Logical
"You cannot use logic to talk someone out of a position they did not use logic to adopt"
Why I had to ditch Google Buzz
It started off well enough. I felt very, very excited about it. Finally a social product I was excited about.
Then it started. Out of no where, I had complete strangers following me. I felt violated.
GMail and Google is my personal and private space. Having Dick Muhamaheed follow me felt like an invasion.
Nuff said.
I'll try it out later when it's sorted out.
TeamBox – Twitter for teams
I soooooo want to use this :) But alas, in my current context of a team which is all within speaking distance, it would be an unwelcome tool.
We're currently running a stack of JIRA and Confluence (JIRA tied into our SVN repositories). I have internal RSS feeds to track JIRA updates, Confluence updates and SVN commits. Another tool isn't what I need right now. It would be a solution looking for a problem.
In a distributed team, this would be my first installed product, and I wouldn't hesitate a second to write code for SVN and JIRA so that activity be posted automatically.
Still I'll be looking to see if other teams are using this in combination with the common stack of tools we use here.
About complaining
Complaining is like a drug. We get addicted to the euphoria of self importance, but inevitably it leaves us unfulfilled.