Lotus Notes, AOL for the Corporate World

So today I was reading Jeff’s Post on The Dramatic Password Reveal, and I had a flash back, to about a year or more ago, when I was working for a large bank based out of Pittsburgh who shale remain nameless. The flash back was to the usability nightmare that Lotus Notes and Lotus Sametime provided to anybody that had to do a simple task such as sending an e-mail (or Memo in Lotus Notes terminology). I think Jeff summed it up nicely and probably let Lotus Notes off a little easy by calling it a a massive train wreck. ...

February 12, 2008 · 4 min · 767 words · Nick Berardi

R.I.P. Netscape Browser 1994 - Feb 2008

It has been a long time coming, but AOL has decided to retire the once unstoppable Netscape Browser, think 1998. Netscape has had a long and good life, and is survived by it’s sibling Firefox. In the process of AOL trying to reinvent it self as a media company some less than successful projects needed to be axed as explained in a Netscape Blog Post: ...

December 28, 2007 · 1 min · 179 words · Nick Berardi