End of March ‘07 links
Broadband Mechanics is having an offsite this week and next, diving into finalizing our new version of PeopleAggregator and closing up some new networks for customers. So I’ll be light blogging - for sure.
Staci Kramer asks “What Happens When MySpace Turns Out To Be Their Space?” Its great to see others paying atention to the dangers of lock-in platforms. Its just a matter of time until that’s clear to their 150M users - as well.
People Engage More With Small, Branded, Well-Lit Communities - I think its time we ask ourselves “does Metcalfe’s law apply anymore?” Shouldn’t it be quality over quantity that matters? [via Pierre]
I love this way of trying to understand what Cisco is up to: “John Chambers does not want to leave Cisco a $25-a-share company” - is that simple. Growth today has to come from moving up the stack and extending the notion of what infrastructure is. That’s what Cisco is doing. Paul Kedrovsky groks that.
The NetVibes Universal Widget is making its way out. We’ll be supporting it, for sure. Now we need access to the entire data structure of one’s NetVibes account - to faciliate movement between other dashboard systems - like PageFlakes. Clearly these widget aggregator platforms are a key part of the base spec for DLAs - and it’s important that Tariq and company keep their leadership fresh - by helping to create and promulgate a format that can represent one’s dashboard settings. Perhaps a variant of OPML? Michael Arrington puts some perspective on this - and why its important for NetVibes to keep their edge and keep pushing the envelope forward.
Elgg is now eduspaces.net and they continue to add more features and functionality. Go for it guys and gals! Congrats!
And Congrats to Paul Boutin to becoming an editor - again. Hmmm ideas for Wired. Hmmmmm - maybe me, you and Kourosh should do lunch.
Julian Bond is calling out for interop testing for the Attribute Exchange. We’ll be ready ONCE we ship V 1.2 - but not before then. Anyone else got Attribute Exchange code ready to be tested? Contact Julian.
Kaliya points out that OpenID is going mainsream. I’m absolutely convinced that all those USA Today readers have been waiting for a secure, safe way to authrenticate their digital identities. Yup. Solution to their problem. NOT!
Where is OpenAttributes? Seems that Phil Windley, Kaliya, Julian Bond, Gunnar Peterson, Dick Hardt, the JanRain folks and myself are all in agreement.
The Rise of Lifestyle Media: Acheiving Success in the Digital Convergence Era - by Price Waterhouse Coopers
Kincafe, Kaneva, Userplane Userlist, Socialzr (apparenrly still a mess), OthersOnline, MyToons, Jaxtr, IntroNetworks
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Amazon S3 & EC2: What’s the Endgame?
And maybe its time to unstick some of that stuck tech? But that would require certain invitations and welcome arms open.