An amusing image; but that’s not what I am seeking, not at all.

This is *not* a zero-sum game.

We’re not trying to replace the whole of computing with a bunch of webservers – that would be madness, and also would go against my belief of the cyclic incarnations of IT technologies (http://blip.tv/file/422428 — old, but still relevant)

What we’re trying to do is give the generation who use blogs and social media an *extra* tool, one which gives them the ability to participate on the web / in the net in a *new* way, and on their own terms.

I wonder whether the inventor of the telephone was told “Ah, we see, you’re trying to displace books and newspapers! Ha!” — well, in the end, it sort of has done… but that wasn’t the point.

The point was that it was something new; and we think the Mine is something better than a telephone, because it’s your service, not Ma Bell’s or BT’s.

That right?

the goal of a browser fully implemented in a portable language (java) and runnable inside a sandbox environment, and thus inside dedicated thin clients – set top boxes, phones, dedicated browser systems – is still attractive, is still being pursued, and it may always be so…