Archive for February, 2006

Big pile of Links

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Om Malik reports that Opera is doing widgets - too.
Summit for the Future - Amsterdam May 3-6
I sure am glad I’m not at DEMO.  Fred Wilson is there - though.
It’s great to watch Tarim Krim and NetVibes expand their world - supporting more and more modules.
Videobomb - yet another video storage site.
Shared playlists at Yahoo [...]

Kensington Palace and Gardens

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Same view - higher floor - better angle.
I’m getting into staying at this hotel on High Street Kensington - which gives me a great view of the Palace behind.  Finishing up business here - gonna go home tomorrow.

OH MY GOD - Microsoft Live is Hailstorm 2.0

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

…..but in a good way.  Assuming they allow us to mesh into it - and vice versa.
As I sat in the etribes.com/mashup last night (near the Savoy Theater, off the Strand) - I was honored to listen to Sam Seshi rap out Microsoft’s Live.com platform.  Similar to NetVibes in a lot of ways, Live.com right [...]

Statistics for your podcast

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Sonr.net is a coolio new statistics service for one’s podcast.
Richard MacManus told me about it.
 
 
 
 
 

Canter girls belt it out

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Here’s Mimi and Lucy singing “Tomorrow”.
Lucy gets a little jealous listening to her sister sing this all the time and getting all the attention, so she’s does her own impromtu mashup/mixup on top of Mimi.
Literally smacking her out of the way.
Ah children - and little girls especially.

My wife tagged me, so…..

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

…. here goes.
4 Jobs I’ve had:

Cab driver
Head cook and head menu planner at an Oberlin food coop
Software company CEO
Cyber theme restaurant producer

4 Movies I watch over and over again:

Citizen Kane
Blade Runner
24 Hours Party People
Independence Day

Places I have lived:

Chicago, IL
NYC, NY (lower East side)
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Trieste, Friuli Venezia-Guilia, Italy

TV Shows I love:

Firefly
Weeds
Sopranos
Curb your Enthusiasm

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Alimento Italiano bello

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Paolo reports that a new employee of his - who’s from Sicily is not only a programmer, but he also bakes.
I think everyone should do at least two things.

3 Brothers, one Sister

Monday, February 6th, 2006

4 out of 5 ain’t bad.  This was taken when Lisa and Mimi had a special b-day party to go to - so I played MrMom with Aryeh, Aron, Jacob and Mimi.
I miss my family. Traveling without them - sucks.

FamilyRoutes

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Brand new social network coming - called Family Routes.
It looks coolio - one of my favorite subjects to speculate on.  The traditional notion is that family heads are too busy to worry about social networking.

 
 
 
 
Here’s their blog.
 
 
 
 

Coolio article on Structured Blogging

Monday, February 6th, 2006

… in the Hindu.
Here’s a great article on StructuredBlogging.org in a column called NetSpeak.
It’s great to see people grokking what we did and using the code.  Here’s a demo site the author put up to show examples.