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Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

June 20th, 2008

Skype 4 and Twhirl with Seesmic illustrate centralization and evolution of Web 2.0 tools

This week we’ve seen both the release of a new version of Skype—Skype 4.0 Beta 1 for Windows initial release - Skype Garage—and a preview version of Twhirl that includes Seesmic playback—Seesmic Blog: Play Seesmic videos in Twhirl client—while they haven’t been connected previously, that’s exactly what I’m going to do.
Looking at the new Skype, […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

June 11th, 2008

The end of email attachments isn’t a service, it’s better collaboration tools

Docstoc has released a tool to let you send files (but not any file) from your desktop to their file transfer service and include a link in an email—Docstoc OneClick: Email Large Documents Without Attaching Files.  The cool thing, I will say, is that you don’t have to wait for the upload to complete before […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

June 9th, 2008

ThoughtFarmer adds multilingual support, blogs, calendars, and forums to their Intranet suite

ThoughtFarmer released version 3.0 of their Intranet system—I’m glad they’ve stopped calling it a wiki—which is expanding on the already impressive feature set:ThoughtFarmer Blog » Announcing ThoughtFarmer Intranet 3.0 Multilingual.
The Intranet system is based on what we’ve been doing in the social media space for years: make it easy for people to create, edit, and […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

May 20th, 2008

Tungle improves to let Blackberry users make appointments on the go

I’ve been using, and loving, Tungle for a while.  Most often I’m the one booking meetings so, I don’t see the invites, but if I got one on the go … when I’m on my Berry, what would I do?  Until today I’d have to wait until I got back to my machine an hit […]

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May 19th, 2008

ClearContext Personal steps up the pressure on Xobni–or does it?

I’ve been a huge fan of ClearContext’s IMS system since my days at PimpYourWork.  I keep in touch with them to get the scoop on what’s going on and give them feedback.
Today they’ve stepped up to Xobni’s challenge of a powerful, free Outlook extension with their private beta of ClearContext Personal:
Key ClearContext Personal Features * […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

May 19th, 2008

Flock nets some VIATeC awards, well deserved

Colour me biased,  but I’m really into Flock.  Yes, I am doing some work with them, but this is awesome news regardless:
Not two weeks after taking the Webby award for Social Networking, last night Flock was honoured to receive two awards at the annual VIATeC Technology Awards dinner. VIATeC is the high-tech industry association serving […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

May 18th, 2008

That tasty RSS snack you crave with Adobe AIR-based Snackr

As a professional-blogger, I need a steady stream of information to do my job.  Of course that stream comes in via RSS.  Day to day my RSS reader is FeedDemon, but I need a more constant flow of information.
Not long ago RWW had a post with some rockin’ Adobe AIR apps—FreshAIRApps: A Premier Adobe AIR […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

May 11th, 2008

Canadian Startup and Tech News Speed Linking

Here are some news items that have caught my eye in the past bit, with a little commentary as well.
Most people will tell you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. So if you’re in Montreal, and you’re interested in technology and entrepreneurship, you should think about joining us for breakfast on […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

April 16th, 2008

Seriously take the pain out of booking meetings–Tungle launches into open beta

About a month ago Marc Gingras CEO of Montreal-based Tungle emailed me if I’d like to try the new version of Tungle.  I had heard of Tungle, I knew it had something to do with planning and booking meetings, but hadn’t used it.
I agreed, of course.  You know me and new software, especially first look […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

April 7th, 2008

Marshall is right, Twhirl and Seesmic do give us a glimpse into the future of communications

The future is the information stream
Last week one of the big news items was Seesmic acquiring the Twitter client Twhirl.  This was bantered around a lot, but Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/WriteWeb really nailed it, I think.  Without hype or hyperbole Marshall saw what I saw as well–this is a glimpse of what we’ll be doing […]

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