Comments on: Setting our own Direction; Ben and I to move on from Palm

By: Steve Souders

Steve Souders — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:46:06 +0000

Last night I was showing my wife a bunch of data I had collected from websites (# of scripts, use of JS libraries, etc.). She asked how I had been able to find out all that information from these other companies. That question might seem silly to us now, but keep in mind that she’s been with me since the late 80s when everything was shrinkwrapped, desktop binaries. I answered her, “It’s all open now. That’s the beauty of the Web.” It’s an amazing world and your mantra of the Open Web being the unifying platform rings true. I can’t wait see what you and Ben will be working on. Lead the way!

By: ryan boyd

ryan boyd — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:40:22 +0000

Best of luck in your new adventures Dion!

By: Nicolaas Bijvoet

Nicolaas Bijvoet — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:28:37 +0000

It is with some regret but with anticipation on what’s to come that I’ m reading both of your blogposts on your departure from Palm. And I wish you both the best of luck.

But I wanted to point out one thing.
And that is the big influence you guys had and probably will have on a small but fiercely enthusiastic course called Devine. (www.devine.be ). Devine is brand new 3 year course, in Belgium, where we form students to become what we like to call the “next generation” web/screen designers.

What our site doesn’t show, yet, is the huge impact you guys had on our curriculum. I’ve watched your lecture at the Stanford University over and over again. Your vision on the web, the rise of new web technologies, the marketing term html 5 ( glad someone called it that ), the webOS (!) … It fuelled my beliefs on the importance, on the rightful place open web standard design/ development has in the mostly flash based environment Devine was at the time.

It brought us sufficient arguments but more importantly fire, enthusiasm to build a case for a more balanced curriculum between actionscript and javascript.

It triggered some kind of revolution. Now we are teaching our students about mobile browsing, about javascript driven technologies, about bringing the future to the web, about making rich experience based websites for all kind of devices and platforms with open standard technologies.
What I wanted you to know is that many generations of students to come will be influenced by you speaking out your vision, and of course our take on it.

Thank you.

Ps . You all made us very enthusiastic about the webOS, sadly here in rainy Belgium we can’t get our hands on it. Hopefully that might change in the future.

By: Elizabeth Yin

Elizabeth Yin — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:17:08 +0000

Congrats, Dion!

By: Markus Leutwyler

Markus Leutwyler — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 06:23:42 +0000

Thank you for your great work at Palm and all the best for the future!

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 03:58:33 +0000

You guys were a great asset to Palm and I’m sure you’ll be missed. Good luck to you and Ben on the next venture … and please don’t keep us in suspense too long ;).

By: fonefrenzy

fonefrenzy — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:33:29 +0000

If it wasn’t for you guys, Palm would not have been nowhere as close to it’s development community as they are today thanks to your efforts.

Best of luck to you two and keep in touch.

Tony

By: Derek A

Derek A — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:25:32 +0000

Really excited for you both. Make it happen.

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:40:56 +0000

I say congratulations with mixed emotions. I hope that your consultation at HP continue to make WebOS the great operating system it is. While this announcement was a shock to me, and probably to the rest of the WebOS community, it is a decision you didn’t take lightly. I wish you well and good luck in your next endeavor!

By: seppo

seppo — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:22:18 +0000

Hey, Dion – congrats on the new venture! Obviously, sad to see you’re leaving Palm, but I’m excited to see what you’ll be up to next.

I love the “benevolent dictator” analogy, but I’m curious how you make the web democracy, and not anarchy? Maybe that’s your secret sauce… :)