I bookmarked Curl Corporation over a year ago because I noticed some high profile MIT types were involved with it. At the time, I didn’t know what they were up to, but they are starting to get some press. It involves a new language and a different business model (charging companies for each byte of it downloaded). I haven’t looked closely at the language, but it aims to combine the best of hypertext markup capabilities and the object-oriented ease of Java. And application download time is supposed to be fast. At least they are being realistic about having a business model, but the results have got to be extremely compelling for companies to sign on for that type of payment and a new technology to ramp up with.