Monthly Archives: April 2006

Google Base in the click stream

HitWise Lee Ann Prescott provides us with an interesting usage breakdown for Google Base during March 2006. Shopping & Classifieds sites getting 18% of Google Base’s downstream traffic, with nearly 8% of traffic going to job sites. Lee Ann ponders that Google Base is a part shopping directory, part recipe search service, part classified service,Continue reading “Google Base in the click stream”

links for 2006-04-11

Gautam Ghosh on Management: Cubicles enforce groupthink? Do cubes really make us dumber? Gautam points to an article on the subject. (tags: collaboration Management SocialNetworks HRM) Learning Technologies: Podcast? CourseCast? An interesting post on how podcasting can be used within higher education, also relevant for eLearning providers. Of interest the real value seems to beContinue reading “links for 2006-04-11”

More on HR 2.0 or is it 3.0?

(Yes I know I am flogging a dead horse.) Systematic Viewpoints has provided his opinion/views/position on HR, SOA and Web 2.0, within which he has questioned how to use RSS for an integrated worklist and poses several questions. All very important and shows a snippet of the issues/concerns that need to be resolved, I haveContinue reading “More on HR 2.0 or is it 3.0?”

Spam Kama 2.02 + Me = Removed Comments + Spam emails

I was trying to be very smart tonight, and failed.  When I upgraded to WordPress 2 I decided to try out SpamKama 2.  The installation process went like a dream over the weekend and it has been humming nicely in the background until I decided to modify things.  I thought it would be good toContinue reading “Spam Kama 2.02 + Me = Removed Comments + Spam emails”

Wiring the web and organisations

Following the recent posts on RSS, Web 2.0 and the impact on HR vendors I was listening to the Gillmor Gang talk with Ray Ozzie CTO of Microsoft on the Live Clipboard and it got me thinking.

Live Clipboard allows you to copy and paste structured data to and from a web site or your PC. If you are like me your immediate reaction is huh? But after thinking it through for a few minutes I started to understand what he was getting at.

WordPress 2.0.2

I have just upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2, a fairly painless process for a major version upgrade, I was on 1.5.1. Let me know if you run into anything a bit strange over the coming days. Spmmers beware I have also upgrade/changed/modified my spam tools.

Computerworld article on HR-XML

An article from ComputerWorld Australia on the benefits of using HR-XML for data exchange, oh, and I am one of the people interviewed for the story :-). I was called during the week about the article, about the same time as the discussion between Thomas and I was going on around HR and Web 2.0.