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Thank you, Jonathan. 'Tis a nice thought... If only I read Korean.

BTW, if Scott stills plays golf with Howard Jansen, please ask him to give my regards to Howard.

Happy Holidays to all at Sun.

Over on his blog, Tech Linkletter, my old neighbor comments on Sun's open source strategy.

But while some companies in the same position might simply fade quietly into nonexistance, that didn’t seem likely with Sun. CEO Scott McNealy and President Jonathan Schwartz have always struck me as the "just crazy enough to do it" types--a personality trait not commonly seen in senior executives. What if Sun didn’t set? What if it went supernova instead?"

"Even if the open source plan works, it seems like a recipe for making Sun a much smaller company in the long run. And in the cold reality of space, supernovas happen just before suns die."
-- "Sun Continues Free Spree" by Chris Lindquist, 2005 December 08, CIO

I tried to submit the following comment, but seem to have failed, so here it is.

Sun seemed as though it was faltering badly over the past few years; the spark about to go out. With this new strategy, it may indeed supernova. But stars don't all die after such an event, it might end up as a black hole - pulling all around it into itself, or at least its sphere of influence.

Remember, that in addition to its open source stratgies, Sun has been following an acquisition strategy as well.

So, old neighbor of mine, as you say, we'll see in a few years. But don't discount any aspect of Sun's strategy to remake itself as a total data management solutions company.

As presaged by Dave Winer yesterday and announced by him today, Ray Ozzie, now at Microsoft, has introduced Simple Sharing Extensions as a new XML nameSpace using RSS and OPML to allow lists of items, and outlines to interactively exchange their information. Marc Canter also hinted at this development in his guest piece for the AlwaysOn Network "Breaking the Web Wide Open".

I believe that this is going to be a tremendously important development, on several levels.

• It does more to validate Microsofts new software as a service agenda, and demonstrates more about open standards and open APIs than the previous Microsoft demos; as much because of the use of a CreativeCommons license as for opening up synchronization among disparate applications and services like calendar, contacts, events, reading lists, and more, and so much more.
• Though that is secondary to the impact this will have on bringing many of the promises of Web 2.0 to fruition.
• The adoption of the SSE standard will allow the realization of personal Identity management and AttentionTrust.
• We'll see new levels of groupware and enabling of distributed workgroups.
• This is one more, and very powerful, piece of the puzzle to enable the TeleInterActive Lifestyle™
• We're all going to have a lot of fun with this.

You can also find more information in the SSE FAQ. Don Dodge has a well-writtne piece on SSE. There's an interesting preview on the AttentionTrust Blog, as well.

Update: Mike Arrington says

"New companies will be built on the back of SSE."
-- Michael Arrington "COOL - SSE turns RSS bidirectional"

Update 2: Alex Barnett has a good list of reactions to the SSE in his post, "Microsoft proposal: Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML".

I recently commented to "Spammers will wreck everything..." posted by miss rogue on HorsePigCow. I would have trackbacked initially, but didn't see the link initially.

In that comment, I mentioned that one reason that we had choosen the Open Source b2evolution was that we could see the community's passion about fighting spam.

The community now has even devoted a "sub-forum" to fighting spam, "Got Spam?".

Here are some of the anti-spam features of the latest release, 0.9.1 aka "Dawn".

• Referer spam gets detected early and triggers a "403 Forbidden" error message in order to save resources on the server.
• Removed public statistics in order not to attract referer spam.
• Trying to access public stats triggers a "410 Gone" error message.
• Complete comment text will be searched for blacklisted keywords.
• HTML entities can now be used in blacklisted keywords.
• Restricted URL input into feedback to defeat comment spam.
• Use of rel="nofollow" for feedback author URLs to defeat comment spam
• The antispam blacklist is not displayed by default anylonger if it gets longer than 100 entries (and it will indeed get much longer than that...)

But we're really looking forward to the Phoenix release, which promises even more anti-spam features - and a whole lot more.

We're headed to SoCal to kick-off a new project. Three days of Discovery and then back home to write the Strategy Document and then back down to present it, we're shooting for the week of August 8.

We may have to delay the presentation, though. The project involves decision support & data warehousing using open source projects, and LinuxWorld SF05 is the week of August 8. Serendipitous, no?