I just did a 1:30 hour long show with Steve Gillmor on my ideas and writings surrounding the open mesh.

Steve argued with me, and ‘held my feet to the fire‘ on many of my ideas and assumptions regarding the open mesh.  I find this sort of interaction incredibly helpful as it’s important to get push back from your peers.  Most importantly Steve listened to what I had to say and the assumptions and foundations on which I operate to come up with these principles, areas of focus and perception of just what the open mesh is.

From this conversation it should be clear just hw many of my ideas are ‘science fiction‘ (as Steve likes to put it), what suggestions are pragmatic designs and most importantly what’s here today already.  By viewing the world through the ‘open mesh’ sunglasses perspective one starts to see a world where we all can live together, and use BOTH Microsoft’s infrastructure, Google’s grid, Twitter’s backbone, XMPP’s transport layer, RSS, OpenSocial Ver5 APIs, OpenID, oAuth, Yahoo’s ID layer and Facebook’s ecosystem.

Steve pointed me to his latest on TechCrunchIT where he “Back on  Track” where he eloquently spells out why Twitter is our infrastructure of the future.  But in true Steve style and fashion he also points out that Microsoft Live Mesh launched yesterday and that IT might well be the uber architecture infrastructure of our future.

At which point I replied “Great! - we love them all - I just wanna make sure to make a few shekels for my children and wife” (I’m paraphrasing here.) Baking monetization in - for all us small fry - is also part of the rap!

So enjoy and here are some accompanying links - based upon nerdy you wanna get:

A Reference Design for building the Open Mesh

Progress Report on the Open Mesh - July ‘08

How to Build the Open Mesh

The slideshare ppt of the preso I did at Widget Expo in June

and related blog posts:

- My own Personal Knowldge Bases [1] and [2]

- So where’s the Identi.ca of Gnip?

- New Kinds of Infrastructure

- Waiting for Facebook Connect

- Imagine if we could connect different systems together?

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