Ted Cohen has left EMI - and has a new consultancy called Tag Strategic. If I was in the music or entertainmnet biz - I’d be hiring Teddy.  Ted is a dear friend - who helped us sell the “Meet MediaBand” CD ROM - back in the day.  NOTE to Rafat:  Dude Adam Klein was Teddy’s boss. If he took over Ted’s responsibility - that would be a demotion for him.  Who cares about politics - Ted is an all-star and its a loss for EMI.

Great dinner last night - with the geeks. I bought them all off and put them into my branded sphere of influence - simply by feeding them chocolate.

Rcihard MacManus responds to someone named Ryan Stewart on some comments on Ajax vs RIAs (rich internet apps).  When I first saw this, I assumed there was some confusion - as Ajax IS an RIA technology.  But on reading the post, it becamse apparent that Ryan considers desktop based apps that go onto the web, as RIAs.  I don’t necessarily agree with that defintion - but whatever.  The point is that browsers have the uptake and ALL RIA software should work in a browser.  But having a highly specialized app - that runs on “your desktop” is also a good thing.  It can always beat out a browser based experience.  Which leads me to a post on Mugshots - Red Hat’s open source social network. 

TechCrunch got the story on Vox - the newbie blogging/social tool from SixApart.  I’ll be writing more about this later - but I need to get some actual work done - instead of spending all my time blogging!

Second Life will now have a browser built in!  This is a gateway between our world and their world.  Eventually this screen will be mapped onto surfaces inside of Second Life.  We (BBM) will be setting up shop inside that world - and sell the PeopleAggrrgator as a way to connect social worlds together - regardless of where they exist - in whatever dimension, planet or time period.

Not sure why Valleywag thinks there are other flavors of RSS which came before RSS?  What are they?  What has 85% market share?

I wonder how many of these boys will go to BlogHer?

Would you please leave this man alone?  He’s a nice guy.

Businessweek on ‘Socializing for dollars’.  For each context, target segment and demographic - there will be 10 plays.  By playing with a level playing field - the best value added and positioning will win. We don’t need data lockin to achieve stickiness.

Congrats to Azeem Azhar - who said you can’t make money off of blogging?

Benchmark continues its smart, strategic investing (must be coming out of the London office) with an investment in PageFlakes.  Congrats to all - see yah on Monday. Lots of folks are tracking Benchmark.  They’re the folks who invested inMySQL - as well.

Social Networks are the New Media.  Here here!

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