"Un concepteur sait qu'il a atteind la perfection, non pas quand il n'a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'a plus rien a enlever" - St Ex

Une phrase trouvée sur le web et attribuée à St Exupéry. Je n'ai pas vérifié, mais en tout cas je partage...

For those who are familiar with QuickPlace, it's not a surprise but a good news.

QuickPlace is built on the paradigm of nested rooms: a Quickplace is a Tree of rooms with the root as the Main room where you manage member access.

Each sub-room allows a group of people using the Quickplace to manage activities or projects of some part of the group: access rights with according roles are granted to members to support the organizational goals.

With QP before 7 release, rooms had to support another use case: Document and Folder clustering: i.e: support for document classification.

It was not wery handy! Document classification usually requires many levels and you needed also to manage access rights to those clustering sub-rooms without any benefit... Plus, the navigation of QuickPlace is one level at a time, which is good for few rooms, but get quite confusing when you reach multiple levels. Now, browsing a folder with the tree of subfolders is implemented as a treeview in the QuickPlace table of content.

Hence, you have a clear distinction between classifying documents into nested folders and group activities breakdown supported by sub-rooms.

Nice feature: thank you to Lotus QP dev team.

IBM Lotus launch QP7 in September. As Ed Brill said, the name is now QuickPlace again! I signed for a trial place with lotus in order to see what's new in this release.

Main topics are

• Title change: not only original author, but who modified a document. No more surprise to see your document show-up in the daily notification despiste you did nothing...
• Editor role: people who can delete documents of other authors
  Those two functions where already part of 6.5.x
• Folder nested into folders: that's a nice feature!
• Search scope global to all places of a member: a nice feature for those who have a lot of Places...

Here is a document who summarize those changes QP7_new_features.doc (889,5 KB)

Seems that there is a project going on at Alcatel. You can see http://tubbydev.typepad.com/entreprise_et_blog/2005/08/movabletype_che.html.

No much details, as it is intranet based and private. But they say it's used for project teams and intranet publishing.

We should do some benchmarking there.

Not in the Blog sphere but a guy who says about himself:

"Theoretically, my work focuses on social learning systems.
I am trying to understand the connection between knowledge, community, learning, and identity. The basic idea is that human knowing is fundamentally a social act. This simple observation has profound implications for the way we think of and attempt to support learning."

So... 

 The answer to this question is: It probably will. However, the correct question to ask is: If I add more bandwidth, how much will it help? The answer to this question depends on your application, the network latency, the limiting bandwidth, and amount of congestion.

To learn more, see http://www.netpredict.com/solutions/usecases/bandwidtheffect.htm

Knowledge Sharing & Collaboration 2015:

From collection to ... connection

Value proposition for KM 2015

Some client technology is more than emerging nowdays. And I found today that microsoft is jumping in this wagon: it's a client technology enabling to foster personal awareness.

• Microsoft has nammed it "gadgets" see this blog 
• Mac used the term of "Widgets"
• And there is a Mac add-on nammed Konfabulator as the "early technology"

There are also other technologies targeting the same service, providing a framework to develop those items

• Klipfolio from Serence is one, they are called "Klips" there http://www.serence.com

The idea behind that is to provide a simple way of writing simple application (may be few parameters of an xml file), which purpose is to provide some monitoring of a user important resource, and allows him provide some simple customization. Those "what so ever you call them" items can be stuck on your desktop or a web page. And all together, they form what can be nammed a kind of "Dashboard".

This technology can be used to monitor the content of a web page, show the newest entries of an RSS feed, provide the last 15 minutes value of a stock quotation...

It may be very interseting to use this technology to setup appropriate dashboard, monitoring information for group collaboration: this would extend drastically the presence indicators of a sametime or sip server of sharepoint... And enable people to filter information and provides them with the right triggers to see when it's time to exchange and shre knowledge.

Much better than being the slave of his email incoming list!

I decided to create a blog today because I found that microsoft is interested in gadgets.

This blog is likely to become a memory for my research (private) about human & technological facts about collaboration, if it lives anyway!