John Merrells

Archive for October, 2006

me.dium.com

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

I met with Kimbal Musk who has founded a Boulder, CO based startup, me.dium.com. They have combined social networking, instant messaging and web browsing to create a compelling application that suggests the cyber-punk future presented in Snowcrash and Accelerando.
My interest was piqued because of the intersection here with digital identity and mobility. The client [...]

The Definitive Guide to Berkeley DB XML

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Wow - someone wrote a book about something I made - that’s such a nice feeling.
I met Rex Wang at Sleepycat/Oracle for lunch this week and he very kindly gave me a copy. I’m mentioned in the acknowledgements as instigator of the dbxml project and my company Parthenon gets a mention too for its [...]