Accessing useful sites on the internet through guest networks or hot spots is becoming something of a frustration. With Enterprise Content Filtering ever more sophisticated, a lot of the sites deemed 'social’ are on restricted lists. How these filters get put in place can be something of a minefield. I know. I've walked through one.
Next week I will be blogging from IBM's annual Lotus software jamboree in Orlando. Traditionally the big announcements are made at the Monday morning plenary session but I am not sure that they will be able to top the news that emerged yesterday. Apple has been doing its thing this week with the usual set of 'must have' components. Yes I too would like a mobile PC that is so thin it is almost translucent. Amongst all this IBM and the boys from Cupertino have announced a product that could really put the feline in with the pigeons.
Continue reading "MacNotes - its not an iTune for bagpipes" »
How many keynotes can one conference support? IBM believes the answer is as many as you need - the only problem is that they start at 8am, not great after an evening of refreshing old friendships. And my legs and feet are under siege and my shoes are suffering from cheap carpet burns. To matters:
Continue reading "One conference, four keynotes, two legs" »
One of the big rumous prior to January's Lotusphere was the imminent arrival of some sort of Lotus Notes integration with the iPhone. When the annointed time came we were dissapointed with just a 'light' version of the web client being touted as the Apple solution.
Rumour had it that someone (high up) in Cupertino had thown their iToys out of the collaborative pram as the timing of the announcement did not suit them.
Continue reading "The Apple does not fall far from the corporate tree" »
BBC, Plaxo and Twitter - sounds like the name of a new game show or kiddies TV political analysis series.Continue reading "Small things (BBC, Twitter and black is black)" »
Last week I started my Small Things post, each week I am going to look at the plethora of Web 2.0 collaborative (and personal) tools that are arriving on an almost daily basis.
This week I have had a week of Twitter under my belt, and an introduction to Symbaloo and some conversation around Plaxo.
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Twitter service levels over the last few weeks have been appalling, as I write Instant Messaging service is AWOL. The core service has been famously unreliable for months mostly due to runaway success combined with issues associated with scaling of the chosen platform, to the extent that this rather amusing web site have been created istwitterdown.com (which itself is fairly slow). 
'Allo 'allo'Allo, 'alloThey say that nothing is new under the sun. IBM Lotus must be flattered as here in the UK telco Orange is running an 'I am' campaign that could have been inspired by the noteworthy 'I am' campaign for Lotus R5 in 1999 (I wonder who the copywriters were / worked for ?). This page contains an archive of all entries posted to Collaboration Technology 2.0 in the Mobile Working category. They are listed from oldest to newest.
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