http://www.scottmcmullan.com/blog/ Little companies, collaboration, and software stuff en-US 2008-04-10T17:36:45-07:00 This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scottmcmullan/~3/8mqROnFyIhU/links-for-2008.html Official Google Enterprise Blog: A Little Help for our Friends New Marketplace for 3rd party products and services that work with Google products and APIs (tags: isv marketing community microisv) <ul class="delicious"> <li> <div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/04/little-help-for-our-friends.html">Official Google Enterprise Blog: A Little Help for our Friends</a></div> <div class="delicious-extended">New Marketplace for 3rd party products and services that work with Google products and APIs</div> <div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/isv">isv</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/marketing">marketing</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/community">community</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/microisv">microisv</a>)</div> </li> </ul> scottmcmullan 2008-04-10T17:36:45-07:00 http://www.scottmcmullan.com/blog/2008/04/links-for-2008.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scottmcmullan/~3/ml5XWg2s1b0/links-for-2008.html Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008 Interesting take of what's driving ISVs to SaaS (tags: saas isv) DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards Site promoting standardized data portability. "As users, our identity, photos, videos and other... <ul class="delicious"> <li> <div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=432">Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008</a></div> <div class="delicious-extended">Interesting take of what's driving ISVs to SaaS</div> <div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/saas">saas</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/isv">isv</a>)</div> </li> <li> <div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://dataportability.org/">DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards</a></div> <div class="delicious-extended">Site promoting standardized data portability. "As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors."</div> <div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/xml">xml</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/socialsoftware">socialsoftware</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/microformats">microformats</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/opensource">opensource</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/opendata">opendata</a>)</div> </li> </ul> scottmcmullan 2008-01-03T16:24:55-08:00 http://www.scottmcmullan.com/blog/2008/01/links-for-2008.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scottmcmullan/~3/pnpXwUXTpw8/links-for-2007.html Good "notes to self and team" for startups or bottom-up style teams (tags: startup entrepreneurship) <ul class="delicious"> <li> <div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/36_startup_tips.php">Good "notes to self and team" for startups or bottom-up style teams</a></div> <div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/startup">startup</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/entrepreneurship">entrepreneurship</a>)</div> </li> </ul> scottmcmullan 2007-12-29T16:20:24-08:00 http://www.scottmcmullan.com/blog/2007/12/links-for-2007.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scottmcmullan/~3/4At1CoNb98o/yay-im-a-struct.html The fact that I just ran across John Perry's essay on Structured Procrastination (via pmarca), 12 years after it was first posted, proves there are still big opportunities ahead in search, collaborative filtering, and recommendation systems. John's essay explains my... <p>The fact that I just ran across John Perry's <a href="http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/">essay on Structured Procrastination</a> (via <a href="http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_pmarca_guid.html">pmarca</a>), 12 years after it was first posted, proves there are still big opportunities ahead in <a href="http://www.google.com">search</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering">collaborative filtering</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system">recommendation systems</a>.</p> <p>John's essay explains my daily existence, and how to turn a &quot;bad habit&quot; into an effective strategy:</p><blockquote><p>&quot;This is the essence of what I call structured procrastination, an amazing strategy I have discovered that converts procrastinators into effective human beings...&nbsp; The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing...the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.&nbsp; Structured procrastination means shaping the structure of the tasks one has to do in a way that exploits this fact.&quot;</p></blockquote><p>It's short and concise -- definitely <a href="http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/">worth a read</a> if you're not 100% satisfied with your ability to <a href="http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-getting-things-done/">get things done</a>.<br /> </p> scottmcmullan 2007-06-21T08:12:38-07:00 http://www.scottmcmullan.com/blog/2007/06/yay-im-a-struct.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scottmcmullan/~3/vbqkDUGQ1Hw/links_for_20061.html Patty Seybold - Google: The Camel's Nose in Business Software? PREDICTION #1: Fast Adoption of “Google Apps for Your Domain” by Small Businesses PREDICTION #2: Google Apps for Your Domain Becomes a Defacto Collaborative Platform for Cross-Organizational Teams PREDICTION #3:... <ul class="delicious"> <li> <div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://outsideinnovation.blogs.com/pseybold/2006/09/google_the_came.html">Patty Seybold - Google: The Camel's Nose in Business Software?</a></div> <div class="delicious-extended">PREDICTION #1: Fast Adoption of “Google Apps for Your Domain” by Small Businesses PREDICTION #2: Google Apps for Your Domain Becomes a Defacto Collaborative Platform for Cross-Organizational Teams PREDICTION #3: Google Becomes the Winning Platform f</div> <div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/google">google</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/googleapps">googleapps</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/gmail">gmail</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/gadgets">gadgets</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/portals">portals</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/collaboration">collaboration</a>)</div> </li> </ul> scottmcmullan 2006-12-14T16:49:16-08:00 http://www.scottmcmullan.com/blog/2006/12/links_for_20061.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scottmcmullan/~3/C2MYGfKVfcU/links_for_20061_2.html Amazon Rolls Out its Visionary WebOS Strategy "WebOS services are going to be utilized by thousands of companies - and will power the next generation of web applications." (tags: webapps2.0 webos) <ul class="delicious"> <li> <div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_webos.php">Amazon Rolls Out its Visionary WebOS Strategy</a></div> <div class="delicious-extended">"WebOS services are going to be utilized by thousands of companies - and will power the next generation of web applications."</div> <div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/webapps2.0">webapps2.0</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/webos">webos</a>)</div> </li> </ul> scottmcmullan 2006-11-16T16:38:47-08:00 http://www.scottmcmullan.com/blog/2006/11/links_for_20061_2.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scottmcmullan/~3/b8TH83Dvc-k/links_for_20061_1.html Zopa (UK) - The first lending and borrowing exchange Zopa is the first marketplace for lending and borrowing. Trustworthy people lend money directly to other trustworthy people – and by dealing with each other, rather than banks, they've formed a... <ul class="delicious"> <li> <div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.zopa.com/ZopaWeb/">Zopa (UK) - The first lending and borrowing exchange</a></div> <div class="delicious-extended">Zopa is the first marketplace for lending and borrowing. Trustworthy people lend money directly to other trustworthy people – and by dealing with each other, rather than banks, they've formed a community of savvy, like-minded individuals.</div> <div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/microfinance">microfinance</a>)</div> </li> </ul> scottmcmullan 2006-11-03T16:43:35-08:00 http://www.scottmcmullan.com/blog/2006/11/links_for_20061_1.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scottmcmullan/~3/EAyNueQKx6A/links_for_20061.html Web office is about collaboration "So, where don't Word and Excel compete well today? The very place that online tools shine: collaboration. Microsoft would like you to believe that that's why your enterprise needs SharePoint, but that's just another form... <ul class="delicious"> <li> <div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3872">Web office is about collaboration</a></div> <div class="delicious-extended">"So, where don't Word and Excel compete well today? The very place that online tools shine: collaboration. Microsoft would like you to believe that that's why your enterprise needs SharePoint, but that's just another form of lock in and ignores that fact</div> <div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/office2.0">office2.0</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/collaboration">collaboration</a>)</div> </li> <li> <div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.ramanarao.com/blog/archives/2006/10/7_techbarriers_o20.html">6 Technical Barriers for Office 2.0</a></div> <div class="delicious-extended">Offline Usage, Single Sign-On, Data Ownership and Privacy, Data Synchronization, Ease of Migration, Fragility of Aggregated Services</div> <div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/office2.0">office2.0</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/collaboration">collaboration</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/saas">saas</a>)</div> </li> </ul> scottmcmullan 2006-11-02T16:41:05-08:00 http://www.scottmcmullan.com/blog/2006/11/links_for_20061.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scottmcmullan/~3/Kk-J1PbsFUU/links_for_20061_3.html Google has acquired JotSpot We announced some big news today...! (tags: jotspot wiki google) <ul class="delicious"> <li> <div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.jot.com/">Google has acquired JotSpot</a></div> <div class="delicious-extended">We announced some big news today...!</div> <div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/jotspot">jotspot</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/wiki">wiki</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/scottmcmullan/google">google</a>)</div> </li> </ul> scottmcmullan 2006-10-31T16:38:48-08:00 http://www.scottmcmullan.com/blog/2006/10/links_for_20061_3.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scottmcmullan/~3/fixNXAu7OB0/im_now_a_google.html We announced some awesome news today: JotSpot has been acquired by Google!! I can't think of a better way to accelerate our mission here at Jot than to join the amazing resources and people at Google, particularly for JotSpot developers. <p>We announced some awesome news today: <a href="http://blog.jot.com/archives/2006/10/31/were-googlers-now/">JotSpot has been acquired by Google</a>!!</p> <p>I can't think of a better way to accelerate our mission here at Jot than to join the amazing resources and people at Google, particularly for <a href="http://developer.jot.com/WikiHome/2006-10-31-GoogleHasAcquiredJotspot">JotSpot developers</a>.&nbsp; <br /></p> scottmcmullan 2006-10-31T07:15:00-08:00 http://www.scottmcmullan.com/blog/2006/10/im_now_a_google.html