- Collaborative Thinking: Microsoft Continues To Fill SharePoint Social Gaps – Microsoft fills in the gaps of Sharepoint with NewsGator and Atlassian Confluence but is that good enough?
- Wired: How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong – One Infinite Loop, Apple’s street address, is a programming in-joke — it refers to a routine that never ends. But it is also an apt description of the travails of parking at the Cupertino, California, campus.
- How to be an Authority Maven: 21 Tips for Keeping Up to Date in Your Niche @ chrisg.com – Keeping abreast of news in your niche can be tough. Chris G’s productivity tips..
- zAgile – About Us – New open source collaboration company for distributed development.
- Launchpad Blog: Austin Coworking – An interview with Alex Hillman who discusses coworking in Austin.
- eWeek: Open-Source Business Influencers – Odd list but some good picks. Had lunch with Tim Golden last week, he’s a hoot.
- The Best Linux Marketing Tip: Don’t Mention Linux – The VAR Guy talks about the AsusEee at CostCo.
- Marketing Pilgrim: Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Buzz Tracking Tools – Interesting ways to gather buzz and intelligence on your industry.
- openqabal: OpenQabal: Open Source Social Networking & Collaboration Suite – Open source Java-based open source social networking thanks to Phillip for pointing it out in my comments this week.
- stevenf.com: The First, The Free, and the Good – Steven Frank on free software, Apple and open source. Nice thought piece.
- 8 common lies told by enterprise software sales people | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com – You know how an enterprise sales guy is lying? His lips are moving.
- Why You’ve Got to Dig Digg to Get Dugg – The thought of making the front page of Digg is something that divides most content-creators into three camps: those who want it and strive for it, those who want it but feel they don’t have a chance, and those who don’t want it at all.
- First look at Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” beta | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com – First impressions by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes shows Ubuntu to be much easier to test drive then ever before.
- Micro Persuasion: Three Internet Careers That Soon Won’t Exist – Everyone will be expected to know how to navigate the online landscape if they want to have a thriving career and there will no longer need to be specific to Internet or Social Media it will be a much broader requirement.
- What Is Marketers’ Biggest Challenge When It Comes to Social Networks? – Advertising Age – Digital – Social networking is all about relationship building, and while that may be in the DNA of the public-relations industry, it has done a poor job of claiming that birthright.
- Conversation Targeting: Find the Influencers in Social Media and Blogs with BuzzLogic – Tools to identify social media influencers and buzz.
