Thursday, November 26, 1998

Thanks to Frontier users, for being so intelligent, creative, persistent and courageous. We turned a big corner this year, all of us.

Thanks to mozilla.org for believing in a two-browser system.

Thanks to our platform vendors, Microsoft and Apple, for providing easy to use systems that are inexpensive and popular with the people we develop software for.

Thanks to the inventors of TCP and HTTP and HTML for freeing us from the tyranny of the platform vendors!

Thanks to XML for providing hope of compatibility across platforms, operating systems, and economic systems.

Thanks to Alan Greenspan, for bailing out the US stock market.

Thanks to my friend Doc Searls, for his passion, vitality and vision and for stating it so clearly and consistently.

Thanks to my friend Bernie DeKoven for being chaotic and fun-loving (all my friends are!) but also being systematic about it. {qbullet.imageref ("sidesmiley")}

Thanks to Wired, for having a sense of humor and humanity, and sharing it with us.

Thanks to Amazon, for expanding into every market known to mankind.

Thanks to Jeff Walsh, for covering XML with a twinkle in his eye.

Thanks to my friend Viviana, for making beautiful music and sharing it with everyone.

Thanks to my friend Marc Canter, for inventing multimedia and having the courage to build a digital city in Italy. They call him Marquis!

What are you thankful for today?