Archive for January, 2006

Disney buys Pixar - but Steve ain’t chairman

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

OK - anybody got an office pool to bet on when Steve becomes chairman?
It looks like the geeks have taken over.  Maybe they’ll let Cory Doctorow redo Disneyland now.

Stowe Boyd’s new blog

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

While we were here in Dulles Paolo and I got to have dinner with Stowe and his wife.
Stowe’s got a new blog.
We spent a lot of time talking about knowledge management in the worklace and business blogging. We talked about BBM’s new ‘marketing services division’- where we help out startups and huge conglomerates navigate the [...]

Digital Lifestyle Day in Munich

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Paolo and I give our best warm wishes to the folks in Munich - attending the DLD06. 
Paolo was planning on going to represent BBM - as we’re trying to scale our company up now. Paolo is our man “on the case” in the EU - taking care of our clients in London.
While I focus on new [...]

Coolio Open Multimedia Toolkit done in Laszlo

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

It’s called KToon and its from a company called Coliencias.  They’re from Columbia.
Lord knows I’ve been waiting for this sort of stuff for a long time.  This is yet another reason why I love Laszlo.
 

 
Here’s how Bryan Rieger introduced them to me:

Basically, it’s a group in Columbia that wants to create an open alternative to proprietary [...]

We’re helping AOL

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

So now that the AIMSpace story has surfaced - I can safely talk about our involvement with the project.
Over the next few months AOL is going to show how they are NOT your father’s AOL.  They’re going to show a social network based upon AIM and a series of coolio, pushing the envelope ideas - that [...]

Leaving London - got a lot of work done

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Been working with our client - Visual Media - out in London’s Silicon Valley - the area around ‘Reading’.  Visual Media has a commerce site called Pluginz.com and an open source hi-end video editing and effects package called JahShaka.
We’re about to release the v2.2 of JahShaka - which will finally provide a stable environment for [...]

AOL goes open

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Check out IamAlpha.com
 It’s an experimental AOL site for developing external modules for their upcoming…..
OOOopps can’t talk about that.
There are such a thing as AOL bloggers and they’re talking about it.
Let’s just say:
- AOL is going to provide a way for folks to plug in external modules into…..
- something
- which is a good thing
I still can’t [...]

Things to remind myself to do

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

1.  Read Stowe Boyd’s new blog.  Decide if I’ll subscribe to it - or not.
2.  Fill out an application for the Prixs Ars Electrinica competition for digital communities.  Can’t decide if I should enter ourmedia.org or structuredblogging.org or both.  With Joi and danah on the jury - we’re sure to get ignored either way.
3.  Remind myself [...]

Just one word back to Paolo

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Tyson’s Corner Legal’s seafood.
Fried Clams, lobster and blue fish pate.
And of course while you’re there - you might as well see the Smithsonian.

Where’s the Ajax? Or Borox or Chlorox for that matter?

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Paul Kedrosky says he’s addicted to Ajaxian - so I take a look at it - and guess what?
No Ajax!
No expand/collapse menus, no registration slide outs or search fold downs, or toothbrush encapsulations.  No nothing. Just talking about Ajax ain’t enough.
You got to eat your own dogfood.
Go check out the Laszlo Systems home page for [...]