Best Hits of Last Year - “Our product, services and Ideas”
OK - so here we go the final part of the triology of me reviewing all the Best Posts I did last year. After covering the Controversies and Big stories, and then what I posted about ‘Talking ’bout others’ - now it’s time to focus on who pays the bills around here. And what I wake up in the morning for.
Our Product, Services and Ideas
Jan 06
Doing things in stages - to get to convergence, we have to take baby steps first. We can learn from Apple - watch how they iterate and gradually back into the living room. DLAs are not a static design or ideal, but a dynamic one - adapting to what each customer (brand, ISP, hw/sw entity, media player, municipality) desires.
How to interconnect the mesh together - Rafe Needleman asks a question and I answer it with my ‘verbs’ layer pitch. I believe this is the first time I ever published these notions of verbs, which sit on top of authentication and ‘attribute exchange’.
Identity Hub Strategy - making it clear what we’re up to. I’ve continued this theme here.
Feb. 06
Microsoft Live is Hailstorm - for some of us, this is a big deal. For other who don’t care about Microsoft - watch out. Never let your guard down, as Redmond has been known to literally reinvent themselves. And now that Ray is in charge I’d say that the combination of MS Live, Vista and the XBox 360 (and Microsoft’s bank account) is a big deal.
But what does this have to do with BBM? Why isn’t this listed in the ’bout others’ Best Hits list?
Cause this is EXACTLY what we’re doing, and we are banking on that. Microsoft’s strategy (and the new ‘inter-connected strategy’) is exactly what we’ve been hoping for - as it not only validates what we’re doing, but also provides us a way to mesh into that world (and YOU too!) As does IBM’s new Lotus Connect product - as well! It’s all good!
March 06
What’s the difference between RedirectThis and Live Clipboard - those in the know - know that we (long with Lucas Gonze) created an open standard for routing blog content into tools. It’s called RedirectThis. When Ray announced Live Clipboard (at Etech) some folks asked me…… They’re very similar technologies - but ours solves a specific issue. We also have OutPutThis - as a standard for routing posts (which we utilize in PeepAgg.)
The Community of BBQ - let us never forget that we are all early adopters and that its the humans that matter - not us. This is an underlying notion we have tatooed on our foreheads.
I get to ask the first question of Bill Gates at Mix 06 - Tim O’Reilly had just finished pitching him softballs, so I decide to throw a fast ball “Bill - will you open up access to one’s friends in Live Spaces?”
Call them Widgets or Modules - there’s a revolution going on here - everyone else has figured this out now, I did back in March.
April 06
Distributed modular componentized web - reaction to a Markoff article, where I go on and on about ‘leaving crumbs on the table’ for the rest of us. Not everyone can get bought by GYM. Open standards will unite us
I can smell it from here - its the smell of freshly burned software. We made our Alpha deliverable deadline.
Where the money is and isn’t - new business models emerge - sponsor based models - developing trust worthy brands - building trust with customers is what makes money.
May 06
Imagine that - corporate social networks - I was trying to get Michael Arrington’s attention back then. Turned out to be 8 months before IBM’s announcement.
June 06
Point at it or import it - we don’t care - this is a key principle as it divorces us from any debate as to where “teh data should be”. Obviously - it should be wherever the user wants it to be - and everywhere else too - as long as they wan ti there. No dogma allowed here, no rules, only benefits to end-users.
Are we open or not (and our pricing) - we offer source code available software (OK - so we don’t call it open source - does that make you happy?) ‘Cause many people call THAT open source - too. Whatever - you can get the source code to our product, you just have to pay a license fee (minimal) if you’re using it commercially.
Jemima Kiss on me at Content 2.0 - this came out around now and it really inspired us all - that someone grokked us so heavily.
Reciprocation, 2-way APIs and caching data from web services - in the midst of the Flickr-Zoomr scandal - I……
We ship PeopleAggregator 1.0 - Dan Farber, Richard MacManus, TechCrunch, Raju Bitter
July 06
Protecting your privacy while moving or accessing your data between social networks - this is a major issue and feature for us. We won’t stop til folks are freely and easily doing this.
The personal identity mesh - my thoughts on the world of Identity - after attending the Vancouver Liberty ID thingie.
Aug 06
When does the aggregating of people begin - we need to define what exactly we want - and we’ll give it to yah. Its not like anyone has ever done this before.
Open letter to Mary Hodder - we all want to have our cake and eat it too
PayAsYouGo.org - we announce a new kind of license - it combines the MySQL dual approach into one approach.
Reacting to Don Park’s Web 2,0 Act 2 - offering integrated web services will be ‘the new black’
Sept 06
Personalized all by yourself - in this response to Niall Kennedy I try to point out that dashboards can be DLAs and that we need to go beyond just ’start pages’ mentality. This is the integrated aspect of DLAs. They can be a Feed aggregator and personalized start page - just as much as they can be a blogging tool or social network.
Speaking of DLAs - Simon Grice and eTribes is the first platform to use the term DLA to refer to what they’re doing.
Oct 06
The next Internet Infrastructure - preparing for a panel at Web 2.0. That was the third year in a row I ran that panel. I think it went pretty well.
AOL is now open - A key part to our strategy is our bet that bit by bit, player by player, all he big boys will open up. Facebook did it, Yahoo has been leading the way - and now AOL did it.
Nov 06
What kind of mashup we talking ’bout here - there sure are a lot of people out there trying to aggregate people in various ways. And all sorts of widgets, gadgets, modules and plug-in plays. So which one is PeopleAggregator? Its a DLA - a social networking and blogging platform. MySpace in a Box - which has all sorts of coollio features in it.
Dec 06
Announcing the BBM IDC - we’re setting up business in India
Introducing Robert Scoble to PeopleAggregator - as many times as I’ve tried to show it to him - now he goes and asks for a demo.
Great to see others talking about decentralized social networking - welcome
New kinds of Brands - Distributed decentralized content distribution channels
Original Thinking - dedicated to Hugh MacLeod
My Birthday Preso - getting ready to go marketing. I demanded that everyone who came to my birthday party had to watch the demo and listen to the rap.
Jan 07
IPTV and podcasting are not TV and Radio - try as we will to compare, we are talking about two different beasts here.
Being betrayed by developers - the sad story of DailyComedy and Five Across
The evolving DLA landscape - here we go!
Welcome IBM to the world of corporate social networking - 
DLAs for Home, mobile and auto - its the same as the Internet, only it includes the living room, car and mobile
Putting Identity into a Context - don’t just talk about ID in an abstract way
If yah don’t like the term DLA or PeopleAggregator - call it what you want to…………..
ID Hub explanation - going further into details