Archive for August, 2004

2 guys - not Cows - working at Tucows

Monday, August 30th, 2004

Here’s Joey deVilla on Toronto TV - rapping about - I’m not sure.
Joey is also known as the Accordian Guy - and he’s a brilliant writer. I break out laughing during some of his stories.
Joey works at Tucows with Ross Rader - one of my totaly dudes nowadays.
Here’s Ross.
I’ve never met Ross […]

Apprentice Friendster

Monday, August 30th, 2004

I got this link in my inBox from someone’s DudeCheckThisOut blog named iBLOGthere4iM.
It shows a Friendster facewall of Friendster members - all about to what? Participate in a TV show.
If so - this is too bizarre to believe.
Here’s the link - you tell me what’s up? Yet another hoax?
It’s actually getting kind of […]

Saving TiVo

Monday, August 30th, 2004

I’m quoted in this Kin Girard article in this mnth’s issue of Business 2.0. Only problem is - you can’t see the entire article unless your subscribe.
Oh well.
Anyway - here’s the opener to the article.

It’s been written off by the experts. But thanks to a Silicon Valley software legend, the company that invented digital video […]

More photos from Paris dinner

Saturday, August 28th, 2004

Here’s some output from my Nokia 7610.
It’s me and some French blogger guy (name with-held because of ignorance.) The place was abuzz with Opera singing technologists insisting that open standards (mimicing the RSS-aggregator combo) was the path to enlightenment.
Most agreed. Some even let the wine inspire to yell louder than me

Wine & Micro-Content

Saturday, August 28th, 2004

Here is about half the dinner last night in Paris.
It was held in a quaint wine bistro - which Loic Le Meur chose. Loic got all sorts of hackers, entrprenuers and folks interested in micro-content to show up.

And here’s me and Loic at SixApart - Europe. I also got to see JY there.
I hopped […]

Sell Side adevrtising (OpenListings?)

Thursday, August 26th, 2004

Talk about kismet - here’s John Battelle on Ross Mayfield’s ideas…..
John calls it ‘Sell Side advertising’ - Ross calls it ‘transitive advertising’ in his ‘Cost per Influence’ post - I call it OpenListings……

A while ago I read Ross Mayfield’s post on “Cost Per Influence” advertising and thought to myself “That feels important, but I […]

New Friendster features?

Thursday, August 26th, 2004

So this woman Troutgirl works at Friendster - I think she may even be one of the lead programmers.
Jeremy Zawodny points to her post……

Bring me my social networking

One day last year, I was sitting in the lobby of a hotel in midtown Manhattan with two friends. It was pouring rain outside, and we were in […]

Peter Caputa joins in with OpenEvents

Thursday, August 26th, 2004

Peter Caputa IV just posted this…..

Marc Canter & OpenEvents

I am warming up to Marc Canter’s OpenEvents idea.
And I am warming up to him, as well. I pride myself on being a persistent bastard. But, he takes the cake on that one.
So, with OpenEvents, Marc has outlined who he thinks needs to be involved […]

Paris dinner

Thursday, August 26th, 2004

Loic has set up reservations at a place called WINE BAR L’EVASION.
Here’s the details:
Dîner avec Marc Canter le Vendredi 27 Aout à Paris.
heure: 20h
place/lieu WINE BAR L’EVASION
(I thought Marc would like a typical French Wine Bar, good food, excellent Wine - Marc I am gettin you booked in a nearby hotel so that you don’t […]

Top 10 Reasons why Stewart Butterfield and the Flickr team are God

Thursday, August 26th, 2004

10. Stewart is so sweet and such a nice guy, who could not love him?
9. Ludicorp’s previous project - was a game.
8. Flickr’s IM system (Flickr Live!) allows images to be dragged into the conversation. That alone justifies a post! It rocks!
7. Flickr makes your images available in a series […]