Archive for January, 2006

Richard MacManus was in town

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

On his way back from MS search champs - Richard MacManus stopped off to get some work done.
Richard does our documentation, helps me with reports and is now starting to become an essential tool in our ‘product development pipeline’.
So we decided to throw a little dinner for friends at Max’s Opera House by the airport [...]

Doing things in stages….

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

I just merged my Flickr account with my Yahoo account.   Though it didn’t merge the photos I’ve had in Yahoo Photos (for over five years now) it did do the correct ‘digital identity’ federation dance and inform me that I have to log-in via Yahoo from now on.
The system also informed me of the ramifications [...]

SXSW Digital convergence

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

I’m pleased to announce that the sessions for the part of SXSW which I’m particiating - have now been posted.
With so many conferences and shows going on -it’s hard to remember that the original alternative culture and music shows is SXSW.  Between the salt lick BBQ, numerous live shows, celebs, bloggers, bloggers faling in love, [...]

Anina goes swimming

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

My friend Anina is starting to take a cue from me and is doing anything she can to stand out and be noticed.
It’s working.
So this time it’s jumping into the pool at some party - in Munich at Henry Burda’s request.  For charity none the less. $3,000 worth.
Then Loic interviewed Yossi Vardi on WHY she [...]

Getting your dots in order

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

It comes as no surprise that Dan Gillmor has posted an eloquent and articulate apology for what happened with his ‘Bayosphere project.  I really like Dan and I’m sorry to see him go through this.
I orignally assumed Bayosphere WAS a non-profit effort and waited - with baited breath - for the commercial sponsors, distribution deals [...]

SF Web Innovators

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Nova Spivack and Chris Law have a bit of TechCrunch envy - so they want to start having ’salons’ up in the city - instead of schleping to Atherton.
Well I say “right on!”
So he’s having one of these soirees at:   Feb. 2 at adaptivePath’s offices.
The event is co-sponsored by adaptivePath - clearly one of the [...]

Anybody ever heard of Video Forum 2006 in London?

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

I’m gonna start using this blog for hunting down key info, people, sources and opportunities.
So here’s an appeal.
I’ve been out of the video scene for a while now.  I used to know every single show, seminar, conference trade show - what have you - around the world.  I was there when the first of these [...]

Speaking of evolving social networks

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Meanwhile what happens when you get bought by Google?
 

 
Things are starting to hop over at Dodgeball.  I can’t wait to find my old friend - Skyy Vodka - or was that Absolut Vodka - his brother?
 

 
I can’t imagine these people ever having pulled this off themselves (despite being star graduates of the Clay Shirky school [...]

Friendster just outright lying now?

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

We all know of the pathetic story called Friendster, their valuation and selling themselves woes and how even the clueless bigCo media companies have figured out how worthless they are.
Well they’re trying like hell to look like everyone else now.   They have TypePad blogs and apparently some sort of deal with Grouper.  How do I [...]

How Open is OpenHD?

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Adobe is announcing 10 new ‘partners’ in their OpenHD standards effort.
Taking a look back in the archives - my buddy JahShaka commented on this - as far back as April 2005. 
“How Open is OpenHD?”
Hmmmm - lets see, the founding companies are: Adobe, Microsoft, Dell, HP and Intel.
Hmmmmmmmm
Clearly HD standards need to be addresssed for compatibility for editing, [...]