37Signals puts out a test version of their next gizmo - Campfile - a business chat tool with an absolutely seamless file uploading and sharing capability. Can't wait to see this baby live and in full action.

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Amanda talks to random strangers about firefox vs. IE. Obviously, it's done in an urban location where there are enough folks to know the difference. Seriously, and nothing against Green Bay here, but if I did this at home, I'm betting that over half of anyone I acosted for an opinion would not have the slightest on what FireFox is. In fact, many are still using AOL.

Scoble gives a shout to the guys at Cognitive Daily who highlight a report on how mood affects your ability to remember and make word relationships. Bottom line on the study. If you're looking for creativity and ideas, check you mood!

I'm in Paris for LesBlogs 2.0 this week. Had a chance encounter with Mark Fletcher of Bloglines yesterday when we checked into the hotel at the same time. Went to the LesBlogs meetup last night and realized that I don't know too many European bloggers. (surprise...)
[Note to self: expand international blogging horizons]

Rok gives you 11 Reasons For Using RSS Marketing. As if you needed that many. I always think about RSS, but was thinking more after our presentation at SRI last week. Elaine O'Gorman of Silverpop hit home that RSS is a channel. When put in marketing terms - RSS is a marketing channel.

Jason @ 37Signals wrote an interesting post about the software needs of side-business people...or the "Fortune 5,000,000" as he calls them. Tools like Basecamp get after this, but so do tools like TrackMyHours, which I've been using for a little while to track my consulting hours and don't know how I lived w/out it before.

The problem that I see with this market is marketing reach. How the hell am I, if I were a side-biz tools developer, to get the word out to my ultra-fragmented target market? As much as I pimp blogging as the answer, I don't know that by developing some tools and starting a blog I'd really satisfy my marketing needs. Yes, we're talking about 'niche' here, but we're talking thousands of niches...

Some folks in the computer security world still believe that the growing and pervasive use of computers in the past twenty years has enabled the average person to become functionally computer literate. While most people know how to open a Microsoft Word document, read email and use a browser, far fewer know (or care) about what it takes to secure their computer.

That's a major reason why so many hundreds of thousands of drones and bots exist and are under control of black hat folks. Your parents' computer could quite likely be "owned" right now, a compromised bot that's available for misuse by a large group of miscreants - and maybe you won't find out about it until the next time Mom and Dad invite you over for turkey dinner.

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