kLogs and Microsoft Office XP Integration

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Smart Tags have been the subject of controversy since created, but they are not that different, so why all the hub-bub?

I have never agreed with the Web community concerning the uprising against Smart Tags. This was a paranoid reaction without a complete understanding of the technology. As I recall, the NY Times started the revolt in 1999 and it has persisted as a source of controversy for years now.IMHO, Microsoft did the right thing - making it easier for companies to build solutions that provide magical discovery and relevance to information sources. What most people seem to miss about Smart Tags is the element of publish-subscribe; you don't see tags on terms that you haven't subscribed to, and you decide what subscriptions are important to your role or interests.This model is identical to the RSS pub-sub process, so why all the hub-bub? Furthermore, anyone that blocks Smart Tags in their web pages is blocking what I have chosen for my information experience. I happen to use Smart Tags when looking at other peoples Weblogs because the tags call out subject matter that my firm knows more about. When looking at a Weblog (for example) I can immediately see the terms that are important to me. This is an excellent way to quickly understand whether the writer is like-minded or discussing things that I also find important. Microsoft has done a phenomenal job of creating a knowledge syndication framework for Office documents that you've written or have ever written in the past or the future. This is a very powerful model; one that we'll all need as the information tsunami approaches land. There are many use cases for Smart Tags, for example, MyST Technology Partners builds enterprise services that Smart Tag-enable collections of RSS feeds. Imagine the surprise on your CEO’s face when she opens an Outlook message to see that a direct link to your Weblog comments about optimizing ‘overseas shipping’ is magically visible to her and instantly accessible with a single click.So why all the controversy? Simple – people don’t understand that Smart Tag collections are subscriptions just like RSS feeds, and in fact, RSS can be transformed into Smart Tags and Office Research Task Pane services. 9 application/xml false RSS smart tags kLogs and Microsoft Office XP Integration The notion of a kLog (knowledge weblog) is vague until you cast a specific business information objective. http://myst-technology.com/mysmartchannels/public/item/12479 Office 2003 Research Service Public Beta An Open Invitation to Join the Free MySmartChannels ORS Beta Program http://myst-technology.com/mysmartchannels/public/item/18232 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aseidl 68.40.167.222 false true false false true 190014 false false true false false false true 11678 blog blogsite/MySTHome/web