Archive for April, 2006

A festive season of conferences

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Starting with:
Vloggercon - June 10-11
Mashup = June 20 (site?)
Supernova = June 21-23
BarCamp = June 24
UnCon (stay tuned - we’re confirming dates and space) - but it IS happening
Gnomedex = June 31-July 1st
Its a party of conferences - all clustered together!  Time to bring Phil, Gaurav, Ashish, Paolo and Martin here.

Standing on the verge of getting it on

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Client AOL is on the verge of getting it on.  Seriously rock hard - change the world - take it to the man (even though they ARE the man) - getting it on. [Think of Funkadelic.]
How do you create disruption, upsurge and change within a stodgy old company?  Get everyone singing from the same hymn […]

Juicy tidbits for a Weds morning

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

We now know why Scoble has some guy named Bubba blogging on his site.  The guy is  a Microsoft manager in Silicon Valley.  So that’s it!  Scoble wants to move back here and is sucking up to this guy - offering him the most powerful thing he can - flow.
LDDI: Microformats for SOA Registries - […]

PeopleAggregator: Numerical vs. Qualitative Identity

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Bob Wyman has an interesting angle on some of our assumptions.
“Yes!”  we are heavily into ‘people-ness’.  It just makes sens to us to not force people to use OUR ID system, but letthem use whatever system they’re accustomed to and feel comfortable with.  Or not.
We’re sort of ‘normalising’ the authentication namespace.  End-users should be able […]

Windows Home Media Center competition now owned by Yahoo

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

I’m not sure how I missed this, but it seems that there is/was this small little company with big dreams (gotta love them for that) of competiing with Microsoft in the ‘Home Media Center’ arena.  They’re called Meedio and they just got bought by Yahoo.
They had a grand total of 20,000 customers - as opposed […]

Coolio - a BarCamp, Supernova and Unconference - all at the same time!

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Just got word that the nerds are coming out in full force during Supernova as well.  There’s a BarCamp planned for June 20.  These folks aren’t the ones to be paying nobody nothing for a fancy conference, so they’re all just gonna go huddle in a corner and write some code.
Meanwhile Dave Winer and I […]

Geek Dinner in London - May 1

Monday, April 17th, 2006

Yes - we know its a Bank Holiday that day - but we’re still doing a bloody geek dinner at some place called the Polar Bear’s Cellar Bar - near Leicester Square tube.  We’ll start earlier than usual to give folks time to get bloody home - before the bloody tube closes.
Ian Forrester asked me to do it […]

Monday morning observations

Monday, April 17th, 2006

This expanded version of a link list - is somewhere between the cold hearted, blunt statements of “read this link” and a full fledged blog post.
Its official - BloggerCon IV - San Fran - week of June 19 - Dave Winer has announced it - so it will be.  1,000 roaming between offices in the SOMA […]

Cyworld’s Korean aesthetics in a US market

Monday, April 17th, 2006

Lots has been written and allot more is coming comparing Cyworld’s success in the Korean market versus how it will be received here.
Cyworld is the only social network owned by a Telco, so its conservative, slow moving and has the resources to not only can take on MySpace - but also unite and monetize that giant […]

Paolo tells the story of blogging the Italian elections

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Quite a nice story.
But what Paolo doesn’t say - is that he was on Italian TV - talking about these experiences.