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Article One Partners

Article One Partners has the crowdsourcing aspect already in place. I don't see an open community, which is more what I hope to do (provide a place for the hacker community to see and make news about patents), but they're definitely competition. (No reason I couldn't index them, of course.)

Progress

I've been spending a lot of time with WWW::Publisher and HTML::Declarative. The new target is (was) June 15, but I don't see that actually happening at that point, because three of my action points are still Macro/boilerplate facility, DB management code, and Write/debug site.

Granted, my initial specification of the site is actually written. But when that hits viable code status, it isn't going to work. I'm down to two weeks, during which time I'll be flying to Budapest for my niece's wedding. So maybe I'll have to wait for my next Google coupon.

That said - the community is really buzzing with patent furor lately, thanks to Lodsys and their in-app upgrade patent. Wow. This is going to be well-timed if I can just get it out the door.