Google has embedded a pop-up blocker that blocks those unwanted popup windows. I first noticed it when I went to CNN.com and the annoying...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110426/2003/08/24.html#a60 (Untitled)- August 19, 2003 DROWNING IN THE DECISION PROCESS: Back in 1998 while I was still at Lotus, it became very clear to me that the "searching" metaphor was a productivity black hole for most decision processes. I remember reading an article penned by a researcher at a California university (can't find his name 5 years later) who proposed something he called "finding strategies". It was this paper that drove a lot of thinking at LotusIBM specific around our knowledge management technology strategy. People needed a..http://radio.weblogs.com/0110426/2003/08/19.html#a59 (Untitled)- August 17, 2003 SOCIAL SOFTWARE AND THE ISSUE OF TRUST: A lot is being written about "social software". Clay, Ross, and Ray have been big thought leaders in this space and it is awesome to be in the field and witness many of the core tenets, in action, that have been put forth by these folks. While largely considered "software that supports group communication", there is a time and place dimension above and beyond the pure movement of messages amongst people and organizations. Recently, we were able to...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110426/2003/08/16.html#a58 (Untitled)- August 15, 2003 MORE GADGETS: I went to Europe on Groove business a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't until I arrived in Vienna that I realized what a shmoe I was for not bringing along a camera. So off I went in search of a digital camera. Found this one at the local camera store in Vienna. This is one awesome camera, largely because of it's form factor. It's the Casio Exilim "Wearable" camera (EX-S2). If you took two PCMCIA cards and stacked them, that is just...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110426/2003/08/14.html#a57 |