TechnologyDriven

Jeff Nolan, who left SAP ventures a month ago, is now working for ‘Teqlo‘, a startup that wants to build some kind of application to build mashups, without programming:

“Back in the day when personal computers first were wired together, they came together as LANs, not WANs. LANs were/are business networks and document sharing was how people collaborated. Lotus Notes emerged as a way for people to do on LANs what everyone does on WANs today – send messages, move attachments around, review and approve documents, etc. Lotus Notes was a powerful way to weave document-centric collaboration into Office 1.0.

Today the Web is the new LAN. We are all connected. Everything is a few hops away. We no longer need help to share data, but collaborative processes around anything with complexity or exceptions, a.k.a. real life, is still hard.

So we hope to open Teqlo.com initially as sort of a Lotus Notes for the Web Generation, but process-centric, not document-centric. Teqlos will be for consumers and businesses, because we all collaborate and the Web is the platform.” (more)

Sounds very interesting…

(from it@cork)

By the way, Jeff Nolan doesn’t seem to think much of big software vendors like his former employer SAP any more, as you can read here.
By the way, the reason why Jeff Nolan left SAP is because he sees no future (generally and especially for himself) in a large, publicly traded company like SAP that has to be conservative in it’s acting and is “responsible to many constituencies”.  Yo can read more on that here and here.

Ed Burnette appreciates Erich Gamma’s achievements in his interesting recent blog post “A pattern of succes“. “Gang of Four” design patterns, unit testing, Eclipse - all this is asscociated to the name Erich Gamma. So it is really just logical to count him among “The People Who Shape Technology”.

"Google announced new technologies to enhance and improve the search experience. Three new products - Google Co-op, Google Desktop 4, and Google Notebook - advance the state of the art in search by helping users worldwide find and share more relevant information. The products all incorporate new capabilities that leverage user communities, enabling users to either share more information with others or benefit from other users' expertise to improve the accuracy of search results."

(from http://biz.yahoo.com/)

The default search engine for Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista will be MSN Live Search. That's not really a surprise, is it? But google complains heavily about this fact, this is also well understandable.
Nicholas Carr now argues in his blog that Google could also offer their user the choice for another search engine on their startpage. But this is really not the same: when users are on the Google start-page, they already chose a search-engine, but a browser and a search-engine are and should stay separate products. To bundle different products together, using the wide distribution of the one to promote the other, is a pratice often used by microsoft which may indeed be seen as "illegal".
The question is if Google will make it to accomplish this opinion at the courts, but perhaps a large number of PC-users today is clever enough to change this default setting in their browsers.