Archive for July, 2006

Thoughts on the Vancouver Identity meeting and the Personal Identity Mesh

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

As I sit here in the blazing heat, periodically jumping into my pool - I’m feeling good about the last few days I spent in Vancouver.  It was great for me to get away from answering sales calls, improving user interfaces and dealing with Angel investors.  I found myself right back smack dab in the […]

Condolences to Nick

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

Its not funny to get beat up.  Violence is a drag and crime a outright bummer.
Just reminds us that we have our own Baghdad going on at 3rd and Mission.

Vancouver links love and family

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

My eldest son is in Egypt right now.  I hope he’s safe.
Lucas has gone - LIDy.  That should make Johannes happy.
GData - hmmmmmmm
Paolo, Martin and Niall talk about widgetization.  There’s even a podcast (w/Om.)
Congrats to Microsoft and Yahoo for connecting their IM systems together.  NOW AOL/AIM has to respond!
Keeping kids safe on social sites - a theme […]

What’s the difference between OpenID 2.0 and Sxip?

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

I’m here in Vancouver at the Identity Open Space UNconference to find out.
I’ll let yah know once I’ve figured it out for myself and what the other 98% of the people who aren’t going to sign-up for vendor agnostic IDs - are supposed to do.
The issue is not “what do you do with knowledgeable end-users” - […]

Flickr down

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

I just tried ot link to a photo of Nick - and Flickr was down.
Ouch

June 20th ain’t “just”

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Nick “I like to drink alcohol” Douglas just tried to ding me - again - claiming I “just” - well lets just leave it at - that was a month ago. [I’m trying to to encourage Nick too much - hey directly quoting him too much. That would make this seem like a debate or even […]

SFWin meeting July 25th

Monday, July 17th, 2006

I’ll be presenting at the SF Web Innovators monthly scene - on July 25th.
This month the meeting is at the offices of Altassian 375 Alabama st in SF.
Should be fun.

Protecting your privacy when moving data between social networks

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

OK - so now its time to  get down to some serious topics.
So Person A has invested in a huge social network on Social Networking system-A (SNS A).  Its her social capital.  She owns it, not SNS-A.  And now she wants to move her list of friends to SNS-B.
Moving her links, photos, blog posts, etc. is […]

Stay tuned sports fans in the on-gong saga of “why is Nick Douglas fucking with me?”

Friday, July 14th, 2006

1. He’s not - he’s just giving me free publicity.  Now I just need him to mention our product more.  It’s called the PeopleAggregator Nick. Now make a joke of that!
2.  He’s bored, lonely or does things that young people do - get it wrong.  And then he makes a living off of that.  Following […]

Mashup Camp

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Here is photographic evidence that I indeed did sit there for two days, pitching, demoing and getting feedback from the people.
Lots of great ideas, interest and attention.
Now I gotta get some work done.