Archive for October, 2005

Jason Calacanis sells out to AOL

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

PaidContent is reporting….
Congrats to Jason. A nicer guy could never deserve it.

@ Web 2.0

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

We did an ‘open source infrastructure’ workshop today.
And we announced a deal with PubSub today - as well.

Congrats to Brent Simmons and Ranchero

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Lots of people are happy for Brent. He’s sold his company to NewsGator. He’s one of the nicest guys around and for christ sake - the guy almost single handedly invented RSS aggregators.
NOTE: Brent used to work for Userland - where it all began.
So congrats to Greg and I somehow sense Rich Levandov’s [...]

Just signed up for TagCamp

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Hopefully we’ll have Tags in ourmedia connecting to Technorati, Yahoo and NOWPublic - by then.

So come one, come all - to TagCamp.

NIng

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Though I haven’t had time to play with it yet - I’m betting that Ning will become one of my favorite tools.
I’m pleading with Gina Bianchini to have Ning PLEASE support the PeopleAggregator APIs once it’s out - and I don’t see any reason why she won’t.
Meanwhile Lucas has a great write up on it [...]

Yahoo buys Upcoming.org

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

So I was sitting in this meeting at Yahoo last month and I was bitching about the lack of integration of calendaring into Y! 360 and all I got back was “Yup - we need to work on that.”
And they did.
They bought UpComing.
Don’t you just love to watch this all unfold? I sure hope [...]

Fun time in Italy

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

Paolo had this great chair swing in his back yard and he took pictures.
Mille Grazie Paolo

Open source SMS platform

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

I just got an email from someone named Anu Nigam - who sent me a link to something called 411Sync.
It’s a way for any web service to tie into SMS and get their data sent to cell phones.
OH MY GOD - you mean open source has come to mobile services? And I found out [...]

Scoble makes Dilbert

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Or so says Rick Segal.

More thoughts about India and Tekriti

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

I am a very lucky fellow.
“Yes my friend” - ‘Teekah’.
Or as they say in Italy ‘certo’.
Here I am wearing a ‘pagree’ - an Indian wedding turban.
Can’t wait to go back to India in January.
This time I’ll bring Lisa and the girls.
And we’re definitely staying at the same place (but this time we’ll book it [...]