2 posts tagged “web 2.0”
I used to use a great plugin for Outlook called "Lookout" that handled the indexing of my email and files (local and network).
It did super fast searches, used very little resources, and was free. It was a Microsoft beta program and was only around for a few years. They got rid of it when they incorporated search into Vista.
The problem with Vista's search (as well as Google desktop search) is that when the file set get large (3+GB email and 100GB's of files) it uses up a ton of resources and slows things down to an unacceptable degree. Neither MS or Google desktop search is all that standout on indexing network files either.
Man, how I miss Lookout!
That why I was so excited to read in TechCrunch about a new indexer (and much more) called Xobni ("inbox" backwards - oh how these email search apps like the backwords spelling!), now in beta and about to be aquired by Microsoft. It looks like a lightning fast indexer, with catogorization, meta data, threaded discussions, and web-lookup thrown in.
Oh, how I want this!!!
I'm hoping to start the beta soon!
I've just started putting together a glossary of social media terms and sites (which will be outdated as of yesterday, I suppose). We are going to do try and cover all the main social media sites in an hour during a "brown bag" session tomorrow, showing interesting uses and business impacts all the way.
It approaches imposable.
And I'm sick. Really really really sick.
My eyes are watering so bad it looks like I'm at the funeral of a wedding party. And that's after the maximum dose, (plus a couple extra for good measure) of pseudaphed. No sleep for me for awhile, I guess.
I better wait to make copies of my "catalogue raisonné" of the web 2.0 cream...or it's going to be all water stained...
