Archive for March, 2006

Weekley wrap-up

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Here’s my wrap up - synopsis of coolio links….. (which really means I’m cleaning house - and posting all these links I’m too lazy to do separately.)
I was exteremely stressed to hear that Yahoo was limiting its new publisher (AdSense killer ads) to the US.  That is so fucking stupid.  I had to send letters […]

Top 10 Web Thinkers list

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Halley Suitt of Top Ten Sources has named me onto some list - one behind Dave Winer, but one ahead of Scoble.

Thanks Halley.

Lessons learned from ourmedia.org

Friday, March 24th, 2006

Pleasonton based ourmedia has turned one year old.  Dam!  Who built that?  Who made sure it could happen?  Whatever happened to the APIs, schemas, open source user interfaces and leadership that was promised?  Somebody is having fun doing junkets, attending conferences, giving the ‘digital community blah blah blah’ rap, having a title to tought - but […]

“We need microformats” - Bill Gates

Friday, March 24th, 2006

Tim O’Reilly told me that he had to clue Bill in on microformats the night before.
But as far as you can tell from this video - Bill has been familiar with it for years and it’s a core part of Microsoft’s strategy.  That’s the genius of Bill Gates.  Embrace and extend.
Tim did a pretty good […]

Mix of links….. - enjoy them…..

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Here’s a Mac guy - giving his view of Mix06.  His name is DG - and he exemplifies a whole generation of folks who still dislike Microsoft so much - that they’re willing to live off of the crumbs that Apple mistakenly leaves behind.  Microsoft is much more conscious of their developers - but it’s […]

Microformats and Structured Blogging BoF

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Alex Barnett has posted some images from Mix06 - including this one of me, promoting the BoF we did today.
Its funny how easy it is to stand out at a straight show like this.  Ewan Spence had his kilt on again and I walked around, holding this sign, letting people when and where to go […]

Bill and Tim rap it out, I ask the 1st question….

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

So here’s the webcast of ‘the conversation’.  Jump forward to 27:20 is you wanna hear me ask the first question.  The mike wasn’t picking me up very well - so here’s the transcript below (thanks to Todd Bishop for that!)
The conference is going great.  More on that later.
For now - all you folks here - […]

Microsoft goes social

Monday, March 20th, 2006

I’ve been waiting til now to read carefully what Dare Obesanjo had to say about the development of the ’social networking’ features in Spaces.MSN.com.  Many of the design decisions he and his team made - are exactly the issues I consult our clients on.
1. Dare was bascially forced to accept a mutual friend model - […]

In Vegas

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Io vedo ala Venezia

I may not be able to find my favorite costume place or black squid ink restaurant - but at least they’re playing Opera on the jukebox and acting like they’re Italian here.

Gonna ask Bill whatever Tim doesn’t ask him.  “Gee Bill - being open suits you!”

Popurl: a meta-aggregator

Monday, March 20th, 2006

I’ve been waiting for these sort of programs to appear.  It doesn’t take too much of a leap of faith to say “if you can have a program aggregate sources, then it makes sense to have a program aggregate the aggregators.”
Well that’s what Popurl does.

This is what we’re doing - as well.  And I suspect […]