Archive for November, 2005

In London - again

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

So I’m in London for my usual monthly visit. Things are going great here - new code to show off - soon.
When I was here last I bought a bunch of girls clothing for Mimi and Lucy and their cousins liked them so much that they asked me if I could buy them the [...]

I miss my Mimi

Monday, November 28th, 2005

I’m sitting here in a hotel room in Herndon, VA (don’t ask or I’ll have to kill you) missing my Mimi.
Lisa and the girls flew back directly to SF today while I turn into a traveling Dad.
I get to schmooze up folks in London and Paris and then back to London again - before [...]

Aggregate Knowledge

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

Paul Martino has announced: “Aggregate Knowledge”.
In his own words:
Our Goal: To deliver the best content to people based on the aggregate behavior of everyone who has gone before them.
We think that the wisdom of crowds can help people get at the best of all the information that’s out there.
This is key shit.
Paul will [...]

Giant list o Links

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

Looks like others are into what they call Portals 2.0.
Great overview of Marc Davis and what’s up at Yahoo’s new Berkeley labs.
Steve Rubel reports that Google wants you all to add ‘ADD to Google’ chiclets. This is exactly why we need to support Yahoo and open this standard up to all. This is what [...]

Wordpress.com

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

Matt Mullenweg has unveiled a hosted version of Wordpress that shows off a new feature - a Wordpress that can have multiple spawns off of it.
This is what Typead is - and now Wordpress can do that - too.
I got a blog - I’ll use it for testing.

Vacation photos

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

We spent the day in the Florida Everglades - hunting ‘gators. Here’s one we found.

Here’s a Blue Heron taking flight.

And another beautiful bird - in flight.

There’s more - Reading Lists

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Lists are definitely a type of microcontent.
And there are so many of them.
Microsoft talked about a ‘master feeds list’ at Gnomedex.
Now Niall Kennedy talks about a ‘Reading List’ format. Dare Obesanjo is supporting it.
We’re supporting Lists in Structured Blogging.

W3C forms ‘Web Application Formats Working Group’

Friday, November 25th, 2005

David Temkin reports……
……specification of a declarative format for applications and user interfaces…….

Microsoft extends RSS

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Oh my - what can we say.
Have at it - but don’t forget who put you there.
As long as Dave is happy = I’m happy,

The coolio Ning apps are starting to appear

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Mashup platforms gets real.
Restaurant Reviews with Yahoo Maps.