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  • New iFilter launched last week

    Last week we quietly announced a newly designed iFilter . An iFilter allows search technologies (think Windows or Google Desktop search) to understand documents you produce so that they can index them. So, keywords (frequently occurring words like, for example, "engine" or "vapor lock" in your documents) and metadata (like author name) can be used to search for documents. I was surprised by the lack...

  • The power of demographics

    I attended Showcase Ontario a week or two ago. It's always good to hook up with customers to learn how they are using WordPerfect Office but this event had even more to attract me. Don Tapscott (a former dean of my business school and more recently of Wikinomics fame) presented at the show. He introduced his ideas that spring from population trends in North America. As you can see from his chart below...

  • Still looking for the money...recap of day 1 of o20

    I still am looking for the future of o2.0. I believe in the future, but still have concerns over the path we suppose will happen. We talk about all of the great web tools that are developing. But, the biggest customer stories are all around the adoption of interaction hubs - wikis, self service, etc. I think that these are noble and worthy projects, but it feels like so much more should be happening...

  • Google Chrome ... Keep your toaster a while longer

    Interesting pieces of news today leaking out of Google on a new product coming out called Chrome. The way I read it, Google is developing a new browser and going to open source it. This is interesting to me because - hey, browsers could be better - and there are definitely some things that are being proposed that are neat, like the most used page (sort of like a Task Manager) that will pop up on startup...
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