So that means its time to blog - some more.

My friends Kelli and David Fox have been getting screwed from iVillage the folks they sold Astrology.com to - many years back.  So they’ve been trying to be nice and work things out - but after being jacked around for years now - the lawsuit is now official.  As I mentioned the other day, I actually ran into the head Lady from NBC (at Web 2.0) - and brought up their case to her - but needless to say - she didn’t say shit.  This is one case I’ll be following closely.

Scott Rafer finally gets a job.  I don’t see how MyBlogLog is worth $12m - but whatever.  Scott’s hussle finally paid off.  But what I’m afraid is that its yet another disconnected piece of a disjointed puzzle.  Pete Cashmore is right - what’s the benefit of MyBlogLog to bloggers?  And what is it’s business model anyway?  And when/how is Yahoo gonna start interconnecting these properties together?  Brad?

Hearst buys eCrush. PurpleNova, OpenCloud, OurChart.com is live.

BuddyLube seems to be doing serious hussling.  Congrats dudes!

Robery Young missed one key aspect of monetising social networks: “keep your initial investment low, so you might even make a profit one day.” Everytime you hear about another social network - just count another $500k spent.  With PeopleAggregator you can knock off a zero - thereby making ROI more reasonable.

Howard Rheingold: Mobile Social Networking Emerging?

Mike Butcher confuses the differences privacy and openness.  Who ever said that an open system can’t provide privacy and access controls to it’s end-users?  Mike is right - DLAs are taking off in all sorts of directions.  Some people - who are paranoid insist on their systems being completely closed.  If Mike - actually sat down and thought about it - he’d realize that NetVibes is in this category of DLA - as it has NO public view whatsoever.  Other DLAs publish public stuiff - like PageFlakes and VOX.  Its each to his own.  So Mike - please don’t think that since PeopleAggregator is promoting the notion of open standards, open data and is an open application, that that means we don’t provide privacy and access controls to our end-users.  We do.  In spades - as a matter of fact.  And congrats to Simon on his team on having Esther join the team.  DISCLOSURE:  eTribes is a client of ours.

OMG Arrington posted this image (right) of the Windows Home Server.

More on XBox TV, Windows Home Server specsWhat do you want from a profile exchange mechanism?

Ewan Spence interview (podcast) from LeWeb3.

Jason Kotke’s Nest Links of 2006.  This is what professional blogging fellows do all day long.  Compile lists of blog posts.

Down and maybe out - Revver?  TagWorld?

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