Archive for March, 2007

Closing out March ‘07 links

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Got a nice comment from Jake a Zaadz. I really dig what they’re doing.
SixApart licenses Vox to SonyBMG
The next mashup even in London is April 24th - and I just might be able to be there - hopefully.

More links to keep the flow flowing

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

COOLIO! Dare Obasanjo discovers that only PREMIUM Yahoo Mail accounts get the full value of the new Open APIs.  Brilliant model - kudos to Yahoo for a new revenue model for us all!
Does anyone have some virtual alka seltzer for David Weinberger?
Speaking of expectations for Panama?  Yah - I assumed it would have keywords and […]

So far, so good - econSM social network is live

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

One of the great things about attending so many conferences and blogging - is that its possible to filter out the real professionals in this business, versus the wannabees and filler. Rafat Ali and Staci Kramer are some real professionals that I respect, read daily and who’s networking events I have attended.
Over 18 months […]

Its sunny and we’re shipping V 1.2 of PeopleAggregator today

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Long time coming - but we finally made it.  Gotta go write a press release now.  But first……
Since Michael Arrington is playing Tim O’Reilly at this year’s Mix07 and interviewing Ray Ozzie - publicly - I’d like to submit some questions to Michael ahead of time.  Game Michael?
$30M a month and counting
Paying homage to the […]

ID, Data movement and the Big SNS

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

This comment was left on the post where I responded to Chadblog’s question: “why would people want their social network identities tied together?”
So I went off, basically saying: “because they have their own reasons to move their data around, which include stheir friends, blog posts, media and links.”
So now he’s come back with thoughtful issues […]

Offsite links - during a break

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Desktop Apps, reborn as hybrids - Om raps it out.  But ignores the significane of WHICH platform you choose really matters.  To me - Zimbra is looking like a pretty good option.
Like a moth to the Freebase flame - by Jon Udell.  I haven’t had time to start loading up FreeBase - but I will.
Congrats […]

Broadband Mechanics offsite

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

So we’re having an offsite this week. Here’s some of the crew, others had to go home and baby sit. Its incredible to get everyone together, especially when we’re a virtual company. Kudos to Gaurav - still in India and Martin - in Germany.
Meanwhille it looks like as though we’re ready to update […]

Its turned cold as hell here - but here are some links anyway

Monday, March 26th, 2007

The future of Userland
Full offline functionality for Zimbra 
Big Media vs Brightcove 
Patti Smith: don’t cry for CBGBs, we have the ‘net
Questions to Ask Before You Pick Your Domain Name Registrar
Kim Cameron’s first i-names spam.  Another historic first.
My friend Andy Fusso got involved with helicopters, shutting down streets and…..
More ‘grab this’ activity - this time from Widgetbox. 
NBC.com […]

Why would people want their social network identities tied together?

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

Dr. Chadblog asks:
marc one question, why would people want their social network identities tied together? i mean - your average joe kind of wants his linkedin and myspace and plenty offish identities separate if you ask me.
Good question and I’d like to spend some time making it VERY clear under what circumstances I see this […]

Uniting ID systems together

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Mike Jones (of Microsoft) reports (on the meta-identity maillist) that:
Today - at Novell’s BrainShare conference Novell demonstrated an Open Source Identity selector on the Macintosh and Linix hat supports the same Information Cards as Windows Cardspace (and more, such as cards backed by OpenID.)
See Dale Olds’ post http://virtualsoul.org/blog/2007/03/23/all-your-infocard-are-belong-to-us/ describing the Open Source Identity […]