Scott McMullan: ehick

links for 2008-04-11

• Official Google Enterprise Blog: A Little Help for our Friends
  New Marketplace for 3rd party products and services that work with Google products and APIs
  (tags: isv marketing community microisv)

links for 2008-01-04

• Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008
  Interesting take of what's driving ISVs to SaaS
  (tags: saas isv)
• DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards
  Site promoting standardized data portability. "As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors."
  (tags: xml socialsoftware microformats opensource opendata)

links for 2007-12-30

• Good "notes to self and team" for startups or bottom-up style teams
  (tags: startup entrepreneurship)

Yay! I'm a structured procrastinator

The fact that I just ran across John Perry's essay on Structured Procrastination (via pmarca), 12 years after it was first posted, proves there are still big opportunities ahead in search, collaborative filtering, and recommendation systems.

John's essay explains my daily existence, and how to turn a "bad habit" into an effective strategy:

"This is the essence of what I call structured procrastination, an amazing strategy I have discovered that converts procrastinators into effective human beings...  The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing...the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.  Structured procrastination means shaping the structure of the tasks one has to do in a way that exploits this fact."

It's short and concise -- definitely worth a read if you're not 100% satisfied with your ability to get things done.

links for 2006-12-15

• Patty Seybold - Google: The Camel's Nose in Business Software?
  PREDICTION #1: Fast Adoption of “Google Apps for Your Domain” by Small Businesses PREDICTION #2: Google Apps for Your Domain Becomes a Defacto Collaborative Platform for Cross-Organizational Teams PREDICTION #3: Google Becomes the Winning Platform f
  (tags: google googleapps gmail gadgets portals collaboration)

links for 2006-11-17

• Amazon Rolls Out its Visionary WebOS Strategy
  "WebOS services are going to be utilized by thousands of companies - and will power the next generation of web applications."
  (tags: webapps2.0 webos)

links for 2006-11-04

• Zopa (UK) - The first lending and borrowing exchange
  Zopa is the first marketplace for lending and borrowing. Trustworthy people lend money directly to other trustworthy people – and by dealing with each other, rather than banks, they've formed a community of savvy, like-minded individuals.
  (tags: microfinance)

links for 2006-11-03

• Web office is about collaboration
  "So, where don't Word and Excel compete well today? The very place that online tools shine: collaboration. Microsoft would like you to believe that that's why your enterprise needs SharePoint, but that's just another form of lock in and ignores that fact
  (tags: office2.0 collaboration)
• 6 Technical Barriers for Office 2.0
  Offline Usage, Single Sign-On, Data Ownership and Privacy, Data Synchronization, Ease of Migration, Fragility of Aggregated Services
  (tags: office2.0 collaboration saas)

links for 2006-11-01

• Google has acquired JotSpot
  We announced some big news today...!
  (tags: jotspot wiki google)

I'm Now a Googler

We announced some awesome news today: JotSpot has been acquired by Google!!

I can't think of a better way to accelerate our mission here at Jot than to join the amazing resources and people at Google, particularly for JotSpot developers.