December 2004 archives

December 22, 2004 by Patti

Social Physics and the Eclipse Trust Framework

The Social Physics project, which I have been honored to have some promixity to (network tie-wise) has reached a significant milestone. It is now being proposed as the Eclipse Trust Framework (announced just yesterday). Eclipse is an open source framework and toolkit for software applicatoin developers. Being a part of the Eclipse framework means that [...]

December 16, 2004 by Patti

Doug Engelbart Beyond the Mouse

Business Week’s A Man, A Mouse, A Mission has an interview with Doug Engelbart. It’s always great to see him get the acknowledgment for his great work, but not just on the mouse. I had the privilege to attend one of his Bootstrap Seminars in the early 1990s. These were intimate two-day sessions at Stanford [...]

December 9, 2004 by Patti

Lotus Notes is 20

Ray Ozzie and others are celebrating and musing on the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the development of Lotus Notes. He acknowledges his co-leaders on the software project, Tim Halvorsen and Len Kawell. Tim and Len had joined him from Digital Equipment Corporation, where they had worked on VAX NOTES, a discussion-forum software platform [...]

December 5, 2004 by Patti

Blogging officially enters the language

My friend Karl Hakkarainen scooped the news on Merriam Webster’s acknowledgment that “blog” is the word of the year, as reported in BBC news, in his blog last Wednesday. A Traveler in the World of Work is a thoughtful personal diary, full of reflections on daily life. I like hearing from Karl every day. Karl, [...]