Archive for September, 2006

Oktoberfest Forelle

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

The little German I learned as a singer has stuck with me. There’s a famnous melody line and song called ‘Die Forelle’ - the trout.  Well here they are - the trout - roasting and getting ready to be eaten.
If you could have seen the mayhem surrounding these fish!
There were 100 people standing there, trying […]

Anina is covering Fashion Week in London

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Anina - the famous SuperModel Fashion Blogger is posting images from Fashion Week on her PeopleAggregator blog.
Make sure to check out Anina.net.

Here I am in Berlin

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

I’ve done 5 demos and meetings today in Berlin.  I’m exhausted - but this is what it’s all about.
Once you have a product, you gotta hussle it.

Ich bin in Deutschland

Monday, September 25th, 2006

So now I’m in Munchen, meetign with local entreprenuers - pitching them the benefits of PeopleAggregator.
We had some fabulous reactions in London and we’ll be announcing a couple of new customers - soon.
Now let’s see what happens here. 
OH - BTW = it’s OktoberFest.  Aber - ich nict drinke bier gern.  But maybe a Radler.
Getting out […]

Went well last night

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

I got to demo the Facebook and Flickr import in PeopleAggregator last night to some folks. It worked like a champ.
Got to hang on stage with Tariq Krim (NetVibes) - that was cool.  I outed him and let everyone know that the rioting French youth used NetVibes to get organized.  BT showed off a new product […]

OneWebDay is today

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

I flew over to Amsterdam with Mary Hodder on the same flight.  She reminded me that today was OneWebDay.  We all went to a dinner about it last April.
She told me she was gonna go hang with the Mayor of London today.  Then we’re all going to a party Stowe Boyd told us about.  Paolo […]

Why Yahoo won’t buy Facebook

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Ignore his rumor.
There’s no way in hell Yahoo is gonna pay $1B for anything. They’re too dam cheap.  Ain’t gonna happen.  I don’t evenbelieve they made a serious offer at any time.
Y! 360 can be improved. this game ain’t over yet.  Humans are migratory beasts.  They NEED to move.

Mashup time in London

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Isn’t his fun?
I get to demo right in teh shasdow of `st. `pauls

Speaking of DLAs

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Tomorrow night I will speak at a ‘mashup* event in London on DLAs (digital lifestyle aggregaors.)  That’s a term I used a few years back to describe what it was we were building.  It’s up to 26,700 hits in Google.
Here’s an early article on AlwaysOn about DLAs from ‘04.  Tony and company are building a […]

Yahoo Public Hack Day

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

They’re rolling out the big guns at Yahoo on Sept. 29th for a Hack day that the rest of us can attend.  Hack Day looks awesome.
I’ll be in Amsterdam (gee - that’ll be tough) but I’m sure that Rasmus Lerdorf, Doug Crockford, Matt Sweeney and Brad Horowitz will put on a show and show off their […]