Information Superhighway

Do you ever get the feeling that there is too much information available online? During the course of a normal working week, I have to search at least 50 different sites to get information to do my job. It isn't good practice to put Sun internal URLs on this external website but most of you will recognize these names.

SunTEA, sunsolve, xmen, pricertool, sunreserve, servicedesk, cepedia, onestop, cal-apac, namefinder, crm, blogs.sun.com (of course!)

It all adds up. I feel sympathy for new employees who don't know these services exists and have to waste time trying to find out what is the correct URL just to get their job done. I don't know how other companies do it but I remember many years ago Sun tried to come up with a single employee portal for all relevant websites for that employees function, alas with the cost cutting in recent years I fear that project will never see the light of day.

I know that the default home page on Sun Ray browsers is sunweb but more often than not it doesn't have what I want on the front page and the search function is so antiquated, I recall the days of Altavista and Hotbot where any kind of search on the internet would return 1,000,000 matches but the one you want is on page 100+.

How do you manage your list of URLs? I wrote about trying to find a bookmark manager in an earlier blog, that quest is still underway, but I'd be interested if others have a system that works for them.

Posted at 09:45AM Apr 13, 2007 by samktan in SUNW  |  Comments[0]