Screen Schatz...
Marc Canter points at a sweet idea: the Hexagon Virtual Office. Okay the name's not inspired, but check it out:
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Using the power of Macromedia Flash running in a window of your favorite browser, you can keep in touch with your colleagues wherever you are in the world. Not only can you see their present 'state-of-being', or get an immediate response to a 'quick' question via the inbuilt text chat, as with many other types of software, but you can actually see them working at their desk. As if they are just next door!
This is creamy. Looks like an idea by Gary Turner it's so fine. Now if our vendor could figure out a way to integrate his linear outline fetish with this kind of communications tool and a decent blogging user interface, imagine the possibilities! Dave Winer says: "My weblog editor has buttons" Typing this phrase in quotes is supposed to pull Dave's scream shot into the post, but here's a link, just in case that sux.
Speaking of what sux... I think it sux that every time I open my Radio client I'm served up a browser screen with this importunity...
When I'm interested in outlining, I'd like to be able to download an outliner, or craft my own - how hard can it be? But for the last many months, I've been faced with this bullshit importunity every time I tried to open my blogging client. So I tried the work-around: namely, I tried to accept the unwanted offer. But Dave's not set up to accept a serial number registration from my upload. I sent a few emails. No response from LuserLand. Hey! Great new promotional slogan: "Who puts the L in User?" Anyway, mean comments aside, this has been annoying and the fact of the unexpected results combined with the lack of User support... hell, the lack of User communication in general comprises the main reason I will soon leave UserLand behind. Not that I haven't enjoyed my stay! It's sort of like a long vacation in a cheap motel by a beautiful beach. The beach is great and the activities are fine, but the cockroaches and the institutional green walls with the cheap print of a stylized copper Model T Ford start to get to you after a while.
