Computerworld on Information Overload

Computerworld
When I was contacted by a journalist writing an article for Computerworld on information overload, I was delighted to participate.

Not only did Mary Brandel get to the essence of the issue in her article published this morning, she captured exactly what I was trying to get across to her when being interviewed. This was particularly refreshing since that often isn’t the case when I’m interviewed or even quoted.

Give it a read if you’re wrestling, like I am, with the siren’s song of all the new communications methods at-our-fingertips from RSS readers, to Twitter, IM, SMS, social networks, FriendFeed and other like aggregators, along with all the other internet-centric offerings seductively calling to us to give them our attention.

OnePlace: Manage, Share, Collaborate & Execute


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In a time when energy prices are accelerating, threats from terrorism and epidemics (e.g., avian flu) are driving companies and individuals to better anticipate and manage risk, and the people with whom collaboration is critical might be in the next town or half a world away, the timing for an easy to use, fast and intuitive collaboration suite seems perfect.

A successful entrepreneur and chief technologist (he was formerly CTO of HighJump Software), CEO Steve Kickert‘s Riverock Technologies is soon to launch OnePlace, an online collaboration (and personal organizational) tool that has a good shot at being a hub positioned directly in the sweet spot of what’s needed.

I had a chance to grab coffee with Steve last week, and what is usually a one to one-and-a-half hour discussion turned into three hours! We hit it off and delved deeply into collaboration, the participation culture that’s emerged on the Web making hosted Web applications strongly desired by increasingly always-on and always-connected people, and went off on lots of tangents about technologies, Minnesota and what’s needed to make OnePlace the gold-standard of collaborative apps.

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