Marc Canter explains the vision behind Broadband Mechanics.
This is from the end of his essay:

The idea is that all of us together can equal what Microsoft is working on – which they call Longhorn.

It’s possible that an inter-connecting world of micro-content servers and RSS aware tools can create a distributed, open source, web services based People’s Mesh.

Longhorn and Apple’s iLife will be the litmus we will compare our ‘People’s Mesh to. The goal would be to equal their functionality, but have it free and open for us all to use.

You can see part of that vision instantiated in a WebOutliner demo. (The WebOutliner will be one of the first apps to support threadsML, by the way.)

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