Recently I came across a new buzzword for me IBM JAM, on investigating a bit on google I found out that its a mean of collaborative thinking and deduction process among large group of people. IBM is the pioneer of this process, who used this to organize collaborative thinking among their employees.

Its not about one single technology, but its a collection of technologies , whose purpose is to deduce collaborative opinion and understanding about a set of topics. The whole process is well defined, and the goals that are to be achived are set in advance.

I found few detials listed on this page

http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/060106/managing.html?.v=1

I came across this product/project that uses .net to manage machines, very interesting, have a look .
http://www.finalizer.net/

Microsoft has released Avalon and Indigo RC1, trying to install, but no luck as yet, the installer crashes in the middle.

“Avalon” is the code name for the presentation subsystem class libraries in WinFX. Avalon provides the foundation for building applications and high fidelity experiences, blending together application UI, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer. The functionality extends to the support for Tablet and other forms of input, a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data-driven UI and visualization.
Download Avalon here

WebDAV

Briefly: WebDAV stands for “Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning”. It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.

DAV allows users to remotely share files and allows them to write to them.HTTP gave them read access, while DAV gives them write access.
DAV is a protocol. More specifically, it is an extension of the HTTP/1.1 protocol. DAV adds new HTTP methods and headers. In addition, DAV specifies how to use the new extensions, how to format request and response bodies, how existing HTTP behavior may change, etc.

DAV is a possible replacement to FTP and CVS.

WebDAV uses port 80, the same port used by HTTP for web access. So using WebDAV means you don’t have to open any extra ports on your firewall.
WebDAV lets only one user modify a file at a time, while allowing multiple users to read it. This allows files to be locked while they are being edited, preventing unexpected changes from occurring.
WebDAV lets you edit files on the server instead of needing to download them first to the client. Editing files remotely using WebDAV is as easy as if they were locally present, and the whole process is transparent to the content producer.

For full details visit

http://www.webdav.org

It is every webmasters desire to get their website listed at the top for the relavent search results on google and the known search engines, but it is quite an effort to get that done. SEO is a complete science in itself, and people have devoted their lives to master it. Here are few handly tips that I compiled after doing some research on this issue.

http://wiki.tb2.net/index.php?title=SEO

The “MareNostrum,” built by IBM Corp., boasts 40 teraflops of speed. It can make more calculations in one second than a human pecking at a calculator could make in 10 million years.

Read the Full story

PIM stands for Personal information manager

Details

OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML format for outlines. Originally developed by Radio UserLand as a native file format for an outliner application it has since been adopted for other uses, the most common being to exchange list of RSS feeds between RSS aggregators.

The OPML specification defines an outline as a hierarchical, ordered list of arbritrary elements. The specification is fairly open which makes it suitable for many types of list data

full details can be found at

http://www.opml.org/

and complete definition is listed here

One of Longhorn’s most interesting technologies for developers is its new XML-based markup language, codenamed XAML (short for eXtensible Application Markup Language, and pronounced “Zammel”). User interfaces in Longhorn applications are typically built using XAML

XAML is actually an open standard. So technically, anyone could write to it or for it.

DonXML did a good intro on XAML on his blog:

http://donxml.com/allthingstechie/archive/2004/11/28/1550.aspx

XAML from a standards point of view

http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/20834

Another XAML link for good measure.

http://xaml.net/

Blogs for xaml can be found at

http://www.xamlblogs.com/

By now there are no of RSS readers, that are independent applications to manage RSS feeds, there are some real nice ones, but for the sake of making things simple, it makes more sense that the existing email client manages all of the news related stuff, so in addition to having your news reader built into your favourate email client it also makes sense to integrate RSS feeds to be read by the news client.

I have come across no of RSS readers for outlook and all of them work and operate the same, so why not go for a free one.

Here are links to two of the free RSS readers that get integrated into Microsoft outlook.

YouSoftware

RSS Popper

If you still fancy some shareware RSS plugins for Outlook then here are the links to two of them

Tech hit

News Gator

Also if you like to use independent RSS readers, then there is a good collection of links on the download.com site.

Download.com