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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 for the next few years.
Just one word - the Hub. Anybody know if these people are real? I bet not.
Betwen CinemaNow offering to burn DVDs and Apple’s rumored rental play - there’s lots of things going on in the VOD world. Perfect! Just in time for the report I have to file with “one of our clients”.
Cyworld US is coming - watch out.
Meanwhile YouTube is serving 100M videos - a day.
Arnaud Leene picks up the subject of portability of social networks sand says connecting microcontent is much harder. Hmmm - well at least the microcontent gives you implicit permission to be moved around, while those dam humans are just so - unruley. 
Any holiday celebrating microcontent is important - so I’m sorry I missed commemorating iCal day.
Thanks to PodTech for the great coverage. I just love politicians so much. My father and grandfather would be proud of me.
Speaking of microcontent and microformats - Vox is ready to play with. I wonder if they’re supporting any of these standards?
July 20th, 2006 at 10:18 am
The Hub appears to a harvest site for personal info from the teen demographic. Offer a few inexpensive prizes to grow that marketing database. Under the guise of social networking and independence…
But: Employees of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (“Sponsor”), Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., GSD&M LP, Tribal DDB, Leroy & Morton, Skycastle Entertainment, Inc…. … are ineligible to participate in this Contest.
Maybe it will work.
July 20th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
I just read about this at Fast Company last night, “Wal-Mart has launched The HUB (School Your Way). The attempt is pretty lame too. Sure “Hubsters” (not joking here) can create their own pages and upload video, but not without parental consent or Wal-Mart review before posting. It’s actually not social networking at all. Though youth can create profiles, there’s no interaction with other “Hubsters” (except voting on pages) and limits on what can be added there.” It’s just a contest under the guise of a social network.
July 21st, 2006 at 8:21 am
When is Cyworld coming? Will it be before January 2007?
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