Archive for July, 2005

AlwaysOn Innovation Summit - 1

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Here’s Mary Hodder and Auren Hoffman enjoying the sunshine.

Everyone is doing some serious schmoozing, trying to figure out the MySpace deal, what MySQL is gonna do next and anything else - with a My in it (like My Web 2.0)
I got to ask Marc Cuban a leading question and lots of people are using my [...]

Groups live @ ourmedia.org

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

When I first encountered Drupal and I was amazed at all it had - but I also immediately noticed that their definition of ’social community software’ was different from mine.
So after we launched ourmedia.org, FIRST on my list of things to add to Drupal - was Groups. Real Groups. Like Tribe Tribes or [...]

PaidContent.org schmooze fest

Monday, July 18th, 2005

Rafat Ali was kind enough to invite me to his schmooze fest next week.
I’m gonna sit by the pool, sip ice tea and have meetings. All day long. Then party at night. Then wake up and do it again.
Get some of that real LA thing going on. With Teddy from EMI.

Proud to make it onto Seb’s short list

Monday, July 18th, 2005

Wherever he ends up - they’ll be more the wise.
I’m bummed all we can do is throw him white paper work - as I’d love for him to be working on the PeopleAggregator with Phil, Lucas and the rest of us.

The GoingOn Network

Monday, July 18th, 2005

It’s official - I can now start talking about the world’s first true DLA. I say true - not because 1UP.com wasn’t coolio or that Tribe.net doesn’t have some cutting edge features - but none of them let me have a free hand in designing what I wanted to design.
This one - the GoingOn [...]

$580M

Monday, July 18th, 2005

‘nuf said.
Remember when News Corp tried to buy Pointcast for something like $400M and they TURNED THEM DOWN! That was one of the big blunders of Web 1.0 - remembered by all.
Well - we’re not gonna pass on any of THOSE offers again - now are we?
Stewert and Caterina certainly didn’t. But I [...]

In awe of Thomas Vanderwal

Sunday, July 17th, 2005

Sunday’s are a wonderful day to change your life. I’ve been stalking and trying to grok Mr. Folsonomy for awhile now - and he recently put up a slide show he presented at WebVisions.
Wow! I just love this guy!
So here’s a mashup I did - on his notion of Personal InfoClouds. Assuming [...]

Pro Bloggers, SEO and earning over $10,000 from AdSense

Sunday, July 17th, 2005

Folks like Chris Pirillo, this guy Darren Rowse and others have figured out how ot game the system and make some real corn off of AdSense.
Congrats.
But I can’t help but think about folks like Dooce - whom I sat on a panel with last month. She complained that she only makes about $200 a [...]

Hardware access control

Sunday, July 17th, 2005

The legendary Craig Burton asks:
I have been trying to do some research on Sxip’s announcement of an identity (maybe I missed something) appliance this week and I can’t get to any Sxip sites. Anybody else with this problem?
Craig then follows up to say his comments are down (join the rest of us - Craig!) [...]

Thank you Tim Bray and Sun

Sunday, July 17th, 2005

I wish we had more ‘disposable income’ to invest - as we would have bellied up to the bar before Tom Bray and Sun did in helping out Drupal.org.
The servers melted and they came through for us.
Thanks dudes and dudesses!