Month: January 2007

{{file:15010}} Meeting with some very important people, and using Four Communications‘ super-fast wireless hotspot. Brr, it’s a little bit chilly though …

Blackboard’s patent is being reconsidered. The prior art built up following the original lawsuit and presumably cited in this request is not inconsiderable, so this is good news for Moodle and the like. I’d be very surprised if the patent wasn’t withdrawn. Of course, software patents as a whole are probably unviable. This is a […]

http://theinternetispeople.com/2007/01/29/hillary-clinton-asks-yahoo-wealthy-middle-class-americans-reply/ As reported over at Bokardo, a couple of days ago Hillary Clinton posted the following question to Yahoo Answers: “Based on your own family’s experience, what do you think we should do to improve health care in America?” At the time of writing there are over 37,000 replies to this – something I find […]

We made a decision today to scrap the email groupware software we’d been using – SproutIt Mailroom – and move over to something hosted on our own servers. We’d struggled with some of their features in the past, but the straw that broke the camel’s back turned out to be an upgrade to an AJAX-based […]