Archive for January, 2006

Cisco buying TiVO?

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

That sounds pretty cool.
 I’ve been worried about TiVO staying around and Cisco could couple their technology with the Scientific-Atlanta purchase they just made, along with Linksys and……
Wow - coolio.
Noe they just need some super honker home terrabyte servers and go buy buy up about 1,000,000,000 peta bytes of bandwidth - which is just sitting there […]

ClubMom

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

My wife Lisa is down in the valley today attending ClubMom - while I play MrMom.
It’s great to see Lisa get involved.
We had a great time drinking with the BlogHer babes last night and we’re looking forward to developing the site Lisa really wants to work on: “kids care on the road.”
Every city we travel […]

Robert Scoble snaps his fingers - I jump

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

So I just sigend up for Mix06. 
I’ve been going to these Microsoft technology conferences since 1985.  I love the part when Bill Gates opens up the floor to questions.
By then - I’ll have positioned myself squarely in front of the microphone, ready to ask some elucidating, insightful, cutting edge question.
This year I can tell you […]

Geekentertainment.tv

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Irina Slutsky asked me to blog about her little IPTV channel - Geekentertainment.tv.
So I am.
Though to my knowledge she’s never interviewed me before.
She was at the BlogHer cocktail scene last night - where I also got to talk to Elise Bauer and Jennifer Myronuk - let alone Halley and the BlogHer posse. It’s incredibly inspiring being […]

AOL’s modules use Dojo

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Shawn Carnell (one of the folks behind AOL’s coolio modules stuff (see Iamalpha) reports that they met with the Ajaxian dudes.
This meeting bore fruit in a positive review of the usage of Dojo in AOL’s modules.
What I’d love ot hear is their reaction to a core issue that has come up - while developing these […]

Microformats a ‘gross hack’

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Dare Obesanjo has been trying to grok microformats and his latest analysis highlights the key shortcoming - which is that the microformats camp thinks that their solution for subscription is just to send the xHTML page out via vanilla RSS.
This was one of the main reasons we created StructuredBlogging - as - instead of arguing with […]

Speaking of Anina

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Turns out her modeling agency gave her an ultimatum “give up that tech stuff or we’ll drop you as a model”.
I find this sort of narrow minded thinking fascinating.  What are they thinking over there?
Anyway this reminds me of when I was an Opera singer at Oberlin (a small college outside of Cleveland.)  They absolutely […]

Changing the VC world

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Dave Winer has an interesting proposal on how to change the VC world.
I posted a comment pointing to Brad DeGraf’s Media Venture Collective - which is a non-profit fund - helping out worthy causes.
But Dave’s proposal hits at the heart of the problem - without on-going funding for pure research we’re stuck in this hits […]

Structured Blogging progress

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

So we fixed the feed to adhere to the W3C validator, we’re seeing folks starting to use it and we have a big long list of things we want to do - next.
In general I’d say the StructuredBlogging.org initiative is rolling ahead.
Word is that they’re incorporating it as a non-profit (BBM is the vendor - […]

SSE

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

It’s been a while since Ray Ozzie first posted on their Really Simple Sharing extension to RSS called SSE.
Like Dave - I was immediately struck with how this extension could be used for purposes OTHER than how Ray and Microsoft saw it.  MS sees SSE as the “RSS of synchronization.”  Dave sees it applicable to […]