Archive for August, 2006

Bay Bridge closing, Burners burning and foos a fooing.

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Somebody actually bought Kiko.  And the founders have already funded their next one.
Askimet went down last night.  Lots of us emailed Matt and Toni.  And apparently the problem is solved.
Topics at Nofoo:  S3 , TVRSS , Consumerist and Propser (which has been getting good response lately.)
Zixxo and Pageflakes doing coolio things together.
Open Letter to Microsoft on [...]

Links for the end of the summer

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Christine Herron is tantalizing me with Chumby.  No doubt some investment of hers. Its a small 7″ish display that does……. well not really sure. I don’t see any buttons on it - which I guess means it has to be a touch screen interface.  But Christine is on the ball and its sexy, so…..
Suw - [...]

Later on in the day links

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Mark Cuban points to one of the best CEO blog posts I’ve ever read.  Its from Rahul Sood - of Voodoo - mainly discussing Michael Dell, the Alienware acquisition and why CEO blogging is so important.  Must read.
‘Bout time interactive maps are available for the playa.  It just seems like Burning Man was yesterday - [...]

Responding to Don Park’s post on Web 2.0 Act 2

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Fist of all Don - we don’t call it Web 2.0 anymore.  That’s owned by O’Reilly.  We call it the Live Web.
But you HAVE brought up some good points - so lets get into this - in detail.  First - the post.
I’m gonna quote this entire Don Park post entitled Web 2.0 Act 2: Integration [...]

Early Friday morning links

Friday, August 25th, 2006

We’re going to the Circus today!
Is Mark Pincus back at Tribe or not?
This is what I’M talking about!  Mmmmmmm Tortilla soup.
I knew the day would come when all this VC money would start effecting the reporters.  Liz Gannes is pleading for some worthy cause.  “Liz honey - that’s NOT your job!  Just report the facts [...]

Whether to bother Mark Zuckerberg or not

Friday, August 25th, 2006

When we last visited this issue - I put out a call to all lawyerly types - to help me interpret the Facebook’s TOS regarding whether or not we can display a list of friends garnered from one’s Friend’s list that we get via the Facebook APIs rom one’s Facebook account.
One of our programmers had [...]

Me asking Sen. John Edwards a question

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

So here’s a video of me asking Sen. John Edwards a fairly straight forward question at Gnomedex.
My little of profanity gets all so diplomatically modifed - but I had fun asking the question anyway.
I asked “we see a bunch of wimpy, ball-less Democrats who won’t take it to the matte?” and he says back to [...]

Responding to comments on Google lock-in strategy

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

1.  I’m not here to debate whether or not Atom was needed or whether it as done in the ‘right way’.  Clearly anybody who wanted to get in on speccing out Atom - could - so that was nice and open.  But I remember going to Google (around that time period) and asking them about [...]

Better mousetrap or a new form of lock-in?

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

An important issue of “what the hell is Google’s strategy” is starting to unfold.
Up until now it appeared that Google’s strategy has been “throw a bunch of shit at the wall, and see what sticks.”  But I believe that a much more onerous, classic Microsoft like ‘land-grab’ is ocurring - which should not startle you, [...]

More Facebook API issues: if there’s a lawyer in the house, please respond…..

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

To quote the Facebook developer’s TOS:

B. Display*
1) You may display Facebook Properties retrieved through the Facebook Development Platform in any format you choose, subject to the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement; provided, that you may not in any event display to any user of your Application or any other person any Facebook Properties [...]