John Musser of Programmable web is reporting:
= a Facebook API entry in his database (very coolio)
= Facebook Friend mashup
= IRC discussions on  freenode at #facebook
= www.facebookapplications.com (which isn’t live yet)
Stay tuned to this station for more - including:
- a PeopleAggregator/Facebook mashup
- Facebook data in OPML
- more business opportunities and ideas to fill up 1,000 blog posts and [...]

Now that one of the major social networking systems is opening up, let’s answer some of the nay sayers who have been asking me (for years) “why should we open up?”
Since all these people care about is money, lets examine Facebook as a case study and “follow the money.”
So lets set the stage:
- Friendster are [...]

Tara Hunt and lyself will be speaking at the Bay Area CHI meeting on Sept. 12th.
I’m sure it’ll be fun.
Tara is speaking on Pinko Marketing (which we hired her to do for us) and “Becoming a community sympathizer”.
Me- I’ll be schmoozing about “Social Networking web service: inter-connecting social networks together” - which after today and [...]

Baruch Hashem to Mark Zuckerberg.  God Bless Facebook.
Facebook is now offering open APIs for people, friends, hptos and events!  Can life get any better than that!  Think of all the coolio things that can get done now!  Legally - without any mishigas.
A full 6-12 months ahead of schedule Facebook has - in a single blow - [...]

Anil Dash lauds Flash today in a post about its 10th anninversary.
I responded to Anil on my Vox blog. Unfortunately I can’t route that post here.  Maybe we’ll have to get SixApart to support our ‘OutputThis.com’ routing web service.
Anyway - enjoy the post.

Yet I’m thinking about walking the streets of London, or Paris - or sitting by the Adriatic in Trieste, or the bay in Vancouver.
I’ve had a fantastic couple of years flying around the world - getting paid to educate, rant and rave.  I clients seem to appreciate what I have to say, as many of [...]

Congrats to Tariq and team at NetVibes on your $15M in cash.
David Stern is wondering whether MySpace will let an ecosystem grow up around it.  I bet not.  Or else theyr’e gonna keep fighting it.
And another $7M for NewsGator.  Clearly Rich Levandov has nothing better to do.
I myself was also trying to figure out what [...]

 Woe!
Talk about kismet. I was just suggesting to some AOL people on Friday that they should buy these guys.
I get a moment of silence and they say “hey - that’s a good idea!”
Congrats to Tina and lets hope that this loads up Steven Greenberg’s gun - so he can go elephant hunting.

And of [...]

svn new revision : 602
It’s all little bug fixes and such.
But it’s the last new rev until a major new rev - which I’m excited as hell about.
So much so that I’m creating this post - just to jump for joy and embrace live at it’s fullest. If everythng goes according to plan we’ll have [...]

Two out of three ain’t bad. Now I can go back to London in style - drinking as much water as I need and reading all those cut trees I need to keep me from going stark raving MAD!
Lots of International travel needs routines.  Reading is one of them.