Archive for June, 2006

Export out of Flickr - a must!

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

Open Letter to Stewart Butterfield and Bradley Horowitz,
Yo dudes.  I’m reading in horror of the story about Zoomr trying to get at user’s data in Flickr and import it into Zoomr.  Apparently Stewart was quoted as saying “no”.
So Yo - WASSUP?
You know this is what I’m all about and I gotta call yah on it.  [...]

AOL implements ‘Universal BLOG THIS’

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Congrats to Jen Consalvo and the team at AOL for pulling this off.
As it so happens Yahoo has also implemented a similar feature (thanks to Matt MacAllister.)
So here’s an idea - wouldn’t it be coolio to connect these two universal BLOG THIS button services - together?
We could define which tool we’d like our posts sent [...]

Citizen Agency

Friday, June 16th, 2006

It has come to my attention that Tara Hunt and others are planning on new kind of conglomeration/cooperative to pool skill sets, leverage cleints and in general - act like Pinko Marketeers.
Amen! They call it a:
:: a consorgency of collaboragents
I think we’ll hire them!

My poem for Bloggercon IV

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Once Dave announced the schedule for Bloggercon IV, I wrote this limerick:
Dave asked that we ‘discuss’ his schedule. I responded:
Discuss this message, about what?
So we finally have,
our bad boy gav
That disrupts the very fabric
of a sad mad drabIts disuption of conferences
That we all seek
As we stand bored in the hallway
Talking geek speak tweak
He’s a very [...]

Gnomedex gets Sen. John Edwards as keynote

Friday, June 16th, 2006

The guy clearly has nice teeth and a politician’s smile.
Let’s see - what am I going to ask him about?:
- net neutrality
- dark fiber
- Iraq and body bags
- my embarassment of being an American and the fact that I have to apologize everywhere I go
- fascism in Amerika
- the fact that we (us) would never [...]

Links from LaLa

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

We went to Disneyland, Venice Beachm Topanga Canyon and swam on teh rooftop at theStandard - downtown.
Its sad to see that Bill Gates got so upset that Scoble was leaving Microsoft that he up and quit working at Microsoft.
Predictions of the future?
Home Broadband Growth Doubles with 42% of all Americans on High-Speed - DSL overtakes [...]

Glasgow

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Spent some time up in Glasgow last week. Coolio place.  Lots of smart people there.
Old and new mixed together.
 

Congrats to Robert and especially John Furrier and PodTech

Monday, June 12th, 2006

OK - so now it’s official - Robert Scoble has left Microsoft to go work for John Furrier and Potech.

THis is a photograph of the very moment that Robert found out that the cat was out of the bag.  He was standing at the door at Vloggercon telling everyone, naively asking them all to “keep it [...]

Links from the Harris Ranch

Monday, June 12th, 2006

…. on our way down to Lala - for a couple of clients and some Disneyland time.
So Cardspace it is - Infocards has been renamed.
Web 2.0 lives in Cork.  Right on - I’ll be there in November.
Tara is starting to talk about a Citizen Agency.  They need a logo.
Its great to see Ted Leonsis pitching [...]

June 28th open house

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

Since not everyone can make it to Gnomedex - we’re going to have an open house out here in Walnut Creek on June 28th - to introduce everyone to the PeopleAggregator and the team (who will be in from around the world.)
The next day we all fly up to Seattle for some serious marketing, sales [...]