Wednesday, 30 June 2004

News.Com got it right. The current standards organizations have the wrong strategy, they get in the way of progress instead of fostering it. After years of studying this, I now think we need a new standards organization that adopts de facto standards, like BitTorrent and RSS, OPML, XML-RPC, the ones with market momentum, that have proven their value. The current SO's form committees and bureaucracies, that's their purpose it seems, and by the time they're ready with a format or protocol, their proposal is too complex and too late. [Source: Scripting News] 1:55:21 AM

Konfabulator Developer Talks About Apple's Dashboard Imitation [Source: MacSlash] 1:07:36 AM

From the If It Weren't So Sad It Would Be Funny Department. NY Times: "They're copying our concepts," Mr. Jobs said. "I'd kind of like to get credit sometime." [Source: Scripting News] 1:04:50 AM

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