Dave Winer is finally grokking what I meant by ’shared XML servers of data’ - way back when.  He’s starting a ‘Movie Ratings’ project - combining reviews he’s written from both NetFlix and Yahoo.  Now THAT’s what I’m talking about!  I consider this to be Dave’s birthday present to me!  Taking concept and turning it into actuality!  Now we need to do the same for Restaurant reviews and Concert reviews and……  It looks like Dave will have to get good at scraping.  Tee Hee Hee

Please somebody tell me this post is completely full of shit. PLEASE!  It cannot possibly be true. The arrogance and outright snobbery reaks like a pile of poo poo on a hot summer’s day.  How dare these punks even exist.  We don’t need them that much.

Here’s a great post by Eric Shonfeld on Widgets and why pages are no longer pages. He quotes from Fred Wilson and brings allot of these notions into perspective.  I couldn’t agree any more.  That’s why we’ve invested in this super duper Widget editor for V 1.2 of PeopleAggregator.

Michael Arrington annoints a few Web 2.0 companies.  This will help these companies be acquired this year.  The whole game of cat and mouse, fund and flip - is well defined now - and will continue this year un-abaited.  Until large companies can figure out how to innovate themselves - they’ll have to keep spending to buy.  Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.  But with this much money at stake its hard to believe that ‘concientious blogging’ will remain unaffected.  Annointments like this will continue to ’cause me to think “Hmmm - I wonder how much he’s making off of this?”  I have no evidence whatsoever that Michael is directly profiting from this, but there used to be these things called ‘friend and family shares’.

214 + 351 = over 500 links - but Technorati still thinks that my two different URLs mean that I’m two different bloggers. Now what year is it now?  2007?  Oh OK - just checking.  Cause I could have sworn that back in 2004 Dave Sifry said he’d take care of this.

Apparently 2007 is the Year of MuniFi.  I know Esme Vos will be excited.  I am too.  I’ve been waiting for this sort of infrastructure for a LONG TIME.  Maybe now we can get on with building Citizen oriented DLAs - for all.  Now I guess I’ll HAVE to go to Esme’s conference in March.

Mikel Maron has been a rebel from an early age.

Top 10 sex memes of 2006, by Violet Blue

danah boyd is afraid of ’social network fatigue.’  Hah!  I predicted that a few years back.  But I also know that humans are both Lemmings and migratory beasts.  Just as soon as one fad dies down, another SNS and place will emerge, smaller, better and more refined. This whole Pandora’s box has been opened - and it’s not closing.  It’s just gonna get smaller and more niche-like.  That’s why we’re in the business we’re in and trying to enable these smaller networks.

Lucas Gonze reports that what HE was talking about is slightly different from compound documents - as they’re still evolving.  We’ll stay on top of this issue - as it grows, festers, morphs and finally finds traction.  As Lucas points out- RSS came after blogging, so there’s core stuff that needs to arise FIRST before any fancy new document formats arise.  I agree.

After a long tirade (well actually its more of a discourse) Kaliya agrees with me - that we’ve been waiting for attribute sharing ‘for a while now’ and that it sure would be nice to have it - in 2007.  All this authentication and SSO stuff to me is bewildering to normal humans.  Its not enough.  We need to be able to safely, securely move data around.  Nuf said.  Just get it done.  Please.

Kaliya continues with a post on XFN and the likellihood of ‘having fun with XFN’.  I agree with Kaliya that XFN isn’t necessarily safe or secure - but what other data format do we have to use?  FOAF?  We’ll be supporting BOTH in V 1.2 of PeopleAggregator.  Kaliya pointed me to a new mail list on User Experience for OpenID.  I just joined.  I guess I should show up an this Liberty 2.0 workshop as well.  Our  approach with all these different formats, standards and efforts is to support them all.

That’s why I’m so bummed that the attribute sharing stuff isn’t done for OpenID yet.  Its time to ship V 1.2 - and where the fucking code?

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