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Socialtext -- Enterprise Social Software

Socialtext is the best wiki, period.

Read more at www.socialtext.com/ Oh, sweet, I'm posting from the new Firefox comment plugin.  Kinda like third voice spam.

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Ross Mayfield
Why I’m Switching to Gmail – May 12, 2004
http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2004/05/why_im_switchin.html

• "I want all my personal data accessible anywhere anytime.
• Privacy concerns are overblown... I'm more concerned with services that model me and my relationships without my permission or control.
• It's the best webmail app there is. Simple, usable and powerful."

[Gmail Reviews]

Looky dooky what i can do with this

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For keyboard shortcuts, press Ctrl with: B = Bold, I = Italic, S = Publish, D = Draft ...

Re-hello world

weather.com - Local Driving Page: "Tonight
Jul 03Mostly Clear53�0 %"

U.S. May Face Fight in Liberia, Even if Taylor Quits (washingtonpost.com): " 'My God, what are we doing?' "

WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "VAIKE-MAARJA, Estonia -- Take it from a world champion: The best way for a man to carry a woman is to dangle her upside down over his back, with her thighs squeezing his neck and her arms around his torso."

WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "When the Estonians came with lighter women, he went in search of lighter women, too. In 2001, he found one who weighed 80 pounds. He improved to second place."

WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "The Sonkajarvi organizers, seeking to slow the Estonians, in 2002 set a weight limit, but not arbitrarily. Forty-nine kilograms, or 108 pounds, is the least a woman can weigh, 'the weight of Armi Kuusela more than 50 years ago when she was crowned Miss Universe,' the organizers explain."

WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "15-second penalty for dropping a wife"

WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "'The Finnish wife carriers are like the Boston Red Sox,' "

WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "Besides, says Mr. Uusorg, 'she's too heavy. Wait, that sounds bad. She's not fat, she's just too heavy for the competition.' His girlfriend is nearly six feet tall and weighs about 127 pounds. Ms. Soll, his carrying partner, is barely five feet tall and weighs just 101 pounds."

About 48 kilograms," said Eija Stenberg. He asked her to be his "wife." She thought about it overnight and accepted the proposal.

WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down: "'We take too many things seriously,' concedes Indrek Keskyla, the mayor of Vaike-Maarja. He blames the communists who ran this Baltic nation. 'In the old Soviet Union days, we had to be serious, gray people,' he says. Under communist rule, the village pushed to be the best farm cooperative in Estonia. Now, it produces the best wife carriers."

Damn its hot today.

Edward Shenderovich on Vlogs:

flog-blog: "A few interesting ideas and thoughts on vlogging immediately came out:

- Vlogs are not an alternative to blogging, they are an alternative to television.
- Vlogs, unlike blogs may not focus on bi-directional communication (this seems to be the key differentiator). While blogging, in many respects, treats all network participant as equals, vlogging would create a fine line between publishers of information and its consumers.
- Linking is essential to blogging, frame-in-frame (picture-in-picture) and audio commentary overlays will make or break a vlog."

So is the idea of BlogThis! and the Toolbar pop-up blocker that we let the features fight it out? Or is it that Google is the only one allowed to do pop-ups.

Guess this is what they want us to do:

Google News: "The music industry has dramatically escalated its attack on internet file-trading networks by announcing plans to sue individuals who download copyright-protected music."

BookBlog: "Gratitude and admiration to Sam Ruby for catalyzing productive discussion about weblog standards."

FrontPage - Sam Ruby's Wiki: "Echo is an initative to develop a common syntax for syndication, archiving and a publishing API. This wiki is an open forum for discussing and collaborating on this initative.
Echo will be:
100% vendor neutral,
implemented by everybody,
freely extensible by anybody, and
cleanly and thoroughly specified.
For all of our work we will:
Release clear specifications describing it in detail.
Build tools to test conformance and interoperability.
Get it implemented in all the popular tools.
Let's put aside our differences and work together to achieve these goals. "

mamamusings: "The Supernova conference is fast approaching (just made my plane reservations! yay!), and so is Joi�s party. The party�s not just for Supernova attendees, however. It�s open invitation to bloggers generally, and I�m surprised to see the (relatively) short list of attendees on Joi�s wiki."

Nope. Didn't work.

How cool. I just selected text from my Radio news aggregator and published it.

News Aggregator: "Get wiki with it. The Supernova Wiki is now up and running, courtesy of my friends at Socialtext. "

Welcome to the Toolblog. A blog about, well, Tools, Bars, Toolbars, Bartools, Blogs, Barblogs, Blogbars and Blogtools. You get the idea.

This blog is initially set up to demo Blogger and what might be its coolest feature: select and post from the Google toolbar.