Archive for September, 2006

Catching up

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Only 2,000 posts to read through…..
Just one word - Brickhouse.
I just cast my vote in round two of the great SXSW panel election.  Hopefully everyone voted for me in round one.
CBS decides NOT to buy Facebook or YouTube.  Oh well.
Tara’s notes on the speech she gave at BayCHI. I was there too - schmoozing and [...]

SFWIN - this Thursday

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

I’ll be in London luvs - but in case you need to be near entrepreneurs or need to get hussled by money people, this is the place to get hussled.

Widgetcon

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Om likes the fact that Dare wants to talk to startups about widgets.  He even thinks there should be a conference.
When I think of widgets (and blog objects, modules, whatever you wanna call them) - I think of three constituents:
- those independents who need to increase their disribution channel - using the blog gutter and [...]

Intro to Presentation at Mashup, Sept. 21, 06 - London

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

 

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This is what I’m going to show to start off my presentation.  Sort of set the mood.
I also preapred a historical reference outline deck - but I won’t be presenting that.
[cross posted from blip.tv - thanks Mike!  Upgraded to WP 2.0.4 - that did the trick! Now we gotta get you to support [...]

a night at the Fair

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

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We went to the Santa Cruz Couny Fair.  It was fun, the weather perfect and I stopped worrying about work.

Jason Kolb has it right

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Jason Kolb has an amazingly close and similar vision of the world.  He’s gone through all the idealism and now he’s posting on ‘how to make money’ with open source social networking.  Yup - been there, done that.  I think if and when Jason actually goes off and does what he says he’ll do, that [...]

9/11 - 5 years

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Lisa and I sat in bed watching with horror.
The laptop was besides us and every few moments I’d hi refresh on Scripting News to stay on top of what was happening. It remnded me of when I watched the Oakland Hills fires - from across the bay - with the remains people’s lives floating down [...]

Our first mashup

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

Raju Bitter has created a mashup based upon the PeopleAggregator APIs which Phil Pearson created.  Raju’s mashup goes into his PeepAgg profile and displays his friends.
Just like the blog object I have in my gutter.
BTW we’re building a HUGE blog object editor for the next rev of PeepAgg V 1.2.  But for now - we’re [...]

Thank you

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

Watch this Video
This is a video that has in it - a video of the making of my former home on Potrero Hill - circa 1996.  Those were the days.
I’m sitting in front of a MediaBar station - launching the video from our video jukebox - and talking about a new kind of talk show - [...]

Preparing to deal with Facebook

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

So last week we were all ready to bring up some important issues to Facebook regarding their TOS and just who controls what personal data - of their customers.
But needless to say the folks at Facebook were ‘kind of distracted’ last week.
So this coming week will hopefully find teh time and mindshare to take this [...]