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Yep, it’s Read/Write/Web again and this time the smarty-pants guys over there are telling me that Web 2.0 is coming to a courtroom, boardroom, and bathroom near you … and it’s pissed! - MHWarning: before linking to this piece I feel that I should warn my readers. The self-righteousness level is off the charts and [...]

 See the original post here to find out more about a spiffy little contest being run by the chic-geeks over at GigaOM - their goal is to uncover tomorrow’s cool mobile applications today. Yeah … that’ll happen. Thus far these companies have made the cut. But the competition continues. At least according to the GigaOM site.Fonemesh: [...]

These are my links for September 2nd:SharePoint: Not the Social Answer — Jim Goings - This is such a good post on why SharePoint isn’t the answer. Jim covers a lot of ground with real world examples of how SP does not foster a social workplace.

google desktop supplement for ie7 and firefoxadds google desktop search to the built-in search window on ie7 and firefoxRating: ? ? ? ? ? Tags: google, ie7, ff3, internet explorer, firefox, supplement, search, add-on, download, freeView all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Share this post : On August 19 online litigation support provider and friend of the pm blog Lexbe launched “the largest free collection of legal technology reviews available online.” LitiReviews contains more than 100 full-text reviews of technology products in a variety of categories.Each review includes the product’s name, vendor,  [...]

Dear TwineI had such very high hopes for us. You were the apple of my eye. The solution to problems I didn’t even know I had. But then, as often happens, things cooled down; the passion slowly seeped out of our relationship, and a more muted kind of relationship began. This one was based on [...]

These are my links for August 9th:OmCollab - MIKE2.0, the open source methodology for Information Development - omCollab is a powerful, Enterprise 2.0 collaboration product completely built on open source software. It provides a web portal environment to create, share and search Microsoft Office content, files, shared bookmarks, blog posts and wiki articles across the [...]

Downtown Workshop at the Metropolitan ClubMonday, August 11, 2008 // 8.30am - 11.00amTime to take the training wheels off and lose that comcast, yahoo, or prodigy e-mail address. Using a professional email address with your firm name speaks volumes of your image and dedication to your work. Attend this session to learn how to secure [...]

Highlights of the article posted today by the ABA from author Molly McDonoughThe image of a businessman dressed in a dark suit, slipping on a banana peel and about to fall flat on his rear may give Web users an idea of the types of lawyers they might find starting in September on WhoCanISue.com. The [...]

Ed. Note: Readers will remember my zealous defense of Avvo in its early going, as well as the controversy surrounding that position (what I call a “free market” stance). Here is a selection from those rebellious times. But it wasn’t until this year that Avvo’s rabble-rousing approach to the legal marketplace reached Illinois, that shining [...]

Law Practice TodayIn the July edition of the ABA’s Law Practice Today magazine author Janet Ellen Raasch gives us her take on lawyer marketing in the piece, Setting the Stage for Lawyers: Trends in Strategic Marketing for Law Firms. According to the author, successful law firm marketing must include “strong, differentiated identity,” “competitive intelligence,” [...]

ZDNets - Between the lines post ZDnet was a technology space? The two videos posted reflect items captured on camera that reflect a negative response of the people. Which is usually hammered at by other’s with social agenda’s that at-times itself is a distraction.Apple is planning on streaming video with the support of CCTV (funny [...]

SlickRun is a useful application (see also: Launchy) that allows you to quickly access favorite programs and websites without having to find them on your desktop or mouse through a menu (maze) of programs.iTaggit is the latest application designed to let you catalog and manage information. The wrinkle here is that iTaggit also lets you [...]

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See this post by Sam Lawrence: 10 Fantastic ways to f*ck it up

5th cirKane v. Nat’l Union Fire Ins. Co., 07-30611In a personal injury suit, summary judgment for defendants finding plaintiffs were judicially estopped based on their failure to include the personal injury action in their Chapter 7 bankruptcy schedules, as well as a denial of the trustee’s motion to be substituted in that action as moot, are [...]

So what’s been keeping me from blogging lately?It’s been a funny, yet exciting couple of months.  On the good side things, I have been really busy working on some very exciting projects.  One such project is managing the redevelopment of an Enterprise 2.0 start-up’s product interface.  They have a great product and great team, yet [...]

The following is a recent article I submitted to a marketing publication.  Guess I may as well blog it!Embracing Web 2.0 and social networks is becoming a key component to the success of many firms, especially those in the marketing industry.Participation in social networks, blogging and online collaboration is no longer limited to the under [...]

iPhone: The New Personal ComputerBy Alex Iskold / July 14, 2008 for read/write/webWhen Apple first announced the launch of its iPhone platform, we wrote here that it is a game changer. Even the core of iPhone is a major advance in mobile computing, but with the platform iPhone becomes the new personal computer. The [...]

As the result of several requests for an easier to read version of the enterprise/web 2.0 blueprint we published here (courtesy of R. Todd Stephens, Ph.D), the pm blog would like to direct interested parties to this link where they can download the blueprint in PDF format. - M. Hedayat [...]

from Read/Write/Web comes .. a glimpse into the future Universal (Geo) TaggingTake a picture. Add comments. Your phone will automatically tag the picture  and send itto a central online location like Flickr. Others can find your picture using its location or tag and cross-reference it on a  map. Bye-bye privacy … Instant InformationYour phone will soon be [...]

Anthony Ha | July 11th, 2008 | From Venture BeatA company called SynthaSite has just unveiled its new, improved and easier-to-use interface for building Web sites. SynthaSite’s goal is to provide a graphical drag-and-drop interface that enables un-Web-saavy business owners and even your proverbial grandmother to build their own sites. (No, seriously — one of [...]

Apple - Web apps - All CategoriesWhile the rest of the population is distracted by the iPhone 3G, the real action is going down at the Apple App Store for second generation iPhone software (iPhone 2.0).  By simply owning an iPhone (yes, the one you bought last year), you can now downlad and use an [...]

Gizmodo’s iPhone 3G Review Matrix

If you like confusing diagrams (and who doesn’t?) check out this easy to follow guide to the looming world of Enterprise 2.0 (e2.0 to insiders like us). It’s coming to a large law firm near you so brush up on your “2.0-speak” now. And while you’re at it, remember to push the virtual envelope and [...]

Ed. Note: From the legendary Signal v. Noise blog comes this nugget of insight from the members of Chicago-based 37 Signals (readers of this blog already know how I feel about 37 Signals) : you’re not nearly as smart as you think. Wow .. it’s like they know me.So somebody else built a successful business [...]

Super-blog Read/Write/Web recently reported the rumor that Microsoft might acquire semantic search engine Powerset. Today Microsoft and Powerset made it official. Those in the know say Powerset went for around $100 Million. Microsoft has indicated that it will use Powerset’s technology to “take Search to the next level.” In realty though, none of the larger [...]

Surveillance Solutions in today’s business brings about many debatable issues. The fact of the matter it has become a necessary tool. How we go about utilizing the technology is at the heart of the debate.Cost has always been the first consideration. Where do start? What should [...]

 The latest trend in web development is rich user interface while semantic search rules the roost where knowledge management is concerned. Enter Powerset, a recent entrant in the search field that has been over a year in the beta stage. Powerset finds answers to your questions on Wikipedia and Freebase, arguably the top free databases on [...]