Jon Udell walks around his hometown, and relays the experience with the aid of some hipster tech goodies: Google Maps, a digital camera, GPS, Flash, and some magic fairy dust.

(A little list of various Google maps hackeries is here).

CNET has a comparative review between Groove File Sharing Edition and Laplink ShareDirect. Groove won: "We love its customization options, and we like that you pay a one-time fee".

At kolabora,

Small technology consultancy firms understand better than anyone else the importance and potential of online collaboration technologies, beyond what is served to the dominating and more visible cororate marketplace.

Ben Hyde musing about the centralization/decentralization/recentralization of IT:

So, what is this. A cyclic process?...

I do not believe the power is going to stop in CIO’s data center. I think it’s just passing thru. I think it’s headed up and into the net. There it will fall into the hands of a small number of players as the network effects emerge and cause condensation. Consider email, calendaring, HR, sales pipelines, etc. etc. none of these has a strong reason - beyond illusions of privacy - to remain parked in the company data center. I’ve observed at least four of sales groups at this point that run two sets of books, i.e. two sales pipelines. One in the internal system because they were required to, and another on some internet embedded service run by a 3rd party because it was simple, effective, better socialized, more “situated,” and extremely adaptive.

Google Maps is just awesome. (If you live in the USA or Canada, that is. The map seems to be a strangely disembodied North American island...)

Pan and zoom just with a click. Search within the displayed map. Directions.

Where I live. Local pizza. Groove, where I work.