Marc's Voice

End of the week - links

Speaking from one who was branded ‘biased’ by the so-called ‘democracy writers’ of Wikipedia - I have to say I agree with Nick Carr.  When I hung out with Jimmi Wales recently - even he and Joi Ito (who was also there) admit that their bio pages were branded biased.  This whole thing is bizarre - but what it AIN’T is democracy.  I’m STILL waiting (4-5 months later) for some sane person to come by and UNBRAND my page with that absurd bias claim.  Is that what democracy is?  Well all I can tell yah is that neither Joi or Jimbo’s pages have that ugly NOT NEUTRAL emblem on the top of thier pages. I guess democracy is kind of ’subjective’ then - right?

Condolences go out to Robert Scoble and family on the death of his mom.

Serial Killers or Inventors of Programming language - take the quiz.

I’ve been tracking Tracy Swedlow for years and the development of the Interactive TV industry.  So check out this article on CNN.  Man I sure hope CNN gets their act together - as I’ve always felt they would lead the world forward in this domain. 

The scene was in Edinburgh this week - at the WWW2006.  Man - I can’t wait to insert ourselves right smack dab in the middle of this mashup world.  See yah at Mashup Camp July 12-13.  PeopleAggregator is all about mashups and bringing social networking to that world.

Its great to see Thomas Vanderwal - taking his ‘Personal Infocloud vision - to the market.  I can’t disclose too much - but he’s working on an actual product.  This and the ‘live microcontent’ meme is gonna change our world.

Don Norman - an advisor to BBM - raps out why Google’s so-caleld simple interface - ain’t so simple.  Others agree.

Happy Birthday to Euan Semple.

Ryann Hodson, Phil Torrone, the list grows……

More bubble blather.  AIMpages rocks - not necessarily JUST because its great software, but because it represents a fundamental shift in one of the major players of our world.  Between AIMpages and the open AIM APIs - AOL has proven they’re willing to play ALONG with us, instead on top of us.

Hacking MySpace

Congrats to Dare and team.  MSN Spaces is now the largest blogging platform out there. 100M unique visitors.

Congrats to Mark Cuban - and he’s blogging the whole thing. I want to hear a podcast of one of those pre-game rallying sessions!

Even former a-list bloggers have to suck up - sometimes.

Martha Stewart goes social network.  More evidence of Context driven nets.  All who will want to inter-connect to other contexts.

This dude has got it wrong - BloggerCon IV does NOT cost $100 - its free!  But its a coolio list - anyway.

Paul Browne think that just cause he hasn’t been fired - yet - that O’Reilly can get away with anything they want.

Ashish raps out what’s special about PeopleAggregator - as opposed to Tony Perkin’s GoingOn - which I designed (but Tony bastardized) and Ashish’ team - built.

Phil has been building our PeopleAggregator APIs.  So he’s found new lifeforce in XML-RPC. Thanks Dave! Just a little reminder - we (BBM) we the FIRST company to build a UI - using XML-RPC - back in Feb. 1999.