Nobody has a harder time staying organized than Bill Gates, of Microsoft.  Email, meetings, research, documents...  Even in a small company, keeping track of all this rich content can be a nightmare.  Long gone are the days of cork boards and thumb tacks.  Now, businesses are increasing looking towards Content Management Systems (such as Microsoft's Sharepoint product).

Although Sharepoint is just one offering in the large developing Content Management industry, the examples of integration with Desktop applications given in this article are applicable across the industry.  Bill shares in this article how he integrates multiple desktops, a tablet PC, and digital white boards to populate their content management system.

Link:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/30/news/newsmakers/gates_howiwork_fortune/

Not all ideas are suitable for the SaaS model, but according to this article's author, those that are can benefit from:

• Save money.
• Save time.
• Focus your technology budgets on competitive advantage rather than infrastructure.
• Gain immediate access to the latest innovations.
• Join a community of interest.

As we saw in the last article, RSS provides a great way of sharing text-based content across different web sites.  This next article in the series deals with new applications of RSS, including GeoRSS, podcasts, and complex content.  The name of the article is "The Future of RSS".  What new applications can you think of?

Link:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_future_of_rss.php

RSS, or "Really Simple Syndication", has evolved into the duct tape of web site integration.  It has applications for Business to Business, as well as Business to Customer communities.  To share the details of this essential technology, we will be featuring a series of articles exploring RSS.

To begin this series, we have this article called "How to explain RSS the Oprah way":

Link:

http://cravingideas.blogs.com/backinskinnyjeans/2006/09/how_to_explain_.html