Collaborative literature. That is what the authors of the Wikinovel have in mind; it is a collective creation project on the Internet, where writers like Espido Freire, Juan José Millás and Jon Arretxe will take part, each of them in a different language (English, Spanish and Basque). Alianzo has created the technological platform, but the rest is the work of an enthusiastic research group from the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the University of Deusto.

This is an interesting article by the Financial Times about the alternatives to the email, which has become a ‘killer application’. “We can’t live without it, but we can’t manage it properly either� explains the author before describing her 4 main challenges: spam, security, organised storage, and asynchrony.

Last Tuesday I was asked to make the forecast for the year 2006 in the conference about social software organized by Juan Carlos González from eDonostia. I said that Microsiervos will beat Barrapunto (if the first one keeps growing like it is doing now, it will be the first Spanish blog by next September); and together with that I made up my mind in favour of the wikis, a quite new tool with loads of potential.