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5/7/2008

Viewpoint

Writing: It Ain’t the Same Anymore: By Trent Batson; E-mail is the ordinal form of this age. But in the collective conscience of higher education, the reference form when talking about writing is still the essay. Should e-mail writing instruction replace the teaching of essay writing?

Weighing In

Surviving Surfeit: How Do We Cull Important Information Now?: By Trent Batson; Trent Batson questions whether we need to archive almost "everything" just because we possibly can in the digital age.

Products and Apps

IBM Expands Team Collaboration, Social Networking Software: IBM has introduced a new tool for migrating content from Microsoft SharePoint and other data repositories into Lotus Quickr. The new Lotus Quickr Content Integrator, which recently began shipping, is designed to bring content from existing repositories into Quickr's "team places" for collaboration and sharing.
Georgia Tech To Implement CalDAV in Sakai: Georgia Tech announced recently that it's contracted with open source service provider Unicon to integrate CalDAV within its Sakai implementation. CalDAV is a calendaring protocol that allows for event and meeting sharing across various platforms via WebDAV.
Strangeloop Device Addresses Web App Performance Pains: Strangeloop Networks has introduced a product the company is billing as the first appliance designed specifically to accelerate enterprise applications in service-oriented architectures. The new WS1000 Web Services Accelerator is aimed at the growing number of organizations employing Web services to integrate disparate applications and databases, to extend their mainframe applications and to deal with performance challenges associated with dynamic Web apps.
Web 2.0 Event Draws the Bleeding-Edge Cloud Crowd: Tim O'Reilly woke up his end-of-the-day audience when he took the stage at the Web 2.0 Expo, held April 22-25 in San Francisco. The publisher of the popular "In a Nutshell" computer books series declared that the Internet is fast becoming "a global platform for everything," and an "amazing tool for harnessing collective intelligence."
Live Mesh: An 'Open Platform' for Developers: Amit Mital, general manager of Microsoft's Live Mesh group, had a message for developers attending the Web 2.0 Expo April 22-25 in San Francisco: Think open platform.