Wolfgang Sommergut

• Attributes Of Social Software
  Five attributes that seem to reoccur:
  
  – Designed to be recombinant
  
  – Enables a collective user experience
  
  – Augments informal interaction
  
  – Aggregates information from community-influenced networks
  
  – Spans work and lifestyle
  (tags: SocialSoftware)
• Gliffy
  Gliffy is a suite of online applications designed to replace expensive and difficult to maintain desktop software. Since Gliffy applications work in any web browser, sharing your work is made simple.
  (tags: Service Collaboration)
• Google Does Web CMS (finally)
  Describe the new Google Page Creator as Google’s less than subtle entry to small business Web CMS.
  (tags: CMS Google)
• Apogee Project – Rich Client Platform for ECM
  Apogée is an open source project to build a complete framework for ECM-oriented rich client applications. It includes features like : XForms engine for Eclipse, multi-server support, collaboration, offline work, rich content editors, etc.
  (tags: ECM CMS Java OpenSource Editor)

• Das Web2.0 Sammelalbum
  web2null ist das öffentliche Sammelalbum von active value für Anwendungen, Webdienste und Services, die grob dem Begriff Web2.0 zugeordnet werden können.
  (tags: Web_2.0)
• The Happy Searcher: Challenges in Web Information Retrieval
  In addressing the problem of information retrieval on the web, there are a number
  of challenges in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques can be successfully
  brought to bear.
  (tags: Search)

• Mass Customization: Prinzipien und Erfolgsfaktoren
  Der Ansatz zielt auf die Fertigung und den Vertrieb individueller Produkte mit der Effizienz vergleichbarer Massenprodukte. Die gleichen Kunden, die vorher ein Standardprodukt gekauft haben, sollen nun eine individuelle Lösung bekommen können.
  (tags: E-Commerce)
• Wie verdient man eigentlich zukünftig noch Geld mit Classifieds?
  Kein Geld mehr verdienen lässt sich damit, Classifieds-Anzeigen einfach nur ins Netz zu bringen. Gratisplattformen und Crawler haben diesen Einnahmenkanal obsolet gemacht.
  (tags: Advertising E-Commerce)

Allmählich neige ich immer mehr dazu, diese Frage mit „nein“ zu beantworten. Der Billighoster von United Internet lastet seine Server mittlerweile bis an den roten Bereich aus. Seit Wochen ist es mir nicht mehr gelungen, mein Kategorienarchiv mit Movable Type neu zu erstellen – der Prozess endet grundsätzlich mit einem HTTP 500. Und wenn ich die Log-Datei zu groß werden lasse, bekomme ich sie nicht mehr zu sehen, sondern wieder nur eine Fehlermeldung. Natürlich kann man einwenden, dass man für vier Euro im Monat nicht mehr verlangen kann. Aber wenn CGI-Scripts und PHP zum Leistungsumfang gehören, dann sollte damit mehr möglich sein als ein „Hello World“.

Immer mehr Online-Dienste versuchen den Tageszeitungen das Geschäft mit Kleinanzeigen streitig zu machen (siehe dazu Hugo Martins Fressen kostenlose Classified-Websites Zeitungen?). Craigslist expandiert nach Europa, Google Base entwickelt sich zu einem ernsthaften Player in diesem Segment und Startups wie Edgeio versuchen ihr Glück mit neuen Konzepten. Und in Deutschland geht der Heise-Verlag mit heisetreff.de an den Start.

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• Introduction to CalDAV
  Calendaring must function in heterogeneous environments to be considered reliable. The CalDAV protocol makes that possible by supporting a range of client and server implementations in ways that Outlook simply cannot.
  (tags: Calendar Standards)

• Mashup Feed
  All the data you see here is drawn from the Mashup and API databases at ProgrammableWeb. Here it’s a bit more concise and mashup-focused. By subscribing to the Mashup Feed itself you can get automatically notified of mashups as soon as they are added.
  (tags: Web_2.0 WebDev)
• Rojo FeedShare
  FeedShare is a service that helps bloggers with similar interests promote each other. As a blogger participant you give exposure on your site to other blogs in the network, and in return your blog will be promoted on similar sites in the network.
  (tags: Weblogs Syndication)
• Keeping Your In-Box “Real”
  Different people manage their in-boxes in different ways but one of the things that I’ve noticed is that, before they do the coaching and implement the GTD approach, most people have some kind of „yuk“ feeling associated with their in-box.
  (tags: Tips E-Mail)
• 8 Steps to a succesfull and empty Inbox after your vacation
  I hope this will help you get rid of a the first clutter of emails after you’ve been away for some time.
  (tags: Tips E-Mail)
• Checking e-mail vs. working productively
  Interestingly, we found that nearly 60% of e-mails are opened as soon as they are received. This is particularly interesting in light of the fact that only 15% of the e-mail that a typical user receives is what they would consider to be critical, while 38
  (tags: E-Mail Survey)

• A Truly del.icio.us API
  Del.icio.us’s delicious API offers methods for adding, reading, querying, and editing bookmarks, and makes it extremely easy to make del.icio.us part of any application.
  (tags: Bookmarks SocialSoftware Web_2.0)
• How to Almost Live on Blogging
  In a recent interview with Wired News, Davis shared some tips for aspiring online publishers.
  (tags: Business Advertising Weblogs)
• How much of your e-mail is important?
  We recently completed a survey with 331 e-mail users in small, midsize and large companies. One of the issues we wanted to investigate was the proportion of e-mail that was important to recipients
  (tags: Messaging Survey)

Zahllose Anbieter von Web-Mail buhlen um die Gunst von Privatanwendern. Nun reißen sich Hoster darum, den Mail-Service auch für Firmen gratis anzubieten. Vor ein paar Tagen kündigte Google sein „GMail for your Domain“ an. Und mail2web.com gewährt mit seinem Live-Service kostenlos den Zugang zu einem gehosteten Exchange 2003. Der maximale Speicherplatz pro Benutzer ist mit 1 GB größer als in den meisten Firmen. Anhänge dürfen bis zu 100 MB groß sein. Den Service gibt es in mehreren Sprachen, darunter auch in Deutsch.

Die Gründe für die große Einkaufstour (Sleepycat, Jboss) von Oracle sind nicht auf Anhieb ersichtlich. Einige Interpretationen laufen darauf hinaus, dass Oracle die Technolgie dieser Firmen benötigt, um bestimmte Nischenmärkte zu besetzen. Meines Erachtens hat Larry Ellison andere Motive.

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• Web Content Creation: Ten Approaches For Small Online Publishers
  A so-called „sticky“ website is one that attracts individuals and encourages them to return. „Sticky websites“ integrate high-value content that is related and of interest to its readers.
  (tags: Content Media)
• Prosper: How person to person lending works
  People who need money request it, and other people bid for the privilege of lending it to them. Prosper makes sure everything is safe, fair and easy.
  (tags: Business SocialSoftware)
• SplitTester.com
  f you’ve got two ads that have different click-through rates right now, how sure can you be that those ads will perform differently in the long run? Enter your clicks and CTR’s for each ad in the spaces below, and SplitTester will tell how how likely they
  (tags: Business Advertising Service)
• 3bubbles
  Our dream is to create a real-time dialogue on the internet, where people interested in the same topics have a way to instantly connect in relevant conversations.
  (tags: Web_2.0 InstantMessaging Weblogs)
• alexadex.com
  Welcome to the alexadex, where players compete for fame and glory by buying and selling shares in sites on the world wide web.
  (tags: SocialSoftware Service)

Jakob Nielsen, von deutschen Bloggern geschmähter Usability-Papst, behauptet in einer kürzlich erschienen Kolumne, dass die Suchmaschinen zu viel vom Wert abschöpfen, der im Web erzeugt wird. Seine zentrale Premisse lautet, dass erfolgreicher E-Commerce ohne Keyword Advertising nicht mehr möglich ist.

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• Feed43 (Feed For Free) : Convert any web page to news feed on the fly
  Feed43 is a web-based service which allows you to create a custom RSS feed for any site )who doesn’t have one). This process is generally called HTML scraping.
  (tags: RSS Service)
• FeedTier – RSS Web Feed Generator for Web Pages without Syndication
  FeedTier performs content analysis, picks-up the most prominent cluster of hyperlinks and automatically generates RSS web feeds from HTML-based web pages that do not have already an RSS feed.
  (tags: RSS Service)
• Prepublish RSS Feeds
  The future-rss.php script is used to automatically delay the publication of Items in an RSS feed. This allows Items in a RSS feed to be created ahead of time, and then slowly released over a period of time.
  (tags: PHP RSS Tools)
• hanzo:web – social web archiving service
  The beauty of this tool is that you can access and browse these pages or sites even when the original sites cease to exist. Hanzo:webIt is your own personal web archive capable of recording each and every piece of web content relevant to you.
  (tags: Archive Bookmarks SocialSoftware)
• FavIcon from Pics — how to create a favicon.ico for your website
  Simply select a picture, logo or other graphic (of any size/resolution) for the „Source Image“ and click „Generate FavIcon.ico“
  (tags: Browser Tools WebDev)
• S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System
  S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well. The markup used for the slides is very simple, highly semantic, and completely accessible
  (tags: Ajax Powerpoint HTML XHTML)
• coComment – clear conversation in the blogosphere
  When you comment on a blog, coComment keeps a copy of your message on a special page. Display all the comments you make accross the blogosphere on your own blog.
  (tags: Weblogs Web_2.0 Service)

• Taking a business-centric approach to portals
  This article outlines the characteristics (good and bad) of enterprise portals, and proposes a business-centric approach to selecting and implementing portals.
  (tags: Portal)
• Conway’s Law
  Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
  (tags: ProjectManagement)

Vier Monate nachdem Nicholas Carr seinen Beitrag „The amorality of Web 2.0“ veröffentlichte, steigt die SZ in die Debatte über den metaphysischen Charakter des Web 2.0 ein. Wie man von kritischem deutschen Journalismus erwarten darf, findet der Autor kein gutes Haar an den neuesten Entwicklungen im Web. Was anderes lässt der kalauernde Titel „Ritter der Schwafelrunde“ auch nicht erwarten.

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