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The death of “out of office reply”

Trends, www on October 5th, 2007 No Comments

I am in a meeting so I will not be able to read your mail the next 2 hours. This is an example of time consuming information overload, probably with the best intentions. But I am not interested in spending time on reading that you’re not available. Instead write me when you are, and if [...]

Semantic Web

Trends, www on July 21st, 2007 No Comments

I am not a geek, so allow me to ask a question. Is tags the beginning of the Semantic web? Its simple, even my mother (born 1940) understands it, its free and easy to adapt. It seems like all the preconditions are met, so lets kick the ball inside the goal, and get on top [...]

Social networking

Trends, www on July 21st, 2007 No Comments

The world is getting smaller, we tend to say. What about the Internet? From being one big mass of users around the world, social networking tools now helps us get in touch with exactly the people that match our interest. The potential is overwhelming. Differences such as nationality, race, religion etc. no longer keeps us [...]

International conference about open standards

www on January 19th, 2006 5 Comments

It was a cold Friday in January, I was invited to a conference at Christianborg (the danish goverment). The topic was Open Standards. Among the attendees was members of goverment parties, municipality representatives, Harvard, Oracle, IBM, SUN and Novell. The only one missing was Microsoft, witch was a loss from my point of view as [...]