Kapor Cutting Capers
Code-named Chandler, after the mystery writer [not the Friends character] (because, Kapor says, what they’re creating was something of a mystery even to them when the venture launched two years ago), the software promises to put all related e-mail messages, spreadsheets, appointment records, addresses, blog entries, word-processing documents, digital photos, and what-have-you in one place at one time: no more opening program after program looking for the items related to a specific topic. It takes the core functions of Microsoft Outlook, the Palm Desktop, and other personal information management programs and integrates them with the rest of your PC and the Internet. All the information you need to complete a given task or project is grouped on-screen, organized around the one function—e-mail—Kapor sees as the central conduit of our electronic lives.
The only pitfall I see, not being a programmer, is that name -- rife with potential sarcasm . . .
e-lighted to stop by your blog again.
I am certain that they will produce a piece of software. I am certain that it will do the various things it promises. I doubt that it will change how monkeys do things any time soon (scroll your digital parchment please).
I celebrate all projects that come stuffed with irony. What I would love to see is how the miracle workers on this project use or don’t use the software they are creating for the rest of us.
I never thought that the effective use of technology was in the automation of the past but it sounds like they wish to have another go at it, and this time they mean, BIDNESS!
Next week: The Paperless Office, The 10 hour work week, Utopia.
BTW New Home Page (complete with Bathroom)
www.siliconyogi.com/Home
click on central images for music listened to during the construction of said house.
Je vous commande a dieu.
Posted by the laughing Hardvark on 10/22/03 at 02:30 AM
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