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He warned that the rush to make webpages more dynamic often meant users were badly served.

He said sites peppered with personalisation tools were in danger of resembling the "glossy but useless" sites at the height of the dotcom boom.

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The Geniant blog is live and kicking. After a month of squeezing in extra time here and there, we've managed to pull together some ideas and create a forum for sharing what's going on behind the curtain.

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I wondered how this world of hyper-local sites had changed since that time. Were the businesses starting to gel? Was the community responding in positive ways and contributing? What were the lessons and challenges for the publishers of these sites, and ho

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Surely the laws of physics apply to the online world? After all we use electricity to channel bits around and to power our computers. For example Amazon servers take up physical space. And finally, our brains consume real calories to generate all of the s

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But because we want a period of review, we don't want to finalize that code yet. I've put a draft below (and you'll see it's based closely on the BlogHer Community Guidelines that I linked to last week.) But we're also working with wikia to put the draft

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Today Central Desktop launched the Spring 2007 Release of its collaboration platform. Of most interest in this release is that Central Desktop is introducing "a turnkey Intranet" for its enterprise subscribers. Key features of the turnkey intranet include

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Microsoft planned to announce today that it will make its Windows Live Messenger service available on its Xbox 360 game consoles, bringing instant messaging from the computer to the television. The move was meant to help Microsoft stay ahead of Sony, its

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I was doing my best to ignore Tim O’Reilly’s misguided effort to play hall monitor to the blogosphere, wishing it would just go away. But unfortunately the New York Times did not ignore it. How could it pass up a juicy opportunity to make us all look

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In the context of Andy's description of the computer industry in the 1990's, I believe that a new era is upon us in the 2000's. I believe that we have progressed from the "Computerless Computer Company" to the "Softwareless Software Company." Taking the e

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After a year and a half of using social applications heavily, I recently had to revisit the plan to aggregate all my activity into one data stream. As the calendar rolled to 2007, I kept wishing I could look at all my social activity from 2006 in context:

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Now that Microsoft finally released a Dashboard update that allows video playback from an XP PC it is time to find a better UPNP software than WMP11 or Windows Media Connect. Why? Because WMP11 won't stream WMV files stored on a network share! How dumb! T

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I wrote The Laws of Simplicity in late 2005 to early 2006 to get my thoughts down about simplicity. In the course of 100-pages, I outline the Ten Laws as used on this website.

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