Archive for July, 2006

Links from Monterrey

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

My wife is having here birthday and we’re down here for fun.  Meanwhile….
Jeff Barr and Amazon have shipped their store APIs for Second Life.  Folks are starting to use them already.
Now Bebo has bands - too.
MySpace Layouts - 9th most popular search term.  Gee - yah think people are interested in customizing their pages?
The effects […]

Links from BlogHer

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

I’m sitting outside on a beautiful Saturday morning.
Debabelizing the Profile Space.  Martin Spernau explains what we’re doing when it comes to dealing with all sorts of DIFFERENT profile structures and meta-data.  We’ll normalize it internally - of course.
JamBase profiles. Jambase is a music community.
The Rise of Open Source Infrastructure - by Jon Udell. I first […]

My Content 2.0 presentation in London

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Dierdre Malloy has synopsized my speech I gave in London - pretty dam well and there’s a podcast (gosh I hate that term) - AUDIO RECORDING of the speech - as well.
I actually had a pretty good time giving that speech, though I wish my voice had been in better shape - so I could […]

Questioning numbers, focus and the REAL market

Monday, July 24th, 2006

I ran into this chart - via Fred Wilson’s post on it. Fred is all excited about buying Yahoo low - which I would have done if: a) I believed in the stock market, which I don’t, b) I had an dispoable income (which I don’t - I only invest in my own products) or […]

SocialText goes open source

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Back in the day when I had time to blog, I used to dedicate entire blog posts to news like this.
But lately - I haven’t had the time, so I slam news like this into giant posts - with 10-15, sometimes 20 items in it. 
But its OSCON week (in Portland - yet another O’Reilly affair) […]

The inevitable has started…..

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Now I hate to say I told you, but the forces of greed and stupidity are winning at MySpace. It was only a matter of time.
Wanna watch them fuck totally up a good thing?  Just watch……
This latest blockage is the latest in a series of moves to keep MySpace “to themselves”.
Even the best intentions of […]

Its midnight and its still hot

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Ted Leung has a great review of the conference I just attended. I shall I say “Unconference”. 
I never got a chance to say “Congrats” to Irina and the GeekTV crew - for becoming PodTech with John and Robert.
German social network
3rd party MySpace ecosystem - growing.
Congrats to the Citizen Agency for taking our money ( and […]

1st of a bunch of demos - next week

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

OK so I’m going to start demoing PeopleAggregator at several local ‘user groups’ and Web 2.0 (sic) meetups.
The first one is the SFWIN group - which is meeting at Atlassian - 375 Alabama suite 400 - on Tues. night 6:30.  That’s in SF.  Looks like there’s a nice crowd signed up - but I’d love […]

VCs discover Identity

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Now that its clear that end-users get to control their personalidentity and that MySpace and otehr social networks have moved personal identity pages - to teh forefront - all of a suddent the VCs wake up.
Fred Wilson has - and so have some folks from VenturesWest - who I met with in Vancouver last week.
I […]

A hot night’s links

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

Needless to say I’d be ecstatic if the world of Personal Identity Mesh reached beyond the 2% I predicted earlier today.  Kim Cameron seems to think he’ll get alot more - 100,000,000s. Only someone working at Microsoft could make that statement.  Maybe he’s correct.  
BTW Have you all read the Laws of Identity by Kim?  You […]