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Today, Laszlo released their Rich Internet Applications platform as open source. David Temkin can better describe the importance of this event. LZX fills a big gap in the web applications space, bringing the User Experience bar for web applications (and hell, desktop applications) up to what I consider the right level. Consumer targetted applications should work like their TV and video game counterparts… Macromedia sort of got that, but Macromedia’s application framework support just isn’t quite there yet. (read: it can be done, but it’s painful…)

Downloads are available from Laszlo. In my book, this is a Big Deal<tm>.

I just found out that Joe Kraus has started a blog (he’s a founder of Excite and Architext) which tells tales from his experience on the other side of the VC table. Very interesting, all starting with the funding of Excite with Vinod Khosla.

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