Archive for July, 2004

Lots of coolio posts - all leading to one principle….

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

…..I’m too damm busy to blog.
Roland Tanglao explains……
To followup on Boris’s post: Yes we’ve been quiet lately on this blog because we are working on our Drupal offerings. Don’t worry, Blogware fans, we will still be reselling Blogware; different strokes for different folks! More later.
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Great quote from BlogOn
Halley Suitt: “Rafat, how do you think [...]

Scoble plays it cool

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

I love this guy - Robert Scoble….
Yesterday I did the unfathomable: I turned down Steven Levy from
Newsweek.
First, some background. Seven years ago when I was doing marketing for a small Silicon Valley company (Winnov) I would have given quite a few of my teeth to meet with someone like Levy.
Back then I thought it was [...]

I’m proud of Dave Winer

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

I really don’t care about the Democratic Convention (though I did in 1968) and I’m not really into following what bloggers do in general (unless it’s about social networking or media as well) - but did I tell you how proud I am of Dave Winer and the other Convention Bloggers?
Go dudes and dudesses - [...]

Yes - keep the old one up and link to it

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

I’ve been using MoinMoin, a python based wiki because I thought I’d be able to hack it since I was learning python. It turns out that I haven’t had any time to hack MoinMoin and frankly, it looks too difficult for me. The SocialText (I’m an investor and on the board) wiki software has become [...]

Mystery solved - “How did Photoblox take off in Japan”

Monday, July 26th, 2004

For almnost two months now - we’ve been wondering how over 4,000 bloggers in Japan find out about teh laszlo Photoblox Blog object.
All of a sudden it seemed like they were all over the place - so we knew somebody was “affecting” all this. It wasn’t Joi - so who was it?
Well - we just [...]

More BlogOn images….

Monday, July 26th, 2004

The Brothers Gillmor - Dan’s having a party to celebrate the launch of his book on Friday (after OSCON.)

Mary Hodder and Judith Meskill

In order (L-R):
Andrew Anker (former VC and Wired guy, now at 6A), Ross Mayfield (SocialText), Greg Reinacker (Newsgator), Dave McClure (PayPal), Russell Beattie (I finally got to meet him and then he split!), [...]

Napster and the Sun

Monday, July 26th, 2004

More from Rafat…..
The Saturday edition of The Sun will have a unique identifier code allowing readers to go to napster .co.uk and download a single track for free. The promotion will be repeated for the next seven weeks, giving loyal Sun readers a total of eight free tracks from Napster’s 750,000 strong database.
At the [...]

Real gloms onto the iPod

Monday, July 26th, 2004

I still don’t get why you’d want to have your files play on an iPod - but I guess it makes sense. If you owned an iPod, you;d be using iTunes. So why would Rhapsody customers wanna…..
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Here’s PaidContent.org on……
And You Thought…this day would never come? Rob Glaser on CNBC, a few minutes ago, talking [...]

Apple’s DLA strategy

Monday, July 26th, 2004

Apple just announced a new iTunes mobile version that Motorola will load onto their “mass-market music phones” in the first half of next year. TheFeature’s Carlo Longino gives his quick take on the deal:
Plenty of handsets today are capable of playing mp3s, but presumably none do it with the ease and grace — or inherent [...]

LobbyCon followup

Monday, July 26th, 2004

We’ve set up a Wiki (thank to Ross) on the LobbyCon idea.
Feel free to contribute….