November 8, 2007
This was announced at the DevConnections event last night in Las Vegas. Basically they've rolled out the MOSS search in a free Express version and a Enterprise version. Check out the blog announcement and the product page. Entry market This will drive businesses to install WSS 3.0 with the new Search Server 2008. It can map to many content sources and also create various Search Scopes. The inte
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November 6, 2007
There's a lot of noise out in the SharePoint space around SharePointPedia which is something that Lawrence Lui has been championing within Microsoft. There is screencasts here and here. Personalization I've created my profile and have added some content to various tagged areas. Be interesting to see if I get recommended ;-) The My Tags feature is very clever in terms of showing you the tags you'v
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November 6, 2007
I subscribed to the OzMoss.com listserve, reluctantly at first because I am so used to RSS feeds for managing my content and not my inbox. So far I've found it very useful, especially as GMail groups the emails together as the thread builds which makes it easier to manage. The RSS feed available for the listserve does not do any grouping of threads which can make it hard to follow especially if
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November 5, 2007
Rather than me go into it too much, this video covers what SalesForce are doing in the SaaS space with a new Platform called Force. The blog also covers this is some detail and the press release covers it also. They've really thought it through in terms of scalability, security and performance. It's something managed by them, my biggest question is what Enterprise companies will pick this up or w
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November 5, 2007
The OpenSocial site went live on Thursday and I'm sure will cause quite a stir once the whole blogging community starts discussing this. I've already subscribed to the OpenSocial blog that has some good coverage of who was at the launch event last week. The video of the launch is a good introduction to it all. Features TechCrunch talks about it in some detail after attending the event. They sum u
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November 4, 2007
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November 4, 2007
Ok, I've been a big user of del.icio.us for the last few months and found a great add-on service called Diigo that allows you to extend the detail stored in social bookmarking but has backwards compatibility with del.icio.us with new features such as note taking etc. It allows you to not only bookmark the site but also for it to remember any sticky notes you add to the page etc. which is awe
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November 4, 2007
I'm a big believer in 'eating your own dog food' and I'm a heavy user of RSS feeds, forums and social networking sites to keep up with my areas of interest. I've just been reading a forum thread on 'Do Enterprises WANT social networking?', there are plenty of experts in the field putting their views across which is excellent. The thread is part of the 'Social Networking in the Enterprise' Facebo
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November 4, 2007
I presented to a group of our Alphawest client base on Friday in Perth at QV1 this morning. Thank you for everyone who attended, it was a great turn out and I got some valuable feedback. Some great questions were asked: Should we wait for Microsoft to enhance SharePoint 2007 In terms of whether it is worth backing Microsoft to enhance existing functionality in SharePoint 2007 or whether to go out
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November 4, 2007
Based on discussions I've been reading in my social networking feeds I've decided to get on the OpenID bandwagon, mainly because I don't want someone else to steal my user name that I always use of 'jthake' ;-) It's my branding! There are heaps of sites already supporting OpenID which can be seen at the OpenID Directory. WikiTravel On my travels I found wikitravel.org and decided to check out my
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November 4, 2007
The SIOC project is evolving very quickly and has submitted to w3c in February 2007.
One great use is notitio.us which allows you to view del.icio.us links in a tree form. This tool is awesome for breaking down tag clouds from social bookmarks. What it did show is the typos in my tags and the need for me to go through and clean them up and amalgamate them as I've got better at tagging since st
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