Month: September 2006

Wiki-based software for the enterprise

SocialText 2.0 is out. Check out the screencast. Some nice work on the UI. Here’s what looks good to me : * the automatic backlinks * deciding you can be “expert” (an explicit recognition that SmartAscii mode corresponds to expertise), * watched pages, * the sortable table views of RecentChanges, watched pages and other queries.…

Making business beautiful

Very interesting. Now HyperScope has been released, don’t miss Brad Neuberg’s great Screencast of Douglas Engelbart’s Augment System How much was SdiDesk influenced by Engelbart? Directly, not so much. But indirectly, obviously a lot. My direct influences were wiki, the Smalltalk environment, Emacs, HyperCard and the web-browser. Obviously, all, heavily indebted to Engelbart’s work.