the new mantra, productivity, requires systems optimized for people working together in shared spaces

Emerging specs for Web annotation envision standard ways to annotate not only text but also images, audio, and video. As enterprise-grade tools emerge for capturing and annotating meetings, I hope they'll interoperate in standard ways. I also hope they'll be as easy to use as Hangouts on Air.

At the core of that book was a notion that for teams -- and for whole companies -- it would be useful to flip the default privacy setting on electronic communication in the workplace.

As bandwidth to the cloud increases, could an ancient copy of FoxPro become useful again?

When Facebook announced its impending shutdown of FriendFeed, the chatter was predictable: It was the long-expected end of yet another failed social network. That doesn't begin to explain what FriendFeed's real value was, why that mattered, and how it might be recreated.

People learn by imitation. If you're a natural automator, modeling that behavior within your team or organization may be a way to lead by example.

After twenty years of service I'm pleased to announce a complete rewrite of wiki as a single page application with a distributed database