bootstrapping.net » Conversation Systems http://www.bootstrapping.net Bootstrapping the web since 1994 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:51:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Passion & Stories http://www.bootstrapping.net/2006/02/17/passion-stories/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2006/02/17/passion-stories/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:56:02 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=955 Where there’s passion, there are stories. So true, so true. There’s no need to coach people about storytelling, the story telling skills are within us and it “only” takes passion to unlock them…

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2006/02/17/passion-stories/feed/ 0 Jay Rosen http://www.bootstrapping.net/2005/10/23/jay-rosen/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2005/10/23/jay-rosen/#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:56:41 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=932 Been following Jay Rosen’s coverage of the “MillerGate” at the New York Times and are really impressed. (read his last 8-10 posts – they’re long but wort the read).
It’s a showcase of what human conversationel hyperlinked investigative journalism is. When you can dig into the core of a story, link to sources and other people’s reporting, when a site becomes the hub for a story for a few weeks – just in time media.
That it then covers the same missing elements in traditionel journalism at the most well respected newspaper in the world is only ironic.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2005/10/23/jay-rosen/feed/ 0 LEGO Factory http://www.bootstrapping.net/2004/11/22/lego-factory/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2004/11/22/lego-factory/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:26:42 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=890 LEGO Factory
LEGO goes the participatory way with a design competition where the winner will get his design made into an actual product.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2004/11/22/lego-factory/feed/ 0 Why content management software hasn’t worked http://www.bootstrapping.net/2003/03/03/why-content-management-software-hasnt-worked/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2003/03/03/why-content-management-software-hasnt-worked/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:02:56 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=713 Gerry McGovern: Why content management software hasn’t worked.
Good rant against the current focus in the cms industry. Reflects a lot of the points i made 18 months ago in a presentation at the FDIH Cms-conference. Loosen the focus on sales, drive the market through product innovation, kill the “cms-category” – suggested at that time the term “conversation systems” instead to get a term that would open up people eyes to innovation.
Not much has happened, at last not in the danish marketplace. 10-20 serious vendors all struggling to get by by themselves using a sales model instead of focusing on product development and innovation.
In Denmark there really hasn’t been any real conceptual innovation in the market since Lars Buur and Thomas Christensen created the SIAB CMS product seven years ago in 1996.
Today one of the more promising products is Niels Hartvig’s “Umbraco” project. To make a full circle Niels Hartvig was one of the original employees coding on SIAB for Lars and Thomas and i was involved in almost closing a merger betweeen Lars and Thomas’ company and my old company Radiator in 1999 that would have created the at that time second largest internet consulting and software company in Denmark.
Small world!

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]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2003/01/05/social-software-wiki/feed/ 0 OK, this is a biggie! http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/10/20/ok-this-is-a-biggie/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/10/20/ok-this-is-a-biggie/#comments Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:25:29 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=632 OK, this is a biggie!
The long rumored opensource next-generation PIM project from Mitch Kapor has gone public.
Looks very interesting – some parts of the project is very similar to the prototypes i’ve been playing around for years – and their technology setup is 80% the same – so we must be doing something right ;)

Also check out Mitch Kapor’s Weblog

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/10/20/ok-this-is-a-biggie/feed/ 0 Respect! http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/10/08/respect/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/10/08/respect/#comments Tue, 08 Oct 2002 21:28:13 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=616 Respect…
Movable Type celebrates it’s first birthday with a new 2.5 release. Amazing that this piece of software only has been around for a year – another example of what a very small group of people can do when they let themselves create – building on the shoulders of giants like Pyra, Dave Winer, Engelbart, etc.
The software is now even used on corporate sites such as Neoteny’s new corporate site.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/10/08/respect/feed/ 0 Board The Weblog Bandwagon Now, Please http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/06/28/board-the-weblog-bandwagon-now-please/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/06/28/board-the-weblog-bandwagon-now-please/#comments Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:26:06 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=512 Steve Outing: Board The Weblog Bandwagon Now, Please. The amazingly anti-innovative danish media world could take a lesson or two from this article – instead of spending their time on a clueless lawsuit against deeplinking.

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]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/06/16/net-deva/feed/ 0 Helen Baxter on “Blogs and Klogs http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/21/helen-baxter-on-blogs-and-klogs/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/21/helen-baxter-on-blogs-and-klogs/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:08:03 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=428 Helen Baxter on “Blogs and Klogs”

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/21/helen-baxter-on-blogs-and-klogs/feed/ 0 Groove 2.0 is out http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/15/groove-20-is-out/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/15/groove-20-is-out/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:56:40 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=418 Groove 2.0 is out

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/15/groove-20-is-out/feed/ 0 Dirty Laundry on the Web http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/14/dirty-laundry-on-the-web/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/14/dirty-laundry-on-the-web/#comments Sun, 14 Apr 2002 03:22:31 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=415 Darwin, David Weinberger: Dirty Laundry on the Web. A case on Shell’s open dialog on the net [via powazek's designforcommunity]

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/14/dirty-laundry-on-the-web/feed/ 0 Content and Document Management Services Market to Reach $24.4 Billion by 2006 http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/03/18/content-and-document-management-services-market-to-reach-244-billion-by-2006/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/03/18/content-and-document-management-services-market-to-reach-244-billion-by-2006/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:23:42 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=364 IDC: Content and Document Management Services Market to Reach $24.4 Billion by 2006

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/03/18/content-and-document-management-services-market-to-reach-244-billion-by-2006/feed/ 0 OTLML http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/01/11/otlml/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/01/11/otlml/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:44:08 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=224 Aaron has written his own outliner markup language OTLML – and has some interesting ideas about how to render them.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/01/11/otlml/feed/ 0 How to stop innovation! http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/10/18/how-to-stop-innovation/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/10/18/how-to-stop-innovation/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:00:30 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=163 How to stop innovation!
Pictures of the new Messenger 4.5. (Link courtesy of 090978.org). This is a killer-app that will stop most innovation/competition in the “live collaboration” market. Great example of Microsoft using it’s monopoly’s bundling power to conquer a market.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/10/18/how-to-stop-innovation/feed/ 0 Jabber http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/08/25/jabber/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/08/25/jabber/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:07:02 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=125 Shifted instant messaging client from MSN Messenger to Jabber. Nicely interface, gateway’s to msn, yahoo, icq, etc. It’s opensource – and microsoft free – you should change im client too…

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/08/25/jabber/feed/ 0 SIMPLE protocol http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/08/07/simple-protocol/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/08/07/simple-protocol/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2001 17:49:17 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=101 Messaging vendors rally around SIMPLE protocol. Finally interop in instant messaging seems plausible.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/08/07/simple-protocol/feed/ 0 Application Conversations http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/06/24/application-conversations/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/06/24/application-conversations/#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2001 05:22:29 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=46 The future of the web: Applications that’s taken the cluetrain-pill and are starting to have “conversations” with other applications. This is what SOAP, WDSL, XML, UDDI, etc. is all about.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/06/24/application-conversations/feed/ 0 Trillian http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/06/22/trillian/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/06/22/trillian/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2001 05:20:06 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=44 Interesting new instant messaging client: Trillian

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/06/22/trillian/feed/ 0 Web500 http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/06/20/web500/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/06/20/web500/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2001 05:11:23 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=34 Meet with my old pal Rasmus, now a days co-founder of danish software startup Web500. We go back to around 1993, i think, when we as macintosh freaks both had an account on the legendary “MacMermaid BBS”. They’re definately on to something and seems very well-balanced as a company. Good product design, technology and sales and marketing – all with a good entrepreneurial attitude. They don’t make it more difficult than it is!
The html-based interface for their template design was amazing – definately the best i’ve ever seen in a content management system.
Wonder when we’ll see a weblog module/template in their product? ;_)

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/06/20/web500/feed/ 0 XML Storage & RSS http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/06/17/xml-storage-rss/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2001/06/17/xml-storage-rss/#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2001 02:44:35 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=17 Tip to all hopeful content management vendors:
xml-datastorage and rss are BASIC functionalities you should’ve had in your products months ago!

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