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Bio

Old hypertext hand. President and co-founder of Traction Software Inc (TeamPage). Formerly Electronic Book Technologies/EBT (DynaText); Mentor Graphics/Context (Doc); Naval Research Lab/NRL; Brown University Physics and CS (Hypertext Editing System/HES).

“Everything is deeply intertwingled” ― Ted Nelson

“In every previous generation hypertext system from HES through Lotus Notes, the ability to read, search, link and communicate came with a terrible price: it might work well, but only if you put everything you wanted to work with into some sealed box, and convince everyone you wanted to work with to use the same box. From the earliest days of Vannevar Bush's Memex, the vision was universal, but implementations were a siloed...

But the Web over the universal Internet turned the world-view of Lotus Notes (and the Sharepoint stack) inside out: no proprietary client, no proprietary representation, no requirement to work inside the proprietary box - and every motivation to make anything valuable you create or deliver compatible with the least common denominator representation outside the box: URL addressable HTML."

‘Enterprise 2.0 - Letting hypertext out of its box’ April 24, 2007 · Blog384 · Greg Lloyd
http://tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog384