From: Sondre Bjellås (sondre@brain.no)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 12:50:59 MDT
I tried to trackback in the previous post on this thread and couldn't find any mention of Microsoft .NET MyServices, which was to be an all-data-storage facility with great international support, they did a lot of research on addresse types in various countries, support for Chinese and right-to-left writings, and so forth.
I'm pretty sure we will see .NET MyService in the near future, and MSN Explorer 8.0/8.5 is just a preview of what to come in Longhorn and the future.
The two most viable pathways of getting an all-global data/scheduler platform will either be through a P2P network built my hobbiest and spare-time, completely anonymous and desentralized solution. Or the other way, which is Microsoft with their enourmous market power, products and skills (Exchange, Yukon, My Services).
I haven't really followed this thread, but the subject says "Killer app", and I'm personally working on my own little killer-app which I'm primarly building for personal reasons and usage, but I'm pretty sure many others will find it usefull one way or the other.
More details is available on my website:
http://fanms.com/Sirenica/
and
http://fanms.com/projects.aspx
Take care,
Sondre Bjellås
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Fantoni [mailto:df@tdc-broadband.dk]
Sent: 5. juni 2003 18:49
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Re: Killer app? RE: Extro-biz
> This is way too long already. But there's my most recent idea.
>
> Emlyn
Good idea, it extends the ordinary idea "internet based global scheduler"
with all the wireless gizmos. As a software developer, i have developed
several single user and company wide calendering and scheduling systems. I
also have contact to two former employees from the latest and largest
scenduler project we made, so i could put together an experienced team in
very short time. ( A team that had a track record, as well as deep knowledge
with this kind of systems )
Rough plan for action would be ( i think )
1) Get established as one of the widely used internet based scheduling
solutions. ( make it free, make it superior to yahoo calender and others -
this should not be that difficult )
2) ramp it up by supporting everything internet enabled and wireless ( this
is technically quite easy if you have it in mind when creating the system)
3) when half the western world are customers, sell out to someone who wants
the eyeballs, or figure some way to earn a respectacle revenue from the
service.
If someone was interested in funding, i can have the initial developer team
and the first generation of an infrastructure ready in months. It can be run
as a project that scales up slowly, keeping cost down until there is a
working product.
The only developer team i can think of that would be more up to the task
would be the developers at microsoft who are behind outlook. They probably
know exactly how to do it right from scratch if they had a second chance -
and they probably have quite a lot of resources backing their efforts. I'd
be surprised if not microsoft launches a service like you describe within
the next 3-4 years anyway. It'd be handy to have a runnoing one, that you
could sell to them.
Of course, if You pull it off, the reward when selling the company or being
taken over would most probably be in the triple digit million euro range.
( look at similar companies and their worth )
/Dennis
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