Disruptive coincidences
Dam! I missed my chance to disrupt the Disruptors Roundtable. I guess they didn’t want me disrupting too much. They must be afraid. I know that Arrington and OM are afraid. That’s why they won’t have dinner with me - or see me. But be assured - I will keep disrupting. Guarenteed. I didn’t spend 25 years in this busienss - to just go along with the VCs and cutie pie startups.
Fred Wilson bitch slaps Arrington. Take that - “whack!”
Niall on the state of social bookmarking (and tagging - really.)
Arnaud Leene agrees - it’s Media RSS. Now we just need to get Yahoo to get David Hall back on the case.
Greg Reinacker sees my point - we have a long way to go til aggregators are media-ized.
I asked Marshall Kirkpatrick why he didn’t include videoEgg and blip.tv in this post on white labeled video services. He said videoEgg didn’t quite match the model and that he didn’t know that blip was in that business. Well Marshall - videoEgg did UnCut for AOL and blip did CNN.
I was watching TV last night (instead of disrupting) and every single show - despite what it was supposed to be about - was about sex. Needless to say Microsoft agrees. And we know why Larry and Sergey were arguing about the big bed - right? Valleywag makes a living at it.
I just love it when the dot com 2.0 startup disintermediates existing businesses. Now the question is - “is it illegal or the data completely wrong?” We know these systems can be gamed, just like we know that Diebiold voting machines ain’t secure. But this is serious business, as the US housing market is taking a dive, and Zillow could contribute to that. If only their VCs knew this was going to effect the valuation of THEIR homes - as well.
If Scott Adams can hack his brain, then can’t Dilbert disrupt he system and get some work done - once in a while (this fits into today’s theme of disrupting.)
Maya’s Mom - the epidomy of an insider Silicon Valley venture.
Matt Mower wants one account to bind them all. But Matt - Google just doesn’t care about anybody else - remember? They’re the new Microsoft. Half of Google’s execs came from Microsoft.
My condolences to Rafat and Staci for losing Jemima Kiss. But her name alone could get a job almost anywhere - and the Guardian it is. Oh - and congrats to Jemima. BTW she deserves it. Not to say that working for Rafat ain’t a plum gig, but I’ve never met a tech reporter who grokked it as fast and articulate - then Jemima. Well maybe Dan Farber.
EMI loves to talk about how digital hey are and they often use the number 25% - as….. well lets just say it ain’t true. Just ask Ted Cohen or Lara Legasick. Take it from me - these people are about as xenophobic as it comes.
Steve Rubel agrees with me - MyESPN is a big deal.
Anf finally today - here goes Macromedia again trying ot jump start their own ecosystem. Haven’t they learned by now? Nobody wants to hang out with slimeballs? Does anybody remember Grand Cenral or their earlier attempts at capturing and locking up a content distribution network? This latest attempt is just pathetic. Someone please tell Kevin Lynch to just go cash out his stock and buy a mansion and chill. They just don’t get the web or us. The technology and platform we handed to them (or one could say “stole”) is ALL they’re ever gonna innovate with. That juice ran out years ago. Just cause you’re called Adobe now - doesn’t mean all your problems go away. Throwing $100M at something doesn’t make it right. IMHO.
Matt Mower has a point (and so do you!). Google has a problem now that lots of us have multiple Google accounts but most of their services are tied to single accounts. They badly need a way of combining them all so that I can say, yes all these accounts belong to me. This happened because they made the mistake we’ve all made over and over again of cnfusing Authentication (Login ID) with Data (email addresses). And the Microsoft link is important because this happened when they copied Hotmail+Passport by trying to push their web mail service by forcing you to use that as authentication on other services (like Googetalk).
Is Single Signon fragmenting before we can even get it off the ground when every major portal player has their own SSO API?
Matt Mower has a point (and so do you!). Google has a problem now that lots of us have multiple Google accounts but most of their services are tied to single accounts. They badly need a way of combining them all so that I can say, yes all these accounts belong to me. This happened because they made the mistake we’ve all made over and over again of cnfusing Authentication (Login ID) with Data (email addresses). And the Microsoft link is important because this happened when they copied Hotmail+Passport by trying to push their web mail service by forcing you to use that as authentication on other services (like Googetalk).
Is Single Signon fragmenting before we can even get it off the ground when every major portal player has their own SSO API?
Matt Mower has a point (and so do you!). Google has a problem now that lots of us have multiple Google accounts but most of their services are tied to single accounts. They badly need a way of combining them all so that I can say, yes all these accounts belong to me. This happened because they made the mistake we’ve all made over and over again of cnfusing Authentication (Login ID) with Data (email addresses). And the Microsoft link is important because this happened when they copied Hotmail+Passport by trying to push their web mail service by forcing you to use that as authentication on other services (like Googetalk).
Is Single Signon fragmenting before we can even get it off the ground when every major portal player has their own SSO API?