New hope for ISPs and other TLAs 

Scott Mace on Mitch Kapor's talk at Stanford on Wednesday:

...an ISP, acting as an ASP, could take Chandler's calendaring system (fully integrated with the other components of Chandler, such as email, instant messaging, a directory, authentication, managing tasks, and other workflow aspects of PIMs) and extend it. Such extensions could serve focused customers or markets, combining the freedom and flexibility of standards-based open-source solutions at low cost, while at the same time creating a steady revenue stream by licensing solutions to customers that tailor Chandler's capabilities to the customer in question...

Traditional commercial software is not up to this task. It costs too much and it's too hard to modify. Chandler won't be the only alternative. Software based on components built in Java, XML, pieces of Microsoft .Net, and others will also provide ways to do what I've just described. But the key is to open up the software development process in such a way that a whole range of service providers can assemble best-of-breed software components in a just-in-time fashion to solve a problem, whether it's calendaring, workflow or even more sophisticated applications, at lower cost.

This agrees with my sense that there's a new software business slowly taking shape. Not sure what it is, exactly, but it's not the old model at all.

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The Economist on the future of the internet. Far from being over, the computer and telecoms revolution that created the internet has barely begun. These technologies will change almost every aspect of our lives—private, social, cultural, economic and political. In some areas, the changes may be marginal, but in most they will be profound, and unprecedented. [Smart Mobs]
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Economist article on Internet direct democracy. Interesting article in the Economist entitled: "A pervasive web will increase demands for direct democracy" Good article that points out a variety of ways the Net moves democracy to the next level. first seen on JD's Blog [Joi Ito's Web]
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Microsoft bows to EU privacy concerns. Microsoft agrees to change to its Passport identity system used for Hotmail and other online services to ensure it complies with EU privacy laws. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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