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Richard Foreman: Ontological Hysterical Mashup

Published September 16, 2007 by cgerrish

Richard Foreman has an API. He’s mashable. His notebooks are downloadable in html and you can freely include them in your Web 2.0 mashup. You push the button, and Foreman does the rest…

This website contains hundreds of pages of unedited text which Richard Foreman is making available freely for use by theatrical authors/directors from which to create plays of their own.

I’d like to see an automatic Richard Foreman play generator, select the themes, the length and the number of characters. And then we need to get together and put on theatricals for each other on a saturday night.

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Google Apps: Classic Innovator’s Dilemna

Published September 10, 2007 by cgerrish

I suppose this has been noted before, but Microsoft Office overserves its users. It has too many features that no one uses. It has features that no one even knows about. If an MS Word feature falls in the woods, and no one hears it, does it make a sound? This is a classic Innovator’s Dilemna.

It’s easy to say that Google apps is not as good as Microsoft Office. But that’s an answer to the wrong question. The question is: is it good enough, for a lot less money. The folks at CapGemini seem to think so. It’ll cost a company $50 per year per employee for Google Apps. Microsoft will counter with Microsoft Live, but they don’t what to cannibalize their own product. Which means they leave the field open to Google Apps and Zoho. Speaking of Zoho, you’d think Yahoo or somebody would buy them.

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What’s a Wiki?

Published September 4, 2007 by cgerrish

The Wiki Way

Google bought JotSpot, and it sorta disappeared. Word is that JotSpot will re-emerge soon as Google Wiki. I’d love to see a widely accessible and usable Wiki.

With the exception of Wikipedia, most people don’t know what a Wiki is or how to use one. Ward Cunningham’s Wiki develops the ideas of Hypercard and Vannevar Bush’s As We May Think.

Wiki is a great way of working together, although it tests the strength of the social contract. Even now companies are editing their own Wikipedia entries. At any point of controversy, the process of using a Wiki is stressed. However in certain kinds of small work groups, the Wiki is a great tool.

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