Team Collaboration

• Wikis as Collaboration Tools … NewsFactor reviews four wiki products and their usage in team collaboration situations: Atlassian Confluence, Near-Time, Socialtext, and Traction. The authors shares his likes and dislikes of each product. “After reviewing these four products, they clearly fit in different strata. All have the bedrock of usability and fast setup. What’s more, they work like the Web, so groups can share information and collaborate without much learning. Socialtext, then Near-Time, offer wiki collaboration, team Weblog publishing, search, simple file management, and some personalization. Atlassian Confluence moves up a layer with better content organization and extensibility. Traction TeamPage clearly placed above the others with its superior ease of use and query ability that presented each user with just the knowledge they need.” NewsFactor
• Jabber XCP 5.2 … Jabber released Version 5.2 of XCP, its presence and instant messaging platform for enterprise customers. New features: SIP/SIMPLE gateway for federation with Lotus Sametime and Microsoft Live Communications Server and AOL, Sun Solaris 10 support, optimized operations, and more. Available immediately. Jabber

Mobility

• Gartner’s Wireless & Mobile Summit … Nick from Parlano reflects on the first day of the Gartner Wireless and Mobile Summit. Key points: (1) there’s no common ROI model or approach to measuring gains in productivity or cost reduction with the adoption of mobile applications; (2) mobile architectures and platforms are very scattered in deployments; (3) there’s no common sense about where and when to adopt certain mobile devices; and (4) Radicati released new figures saying that wireless email can save users 80 minutes a day, a figure that Nick finds incredulous. Nick Fera
• PDA Shipments in 2006 … Gartner reported its 2006 figures for PDA shipments: 17.7 million units overall, with Microsoft Windows Mobile-based devices holding 56.1% of total shipped units. RIM had 20%, Palm 11%. Seattle PI. Mike says that RIM needs to watch out for the new Treos, however, as they can deliver wireless email cheaper and easier than BlackBerry devices.

Productivity

• Iterate for Habit Formation … Small changes, repeated frequently, lead to habit formation and character. “So, here’s a “little” thing you can do. For the next few days, when you get home (or back to the hotel!) from work, change your clothes and do something. A few crunches, 10 minutes of writing, practice breathing while sitting in a comfortable chair…anything! See how many times it takes (a few days to a couple of weeks) before that’s “just what you do.”” Jason Womack
• Doug on Levenger Circa … Doug has a comprehensive Part 1 and Part 2 analysis of the Levenger Circa notebooks. I’m going to have to check these out in Boston in June …

Other Stuff

• Where Chandler? … Joel reviews Scott Rosenberg’s book “Dreaming in Code”, which analyzes why the revolutionary Chandler project has been such a disappointment. Joel on Software