law 2.0

massive production overload, lack of any potent filtering. It may be fine for a while, or for die-hard exhibitionists and voyeurs, but I feel like we’re letting users down severely when it comes to having the stuff that matters to them bubble up to the top of their attention.

Three products in the social-software toolbox -- blogs, wikis and RSS -- have begun to gain traction inside companies. Blogs are probably the best known, thanks in part to their popularity on the Web and partly because of the handful of executives who use blogs to address customers and employees and to muse about industry trends. Lately, blogs are showing up inside companies -- including Procter & Gamble Co., Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. and ad agency TBWA Worldwide, among others -- as a way for rank-and-file employees to discuss important industry trends, to bring project team members up to speed, or for employees to vent about changes within the company. Wikis aren't as familiar as blogs, but they may be even better suited for business use. They're versatile tools for doing almost any sort of collaboration, from project management to building vast repositories of knowledge. (That's what the best-known public wiki, Wikipedia, has done.) At Walt Disney Co.'s Pixar studio, for instance, wiki technology is being used to help coordinate new computerized animation tools for the studio's planned 2008 release of a film called "WALL-E." Finally, RSS (for Really Simple Syndication) knits together all the material created on blogs and in wikis and delivers it in easy-to-find fashion. RSS lets employees keep up to date on the latest blog post or change in the project-team wiki. It also can alert users to changes in business-critical information like an entry in a spreadsheet or even the computerized output from production equipment, such as error messages from semiconductor machinery. Other Web 2.0 te

Bar Association Enters the 21st Century Lawyers have been using the Internet for a decade, and even the most unsophisticated consumers have had Internet access at home for at least five years. In this context, a directory that would enable consumers to find lawyers online should have seemed like a logical project for bar associations -- which purport to serve the public by helping increase access to law. The bars did little to provide lawyers with ways to list themselves online and, consequently, a few months ago, one company -- Avvo -- stepped in to fill this void  and, in doing so, attracted a controversial response.

Lawyers, iPods, Podcasting, Digital Rights...... Many of you have inquired about the legal references or linksassociated with this blog, there is a reason.Digital Rights Management (DRM) or Copy Right Lawshave forced its subject matter to the forefront of thisbusiness, duplication. Music (Napster) downloads firstlead this charge. YouTube sale to Google threw anotherlog on that fire. And Tuesdays announcement of Adobe'sbeta version of Digital Edition, [which "carefully"worded allows users to READ media content such aseBooks, digital publications and so forth], just keepsthe steam blowing. Remember a couple months agoGoogle and Yahoo were going to downloadpublications, that idea met a hail-storm. So Googletook the high road and just bought a video source.

SoonR is the only service that enables standard mobile phones to use the applications on computers in an optimized way.  Desktop Search, Outlook, Mac Mail, Skype, and the files on desktop computer(s) are made available anywhere you are and even when your computer is turned off*. Any phone with data access becomes a smart phone.