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. In Chris Dixon’s words, it wasn’t designed for normals. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely. These phones were so over hyped. Within a year WAP became the laughing stock of the mobile industry. It was slow.

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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

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. Tilion allows you see into systems which were designed to be closed.

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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. First startup I worked at was in 2000, I found a compromised system and recommended exactly the above. Yes, exposing bugs is great.

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