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   Re: Go forth young man, write compelling apps

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  • From: Bob La Quey <robertl1@home.com>
  • To: Dave Winer <dave@userland.com>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:39:28 -0700

At 07:20 AM 7/24/00 -0700, you wrote:
>[snip]
>The problem is baggage. Jumping out of the plane door with MSN, Office, and
>everything else, weighs you down. You drop like a lead weight, right back to
>where you started. A couple of teens from Boston, with no baggage, had an
>idea and boom  there's the P2P revolution, everyone's energized, envisioned,
>routing-around.
>
>[snip]
>
>Anyway, I know there's no agreement here. The vocal people have an answer,
>it's somebody else's fault, esp my friend Don, who thinks it's the lack of
>compelling apps. To Don, I agree, go forth and write some compelling apps,
>and let's have XML play some role in the future of the Internet. Go XML, all
>the way. (But let's not carry so much baggage.)
>
>Dave

Well the young guys at Jabber think they have the compelling app ...
Mumblings of Jabster over there. 

Bob La Quey




 

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