Here’s the evidence that Joel was here.

 
 
 
Cool - welcome Joel to the conversation. Let’s make sure that my motivations and reasons for bitching at O’Reilly are clear.  I’m an entreprenuer.  I start and build software products and standards and have been successful in the past. We pay for some of these efforts ourselves, out of […]

In honor of Microsoft officialy announcing Infocards and Verisign announcing VIP -  I think it’s time to be official about what we’re doing. Some see what Microsoft is doing as Hailstorm 2.0 (in a bad way) while I have a different point of view than that.
Imagine a persona editor that could faciliatte the movement of […]

It’s official - as reported by Dave - a keynote address at Supernova costs $10,000 less than O’Reilly’s Etech conference.
What a bargain!
And what does this have to do with Niall Kennedy leaving Technorati or where Jonathan Schwartz is?
Well Cheney is shooting his friends, Michelle Kwan quit the Winter Olympics, it’s Valentine’s Day and we just […]

Dave has just pointed this out.  In the O’Reilly prospectus it’s clear: “$60,000 buys you a :15 keynote”
I wonder where that puts Linda Stone or danah boyd?
Would they replace them for a paid speaker or maybe Linda is using some of that Microsoft money to buy her way in?

Seems that all sorts of new Yahoo blogs are being created - around Wordpress.
One that Jeremy likes (and me too) is the Yahoo Music Blog.
One particularly interesting post is on various personalization systems.
This lead me to leave this comment:
OK here’s a seed I’d like to plant.
OpenTaste.org.
End-users want to be able to move their personalization and […]

Dick Hardt is reporting that Verisign has announced their VIP identity system and that eBay and Yahoo (among others) are supporting it.
We (the free and open world - refusing to be locked up by anyone) support this notion of a platform and we’ll (hopefully Sxip Networks) will mesh into these folks - in ADDITION to […]

Gentlemen, Songbird 0.1 is still a hatchling, a proof-of-concept.
Obviously we mean no hardworking man, woman, cranky pundit or playlist format any disrespect. XSPF will likely be Songbird’s default playlist format.
You may recall that Ian Rogers and I championed XSPF at Y! for Y!ME. Indeed, one should expect that XSPF is only one aspect […]

I ran into Joy Mountford the other day in Yahoo’s cafeteria - at the salad bar (yes - I’m starting to eat salad…..)  She’s working for her old boss - Larry Tessler.
Not sure if it’s Joy or any of her team - but we discovered a couple of coolio user interface widgets yesterday - which […]

My views on new kinds of conferences and paying bloggers to blog are well known, so I thought I weigh in on the notion of advisory boards - which have been ‘outed’ recently.
I’ve been asked to be on a few advisor boards in my day - ranging from paid gigs to completely show meaningless lists of […]

The GoingOn Network will soon be testing.
MySpace will be launching an alternative network caleld friendwise.com on March 1st.
Laszlo Systems will show a version of their system which will output D HTML - bringing them into the happy family of Ajax.  They’ll also announce plans to output Avalon - as well.
MyYahoo will continue to evolve.  [I […]