[Design] Emphasizing the "Management" part of PIM

[petite_abeille]

Hello,

If you guys are serious about providing something different than "yet 
another application", you should try to deal with the management of 
information instead of providing yet another way of producing more 
discreet and disconnected chunks of obsolete data. Everybody and their 
dog produce information. Unfortunately, there is seldom a system that 
would take this flow of information and make sense of it.

There is really nothing novel in such an approach, unfortunately nobody 
did it so far. Here are a couple of pointers as far as existing 
building blocks:

- Xerox Placeless Documents
http://www2.parc.com/csl/projects/placeless/

- "The ``Lifestreams'' Approach to Reorganizing the Information World"
http://www.cs.yale.edu/Linda/life/life.html
http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,3959,615549,00.asp

- "Space Drive"
http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/2600

A couple of products tackle those issues one way or another:

- Six Degrees
http://www.creo.com/sixdegrees/

- Dolphinsearch
http://www.dolphinsearch.com/

- Enfish
http://www.enfish.com/

- Lotus Discovery Server
http://www.lotus.com/products/discserver.nsf/

- Autonomy
http://www.autonomy.com/autonomy_v3/

- ZOË
http://guests.evectors.it/zoe/

Cheers,

PA.