Thursday, August 27, 2009

ReadWriteEnterprise, 25.08.2009: Kiiro: SharePoint-based Collaboration That Just Works

ReadWriteEnterprise, 25.08.2009: Kiiro: SharePoint-based Collaboration That Just Works
by Steven Walling: "But Kiiro is a project management tool that uses a SharePoint backend yet looks like nothing like a Microsoft product. It is one of the best-looking and easiest-to-use SharePoint tools we've seen to date."

Monday, August 24, 2009

Wired, 18.08.2008: Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road

Wired, 18.08.2008: Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road
by Daniel Roth: "in May 2007, he launched Project Better Place, the world's first global electric-car grid operator (he later dropped 'Project'). He had no cars, no test site, and no electrical engineering or auto experience. It wasn't even clear that consumers wanted change. They were paying $3 a gallon, painful but bearable. On a mission to end oil and about his plans for an ubiquitous support infrastructure for electric cars."

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Read Write Web, 11.08.2009: Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking?

Read Write Web, 11.08.2009: Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking?
by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "The prospect of a distributed, interoperable, self-hosted network of publishing, reading and discussion tools is nothing new - but the idea is gaining a lot more support as more people react to recent news like FriendFeed's sale to Facebook, Tr.im's up and down and Twitter's denial of service attacks. The tide may not be turning, but there's sure to be some new waves of innovation that come out of this period of frustration."