Collaboration Software
Good link here from Dan Gillmor's eJournal to an essay by Eugene Eric Kim: A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools. “This essay is a manifesto about software for collaboration -- why the world's future depends on it, why the current crop of tools isn't good enough, and what programmers can and must do about it.”
At the most fundamental level he is right. Today’s collaboration tools are not good enough mostly because they are not people friendly enough. Though I think we may differ in what we mean by people friendly. At the point I was going to agree with the essay unreservedly I got the impression that technology was supposed to be people friendly not designing the tools around how most people interact with their computers.
This is not a rant for build everything around M$oft products, it’s a rant for build products that fit in to products that people use. This Blog is being created in Outlook through Newsgator’s excellent product. The application that is open on my computer 100% of the time is Outlook (it’s a very poor program but it’s still overall better than anything else I have played with.)
I may be, and would like to be, wrong but I feel that this article is more about technology than making collaborative tools useful to the end user – which they aren’t today.
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