I agree with Rafat - Chad Hurley was being very flippant and rude to off-handedly mention that YouTube was gonna start paying users. Clearly the power of being on stage with Bill Gates was getting to him. This often happens to young people who get too much attention - too fast.

Speaking of parlaying fame - I agree with Dare Obesanjo that Robert Scoble is clearly feeling the heat over at PodTech. I sure hope that Furrier and coimpany knew that once Robert left Microsoft that his power would diminish. And that means that people are ignoring all the interviews and exclusives that he’s (Robert) been taking and posting at PodTech. So Robert is striking back, the very week that he was named one of the Top 25 bloggers by Forbes. From where I’m sitting its all true - and its Robert’s job to scream and yell as much as he can. That still doesn’t mean that Ryan Block will link to him. BTW - I still think the missing key to vlogging is indexing these long interviews into bite size chunks - based upon what’s being asked. You then post a T.O.C. (table of contents - link list) of all those salient moments - so people can jump INTO the video. Just ask Brad Horowitz about that sort of stuff. They were doing it at Virage 15 years ago. Needless to say Robert has almost 150 comments on this post. Go dude - Go!

 UPDATE: Jeff Sandquist weighs in, he’s Scoble’s old boss.  DISCLOSURE: I’ve asked Jeff to help get me into the Mix 07 scene - since I kicked ass last year and ran a great panel - as well. I even got to ask the first question of Bill after Tim O’Reilly threw him a bunch of softballs. But how soon they forget at Microsoft.  Without Robert there covering my ass, well hopefully Jeff will come through. All I need is a free ticket, hotel and hookers - for this link.

Sam Sethi likes LinkedIn’s new hResume support. Open, but not quite far enough if you ask me. Yes - now any search engine can come along and find those 9M resumes - and index them (theoretically) into a new distributed jobs market. So now we see why Technorati has been investing in microformats and why Tantek Celik continues to put much of his effort into expanding microformats. 9M resumes are now available to Technorati, Google and other search engines. But - but - gee. What about me subscribing to someone and getting their resume, list of contacts or requests? Or how ’bout exporting those resumes in some file format? And where are LinkedIn’s APIs? Now you see how microformats are good - but don’t go far enough? So LinkedIn has ‘kind-of’ opened up - but not far enough. Its great for Technorati and other search engines - but some of us - AREN’T search engines.

TeeBeeDee,

Congrats to Nate Torkington on being able to get $300 hr! But I gotta tell yah dude - that’s just way too expensive for folks like me. This is why we’re HAPPY with our offshore talent - who don;t cost that much! But I’m sure there are PLENTY of VC funded companies who can afford to hire you.

Setting the record straight on the history of RSS. I recently took a look at the Wikipedia entry for RSS and it’s fucking outrageous! How dare these people ignore the facts and historical truths? To me - Wikipedia is a joke.

Looks like Cyworld has some competition in the US for American teenage girls. Its called Popteen US. Look for other ‘Asian clean sites’ to go after these same consituents.

Widgets are expanding to do more than one thing. Slide.com now has a guestbook and MyBlogLog nows meshes in Flickr. Congrats folks for geting closer to DLA functionality. I guess the 37Signals school of thought - ‘less is better = do as little as possible’ is losing out to “coolio compelling experiences mean integrating, aggregating and being customizable”.

New viral blogosphere scam. Here’s what you do if you’re an A-lister or mainstream media guy. Send around a note telling people you’re working on a book and need submissions to the book. And ask them to blog about this. It works.

Unofficialy supporting OpenID ain’t the same as 500M accounts being available via an OpenID server proxy. So Sam Sethi will have to wait til it’s official. A hack ain’t official. And I wouldn’t hold my breath if I was Sam - for Google’s support.

There’s no way you can confuse Megan Smith from Meg McCarthy. Even though they both have bright red Irish cheeks.

Intelligent comment from Kingsley Idehen on IBM and corporate social networking. Kingsley’s right - Enterprise have been grappling with Distributed Collaborative Applications (DCA) for years. But its more than the graph dude - its about communicating and profile pages.

After many many years in the making, and just in time for the next election - CivcSpace has finally shipped. Congrats dudes! I love the term “Constituent Relationship Management Database”

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