matt.griffith - thinking out loud

 Saturday, April 06, 2002

I watched “Introducing Hailstorm today. This is the 4th time since MSDN posted it last June. It makes a lot more sense now though.

9:40:35 PM    

New essay for the day: Neurotransmitters.  Identifies common themes in biology, messages to spaces, REST, and Tupl-Spaces and applies them to messaging. [Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog]

This sounds a lot like Microsoft’s ".NET My Services". I was originally interested in "Hailstorm" for that reason. Unless I'm missing something, Microsoft will be the first to deploy such a system on a wide scale. Because they will be first, Microsoft is poised to set defacto standards in this area.

You can learn more about the Microsoft design here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/Default.asp?contentid=28001179

8:58:10 AM