Archive for March, 2006

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Friday, March 31st, 2006

Mike Linksvayer announces that an old college chum: Bob Ostertag - has gone CC.  Lucas Gonze posted.
Me with the homeboys (Tony and Doc) outside a Reggae club in Austin. Bubbling up.
Apparently Avatars are now hip. We got prior art on that - dating back 15-16 years.  What goies around, comes around.
ma.gnolia
Pandora has a TypePad widget.  Hmm […]

Mynumo

Friday, March 31st, 2006

My old friend William Volk tells me about a new company he’s involved with:  Mynumo.

In Bill’s words:
Every day millions of people create pictures, music and videos.  
Now they can get paid for it. myNuMo has opened up the $5B Mobile market to anyone who creates content. Mobile is so complicated that even experienced media companies […]

Wordpress goes Widgety

Friday, March 31st, 2006

When will it stop!  The whole world has gone widgety.

Let’s have a race.  Who will be teh first company to produce wisget and module ‘converters’ and support ALL the module and widget formats.  By all I mean:
- AOL
- Google
- Microsoft
- Yahoo
- SixApart
- Wordpress
I bet it takes one week.

Rafat disagrees with me on the mixture of media and content in a single company

Friday, March 31st, 2006

So I posted something about Chowhound being bought by CNet and hwy that seemed like a perfectly logical match to me.  Rafat Ali (of PaidContent.org) first clarified with me that it was HE who wrote the complaint of an ill-mtached fit and then further disagreed with me about why…… 
Here’s what Rafat left as a comment:
 Marc
I […]

Vloggercon 2006

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Jay Dedman informs me that Vloggercon 2006 is happening on June 10-11.
I had a great time at the last one in NYC - in a snowstorm - and though we won’t have a snowstorm in SF in June, we can all at least welcome Jay and Ryanne here to SF - as they’ve recently moved […]

Bubble story from Mix06

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Albert Lai was blessed with having lunch with Bill Gates and a few others at Mix06.  To commemerate - he created a series of annotated images - which tell a story.
I’m in it - or else I wouldn’t have bothered to blog it - right?

 

Keeping it fresh

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Paolo (one of the founders of the ‘Radio generation’ of bloggers) agrees with Stowe Boyd on how to keep it fresh. 
Me - I not only designed (and tried to have built) several Radio plug-ins (now known as ‘widgets or modules’) but I also learned lessons on ‘desktop based servers’, extensible end-user systems and aggregation.  There […]

Call them widgets or modules - there’s a revolution going on here

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Congrats to SixApart on the release of their modules compatible TypePad.  This marks another big step in the evolution of our industry and the revolution of end-user customization.
Lets hope that these Typepad modules are compatible with LiveJournal and Moveable Type - which makes sense - right?  That would keep the modules within the SixApart firewall.  […]

Who’s building the PeopleAggregator?

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Well not ALL these folks - but here is the team in Gurgaon, outside of Delhi - celebrating getting their new T-shirts.  SWAG is an important aspect of technology development.

Gaurav, Ashish and Manish are great young entreprenuers and I hope to be doing business with them for many years to come.

Aria from Sonata #5 by Bodin de Boismortier

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Here’s a link to a recording of my wife performing at our local Unitarian Church.
Its really nice.
I love her dearly and she’s so damm talented. Like other young mothers - she’s given up her career and life for her children and me.
But lately she’s been gigging around and word is getting out there’s a new […]