Friday, January 06, 2006

Catching up

We're getting back after a few weeks of relaxing vacation time over Xmas and New Year. This includes catching up on what's happened in the industry lately. Here are a few things that caught our news starved eyes:

- Has Flock really bitten the dust? If so, I'm not too surprised. You might remember my less than enthusiastic post from October ("Flock it"). However, I wish the guys the best of luck with the new Flock, if they choose to develop it.

Update: Aha! Apparently it was the Flock HQ that was being rebuilt, not Flock itself. Judging from the comments, I wasn't the only one who didn't get it. Why? Because it didn't say so anywhere! Following the upset comments I wonder if the investors might have mentioned a thing or two to the Flock people about what information gets put out, and how missunderstandings might potentially affect the bottom line?

- eWeek on IBM 's Venture Capital Group. A pretty good read.

- NewsFire gets an overhaul. But we still like NetNewsWire better ;) (Via Macfeber)

- Yet another online collaborative word processor is born - Zoho Writer. Yepp, it's getting crowded now. (Via eHub)

- BusinessLogs on Squidoo.

- Loving, yes LOVING, the new 9rules Communities!