glancing

At ETech Matt Webb presented Glancing (slides here):

Glancing is an application to support small groups by simulating a very limited form of eye contact online. By small groups I mean about 2 to a dozen people.

Which covers part of the often overlooked area of underlying and implicit group dynamics, rather than the more overt and explicit kind. Anne has some interesting comments on it too. Very interesting ideas. Will have to think more about this (I've been saying this a lot recently both here and to myself, which is probably a measure of how many other things I have to do... so many things going on this week... :)).

eclipse 3.0 M7 release

Finally! As R.J. said, commenting on my recent entry about IDEs, Eclipse 3.0 M7 has been released today. There are a number of changes, including better templates and managing of annotations, new ways of navigating code (inherited methods for example), and improvements to SWT components such as tables and trees, and the browser components. Also, there is new automagic creation of bundles of Mac OS X (which can be done through a free Apple tool as well, but Eclipse makes it much easier), better "scalability" of the UI and a number of APIs have finally been frozen.

Anyway. Will have more comments once I've used it for a bit longer.