Steve Rubel reveals some of his data mining tricks and where he finds people - to hunt down and treat them like he’s a flack.  Lord help me - if I ever get caught between the crosshiars of this guy.
Don Park is speculating a link boycot of Friendster if they DARE spend some of their [...]

Happy Birthday to Dave McClure - who I’ve known for quite a long time - since before dot com.
Oh yah - and my wife - who I met on Match.com, saved my life, gave me children and happniess and keeps me young and witty.  But its not about me, its about HER.

Today I just couldn’t tear myself away from my family.
We discovered a place called Pixieland - that ONLY had rides for little kids. None of those ‘Big Kids’ rides.
I highly reccomend it for families with kids 1.5-7.
Meanwhile a whole bunch of grown up kids were doing their thing at the Swedish American Hall on Market [...]

So I was browsing through all my links tonight - and ran into a Richard MacManus post on Gotuit.com - a new video ‘portal’ that features ‘video search’.  I wouldn’t really call it a portal - as all there is - is on-demand content, but who’s counting.
But what struck me by this particular play (besdies [...]

Well if you spend all your time talking about deals - you might as well add them up and make it report. That way you have soemthing to sell.  And that’s what Rafat Ali and his great team has done:
Rafat writes:
I mentioned about our new Social Media Deals Report, covering the venture capital and M&A [...]

I had someone come up to me at the SFWIN geek scene last week asking for the ability to keep track of certain people - by scraping their profiles out of MySpace and other SNS.  She seemed to want to do market research and study the behavior patterns, blogging styles and other representational activity of [...]

That’s great!
We’re already supporting OpenID - so I’m not sure what’s in it for us - but I love hanging out with OpenID nerds and it’s David Recordan’s 20th birthday - so we get to eat cake (no alcohol - yet for David!)
We’re hoping that OpenID will evolve into a platform that handles the movement [...]

So Robert Scoble has moved back to the Bay Area, BigDave Winer just bought a house too - and me - I’m just a lowly software developer working his ass off to promote and sell his product.
We’re hard at work REPOSITIONING the product, as many people are confused with “what it’s for?”
So let me be clear [...]

I’ve been waiting a  while to comment on our client Cyworld’s shipping.
We first started working with Cyworld last year in April, helping them to create a unique US market offering.  Most of that advice was ignored and so what we have is a pretty good copy of what is available in Korea, and also Japan, China [...]

I awoke this morning with a realization that Windows Live Spaces was:
- the largest blogging platform (100M)
- a rip-off copy of AIMpages (without the groovey page customization)
- part of the Live.com widgets world (which is gonna have it’s own momentum)
- has photos too - and can mobile integration be far off?
- comes from Microsoft (worldwide [...]