• Office Live Workspace revealed: a free 250MB “SharePoint Lite” for everyone - This isn’t the Google killer since it’s not an “online” version of the classic office applications. What it is is the slow-moving-and-customer-ignorant-IT-organization killer, which is a great thing as far as I’m concerned.

• Sharepoint is not a good development platform / SharePoint is a good development platform for applications / SharePoint is an Awesome Dev App Platform - One of our SA’s said early on in his experience with MOSS 2007 application development that “MOSS takes the rapid out of Rapid Application Development,” which I think is true in the OOB development experience. Since then, however, we have been able to experiment with varying ways to develop apps in MOSS and have started to see areas where we can create value and assist in speed by abstracting out some of the complexity. That being said, Visual Studio needs to catch up and help make that development experience richer. As Andrew Connell said, that’s a knock on tooling and the development environment, not the platform itself.

• MOSS Faceted Search (CodePlex) - If you’re using or plan to use MOSS and you want your users to get the most value out of Search, I would recommend taking a serious look at faceted search.

All MOSS Links today… some days are just like that I suppose.

I’m sure by now that most of you have heard of Rollyo by now. For those of you that haven’t seen it yet, here’s how Rollyo describes themselves:

Are you tired of wading though thousands of irrelevant search results to get to the information you want? Ever wish you could narrow your search to sites you already know and trust? With Rollyo, you can easily create your own custom search engines, and explore and save those created by others.

And it works as advertised IMHO. I love the idea of having a specialized search that cuts out all of the fat. For starters, take a look at Seth Godin’s searchroll. He provides an roll that searches a great cross-section of content.

And as an added bonus, I’ve created a searchroll of my own. I tire of searching on UX concepts and wading through the piles of ads and junk I have no interest in. So, I created the “User Experience” searchroll for your rolling pleasure (full disclosure notice: I shamelessly included this site in the roll).

Here are the sites I’ve included:

headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users
adaptivepath.com
www.boxesandarrows.com
www.vanderwal.net
robfay.com
louisrosenfeld.com/home
www.designbyfire.com
www.alistapart.com
www.webword.com
www.jjg.net
www.digital-web.com
www.greenonions.com
www.ok-cancel.com
www.userinexperience.com
37signals.com/svn
www.useit.com

I’m sure I’m missing something. Let me know what it is and I’ll throw it in. Enjoy!

Rollyo, UX, Search