Industry Updates

Daily Report, May 22

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Team Collaboration

  • Intergen ActionThis … Intergen (New Zealand), a Microsoft partner, is putting the final touches on ActionThis, a system for team, task and project management. Page 8 in Intergen’s SMARTS Issue 13 newsletter has more (PDF, 466 KB), including “What we need is a new technology that bridges collaboration and planning – adding structure to collaboration, and allowing self-defining communities and processes where the important stuff gets done“. Cool – I look forward to hearing more as the “mid-2007” release date comes closer. ActionThis (hat tip, John)

  • Liberty Alliance Changes … The Liberty Alliance (focused on identity standards) announced a new membership structure, to enable more organizations (and individuals) to join and partake of its offerings. “Liberty Alliance has opened many of its Special Interest Groups (SIGs), mail lists and meetings to the public. The consortium has also redefined membership levels and increased benefits across all member categories. The new membership structure has been launched to eliminate barriers to participation within the Alliance across organizations, geographies and vertical sectors in order to speed the development and deployment of open and interoperable digital identity management solutions.” ConnectITNews

  • On Notes 8 and Quickr … Kevin outlines his interest in Lotus Notes 8 (“better UI”, and “people will want to use it”) and Quickr (“a check in/out document storage area”). DominoKey

  • NewsGator Webinar … NewsGator is hosting a webinar on May 23 entitled “Internal Communications 2.0: Understanding the RSS and Social Software Revolution”. It’s free, but registration is required. NewsGator

  • ComputerWorld Reviews Notes 8 Beta … Sharon from ComputerWorld posts an extensive review of the Notes 8 beta, kicking off with some contextualizing comments about the use of Notes at ComputerWorld for the past 10 years. Sharon includes numerous screen shots in her review. “One of the cooler new features is the ability to see “conversations” (threads) within the message you’re reading. If you’ve had a lengthy exchange of e-mails in which several different people participated, it’s handy to be able to see the thread right within the message and then click to a previous message you might want to re-read.” ComputerWorld

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