Archive for April, 2006

Commercial grade bittorrent

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Solid State Networks is a company that has a genius friend of mine - Mark Thompson as its tech head.  Anything that Mark does - rocks.  So check it out.

Tucows QOS and Feedcache

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Ross Rader announced a new service called Feedcache.
It does exactly what it’s title says and has APIs for you to access a treasure trove of feeds being cached by Tucows “in the sky”.
This service set my mind on fire so I have proposed to Ross a similar service for each and everyone’s personal web services.   Its something […]

Amsterdam dinner - May 5th

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Hey all your Dutch bloggers and ex-pats, I know you’ll be exhausted from partying for Queen’s Day - but the next Friday will be a dinner at the Dim Sum Palace (95 Liedestraat).  Say 7 PM.
Don Hopkins will be there.

Family Reunion

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Family 1.0 meets Family 2.0.  Pier 39, San Francisco, April 23, 2006.

Buy.com establishes namespace for “items for sale”

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Congrats to Buy.com - now we can add ‘items’ as a kind of microcontent to StructuredBlogging.com.  But we also need a microformats version of it.
I bet Tantek has it already.  That’s how our compatibility box works. Someone comes up with something coolio and new - we support it and add it to the code.  We’ll […]

Judith Meskill is the boss now and she gets to run things from home!

Friday, April 21st, 2006

I just got off IM with one of my favorite people in the whole world - Judith Meskill.  She’s now the COO of WeblogsInc. - the company that Jason Calacanis sold to AOL.
Probably since Jason has ‘ambitions’ within the company and has just taken over Netscape, he’s handed the keys to the kingdom to Judith.
Judith […]

Dave Winer on Rocketboom

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Integrity, level the playing field, kids don’t need training wheels.
 
Thanks Amanda!
 

Getting ready for a mashup

Friday, April 21st, 2006

I still don’t see why they call it a mashup - but here’s the info.  Its at the Commonwealth Club this time - NOT the RSA.

Ted’s got the final word

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Gosh they really ARE trying to be a different AOL.
Here’s Ted Leonsis on this whole ‘killer’ anything approach:

Here’s a better way of looking at it.  The AIM Buddy List (which was introduced 10 years ago) was the orignial social network, and it has 43 million AIM and Buddy List users.  We’re working on adding functionality to AIM that will […]

Thursday brings a host of Ho Ho Hos

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

So I go into the DMV (Dept of Motor Vehciles) this morning to register my car and renew my driver’s license.  I went at 8 AM to avoid the crowds - usually there are already 100 lined up by that time of the morning.
Well I get there - and there’s not a soul in the […]