Eugene Kim ias at it again. About once a year (it seems like it's always in May) Eugene Kim puts out another white paper. This year it's on "A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools". Looks pretty good.

Reminds me of my own rants on "the New Kinds of Tools." Hasn't anybody told Eugene that you're NOT supposed to use the evil T word. Doesn't Eugene know that nobody will fund tools? Ask any VC.

Besides that - I see the joyous hands of one Danny Ayers all over this white paper. Once somebody starts talking about graphs, rdf and the semantic web - you Danny is around someplace.

And speaking of esoteric research - I'm still getting good vibes from that Microsoft Social Computing thingie from last week. Needless to say, I'm still waiting to get invited into Wallop. But I did get to see Robert Scoble and Lenn Pryor sneak me Channel 9.

But back to Eugene and Blue Oxen. There's nothing he's saying that I don't agree with. I just wish he'd get more specific. Screen shots, Mockups, Design guidelines, Wireframes. APIs. Schemas. We need more Schemas!

I wonder if Blue Oxen is still getting money from Pierre whats-his-name. Maybe one day he'll discover what we're up to.

Somebody better.