Google yesterday introduced video chat to the web-based version of it’s Google Talk app (think GMail), but doesn’t appear to interoperate with any of the many existing video chat apps, iChat and Skype tops among them.

Posted November 12, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: chat, gmail, google, google talk, gtalk, ichat, interoperability, skype, video, video chat. Be the first one.

Nicole Engard last month posted about The State of our ILS, describing the systems as:
I’d say it’s a like the crazy cousin you have to deal with because he’s family! It doesn’t fit, we are a very open IT environment, we have applications all over that need to talk to each other nicely and the [...]

Posted June 13, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: AALL, American Association of Law Libraries, future libraries, ils, interoperability, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, Nicole Engard, standards, Steve Lawson. 3 Comments.

I can’t help but like microformats, and part of that comes from the dogmatic principles that drive them. Among those is the notion that none of us should attempt to create a format out of whole cloth. Here’s how they explain it:
Under the title of “Propose a Microformat” they tell us: “Actually, DON’T!!!”
ask yourself: “are [...]

Posted February 17, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: dogma, interoperability, lessons, microformat, software development, standards. One Comment.