Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. In Chris Dixon’s words, it wasn’t designed for normals. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely.

Flash 326

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semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Web technologies are no different; the syndication formats RSS and Atom were the subject of a bitter format war starting around the year 2000. RDF is a tremendously simply standard - but it struggles to this day with a needlessly complex XML serialization. For mass market industries, this comes down to good user experience design.

Semantic 40

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 5, 2003

Yes their desktop products acquired from Ximian and SuSE are immature and resemble a server trying to become a desktop OS. At Tilion, Chris tried to revolutionize the supply chain industry by creating an on-demand view of the supply chain leveraging new technologies like XML.

XML 60

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

JSON is designed to get into Rails quite easily indeed — just POST it at the server, wham, YAML.load(attacker_data) happened. (The Rails allows XML documents to include YAML attributes. Virtually every production system has security bugs in it. Rubygems used YAML to hold metadata about each gem submitted to it.

Security 101

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