Archive for May, 2006

6 weeks to go

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

New web site, logos, spawning, APIs (with docs) a couple of mashups, launch party planned, SWAG, international company offsite and stable code.
All lining up in a synchonized choreographed dance.
Can’t wait to announce at Gnomedex.

Links Galore

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Rafat gets an office - congrats to Rafat.  And while we’re at it - congrats to Simon Grice for getting a CEO.
BBC APIs.
Valleywag has the lo-down on Google being unorganized.
Rafe is blogging for CNet
Steve Gillmor reports from OnHollywood
danah is having trouble with AIMpages.
I’m hurt - John Battelle didn’t invite me to the exclusive, VIP pre-Web […]

Chicken Tikka and AIMpages

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Om Malik has a great analysis of the current memes and rumblings around The Myth, Reality & Future of Web 2.0.
I actually like the term ‘the Live Web’. 
OM draws the analogy that Yahoo and AOL are introducing mainstream consumers to Web 2.0 in “Tikka” sized chunks.  In typical Om fashion - its briliiant.
In fail swoop to […]

Catch up links - from Reston, VA

Monday, May 15th, 2006

So I’m on the road again - but I wanted to let everyone know about these links:
- My friend Bobby Orbach wants me to check our Enquisite.
- Here’s a ‘community’ built up around Skype.  Its called Jyve.
- For some reason danah boyd thinks AIMpages only works for IE-PC.  WRONG!
- I’ve been getting ready to give […]

Eventual battle over the living room

Monday, May 15th, 2006

A number of announcements have been made recently which point to the impending battle over the living.
Yahoo bought Meedio, Cisco bought Scientific-Atlanta, Orb is available on Cingular phones and Bellsouth, Samsung are in Digital Home Deal.  Lots of folks are tracking this and we’re not done yet.
These announcements should remind us of the importance of […]

Even more……

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

PeopleFeeds looks coolio.
Everyone head on up to Gnomedex - it’ll be an unconference.  Dave’s a discussion leader - if yah wanna know who else is - check this out.  THat is also where we’ll unveil PeopleAggregator.
It’s great to see Dave getting out and hanging with the ID folks. He found a problem and now he’s fixing […]

Shots from Dublin

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Thanks to Mary Boyle for these shots from the Web 2.0 thingie I did in Dublin.

I think this shot will quickly become one of my favorite new shots.

Its called body language.

Here’s me with Jeff Clavier and Judy Gibbons (of Accel Partners in London.)

More for today - goal: get caught up by tomorrow

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

It’s great to see my friend Ted Cohen get all the attention he deserves at OnHollywood.
Dan Farber connects Share you OPML, the GestureBank and Roots data vault (whatever that is.)
Mark Cuban is giving away $100k to the school that can get the most kids to go and watch “Akeelah and the Bee”.  Right on brother! […]

Identity Map inclusion

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Hey Kaliya!
Just cause we can’t make it to every seminar, conference and Un-a-thing - doesn’t mean we’re not making our own contributions to the Digital ID world.
So starting back in 2002 - Nic Nyholm, Simon Grice, Esther and others - coined ‘Open Identity’
2003-2004 Lots of work done in the FOAF space.
2005 will mark the first […]

JD’s burst of words

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Lucas is impressed by JD’s resistance to file sharing.  I wonder if that has anything to do with Dave Toole’s technolgy - which is a p2p system - that wants to CHARGE for file sharing.   Hmmmm.
Well clearly Toole has paid off JD and others, so I’m not gonna go there.
But the continued use of ourmedia […]