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Freitag, 3. Mai 2002

One of the main influences concerning all things Vanilla has been released as version 4.0: [create Interaction]

interaction.in-progress.com/

2002-05-03-ia

David Ness 8235 days AGO
When someone `in the know' has a chance, could they drop me a short line (either here or in my regular EMail) explaining what Interaction has for ($200+) that Radio (at $40) or Antville (at $0) doesn't have? I'd like to put an entry for it into my `Categorizing Web Services', but I'm afraid I can't figure out what it offers.

chris 8233 days AGO
It's written in Lisp! ;-)

David Ness 8232 days AGO
Why would the user care? How does that impact the user? Is it worth so much money for the difference?

gavin 8232 days AGO
Many possible reasons: 1) It's not Radio and it doesn't come from Userland, 2) It works on any old Mac one might have gathering dust in the corner, and 3) uses all the popular and time-tested "standards" and doesn't introduce any new ones of dubious purpose. Just a few off the top of my head....

Worth the money? Might be for that one individual.

chris 8232 days AGO
Interaction has chat, a nice Mac interface etc. I haven't ever tried it actually, but by reading the documentation I got quite some ideas, e.g. the semi-venerable vanilla-talk.

David Ness 8231 days AGO
Gavin and Chris provide helpful answers, but I have a couple of follow-ups.

Gavin's (#1) I sort of don't get, what's wrong with UserLand? I mean it seems fairly clear to me that Dave Winer is a huge bag of gas, and never evidences a clear thought---except for being a legend in his own mind, of course---but his software doesn't seem so bad and at $40 it's reasonably priced, at least relative to $200 for Interaction. Although even then, Radio seems not worth it. Since I don't do Macs, I'm not aware of availability of products like this, but like lots of things for the Mac it does strike me as expensive. This kind of expense is one of the things that has (successfully so far) kept me from developing an interest in Macs.

gavin 8231 days AGO
David, in addition to the reasons you cite, Userland requires you to buy into the whole Userland way of doing things. Code in Frontier, use Userland's http server, use Userland's outline storage system, do your own tech support, documentation comes from others. You're locked in. Some folks might think flexibility is worth the extra $160. Then again $40 is squarely in that "disposable" solution realm. What happens when the blog hype is replaced by something new? Wasn't Radio some sort of mp3 streaming thing at one point? Caveat emptor as always.

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