scott anderson

"One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities." - Bill Gates (Dec 1998) - scott anderson

"The latest face-off is scheduled for Wednesday, when Iran commemorates the 30th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover by radical students. In an ironic twist, however, instead of the traditional festival of America-bashing, students across the country are being summoned to mark the event with a protest against their own government." - scott anderson

"I mean that Apple and RIM do not have the resources to compete against the manufacturers of televisions, cars, cameras, home/office appliances, and new types of embedded devices on their turf when the manufacturers can simply adopt Android with no investment in recreating a system like Android which has a developer ecosystem already in place. These verticals are not in the OS business. However, Android is very easy to adapt to their devices with relatively very little cost to them considering their other options. Why would these companies hand over a significant portion of their profits to Apple or RIM if they did not have to? Microsoft is losing a ton of money on the XBox. Apple is failing with their AppleTV product. I doubt they will be entering into the automobile business anytime soon. I'm betting on Android as a commodity and that open with the backing of industry will beat closed for embedded operating systems. The evidence is substantial. The industry leader, Symbian, has even..." - scott anderson

"I believe that if the device says "with Google" on it then Google has licensed their apps to the carrier. I have no idea what the terms are. However, there are carriers and device manufacturers that are not partnering with Google and enhancing the base OS with their own UI and bundled apps. It will be interesting to see the reception the Sony Ericsson XPERIA receives ... hardware: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... software: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v..." - scott anderson

"I'd suspect that Android is doing even better than RIM in streaming/downloading of video based on its capabilities and the YouTube factor. In addition to looking at download numbers and especially the rate of change of those download numbers it is important for developers to factor in the opportunities to re-purpose their investments. It is obvious to me that Android will be injected into televisions, cars, cameras, home/office appliances, and new types of embedded devices that don't exist today. I also would not be surprised if we see the reincarnation of the Java Applet as an Android plug-in for the Chrome browser/OS. Can Apple or RIM compete against a free and open platform that is supported by so many verticals? I don't think so." - scott anderson

"I have a feed that has entries which each link to other third party feeds. Please explain how OPML can add value to this list of lists without me having to convert my feed to OPML. My list needs to be dynamic therefore I cannot model it as an OPML subscription list because aggregators do not support updates to OPML subscription lists. They do support updates to feeds." - scott anderson

"OPML inclusion is a good example of the problem I am trying to illustrate. In the context of lists of lists I would need to convert all of my feeds to OPML. The only value I see in doing this would be to enable my content to be editable in your OPML Editor thus making my content incompatible with all the tools and infrastructure that currently exists for RSS and Atom. I can't see why any developer would want to do this or how this proposition would benefit the domain of open content distribution." - scott anderson

"Coming from the perspective of a developer, the problem with OPML is that it is focused on outlines and not on distributed lists. There are already two standards for distributed lists; RSS and Atom. The moment you introduce hierarchy in a single document format you lose the distributed nature that most of the use cases rely upon and you open the door for content getting out of sync which introduces a new problem that is very difficult to solve and decreases the usability of such solutions. An RSS enclosure or an Atom link can reference any content type, not just a media file. If the entries of a feed contained links that simply referenced other feeds then developers could leverage existing technologies and paradigms as well as provide a better fit for the common use cases of distributed lists." - scott anderson