Gaurav is already getting homesick, Paolo is here (and helping to moderate a Bloggercon session) and I’m trying to make sure that everyone is happy, while we get some work done.
Its great to be able to introduce the team to everyone.
The fun time and photo ops happen when we all fly up to Seattle together.
So […]

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How to tune into BloggerCon
Pinko Marketing Manifesto
Integration between Box.net, NetVibes and PageFlakes.  Coolio!
Web 2.0 Portal?  Talk abotu collission of terms!  a) we don’t use Web 2.0 anymore b) we stopped using portal 4 years ago.  But combining them together is cool, as long as you mention the term DLA (digital lifestyle aggregator) in the same […]

Kimbro Staken makes many correct statements and declares a new beginning for StructuredBlogging.org - but before I just completely just take back everything I just said, let me point out some cold hard facts:
1.  Yes - we should all work together, and yes - the demise of PubSub will probably help alleviate the conflict between […]

Chris Messina left this comment:
This is certainly a good thing and major accomplishment, regardless of what you call it.
In fact, Tara and I discussed avoiding the controversy over the whole “PINKO” name by renaming it FART.
If “microformats” doesn’t work for you, “Structured Blogging” won’t work for someone else, so why don’t we call it FART […]

Andy Baio is Yahoo announced that Yahoo will be eating that big red pill and supporting microfomrats in a big way.  No surprise there - Andy’s upComing.org was one of the first systems to ever support microfomrats.
Brian Dear was there too - throwing his support to microformats (via Eventful.)  All of this is GREAT NEWS!
Congrats […]

Stewart Butterfield must be proud of himself!  He deserves a good nights rest after this on-slaught - attacking his integrity, best intentions and strategy.  Brad Horowitz must be proud of him - as well.
Reading over the comments (I posted the #112 one) on Michael Arrington’s original, slanderous post - it seems to me that Stewart’s […]

As I susepcted Stewart Butterfield has a perfectly sound and logical stream of reason why they’re “not making it easy” for their direct competitor Zoomr to have access - via Flickr authentication - into ANY end-users record.
Whew - now we can get down to brass tacks.
It turns out the Flickr authentication API is one of […]

I’m taking time off on this Daddy day to respond to Tara Hunt and to continue this meme flow.
Here’s what Tara left as a comment:
C’mon Marc. Stewart isn’t the bad guy here. Tell me you can honestly say that if that Tate kid didn’t directly benefit from this little cause of his, he would say […]