Why Google Docs Fails at Knowledge Management

Google’s Attempt at Document Management
Google does not get it wrong very often, but I have to say Google Docs has been a disappointment. This is not so much from a document functionality perspective, but from a document management perspective. Its not all Google’s fault of course. There is a basic confusion regarding how data [...]

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The Future of Personal Information Management

Beginnings
It is interesting to note how many things in our lives have been based upon the technology of paper:
1. Bookstores2. Universities3. Libraries (personal and institutional)4. A concept of information as bundled within books (much like the old idea of album being a complete product prior to the introduction of the MP3 file)5. High effort of [...]

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Books and Information Management

One really wonders what future books will have. We have been avid book readers all of our lives. However, we now find ourselves with 100s and 100s of books that are very rarely referenced or reread by us, and that are typically not anywhere close to us (due to constant traveling). The focus on making [...]

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The Future of MS Word

The development of Microsoft Word as the dominant form of creating documents in the world is an interesting one. Taking the mantle from Wordperfect, the original word processors developed before the internet. Word processors offered many writing enhancing capabilities that had no alternative a the time (spell check, text movement, etc..).

More sophisticated document engines like [...]

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GMarks for Link Management

Everyone knows the difficulty of link management. While browsers have different abilities to manage links, the problem arises when one uses another computer or multiple browsers. This can result in bookmarks being spread all over the place and not accessible to the user.
GMarks
GMarks is a great way around these problems. Instead of managing the [...]

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First Note on KM

We will start off this blog by delving into the discrepancy between searching for local information and searching for Internet information.

For local information file managers (Finder in Mac and Explorer for Windows) have become the dominant method for navigating and organizing personal information (although not for photos, which are a different sub-area of data management)

For [...]

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