[Cosmo-dev] Nat Torkington on GData

[Ted Leung]

On Jul 14, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:

> This is my favorite bit;
>
>> The reaction to the GData APIs for Calendar have been very  
>> positive. This is in contrast to HailStorm, of course, which was  
>> distrusted and eventually morphed its way through different  
>> product names into oblivion. Noting that Mark's trying again with  
>> the idea of open APIs to your personal data, I joked that GData  
>> should really be "GStorm". Mark deadpanned, " I wanted to call it  
>> ShitStorm but it didn't fly with marketing".

Sadly, I think that the ideas behind Hailstorm were good.  It's just  
that they were proposed by a very untrusted actor.   Maybe we should  
change our name to ChandlerStorm...

Ted