RSS For the Enterprise, Free (as in beer)

The folks at Attensa have released Attensa for Outlook 2.0 for free (as in no cost). Go here to download - you will have to provide an email address.
Requirements:

• Windows 2000 (most recent service pack)
• Outlook 2000 (most recent service pack)
• 667 Mhz CPU
• 20Mb free disk space
• 256 Mb RAM
• Windows Media Player 9 or above

I think getting RSS readers in the hands of enterprise users (many of whom are using Outlook on Windows) is going to be critical to mass adoption, so it’s good to see this move, even if it is only free in the cost sense, not in the open source sense.

Open Source Frameworks Dominate Ajax

The folks at Ajaxian just published the results of their second annual survey of Ajax developers.

A number of interesting tidbits - first, the sheer dominance of Prototype, Scriptaculous, Dojo, and DWR as frameworks (after that you start to move into the long tail):

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Gartner Open Source Summit

Gartner Open Source Summit

Theme: Understanding the True Costs, Optimizing the Rewards

Begins: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 at 11:00 AM

Ends: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 at 12:15 PM

Location:

JW Marriott Desert Ridge Hotel

Phoenix, AZ

United States

Registration fee: US $1595

Last date for registration: Fri, 22 Sep 2006

Last date for paper submission: Fri, 22 Sep 2006

Link: Gartner Open Source Summit

Next week I will be at the Gartner Open Source Summit in Phoenix. Looking forward to their predictions about the size of the Open Source IT Services market, and Optaros’ place within it.

Optaros is a sponsor and will have a booth - stop by and say hello!.

“By 2010, most IT organizations will have formal Open Source management and acquisition strategies” Mark Driver, Open Source Summit Chair. Will you be ready?

As this new software model merges into more everyday applications, the second Gartner Open Source Summit is an opportunity to fully explore the challenges of adopting it - as well as a chance to meet the vendors at the forefront of the movement.

Open source is, and will continue to be, at the head of a sea-change in the world of information technology. With some 50% of IT personnel calling themselves “beginners” when it comes to open source, the Summit offers a rare chance to go from “zero to 60″ in critical Open Source IT know-how. Attend the Summit and position yourself as a leader as you examine how to deliver the benefits of Open Source technology to your organization.

Is it still sharing if it stops working three days later?

-UPDATE-

According to this post today on ArsTechnica, Zune doesn’t actually change the shared file:

Trusted sources tell us that Zune’s wireless sharing feature, which requires Zune’s DRM to function, will only monitor the presence of shared songs for the purposes of controlling playback. Files themselves will not be modified, either on the player or on a local PC.
We also learned that users cannot share files that they have received by sharing.

Sounds to me like a distinction without a difference. Sure, the device doesn’t change the recieved file, but it also doesn’t allow you to share that file with anyone else, and after 3 days or 3 plays it will no longer allow you to play the file someone shared with you.

Can you take a file you recieved via sharing and move it to your PC, and play it forever? Unclear.

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Malcontents, Episode One: Web 2.0 and your CM Strategy

Updated 10/24/06

Thanks to Seth Gottlieb and Bryant Shea (not Shea Bryant), I participated in the first episode of the new CM Professionals podcast, Malcontents. The other guest was Riccardo La Rosa, who is at Molecular with Bryant.

The topic was essentially Web 2.0, and what impact it has (or should have) on your enterprise CM strategy.

The podcast doesn’t yet have it’s own page or feed link (I will post it when it does) but

You can look for episode one on the Malcontents page or you can find it in the breaking news section at the top of the CM Pros site, or grab the mp3 directly (30MB, 33 minutes).

Special bonus - my dogs make a brief appearance in the background at about 26 minutes in - you may have to turn it up a bit to really make them out but they’re barking up a storm - presumably the newspaper got delivered or the mailman came. It’s their first podcast too.