Once again I fund myself hopelessly behind. I barely had time to setup Google Talk, try out Pandora and Flock and try and grok HALF the web services and applications being thrown at us for GoingOn.

I guess this is all a good thing, except that I have real work to do for our clients and nobody takes the excuse “I was blogging” seriously.

Sure that’s how they found me, that’s how they got to know me and that’s how our ideas are getting out - but life is still about deliverables, show me the code and products. Compelling user experience products.

So forgive me for being brief, but here we go:

Now that they’re as important as MTV, MySpace is starting a label. I can just hear Mark Pincus’ teeth grinding. And lord knows - Jonathan Abrams isn’t walking down University Ave. bragging about how cool he is - anymore. I just hope the folks at Fox don’t mess with it.

I love this article on Rod Smith. I’ve known hm for years and I recently sat in a Gastro Pub In Reading, England talking to Rod - in North Carolina, while Sam Ruby was in the room. God Bless IBM being into open standards. They’re making the world a better place.

Charlie Schick talks about what it takes to make a mobile app. Charlie is now my #2 guy to read about this stuff, after Russell Beattie (of course.)

I actually grok the vision of what Sun is claiming they wanna do with an open DRM kind of approach. I just don’t trust them. Clearly the world wants to mix and match iTunes with Napster with Rhapsody with Yahoo with…… But what does Sun think they can do - that others can’t? And why Sun? Anyway - this will be fun to watch, just to watch Cory Doctorow burrow deep holes into their bodies.

It’s all about money down in LaLa and it’s amusing that just the notion of renting lots of office space gets Hollywood’s attention. Congrats to Yahoo for taking over where MGM once stood. I’ve been ot that office park many a time. I won’t even tell yah what went down in the parking lot there.

I got the word early on Pandora - not because it is a great music product, but because it’s built with Laszlo.

Here’s a bizarre strory of one of the members of ColdPlay sending a childish letter (auf Deutsch) to Kraftwerk to ask them permission to use one of their tracks on an upcoming ColdPLay album. Do these folks know of the Creative Commons? More on ColdPlay l8r.

I never got a chance to say congrats to Anil, Mena, Benn, Barak, Loic, Joi, Andrew, Michael and the rest of those 6Aers on the release of MT 3.2.

Years before it was called Ajax, we were developing stuff like that. Then along came Laszlo and rewrote the book. Folks are more and more waking up to the future. It’s incredible. Wait till you see Laszlo’s Earthlink email client.

Great story on Brad Horowitz at Yahoo - Yahoo: The Super Network. The cutlure inside of Yahoo right now is raging. God it’s energetic to just be there.

Gotta go learn about MediaPortal. It’s on sourceforge. Maybe they should hook up with Orb.

MTV is attempting to make up for Live8 with the VMAs. We’ll see.

Apparently the ‘distributed application’ meme via microformats got a good push at Bar Camp. Tantek rapped it out and Peter Caputa picked it up (via remediatation by Yatta at unmediated.)

Folks on the pho list are debating whether Edgar Bronfman’s speech in Aspen really did trigger “The War is Over“.

Here’s another way to make money from ‘the Long Tail’.

Dave Winer gets in Reviewing. I really like it when Jason Kottke reviews things - too. Likewise - the Head Lemur.

GlitchTV utilizes the Internet Archive - too.

The conspiracy is growing - HEY YAHOO - time to support Jabber!

Speaking of Joason Kottke he’s been busy. After declaring himself through with Technorati - he then raps out the WebOS. Right on brother.

OK - I’m tried. Now onto ROME.

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