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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.

Great idea for a productivity hack. Brudnopis: Mailing Lists and WWW

Dave Winer says he made 2.3 million with his blog, without advertising. What I think he means (as I explain to Bill Seitz, here) is that he sold the weblogs.com server last year. For Winer, the blog is a full media and communications strategy. It’s how he does his personal branding, hypes his projects, and…

I like Steve Pavlina’s list of 10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed

Stowe Boyd interview : The individual is the new group

WTF!!! I’ve been Googling for references to SdiDesk, like, forever, but I’ve never seen August Agricola before today! Wow! The guy has an SdiDesk mod that looks beautiful. And sounds like he’s done a tonne of cool stuff with it. Damn! I wanna see more! Good point too, about SourceForge. The stupid thing is I…

SdiServer screengrab Originally uploaded by interstar. Don’t get too excited. This is just eye-candy at the moment. 🙂 But it is what you think it is … a page from an SdiDesk PageStore served by a web-server (I’m using web.py), and viewed in Firefox with some cute graphic tabs.

Hey, guess what … SdiDesk rocks!!! Seriously. I’ve been working, on and off, on the Python translation and making some progress, but the whole VB code-base had gone stale for me. And, although I’ve been using SdiDesk for the odd notes, I’ve been dabbling with other things like the OPML Editor and writing more on…