"I can see the post just fine. AFAIK, Word 2007 supports the Metaweblog API, which Graffiti, Community Server, and even SharePoint uses to handle blog posting from a client." - Lawrence Liu
Reduce your Twitter and FriendFeed usage, and engage more at that trampolin place in Santa Clara. - imabonehead
Yup...been there. With my bipolar, I see hardcore burnout about every two years. - Stephen Pierzchala
hmm I think i need to clarify my comment, I mean on the specific project I am working on now, not in my entire life, but seriously everyone needs a night off from time to time. Tonight I'm watching season 2 of Heros and eating some tres leches cake. It's my wind down time. - Josh
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imabonehead. I have, look at my activity and on my blog --I'm barely here compared to previous - Jeremiah Owyang
Been there. Done that. Many times over. You really need to stop and take a break for at least 3 days being totally disconnected. The world will still be around when you return. :-) - Lawrence Liu
I am in the opposite rhythm. I am working my butt off but having a ton of fun with new ideas that - if I can execute - will really have an impact. - Steve Rubel
It depends on what part of what you do, but usually burn out comes when reward doesn't outweigh the work. Maybe you're secretly not happy with something? Or something is too much? Take a day and talk with a good trusted advisor or friend. It'll help. - Patricia
The whole "file synchronization is just the tip of the Live Mesh iceberg" thing is getting old. Until the 'softies ship something that isn't file synchronization, the Live Mesh iceberg is just an ice cube. - Pat Rice
This would sound less like crap if you weren't the sharepoint product manager. Meaningless fanboy talk sounds pretty shrill from a corporate shill. - Kevin Goldsmith
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You'll see a bit more than "just file sync" within the next month, especially at PDC. :-) - Lawrence Liu
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honestly I like Live Mesh but it will truely wow me when I can integrate more devices to my mesh. I know it's coming, just a matter of when. - Bryan
Kevin, so is his opinion invalid because he works for Microsoft? Or is it only valid if he's *condemning* the product? Or is he supposed to append a legal disclaimer to every single tweet stating that he works for Microsoft and therefore his opinions might be horribly, horribly tainted? :-D - Karim
And Kevin, while we're being all transparent 'n shit, maybe you could go into a little more detail as to your relationship with Adobe Systems Inc.? ;-) - Karim
Large CMS vendors are similar to message board vendors (Propsero, Web Crossing) who have run out of customers and find their market vaporizing. They have no CHOICE but to retool and add "social" to their offerings. This is all part of "bringing social to software" the repercussions will reverberate throughout the software world. In the beg of Aug we'll be able to put the Facebook F8 announcements and shipping of dynamic privacy - into this context. I believe our briefing will clarify a worldwide trend which has 'traditional social networking" stagnating - and a whole range of "social features" appearing inside of all legacy code, be it portals, enterprise, productivity, utilities and game software. ALL software will be social. IMHO I'd send this back to Twitter - but guess what? - Marc Canter
Good points Marc, I agree that it software should be socialized. This statement is not true however: "who have run out of customers and find their market vaporizing." - Jeremiah Owyang
Large CMS vendors are actually doing very well. New CMS projects are being driven by companies looking to better use content to improve the customer experience. This includes adding targeting/personalization capabilities, website optimization, RIA, etc. - Tom Wentworth
The only way I am likely to anoint you is...OK - let - Dennis Howlett
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You didn't complete your thought Dennis, eh? In either case, welcome back from your long deserved vacation. I found the best way to come back to work was to ease back into it. - Jeremiah Owyang
Sarbanes Oxley is preventing many companes from going social - paul mooney
you forgot the wealth of open source cms solutions out there, much easier to extend social features within those - as for desire for enterprise to add social to the toolkit offered to employees, desire yes but resisting due to ignorance, fear and risk tolerance - needed though to provide better collaboration - think of something as simple as ff for those you work closely with - mike "glemak" dunn
your welcome jeremiah - good post btw - i think this is a critical need for enterprise it relevance on a go forward basis especially as gen y enters workforce - they work differently, expect toolkits similar to what they get personally - to many it practitioners are blind to this requirement - if you're on ff reading this i assume you're not btw ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
We all know that there are values embedded in software. The values in a traditional CMS are straight out of the industrial era. These are in direct conflict with the embedded values of social software. I see a huge disconnect, and think that attempts to blend such "different" types of solutions is like trying to combine oil and water. - Kevin
Clickability, a CMS SaaS vendor, has a bunch of media and enterprise clients. They offer social media tools: http://www.clickability.com/pr... . Also, their "Print This, Save This, Share This" tool you see on most news media sites may have been the first example of "social media." (disclosure: I work for their PR firm). - Kawika Holbrook
Why buy one when a URL redirector is about the easiest thing to write in life? People are amazing. - Erica Baker
Geez, that Steve Gillmor guy is off his meds or his rocker or both with that TechCrunch article! Can't believe I wasted 5 minutes reading that drivel. - Lawrence Liu
@Erica Baker: Building any app for "Google scale" is not trivial. Try inserting millions of records simultaneously in and RDBMS and see what happens :-) - Panayotis Vryonis
Panayotis, a URL redirector is a problem that partitions beautifully so a RDBMS based solution should work just fine. In addition, people won't be creating millions of tinyurls simultaneously. They'll likely be accessing millions of them simultaneously but that is a problem that is easily solved with judicious use of caching. - Dare Obasanjo
Dare, I didn't say it can't be done (actually, I believe I've built something like this on AppEngine, called urlborg.com). Google doesn't rely on RDBMS, because it's hard to replicate, distribute, etc. Building an app on AppEngine that will survive heavy usage, without transaction collisions, etc, wasn't trivial -not rocket science either, don't get me wrong :-) - Panayotis Vryonis
Leo, I think you could really make a strong push for people moving to FF. - Ryan Cates
I've thrown myself on those rocks before. I keep wondering how long before people start wandering away from Twitter. I've gradually phased it out and phased in FF myself. But I still use Twitter to broadcast - I have 6x the followers there. The two are really symbiotes. - Leo Laporte
I like the support for attached images very much! - ※Fu※
symbiotes. i like that. mutually beneficial. totally agree Leo. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I've wandered away from Twitter. They've could have rebuilt it from scratch by now. What gives? - Dan Lovejoy
We need to crowd source the TWiTnation for something on the Mac to bring our Twitter follows over to FF. - Ryan Cates
Nice! Was looking for a summary for what this tool can do, and found this by accident. Looks like it could be a potential alternative to the BDC. - John Ferringer
This is a good demo. Would love to check this out one of these days - Kanwal
Check out the author's comments in the "THE UGLY" section. The perspective is, quite frankly, stunning & comes across as out of touch to me. Are they sure they're discussing MOSS 2007? - John Ferringer
Yes, whilst MOSS would deserve some commentary under 'Ugly', the comment ¨I’ve yet to see an effective implementation of SharePoint as an enterprise intranet platform for a medium to large-size organization. It’s simply not a mature enough or robust solution…yet.¨ is not an issue I would have picked. - Joining Dots
Master page / stylesheets are horrendously complicated looking and scared our web designers so much they wouldn't touch it and we had to do it ourselves. ;-) Definitely some improvements to be made there. And buy Telerik editor and put that in the CMS editor instead of that clunky one that ships out of the box. Would be a killer then. - Pete Gilbert
Simplified admin interface. The Central Admin site has so many things stashed in so many places (search admin is so convoluted!), its next to impossible to keep everything straight. Not to mention the other items that you have to find in the Site Settings for a site collection. - John Ferringer
"single RSS from an entire site" - Angi, NewsGator's Social Sites currently provides that. :-) You can also try a free open source tool at http://www.codeplex.com/SPRSS. - Lawrence Liu
SPRSS: nice - thanks LLiu, you are always a fount of information. - Angi Lundy
ditto on the synchronous collaboration on a doc. I wanna see word/excel/ppt completely interactive. - Jeff DeVerter
Only one? How 'bout a few. Make rolling-up information from multiple sites easier. CQWP was a great start on this, but it needs to be so much more. I know, CorasWorks has great solutions in this area, and relying on partners to provide some "advanced" functions is a solid strategy. But I think this should be more of a core capability. How about make RSS reader work without requiring Kerberos? That was a last minute decision for security but I think it hurt more than it helped. And how about built-in mechanisms for managing large lists? The records center provides automatic folder partitioning, bring that to the rest of the sites. And why can't we set metadata on folders? Someone stop me!! 8^D - Mark Arend
All templates should be changed from a <table>-based to a <div>-based layout with well structured and clean sytesheets (there's a lot more but this is the first that came up to my mind) - Urs Bertschy
Well if you're going for more than 1 feature, a good exercise is ¨if you had $100 to spend...¨ 1$ on 100 features vs $100 on 1. I used this approach in my ol' MS days :-) great way of getting a customer down to 3 things they most want to see in a product and the money split indicates how big a difference there is between each feature that makes the final cut - Joining Dots
BTW, my one thing? Classification, preferably with Auto- in there too. SharePoint had it in the past and lost it due to perf issues. Would be great to see it come back, without needing to begin with F and end in T. - Joining Dots
Heh - hilarious video that also gets some pretty serious points across. Though I'm a bit annoyed by all the popup mini-dialog boxes - quite distracting. Still, the value add functionality seems pretty compelling - very similar to Colligo's Contributor product. - Lawrence Liu
“my greatest fear: my hard drive dies, my office chair finally falls apart and my secondary monitor gives up the ghost ... all on the same day (good chance of it too :) )”
@Bill .. got the image no problem but doesn't matter when one has no money :) - Steven Hodson
Glad you've got the data! How about a FF fund raiser? - Bill Sodeman
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I'm just afraid of a disk crash. Hence my desire to get a RAID 1 array. Hardware redundancy; me like! :-) - Voyagerfan5761
@Bill as cool as that would be I couldn't even think of asking - Steven Hodson
@Voyagerfan mine likes to go click click and I dread rebooting because sometime it can take three or four tries before the boot will take and other times it will restart just fine. - Steven Hodson
one can not have enough hard drives and copies of important data. This message brought to you by Seagate. - Robert Scoble
If you can't mirror your hard drive, at least get a spare chair. - Morton Fox
@Robert LOL well considering that the bad drive is a Western Diigital chances are the next one when I can get it will be a Seagate :) - Steven Hodson
@Morten .. if it gets any more uncomfortable it'll be time for one of those plastic lawnchairs :) - Steven Hodson
Robert - have you noticed, due to the relative cheapness of HDD media, that hard drives have become the de facto backup medium for hard drives? I kinda wish that another, more robust and permanent, yet just as cheap, medium came in to use. Like tape but not linear. Holographic storage, perhaps. - Phil Glockner
J. Phil you gotta watch our video with IBM Research to see why data will be stored on drives for some time to come. - Robert Scoble
Robert - the silicon valley R&D one? - Phil Glockner
Windows Live FolderShare (http://www.foldershare.com) - works on Macs, too - has saved me from 3 laptop HDD crashes by continuously replicating my data onto multiple machines. - Lawrence Liu
J. Phil: yeah. They let me move around a single iron atom. One of the highlights of my life. - Robert Scoble
Actually this has happened to me, and as my chair fell apart, my flailing leg collapsed my desk, and the back of the chair smashed the glass front of my wardrobe. - Mo Kargas
my primary monitor just gave up the ghost :( A 20 inch Dell. Now I'm using a 19inch Samsung. Woe is me :( - Zach Landes
@Robert Scoble - Just looked over drop.io's web site and service. Looks like a great service. How are you using it? Simple sharing or archiving? - JA Castillo
Erica, you can't steal it.. it's open-source.. bu-yah! ,,, dont forget to contribute to the evolution of the space! - sedgewick
Chan Chandler could have been paraphrasing Mahatma Gandhi who said "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - /(bb|[^b]{2})/ (Kamath)
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@sedgwick you still never helped me understand what you meant by that... - Chris Pallé
i think you're right kamath - both end up in the same place, seen the same in other religions too, its not just a christian thang, leaders lead but sometimes followers get overzealous in the name of the leader in ways the leader would never approve of... - mike "glemak" dunn
"fan club"? Frankly, this is a statement from someone who could only be looking to get a rouse; not to find answers and it's questionable as to which truths they're really looking, if any. - Chris Pallé
So, if you are a fan of Jesus, what does that mean for you practically? - Tony
@sedgwick - yeah, that is one I will be stealing as well. - JA Castillo
@chrispalle there was enough traction around the phrase in this thread that I think I'll author my next blog post about it.. I'll send you the link and then we can discuss. Good to bump into you tonight. - sedgewick
Science + Philosophy = The Ultimate Religion to believe in. I follow it with passion and openness. - Lawrence Liu
@sedgwick Lol. If every religion is open sourced, there will be no religion at all because people will then know the nonsense value in them. - Krishnan Hussein Subraman
@krish - I disagree. I find greater conviction and commitment to my spiritual pursuit when I know I play an active role in exploring and evolving it's form, depth, relevance, and language. co-creative authority allows my relationship and understanding to transcend the 'nonsense' into a whole other realm .. where it is finally about what makes sense, true sense, to me. ... - sedgewick
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