Dashboard (was: Cluepackets)

In his email

   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2826774&forum_id=12984

Mike wrote:
> Why didn't they use HTTP with multipart? No difference in parsing speed
> than xml...
> User-agent replaces 'Frontend'
> multipart replace 'additive'
> content-type replaces <Clue type=...>

Because they're GNOMEs.  Believe it or not, there are many people in
the world who still haven't been converted to the HTTP religion.

They went straight from X to XML!  (No joke.)

We as evangelists still have to nail our 95 theses to the wall.

> I suppose without a cute name, existing technology doesn't stand a chance.
 
It wasn't the cute name that turned heads.  Go back and ready the
reviews by Danny and DJ:

http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2003/07/12
http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/2003/07/11#dashboard

They love the "real time contextual information" aspect of it.
They love the aggregating of data from multiple sources into a
single view.  (Who doesn't love this?  Hence the scratch-my-head
popularity of reading-RSS-in-email.)

What they don't know is that you can do the kind of things mod_pubsub
enables.  It's like we're on this island and we have to send messages
in bottles to the rest of the world.

> (what was it I was doing that this reminded you of? sending soap
> to/from javascript? or an httpd apache server on the client that
> received events and exposed them via COM events?)

The second one.  :)

But actually, I think this feeds into your large vision of asyncronous
messages sending all the things you care about into UIs you use.  Right?

> > "...by making Amazon an authoritative source of information on
> > everything book-related"
> Question authority.

Question authority, and the authorities will question you.

   Adam



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