Preview 2: Highrise permissions and groups
Last week we posted the first preview of Highrise. In that preview we introduced the product in broad strokes. With each additional preview well be covering one facet of Highrise in detail.
With preview 2 well be focusing on permissions and groups.
The keepshare scenario
Highrise is a shared contact manager. That means that everyone in your organization can use it to keep their contacts and 
Be the guy with the megaphone and other lessons from a JetBlue meltdown
It could have been worse. I couldve been stranded on the runway for eight hours. Instead, I was stuck at the JetBlue terminal for 12 hours last Thursday before finding out my flight was cancelled. [1]
Here are some communication lessons learned from the fiasco:
Put all your soldiers on the front lines. Jet Blues corporate offices are located near JFK so they brought in a bunch of people who normally work there to help out at the terminal.
"If you know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete."
Erik K. Antonsson, a prof at Caltech, has a page of quotations related to design and engineering. Some samples:
If a major project is truly innovative, you cannot possibly know its exact cost and its exact schedule at the beginning. And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.
-Joseph G. Gavin, Jr., discussing the design of the lunar module that landed NASA astronauts on the moon.
What appears at first to be well-articulated, firmly established architecture often consists of a broad (perhaps even vague) product concept; a set of evolving, sometimes lo
links for 2007-02-21
juberjabber: Google Talk URLs Google Talk has its own URL scheme for chats and phone calls. (tags: Google googletalk IM VOIP) juberjabber: Usage Stats From the Major IM Networks "Reasonable estimates for most of the major services" (tags: IM Stats)...
NHL Bans YouTube Video Embeds
If you don't like people sticking their fingers in your food then don't let them in your kitchen. Unfortunately, the National Hockey League didn't get the message. The NHL has a substantial presence on YouTube. However, they told one person...
Market Truths Wins Second Life Business Plan Contest
As I mentioned a few months ago, Edelman and Electric Sheep conducted a Second Life business plan contest. The idea here is to find and fund the most promising initiative. Today Electric Sheep and Edelman revealed the winning plan. It's...
links for 2007-02-20
Mobilicio.us Mobile front-end to del.icio.us. (tags: socialbookmarking Mobile del.icio.us) The Complete Guide to Managing iTunes Videos | iLounge (tags: iTunes Video iPod Windows OSX) Free photos - Free images - Free stock photos. FreeDigitalPhotos.net "Thousands of royalty free stock photos...
Sirius and XM Officially Merge
Orbitcast, which has been tracking the satellite radio biz for quite sometime now, says it's official. Sirius and XM Satellite have announced they are merging. That's certainly good news for radio heads. However, there's still a big problem with satellite...
Many Web 2.0 Sites Fail to Link to Related Content
For all of their surging traffic, a lot of blogging, social networking, community and other Web 2.0 sites truly fail at keeping people on their site in the most basic way - by pointing people to related content within their...
Britney Spears and the Blue Edelman Group
A bit of President's Day fun from my colleague Phil Gomes. He's telling the now bald Britney Spears that she can't team up with us. Incidentally, we all hung out recently at a company meeting and it felt eerily like...
MMO != VC?
This is posted on behalf of Joshua de Larios-Heiman. ---- I was at a venture capital cocktail reception at Zibibbos in Palo Alto last week hosted by the Hina Group, a venture capital and investment banking specializing Chinese technology investment....
State of the NationStates II: Resolutions
If you've visited the TerraNova region of NationStates lately, you'll see that its grown to a whopping 11 nations in the little more than a week since the first post in this short series of thought experiments in hypothetical game...
Analyzing Skype
eBay has now owned Skype for more than four full quarters. How's that little $4 billion flyer doing? Answer: Pretty well, actually. Not amazing, not terrible. Pretty well. eBay doesn't release much Skype information, but we can still get a good snapshot: After decelerating through Q2 last year, both revenue...
Joost In: Some Real YouTube Competition?
Perhaps Viacom had an ace up its sleeve after all. When the company stormed out of negotiations with Google a few weeks ago and demanded that YouTube remove all its clips, the popular thesis was that the Big Media YouTube Rival was a go. It wasn't--and, likely, will never be--but...
This is National Engineers Week
Posted by Shannon Madison, Instructional DesignerIt's that time of year: to
celebrate the engineers who create the new technologies that revolutionize our world. Their work changes the way we work, play, learn, and communicate with each other.
As part of our ongoing commitment to raise awareness of these contributions (here's more on our
our K-12 initiatives), and to get young students interested in engineering, we're hosting a
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day on February 22nd in several of our U.S. offices, including N
Palm = Phone Platform
Rumors are running around that Palm is about to surrender to destiny, and become a phone platform for Nokia or Motorola. That article was the first time I even heard about the Nokia E-series smartphones, and I am in the...
Ballmer on Vista Piracy
Ballmer claims that software piracy is what is holding down Vista sales, and pledges to tighten the screws on protection via the so-aptly-named Windows Geniune Advantage: [from Ballmer blames pirates for poor Vista sales] Of course he is ignoring the...
Renkoo
Pete Cashmore is pretty evenhanded in his comments about Renkoo, yet another Evite wannabe: [from Renkoo Launches Social Networking Profiles, With a Twist] [...] the way they’ve implemented the profile pages seems to break with convention: instead of spending hours...
Jetblue's CEO David Neeleman's Blog
Paul Kedrotsky reminded me that Jetblue's CEO has a blog. Would be a great opportunity to use it to blunt the criticism about hte company's poor response in recent days to bad weather and operational snafus. However, it hasn't been...
75% of Vista Reviewers Bring Up Mac OS X
No surprise to me: [from Infinite Loop: 75 percent of Vista reviewers bring up MacOS X by Iljitsch van Beijnum] 75 percent of Vista reviewers bring up MacOS X Vista Let's try a little experiment: find some random Windows Vista...
