This is a more "occasional" blog than I'd really intended; there just aren't enough hours in the day. Lots of interesting things to note.

Cabezal released PinBoard to beta test - there's been some great reaction already. And some challenging questions, such as: "Why would I want to use pinboard instead of a discussion?", which had me stumped for a couple of seconds. It's different... Cute, intuitive, flexible and easy to use. When I build the "alarms" functionality there'll be a much stronger differentiation; pinboard becomes a powerful to-do list. Another possible feature is "gravity" - let's experiment with that one, see if it's really as powerful as I suspect it will be.

Maybe Cabezal should co-opt the Cavebear slogan: "If we have it, you don't need it!". They're advertising some great products, too: check out the Get-A-Life Packs for Palm Pilot and their awesome Maximum Momentum Router.

Groove have started building a number of decent technotes. This is a really good sign. I hope they focus on the developer rather than the marketing-speak; it's sad to see in the (otherwise superb) Schemas note that "The XML schema was approved as a W3C recommendation on May 2, 2001 (see http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema). Like most specifications, this one is subject to interpretation and may be implemented in different ways by different developers. Groove has implemented only a small part of this specification, and its implementation may differ from others." whereas really Groove's schemas are just different. Apples and oranges.