Wednesday, January 16, 2002

An interesting defense of Java.  I'm going to expound on those comments after I talk to my fiancee for a while. 10:08:26 PM     Jeremiah continues to be one of my favorite bloggers.  Smart, smart smart.  I'm so glad Dave pointed to him, and that I followed the link. 9:28:17 PM     It started off as an idea somewhere inside or in the neighborhood of Danish web guru Jakob Nielsen's head. And then it grew. But however simple the idea, nobody really had the guts to take it and bring it to life. Until recently, when things took off back in Nielsen's homeland. Now all they should be worrying about is will it work? This is the story of greed, stupidity, and very small amounts of money. [kuro5hin.org] Will people really stand for micropayments?  It won't work for news, it's too easy to aggregate on the web, but I wonder about other media; if Dave Berry was only available on a site that charged micropayments, would people pay?  What about online arcades?  Movie reviews? 9:21:19 PM     I just tried Dave's coffee mug demo.  It doesn't work for me.  Does it work for anybody else? 8:39:42 PM     Scott Rosenberg: "With Microsoft's APIs and file formats fully standardized, documented and published, other software vendors could compete fairly -- which, after all, is what antitrust laws are supposed to promote. We might then be faced with a welcome but long unfamiliar sight: a healthy software market, driven, as today's processor market is, by genuine competition." 8:13:07 PM

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