James Tauber writes;
I think it would be fun being able to trace one's GMail Invite Lineage.
I got mine from Mark Baker.
Now if Mark reads this and says in his blog where he got his from and that person says on their blog (assuming they've got one) where they got theirs from...
So a call to all bloggers with GMail accounts: spread the meme!
I got mine from my old friend
Nelson Minar,
Google employee. I expect I know where he got his. 8-) Actually,
let’s save a whole lotta time and just ask him for a dump of the
invites database. 8-)
I met Paul in Honolulu at
WWW2002
where he and his partner Chris Sukornyk were working on developing what
turned out to be
Semaview.
Unfortunately things didn’t work out there, and Semaview recently ceased
operations. But coincidentally, I happened to catch a pointer on the
SWIG chump
yesterday
to an
article
written by Paul some time ago. It’s about Semantic Web Services,
which immediately brought to mind an exchange we had a couple of years ago
where I told him I thought it was great that he was planning to expose the
functionality of their software, but suggested it be done over the Web
rather than with Web services, which they did end up going with. Well
lo-and-behold, but Paul has just
resurfaced
and
written
about his experience with Web services, and how he has now seen
the value in the REST architectural style. He concludes;
Lesson learned. Keep it simple stupid.
Amen.