Hey everyone,
Sorry for the slow responses. The problem with the various emails out there are that they don't always still exist by the time people use them. Jef's Apple IIe would have been a lovely link to the past, and certainly nolstalgic -- albiet to a time I can't remember -- but I am glad that it went to a loving home. I'm also somewhat embaressed that I'm now on a mailing list with folks that have changed my diaper :)
A bit about the past and present.
I'm now working for Mozilla as the Head of User Experience in Labs, which means I help head up new products. My official job description is, "Think about the future of the web and make it that way". My unoffical one is, "Make shiny things." I've done three startups since graduating from University of Chicago (Math and Physics, if you are curios). Two are directly related to Jef's legacy: Bloxes.com (which may look very familiar), and Humanized.com. The later was pulled into Mozilla a little less than one year ago. The product we built at Humanized, called Enso, was very much inspired by the command key of the Cannon Cat. It freed functionality from any particular application, by having a language-based quasimode for calling up those services. It was a system-wide app for Windows, that let you run any command in any application. Enso begat Ubiquity at Mozilla, which now seems to be making quiet a buzz on the intertubes. You can think about it as a pragmatic stepping stone to the universal canvas of the Cat, with the web as the platform. The goal is to finally switch the way the world thinks about computing, from page/application centric to task centric. If we succeed, then I think we've together accomplished the goal of implementing a large part of Jef's vision.
Ubiquity is entirely open source, and would greatly benefit from the wisdom of everyone on this list. Please get involved.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity
The other company is Songza.com, which was a fun foray into the music space and pie-menus.
Archy turned out to be too big a project for what the small team was capable of. It was more complex, given a number of the spec'ed features surrounding universal undo, than any OS I know of. Ubiquity and Enso are a small and high-value portion of it. Archy is written in Python and is fully open source. I have to go figure out how to get this site back up.
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