After some days of being to busy to read all my emails i went through my unread messages today. One of them was an invite to test a pre-beta version of Illumio. Illumio is a software package from Tacit, maker of the enterprise collaboration tool ActiveNet. After installing it and some connection problems it’s time to reflect on it. I think the system has a huge potential. We all know that there is more knowledge outside developed than we can ever develop by ourselves. So why not tap into that knowledge? And that is exactly what Illumio is doing. By using desktop search engines like Google Desktop, or Microsoft Desktop Search it tries to identify whether a person has knowledge on a certain topic.

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