Archive for September, 2007

Pseudo Cron Dashboard Display for Wordpress

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Wordpress 2.0 introduced a mechanism for programmers and plugin authors to schedule programmatic tasks to be run at designated times in the future. Glenn Slaven in his article Timing Is Everything does a great job of describing how this works. (Sadly, Wordpress’s convention is that people write Wordpress documentation to their blogs rather than contributing […]

iDateCorp / Quetchup doesn’t address privacy

Monday, September 10th, 2007

I found it ironic that my cease and desist email to idatecorp re: quetchup failed. Maybe they are beyond hope?
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
privacy@idatecorp.com
Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 13): 550 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table

That said, I left a voicemail with […]

Cease and desist: idatecorp

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Further to my Quetchup blog post on Saturday, I sent this morning:

To: privacy@idatecorp.com
CC: http://www.stauber.com/lawoffices/
Dear iDateCorp,I would just like to point out that the actions of your website quetchup.com to hijack the address books of your users and use the entries to falsify further invitations is:
1) a violation of decency2) theft3) classified as phishing (passing off)
2) […]

Quechup smells Phishy. Stay away! (iDateCorp advisors get a face full)

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

I received an invite this morning from a system called Quechup from someone I met yesterday at Office 2.0. Luckily, Luis Suarez aka elsua had twittered it negatively, so I was very cautious.
To quote Dwight Silverman:

If you get an invitation from a friend inviting you to join a social networking site call Quechup delete it. […]

Snippets from Office 2.0: Opening panel on the use of Office 2.0 suite of products.

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

What is the Future of Work using Enterprise 2.0 technologies?
It’s the wrong vision to take today’s apps from the desktop and put them out to the web. Instead, innovation will be from finding new simple apps that do new, different things.
You have to look at the value proposition: reduce costs, improve productivity. Look back at […]

Shorter posts

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Looking back on my blog writing tool, I have something like 50 unsent posts, and that’s after I’ve deleted those I’ll never want to share.
Therefore, I’ll pushing for shorter posts, especially when reporting events such as Conferences.

Jotspot prepares for relaunch as Google Wiki

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Michael Arrington (Techcrunch) reports:

Google may finally be preparing to re-launch wiki service Jotspot, nearly a year after it acquired the company.

Google acquired JotSpot last year, bringing it into it’s over widening portfolio of office-related services. Jotspot was not only a decent wiki, it contained a veritable suite of groupware features capable of giving any vendor […]

I’m speaking at Office2.0 on mindmapping and culture of Enterprise 2.0

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

I’ve accepted an invite to speak on two panels (Thurs-Fri) at Office 2.0 in San Francisco, California this week:

Cultural and Technology in Enterprise 2.0 rollouts (hosted by Jevon MacDonald).

This will explore the cultural nuances related to designing, developing and deploying Social Software in the Enterprise. Being a wiki kind of guy I’ll bring some perspectives […]