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CNET: ... Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo will become the equivalent of phone companies of the future, and with a reach that will go beyond their reach today. That reach will be global and without boundaries. With phone carriers, they can only go where the wire goes.
'Course, first they have to figure out a way to get people (e.g. ordinary consumers) to pay for this stuff.
John Udell: It seems to me that the Net has yet to embrace ubiquitous sharing of any kind of structured data.
The context of this quote is a discussion on why there isn't an easy, ubiquitous way to share calendaring (is that a word?) data on the Net. I think it's because the current formats are so archaic and difficult to grep that they make the creation of tools to harness that data prohibitively difficult. Make it as easy as RSS, and it'll take over the world.
So, is this what you would call Amazon spamming? (Hint: scroll down to the customer reviews).
Update: Grrr ... Amazon changed the page - Jeremy Zawodny has screenshots of what it originally looked like.
Paul Graham: Ordinarily technology changes fast. But programming languages are different: programming languages are not just technology, but what programmers think in. They're half technology and half religion.
According to this article on CNet, rights-protected documents created in Office 2003 can be manipulated only in Office 2003.
