Wednesday, February 04, 2004

B2B Exchange Survivors From ComputerWorld - Interesting overview of the B2B phenomenon answering " Why did some online exchanges survive while many others failed? " During the end of the "bubble" I was with Enron's Azurix, Where we launched WaterDesk - the first Water And Wastewater B2B marketplace.   Needless to say, we were not one of the survivors.   The Survivors:  A sampling of industry exchanges: EXCHANGE INDUSTRY HEADQUARTERS Covisint LLC Automotive Southfield, Mich. Elemica Inc. Chemical Wayne, Pa. Exostar LLC Defense/aerospace Herndon, Va. E2Open Inc. Technology Redwood City, Calif. Global Healthcare Exchange LLC Health care Westminster, Colo. Pantellos Group LP Utility/energy Houston Trade-Ranger Inc. Energy/chemical Houston Transora Inc. Consumer goods Chicago UCCnet Inc. Consumer goods/retail Lawrenceville, N.J. WorldWide Retail Exchange LLC Retail Alexandria, Va. 5:02:32 PM    comment []

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Blog the Microsoft Mobile DevCon Are you going to the Microsoft Mobile DevCon? Register your blog at Windows Mobile Bloggers and share your experiences with the world! Windows Mobile Bloggers will focus on the Microsoft Mobile DevCon and all of the technologies presented at the event. Don't forget to subscribe to the Windows Mobile Bloggers feed and follow all of the activities at the MDC including product announcements and developer insights into mobile technology.  [PDC Bloggers] 4:18:30 PM    comment []

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Microsoft Aims For No-Fuss Approach To RFID Wal-Mart Stores Inc. figured it out. The Department of Defense saw the potential. And now, Microsoft is jumping in, too. [CRN.com : Breaking News] 11:20:52 AM    comment []

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Interesting New Tool - Furl (Web Page Filing Cabinet) Furl is a new web browsing tool that lets you save and organize thousands of useful web pages (you know, the ones you want to save for future reference but then can never find again) in a personal "web page filing cabinet".   Once saved, you can effortlessly find any page again later using a powerful full text search tool. With Furl you can forget trying to save and organize dozens of bookmarks, forget saving web pages to your desktop, in fact forget everything except how to find a useful web page again next time you need it. 10:54:42 AM    comment []

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WebcamNotes Version 1.0.6.1 Alpha Now Available "Over the last several weeks, “Inkineer” blogs have been popping up all over the place. These blogs have been our test locations for WebcamNotes, an ink enabled blogging tool. Now, on WebcamNotes.com you can download WebcamNotes Version 1.0.6.1 Alpha.WebcamNotes enables you to capture an image from a webcam on a Tablet PC, ink handwritten comments, and then post your notes and photo to a weblog.We have posted successfully to: MovableType Entry Blogger Entry .Text Entry Postnuke Entry... [Tablet PC Talk News] 10:31:10 AM    comment []

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Sewer Broadband Idea Floated Again Scottish Water to pilot project.  [The Register] 10:16:17 AM    comment []

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RSS WinterFest Continues   A lot of people put in some hard work to make RSS WinterFest happen. MyST Technology Partners continues to amaze us all with the platform they developed for RSS WinterFest. The people at Socialtext developed the wiki. It's a terrific collaborative tool. And a special thanks goes to Tsunamin for contributing considerably as the gold sponsor for RSS WinterFest. Plus, all the contributing sponsors who you can learn more about at www.rsswinterfest.com I am still amazed by the turnout for RSS WinterFest and the contributions everyone made. We had more than 700 people register for the Webcast. More than 400 attended. By the second day of the Webcast, more than 1,000 people participated in the wiki. Today, we have about 2,600 people who have used the wiki. We're seeing the start of a community. What you'll find at RSS WinterFest and the wiki KnowLogix's report: RSS and the Future of Internet Content Syndication. A special package comes with the report. Learn more... Create your own RSS WinterFest Do you want to create your own Webcast and Weblog knowledge network? Contact us at DecisionCast or call us at 503.320.5022. RSS Neighborhood We will soon test RSS Neighborhood, a grass-roots effort to promote RSS and Internet content syndication. The goal is for people to network in their local communities and then bring the information they learned back online to share it with a global audience. All events will be free and organized by anyone who wants to go out in the community and share what they know about RSS and Internet content syndication. We'll launch with events in Portland, Or. and the Bay Area. This is an experiment. Contact us if you'd like to participate. Contribute to the wiki with questions, thoughts or suggestions. Upcoming Webcasts We will do a series of Webcasts about RSS and Internet content syndication over the coming months, following on the success of RSS WinterFest. Learn more about the Webcasts. Sponsorship and Advertising Packages We are all about RSS and Internet content syndication. That's our community. Learn how you can reach this important and influential group of people. alex@decisioncast.com •  Alexander Williams 8:12:55 AM    comment []

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