Yesterday I finally made time to watch Ray Ozzie’s keynote address to TechEd in Boston. (a task which was much harder than it should have been due to a lack of time shifted, low bitrate audio – I had to sit in front of a computer, online and watch a stream).
I LOVE the map-based mashup of places and times at which Ray saw and surfed important inflection points in tech history. Cue to 15mins into the stream and plan to stay online for about twenty minutes to catch the good bits. I was in Adelaide when:
1. The city of henley and grange used hyperlinks in framemaker documents (BEFORE www.)
2. The munge brothers tried (and pretty much succeeded) to write the equivalent of the Lotus Notes replication engine (the rabid file-munger – hypercard manipulation of text files)
3. Groove found a way to harness Peer 2 Peer in a way that works when online and offline (doing useful stuff with all that disk/ram/cpu we have locally.
4. Ray started showing real leadership from MSFT to the Web2 community.
Fang – Mike Seyfang
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