Wednesday, May 7, 2003

The Bottom Line of the New Browser Wars Even though Microsoft seems to have won the browser wars decisively, some interesting new offerings have emerged recently, produced by tiny startups, open-source projects and even titans like Apple. Could these programs reignite competition and force Microsoft to speed up its own pace of browser innovation? [osOpinion] The web browser was just the first of many metaphors for interacting with the WWW. For information gatherers and niche specialists, web aggregators will replace browsers someday soon. 10:07:16 AM

AOL weblogs? From a trusted correspondent, talking with a contact who works at the Netscape part of AOL/Time Warner. "He said they had decided that weblogs are the next killer app, and that most of the work at the Mountain View office was going into building a weblog component for AOL. He also mentioned that about 400 people are working on that software. This is in constrast to about 20 who are working on Mozilla." Comments. Well that means that Microsoft can't be far behind. Let's hope that both companies support the MetaWeblog API and RSS 2.0, so that their weblog software can participate in the tools market, and hook seamlessly into aggregators. If there's a problem doing this, please contact me, in confidence, if necessary. [Scripting News] If true, I fear that the hype will go into overdrive. I don't think we've fully explored weblogs. Then again, let AOL and MS figure out the basics, while we create solutions for power bloggers. 9:57:12 AM

Counting "You know I've been away from program so long that I've started to count from one again." [Sho] 9:14:37 AM