The Next Web...Seriously!
Now that I have my license, my next Radio task is to link this site and my personal site. I need to integrate them. The key is to find ways to flow the two together...to make them one.
I read a story by Adam Curry about net services and calendar services. He is on to something cool. I think in the next phase we need to look at the 'one-one' things that the web can do, rather than the 'many-one' things that we have focused on over the past 5 years.
I want hooks between Entourage and my blog. A way to mask personal items (just a 'not available' note). I want xml and scripting to allow my calendar to scan another persons calendar for available times and send an email notifying them of the request. If I go in and modify my public calendar, I want it to automatically make a query to the other involved party(s).
Web services are all about creating links that allow me to run my life in an intelligent manner. I don't care who does the hooks as long as they are open, and secure. This almost certainly rules out MS. Nothing they do is open, and security as a commitment is only a recent religion. But as with many born-agains, we can only hope that MS tackles it's new found faith with all the fervor of a holy-roller.
Small developers have an opportunity to jump start the next revolution in software development. There are those moments that we are allowed to tread new ground. It may all turn out to be nothing...all to often these things have a way of blowing over. My only hope is that the greed of wetware doesn't get in the way...mj
Wetware wet'weir
n. [prob. from the novels of Rudy Rucker, or Stanislaw Lem]
- The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or software.
- 2. Human beings (programmers, operators, administrators) attached to a computer system, as opposed to the system's hardware or software.
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