I’m playing with a new news reader / aggregation tool called Pluck. It borrows from the Outlook 2003 interface metaphor to provide a mechanism for searching RSS feeds, news, ebay, and google. It provides a very granular ability to monitor specific topics — for instance, notify me when a specific item comes up for sale on Ebay.
The company bills it as "TiVo for the Web", and there’s some truth in that.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
