Archive for June, 2006

Steve Gillmor and root.net annouce the “Attention OS” = AttentionSoft

Friday, June 30th, 2006

So Steve and Seth Goldstein are officially saying that they’re going to work together - to build out an infrastructure that’s needed to help facilitate the Attention based economy.
The GestureBank recorder which Steve has already built (currently works only in Firefox) - grabs every web site, how long you sepnt there and what time of […]

Open Standards session at Gnomedex

Friday, June 30th, 2006

So I just finished a session at Gnomedex on open standards and I did not ONCE mention PeopleAggregator.
So I definitely fit to the requirements of the discussion leaders - which was to NOT bring in any commercial plugs into my session .
I used Events, Attention, value added features and data formats as topics - and […]

We’re LIVE!

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

We’re live at PeopleAggregator.net.  This shot was taken at the very moment we went live.
No more invites - just come on in and have fun.

Mr. AND Mrs. Murphy are fucking with me

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

OK following up on yesterday’s scene and this mornings crash - the power people decided it was time to shut down our entire neigborhood in Walnut Creek - to trim trees.  Out here in Cali - the tree limbs hitting power lines is a major cause of forest fires.
So I didn’t necessarily mind them shutting […]

And I thought WE had problems

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Flooding in Wash D.C., tree gets knocked down at the White House and people are still dying in Iraq (and around the world.)
That certainly puts life into perspective this fine Tues. morning.
And here I thought we had problems.
Yesterday tepid introduction and attempt at bringing users into our system was met with - shall I say […]

SPAM generator - SPAMgregator - SPAmEraT.or

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Man oh man - I send out some invites to a ‘few close friends’ and all of a sudden the world is coming to an end.
Lets check the latest news:
- MyYahoo tells me the time is running out for Hamas
- Digg has the top 10 lists of 10 top 10 lists
- Memeorandum/TechMeme has:
    Microsoft Unveils Unified […]

Yes - indeed we’re inviting people in now

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Jeremy Zawodny is complaining that we’re ’spamming’ people to invite them into our PeopleAgrgegator test.  Or perhaps anotehr way of looking at Jeremy’s statement is “too many Yahosters are inviting each otehr into the PeepAgg and not working hard enough!”  I guess Jeremy has now been promoted to the ‘HR dept’ and is helping to […]

Taking care of user-centric business

Monday, June 26th, 2006

David Recordon (of Verisign) has reported that notes from a key meeting at the IIW (Identity Workshop) at the Berkman institute last week - have been posted.
In these notes - topics were discussed which will help define what OpenID 2.0 is - and keep it all in sync with what Sxip Networks is doing.
This is […]

Question confusion and clarification

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Turns out Jay Rosen wasn’t asking “what does any of this have to do with blogging?” rather (in his own words - in the comment he left) he was asking:
“I wanted to know (as in being curious) what the connection was between blogging and people venting their frustrations about the Web, vendors and software generally.”
Unfortunately […]

Yesterday sure was a fun day

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

I really enjoyed the second half of Bloggercon yesterday, after getting past the initial “what is blogging, how do I blog, what microphone do you use, lets all be Citizen Journalists” portion.  Funny how I always fall asleep during the Citizen Journalist sessions.  Same thing happened to me at Les Blog.
Probably the most shocking thing […]