Category: Tech

  • Common Craft – Wikis in Plain English

    Another great video from Lee Lefeever at the Common Craft blog, Wikis in Plain English. It’s a great video that explains Wikis in simple English. Worth a few minutes of your time. -k

  • video on RSS in plain English via Blue Flavor

    I came across this video on the Blue Flavor blog. It’s a great, high level, introduction to what RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is. [Update 9/4/2010: Unfortunately they made this video private on YouTube.] httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU “There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people…

  • open source to multiple versions

    If you aren’t familiar, activeCollab has been an open source alternative to Basecamp. I just saw the post “Status update followup” on the activeCollab blog and it sounds like this project is going the same way many others have — to commercial product with a reduced-functionality open source version. In June, 2006 when the activeCollab…

  • Google reader, improving

    Have to say I agree with Michael Arrington on the Google Reader. I tried it once a while back and wasn’t feeling it. Though it is probably worth mentioning, I have a hard time staying with any particular reader for any length of time. Since then, I’ve come back to it and have noticed Google…