I've just been searching DayPop to see if it has a Google like web services API.  I was hoping to be able to write blog macros to reference the daypop searches & citations but I can't see one.  Have I missed it?

I'm still trying to grok Activewords. Having Buzz there to demo the tool in action certainly goes a long way to helping that process. At the same time, Courtney's initial reactions provide some insight into the marketing challenges Buzz faces.

Certainly, a central aspect of Activewords's value is that it works across all applications. Instead of tailoring each application to your needs and idiosyncracies, you invest in one tool that spans them all (wasn't this the initial logic behind the first incarnation of Usertalk?). It does present the challenge and the opportunity of paying attention to how you work and where you might go about eliminating friction. In that sense, Buzz is on a mission that is quite similar to what Kris Hammond and his team is doing at the Intelligent Information Lab.

[McGee's Musings]

» I'm trying to grok ActiveWords as well.  I've just downloaded it but am wondering what to do with it really.

Something I was interested in though was Jim's comment about Usertalk original mission - an application that can span other applications and add value to them.   This still seems like an interesting mission to me.

I really like Radio as a blogging tool (although I confess it's the only one I've used for more than an hour) however it would be immeasurably more useful to me if it could also insert menu's into and control other windows applications on my desktop.

The Observe, Orient, Decide, Act loop is a methodology developed by Colonel John Boyd.  I'd not come across it before and am glad to have seen it now.

»From John Udell