Catching Up

There were a few things I wanted to blog about over the last couple of days that I never got around to, so I'm just going to summarize:-

• I blogged about Protopage a couple of weeks ago, it's a great example of how the web is evolving. Now, thanks to my fellow CodeSniper Alex Bendig, I've found another one... NetVibes is another awesome start page replacement. To borrow Alex's sentiment, when even start pages are exciting, you know there's something big going on.
• While I'm in Web 2.0 territory, 37signals posted a list of things that Web 2.0 isn't.
• Sticking with 37signals, they've launched a whole new product. WriteBoard looks like a cool idea. I like the way they've stuck to their idea of letting people collaborate on text. They didn't hold it up until they had a Microsoft Word killer, they didn't bother with real-time collaboration or anything too wiz-bang trendy. They just picked a problem and built a solution. I can really see the potential, I'm sure it'll be useful if I need to collaborate on a blog post or letter.
• My latest Codesnipers post, Excel From C#: What I did, is online now. It's an explanation of how I added Microsoft Excel export support to the latest version of Oriador Rota, including an honest assessment of the decision making process and the lessons learned.
• In a recent post I mentioned that I'd be introducing a forum for Oriador in the coming weeks. There's still some customization to be done, but it's online and it's working: Oriador Support Forums.