Wolfgang Sommergut

• Why Closed Doesn’t Work for Collaborative Workspaces: Three Reasons Why Openness is Required, Nov 3
  This report is about why collaborative workspaces haven’t been adopted, why email continues to be the default medium for communication / coordination / collaboration
  (tags: Collaboration Messaging Groupware)
• Building Business And Product Brands Through Group Blogs and Blogging (PDF)
  This whitepaper will describe how group blogs will continue to become more influential in the business community. This paper will also describe essential elements and pitfalls to group business blogging.
  (tags: Business Weblogs)

• Amazon Mechanical Turk
  The idea of the Amazon Mechanical Turk web service is to give developers a programmable interface to a network of humans to solve these kinds of problems and incorporate this human intelligence into their applications.
  (tags: Collaboration Service WebDev E-Business)
• Online web poll generator
  iMediaPOLL integrates the smartest features of a dynamic online poll, and allows you set the look of your poll. Now, you can create the poll you have always wanted.
  (tags: Tools Service)

Textpattern ist ein einfaches Web-CMS, das der GNU General Public License unterliegt und PHP/MySQL voraussetzt. Es kann daher mit einem gängigen Web-Hosting-Paket genutzt werden. Textpattern eignet sich gut, um ein Weblog zu führen und ist daher eine Alternative zu Movable Type oder WordPress. Da mein Blog unter einer älteren Version von MT läuft, sehe ich mich hin und wieder nach Alternativen um. Zuletzt habe ich ein bisschen mit TXP experimentiert, um den Aufwand für einen Wechsel abzuschätzen. Hier meine Eindrücke.

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• Word Processor Filters
  This information on converter / filter software between various systems and HTML is done on a „best effort“ basis as a service to the community, and neither CERN nor W3C make any claim respecting the accuracy or completeness of this information.
  (tags: HTML Filter)

Ich möchte gerne ein paar ältere Framemaker-Dateien nach HTML oder PDF konvertieren. Stellent bietet mit Outside In entsprechende Transformation Technologies an, die man gleich online ausprobieren kann. Die Site meldete nach kurzer Pause den erfolgreichen Abschluss ihrer Tätigkeit. Das Ergebnis lag deutlich unter meinen geringsten Erwartungen.

• What’s up with IBM and Enterprise Search?
  FAQ in the wake of IBM’s acquisition of niche search vendor iPhrase as well as the joint announcement that Google it will be providing desktop search for the IBM’s OmniFind.
  (tags: IBM Google Search)
• Microsoft’s „Live“ strategy is a good and smart move
  Microsoft has embraced a new way to do business – a mindset that is based on software-as-a service, open platforms, and continuous innovation; a model previously mastered by Google.
  (tags: Microsoft Service MSN WIndows MSOffice)
• Turn on a Dime
  Office and PC era apps do a great job serving the lone producer’s need to complete finished documents. But the process of creating that document is only served through clumsy means. The next generation of productivity gains will come from something new.
  (tags: Microsoft MSOffice WIndows Service)
• WW2D
  WW2D is cross-platform, free and open-source application similar to NASA World Wind or Google Earth software. WW2D allows you to explore Earth using satellite imagery, topographic maps and image from other data sources.
  (tags: Maps OpenSource Java)
• HTML / XHTML / XML / WML Validator
  Validome allows Web Publishers to check their syntax with a reliable, high-speed validation service, in accordance to current official Standards.
  (tags: HTML Tools WebDev XHTML)

Microsoft hat in den letzten Tagen mit „Windows Live“ und „Office Live“ eine neue Online-Initiative gestartet. Sieht man sich die Ankündigungen an und liest die Reaktionen in diversen Medien, dann ist man danach fast genauso schlau wie vorher. Viele Phrasen und Absichtserklärungen („live era of software„, Web-2.0-Akronyme und „Kampf gegen Google“) – aber eine klare Strategie ist nicht erkennbar. Das Vorhaben sieht eher wie das Recycling von Microsoft-Ladenhütern aus.

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• Innovativeness of open source software projects (PDF)
  The paper addresses an ongoing debate about the innovativeness of open source projects and critically evaluates the innovative potential of 500 most active projects registered by SourceForge.net.
  (tags: OpenSource Innovation)
• Textpattern Resources
  A directory of plugins, tutorials, templates, and other resources for and by the Textpattern Community.
  (tags: CMS Textpattern Directory OpenSource)
• The Problem with (Good) Intentions
  Microsoft announces its intentions to do lots of things, many of which either never come to pass or dramatically change along the way.
  (tags: Microsoft Search)

• The Natural Degradation of Email
  When people start using email, they often start using the more formal language of letters.
  (tags: Messaging)
• KeyContent.org : Unlocking Communication
  An educational organization dedicated to providing technical communicators and content managers with the tools to instantly publish ideas and help advance the discipline of content engineering.
  (tags: CMS Content Wiki XML)
• The Case Against BPEL
  Why the Language is Less Important Than You Think
  (tags: XML Business Workflow)