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Old 08-01-2003, 07:48 PM  
NetRodent
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Originally posted by woodsix
Consider this scenario...

A group of websites that are a repository for the bulk of the new content found on 95% of the websites.
One group of websites producing 95% of new content? Seems like a pretty unlikely scenario. Is there any one single organization that you'd want controlling 95% of the information on the planet? Your scenario is right out of a sci-fi nightmare.


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Originally posted by woodsix
This would basically be a HUGE data repository or a web version of a database containing images, movies, music, or whatever.
(In a sense, this is already happening with P2P but they are limited as productivity software).

Using XML, RSS, or SOAP, a visitor could request precisely the data they want.
Gee whiz! You just described the internet.


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Originally posted by woodsix
Next, using my web software, all a user or customer needs to do is load the data and browse, view, display, print, modify, or save the data as needed.
Gee whiz! You just described IE, Netscape, Opera, Konqueror, et al.


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Originally posted by woodsix
Guess what, most of the websites around now go right out of existence.
Your whole assumption that current websites would disappear is based on the laughable premise that 95% of new content would be produced for your "internet jr." group.


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Originally posted by woodsix
When it comes to technology and software, either jump on board or get run over.
Unfortunately, you're proposing old failed technology. You seem to be advocating a return to the bad old days when AOL, Compuserve, and Prodigy each had their own distinct content and software and there was no way for users of one system to interact with users of the other system. Simply put that sucked.

The reason the internet is so wildly successful, is that it is built on public set of standards and protocols. Anyone, anywhere in the world could access information anywhere in the world. Any website is accessible to any browser (more or less). People producing content like it this way because they know their potential clients already have what they need to access the content. People looking for content like it this way because they know that wherever they find the content they already have the tools to view it.

Perhaps you don't realize this, people do not want to download new software. For example, there are video codecs such as DivX that offer better compression size/quality than the standard codecs that come bundled windows. However, the videos encoded with the standard codec were much more popular even though they were of a lesser quality. The simple reason being, they worked and the user didn't have to jump through any hoops to make them work.

I hate to tell you this, but the days of people throwing money at you because you repeat "new technology" ad nauseum are over. You probably already know that which is why you're spamming your stuff here.

If you want to have any success selling your stuff, you're going to have to demonstrate why your software is valuable. More importantly you're going to have to demonstrate why its valuable at this time, not in some future fantasy of yours where the whole structure of the internet depends on your custom browsers.

So, here's an invitation Toby. Show us your browsers. Lets see your website. Lets see how the browsers work. Who are your current customers? How many browsers have you made for people? How many end users are currently using your browsers? Show us specifics. Anything else is "fluff and fodder".

(I can't beleive I cared enough to type this all out)
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