Monday, March 13, 2000

BYTE: Internet Patents Are Changing The Rules.

NY Times: Technologist Gives His Peers a Dark Warning.

Firedrop is dropping now. They have lots of patents. "An entirely new communication platform. Email, the web, instant messaging." Their product is called Zaplet.

OnePage. Blah blah blah. Because blah new inefficiences, it's a hassle visiting all the websites, to drill down, daily basis, at the end of the day. Bookmarks. It's only getting worse. more necessary, not less. Smaller. It sucks. The internet sucks. At the end of the day fifteen years ago. Today schools register online, blah blah ok blah blah. You lose. They lose.

The guy from Time-Warner says "at the end of the day" a lot. Now I am too.

Good morning and welcome to Phoenix. Thanks to 3COM I have a wireless LAN connection that I can update from the hall at PC Forum.

It's pretty cool to be able to check my email and write for the web while in a conference. It's sort of a very high fidelity webcast. I deliberately sat in the back of the room so the screen would look as small as possible.

The CEO of Google is very impressive. I talked with him briefly last night. He's on stage right now with Carl Malamud of Invisible Worlds, and Eric Schmidt of Novell.

I've gotten three emails, all not for publication, from Microsoft people saying that they do not have a patent on XML-RPC technology.