There’s lots of commentary this morning on Microsoft’s Live Mesh initiative. I’m trying to figure out where the greatest value is today in apps that I typically write today as well as where I want to take them. In both respects Live Mesh looks good, although I need to really try it out myself first to see what it is. As a developer, I’m like that. I have to feel it, to really understand it.
Over on Anthony Ha’s VentureBeat blog, Robert McLaws posted a comment that is along the lines of what I’ve been thinking about:
“The mesh is the foundation for a model where customers will ultimately license applications to their mesh, as opposed to an instantiation of Windows, Mac or a mobile account or a web site.”
Along these lines, what about licensing content to the mesh too? I’m thinking about students eBooks, or your music, or your movies? I’m not the greatest fan of locked down content or apps, but maybe a mesh approach to licensing would loosen things up a bit so licensing wouldn’t seem so restrictive nor deadendable (new word alert 🙂 ).
I listened for awhile to the Gilmor NewsGang last night about their commentary on Live Mesh and much of it was actually about Twitter and the possible relationship between these two technologies. How long will it be before we see TwitterMesh? Godaddy reports that TwitterMesh.com is still available. I wonder for how long. How long domain names like this will last could be an interesting measure of how well Live Mesh has inspired the Web 2.0 crowd.