Richard MacManus uses a term that Techcrunch floated - referring to Portals 2.0.  Richard also brilliantly cross-links ot his own blog - bringing flow from his ZDnet column over to his own blog.
The combination of the two posts elucidates the battle lines between big boys and small fry - and where the need for Open […]

I’m in my one of my favorite cities - Vancouver, B.C.  The Mayor here - who is a parapalegic - is working out how to receive the Olympic flag from the Mayor of Turin, as the next Winter Olympics is here in 4 years from now.
I’m here to give a speech to young entreprenuers. lt went […]

Speaking of old guys, here’s a bunch of us old timers at the Mashup Camp scene.

In order - left to right - there’s Steve Gillmor (looking down), Dan Gillmor standing up, Bob Frankston (head turned - taking a shot of me and Dave), Dave Winer - standing up and me - smiling.
And what a scene […]

Buzz and Steve have been around for a while.  They are hardened old veterans. Here we are at the TechCrunch5 party.
 

Kevin Werbach has reminded that Dave Winer was one of the first speakers at Supernova 2002.
I remember Dave getting mad at Dan’l Lewin and all sorts of scenes out in the hallway.  That’s when I first met Cory Doctorow and all sorts of other players - who have now become familar faces.  In a lot […]

Rafe Needleman asked me the perfect question last night:
“How are all of these social media systems gonna connect to each other?”
Man oh man - was that the right question to ask me!  Here I was sitting there - trying to grok Plum and other new entrants into the world of DLA, trying to keep AOL […]

So why do I still live in the Bay Area?
Well besides being near my son’s (got 4 more years till they graduate high school and then it’s “Vedo ala Italia”) - it’s all these geek scenes that I love to go to and schmooze at.
So here are some shots (courtesy Dan Farber) from last night’s […]

I have been a foodie all my life.  My father was an organizer of the Meat Packer’s Union and my earliest memories was of being brought to South Side of Chicago BBQ Rib joints.
So I have followed various food blogs since the outset and watched food evolve through our venacular and cultuire.  If you’ve ever […]

Stickam is a coolio multimedia communications tool - which outputs flash objects for your web or social networking pages.
I just put one up on my blog.
Now you call can listen to some of my original music from the early 80’s and some kid videos.
This looks pretty coolio.
Now imagine this with your own set of aggregated […]

Gaurav Bhatnagar - our guy in Gurgaon is helping to put on a unconference in New Delhi on March 4th.
It should be good.  And it’s a great way for us to keep recruiting more bodies - as we’re adding more clients weekley.
Gurgaon is the fastest growing city in India.