A few years ago, before the days of TrueSight, Coradiant used to be in the managed services business. This gave us lots of hands-on experience and a good deal of opportunity to see vendors from the customer’s perspective. We try to put that background into our products—lots of debates around technical issues are resolved [...]

Knacktion is a new website where you can promote your talents - a bit like view-do and esnips. There’s plenty of scope for these kinds of sites and Knacktion combines the how-to element of view-do with the content sales of esnips.There are also a growing number of niche how-to sites so it’s becoming an interesting [...]

The week looks like a news one. My contention in a couple of discussions here and on blogcritics is that the big difference blogging will make to news coverage is if it helps broaden and deepen coverage.It’s great to have a wider range of opinion but it is critical that we become more…. self [...]

I don’t regard Sun’s press conference in Second life as a significant step in itself but Rick Segal’s take on it is interesting: this is like Nero fiddling while Rome burns - Sun is laying people off and might do better focusing on the real world rather than stoking up kudos claims in the virtual.It’s [...]

Google and Yellow Pages had a little head to head recently , in front of an audience of a thousand people. What they had to say to each other was fascinating.Aren’t you guys competitors, the discussion moderator asked? After all you’re both chasing the local search market.Not at all said the guy from Yell - [...]

Hollywood studios must accelerate electronic distribution of their film content if they are to halt the rapid growth of digital piracy, which is projected to increase three-fold by 2015, Bain & Company has warned. From Advanced Television.Strange but I would have said: if they want to stay in business.

I have a feeling I will get to this one before Laurence Timms does and if so I have to thank him for pointing it out.Wikio is in French and displays the virtues of French design - good use of colour as a visual aid, plenty of functionality and an all round good set of [...]

I found this quite interesting. MIT's Space Logistics Center is kicking off a project where "the overall objective of this project is to develop an integrated capability for guiding the development of the interplanetary supply chain that will be required to enable sustainable space exploration of the Earth-Moon-Mars system and beyond."

My fave Valley restaurant has got a blog. And they just picked-up two Michelin stars. Manresa is the proud recipient of two Michelin stars in the newly released Michelin Guide San Francisco Bay Area Wine Country 2007. "This is a...

I have been intently following a blog thread that was initially started by the "Other" David Chappell. David's initial posting SOA and the Reality of Reuse sparked a small flurry of responses, and res

A review the the Day 1 happenings at BEA World Prague 2006.

The new travelgearblog flagged Wallpaper's City Guides....

I'm back dabbling with my Powerbook after a catastrophic hard disk failure. Having been stuck in the world of I.E. 7 and Firefox it is really apparent now how far Safari has fallen behind. Can't seem to find delicious plug-ins...

As Microsoft looks to force everyone onto Internet Explorer 7 - which is stunning BTW - let me share a couple of experiences. First, it is a terrific browser. Arguably the best out there. With integrated RSS and apps like...