{"id":1659,"date":"2008-01-10T13:24:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/gone-indie\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T13:27:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:27:45","slug":"gone-indie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/gone-indie\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone Indie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Apple employee <a href=\"http:\/\/mooseyard.com\/Jens\/2008\/01\/gone-indie\/\">Jens Alfke<\/a> has gone indie:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/mooseyard.com\/Jens\/2008\/01\/gone-indie\/\"><p>But I&#8217;m <em>fascinated<\/em> with social software. Apple isn&#8217;t. Despite some promising starts, the most I&#8217;ve been able to get accomplished in that vein at Apple was iChat [the IM part; I&#8217;m really not interested in videoconferencing], Safari <span class=\"caps\">RSS<\/span>, and the &#8220;PubSub&#8221; [which turned out to be &#8220;RSS and Atom&#8221;] framework. There were some very promising prototypes of sexier things, but I <em>really<\/em> can&#8217;t talk about those, other than to say that they were canceled.&#8230;I looked around after Leopard was finished, and didn&rsquo;t see any place in the company where I could pursue my ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&rsquo;t wait to see what he develops.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Apple employee Jens Alfke has gone indie: But I&#8217;m fascinated with social software. Apple isn&#8217;t. Despite some promising starts, the most I&#8217;ve been able to get accomplished in that vein at Apple was iChat [the IM part; I&#8217;m really not interested in videoconferencing], Safari RSS, and the &#8220;PubSub&#8221; [which turned out to be &#8220;RSS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}