Colin Crawford sent a pointer to Swicki — as best as I can determine a collaborative search engine. So I fired up an account and built a "swicki" on saltwater fly fishing. Not having write access to my Reel-Time Flog (where it belongs), I lit it up in the sidebar of this Blog.
Not quite sure of the functionality, but I will read the FAQ and report back.
Ziff Davis Media : Press Release
"The Enterprise Group’s online revenues, which also include results for the two Internet companies acquired during the fourth quarter of 2004, increased by 23% during the third quarter of 2005 versus prior year, driven by strong growth in online advertising, eSeminars and virtual trade shows. In addition, the Enterprise Group’s custom events business grew by 34% due to increased event activity, and its custom whitepaper business, which is a new business unit this year, added meaningful revenue for the third quarter ended September 30, 2005."
Rafat Ali acerbically notes: "Somebody needs to put Ziff Davis out of its misery…well, the print group, to be exact."
Jon Udell: The many meanings of metadata
A great piece on the importance of tags and the need for flexibility therein.
Memo to Microsoft: Make Vista a Web Service, Too – Sound Off – Blog – CIO
Hmm. Far-fetched? CIO’s Gary Beach open-letters Microsoft to throw Vista into the Open Source pool. This would be the 2005 equivalent of his 1995 Netscape internal memo.
Congratulations to Mike Noer at Forbes.com for the excellent special report on communications. The NYT lauded it this morning though the buzz about the project has been bubbling the past week. Great integration of text and audio and Mike tells me a podcast compilation is coming as he was "writing the script" on Thursday.
Media Executive Interview Series: Greg Strakosch, CEO, TechTarget: PaidContent.org
Rafat Ali discusses IT publishing with Strakosch. Not much net new here for me, but some interesting insights into the company perceived as the masters of lead gen.
Meet the Life Hackers – New York Times
One of the best things I’ve read in a very long time. This is a story I would have wished I had written back in the day. Strongly recommend it, for it is a good insight into the next wave of man-machine interface design, user interface theory, and desktop productivity.