Mathieu Tozer's Dev Blog

Just a thouht I had in the shower a couple of days ago...

All this debate over whether the future of software is on the web or on the desktop or whatever.... I believe the answer is that it's going to be on both. Because software designers need to step back and realise that it's not about software, it's about user information, and they also need to reassess their view of software to match something more like their views of hardware - generic boxes that house stuff. The attitude should be that software will be a generic housing too, for the really valuable stuff - people's information, and that information should be managed wherever the user is, whether it be on the web or desktop. Integrated and synchronised seamlessly, access to information should happen on whichever box, and whichever software.

I think the two will coexist too, one won't push out the other.

What is words ere networked software and people started to use it to develop their own languages? And kids started to build their own in group talk.

Also words should have some mechanism for adding lists of words with their definitions from people's existing lists.

And some kind of quixksilver-esque way of quickly adding and defining words.