The Social Physics project, which I have been honored to have some promixity to (network tie-wise) has reached a significant milestone. It is now being proposed as the Eclipse Trust Framework (announced just yesterday).
Eclipse is an open source framework and toolkit for software applicatoin developers. Being a part of the Eclipse framework means [...]

Business Week’s A Man, A Mouse, A Mission has an interview with Doug Engelbart. It’s always great to see him get the acknowledgment for his great work, but not just on the mouse.
I had the privilege to attend one of his Bootstrap Seminars in the early 1990s. These were intimate two-day sessions at Stanford that [...]

Ray Ozzie and others are celebrating and musing on the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the development of Lotus Notes. He acknowledges his co-leaders on the software project, Tim Halvorsen and Len Kawell. Tim and Len had joined him from Digital Equipment Corporation, where they had worked on VAX NOTES, a discussion-forum software platform [...]

My friend Karl Hakkarainen scooped the news on Merriam Webster’s acknowledgment that “blog” is the word of the year, as reported in BBC news, in his blog last Wednesday. A Traveler in the World of Work is a thoughtful personal diary, full of reflections on daily life. I like hearing from Karl every day.
Karl, I [...]