Open standards in a really, really, small world.. Nano-devices now have a new open-source communication language . Or do they?

NanoTitan Inc. aims to do for nanocomputing what Netscape did for Web browsers. Just as Netscape helped spur growth of the Internet by enabling Web surfers to download its browser for free, NanoTitan wants to create a similar ripple in the small tech community. The company has written an open source software code, known as nanoML, and made it available to engineers who are working to build integrated nanocomputing devices and nanosystems.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be a schema for inter-device communication, yet. From what I can tell, it's current incarnation is mostly about allowing engineers to share product meta-data, and doesn't address device interoperability yet. Heck, it hasn't even been submitted to the W3C yet.. Still, pretty exciting stuff, and is the right way to go. Given the immense range of nanodevices, a open-source device communication standard would almost be mandatory. The software engineer daemon sitting on my shoulder is rubbing his hands in byteful glee as I contemplate a possible career change.. Enterprise yadda-yadda-yadda systems are killing me! Time to go small and beautiful. Of course, if nano-tech commercialization skyrockets over this decade, and there is no reason to suppose it won't, steel yourself for a nauseating barrage of nano-this and nano-that.. kind of like the overuse of the letter "e" tacked on to everything..