Words of wisdom from a wise 23 year old - Matt Mullenweg.

Dare Obasanjo thoroughly goes through all the things OpenID is good for. As I’ve said before - all this techy, geeky stuff is coolio - but until normal humans can move their data around - we ain’t there - yet. But please do read what Dare has to say - he’s geeky, he’s nerdy and he’s Microsoft. Its also funny to think that OpenID is Technorati’s little darling. It may be more like Tantek’s bitch.

They’ve got Ismail. Salim goes to Yahoo - good for him. And Yahoo. No wonder he was waving at me out of his car the other day on 101.

The first episode of ‘the Tudors’ is up. On Brightcove - too.

Nik Cubrilovic figures out that there are too many providers of aOpenID ID’s. No shit sherlock! This has been obvious since the get go. When a new ecosystem evolves that’s supposed to free end-users from lock-in - the only lock-in left is the non-locking-in. This is why I call non-lock-in, the new lock-in. But seriously lets FIRST get all these providers working with each other - so one can take an OpenID they got issued from broker A - and use it at Broker B’s site. If the ID issued by any broker doesn’t work - they need to get OUTED and CHASTISED so they STOP calling themselves OpenID compliant. Then we’ll let the market evolve organically. I predict that ALL major vendors will be issuing OpenID ID’s - but that (as I mention above) don’t mean doodley. That’s just a beginning. The bottom layer of the stack.

I knew this woould happen. Bud goes out there - spends all this money - hires two PR firms to push their hussle, yet everyone sees it as yet another SNS and promotion. If Anheuser-Busch wanted to influence the blogosphere they should use their $30M to spread promotions around the small little sites, spreading around some of those good juicy goo goo beer bubbles for us all. Instead - they’ve goosed the gander and they’ll get nothing, but another Raging Cow. Great for MingleNow and the PR companies, but not so great for everyone else. Why do we need yet another TV commercial site? Someone at A-B should have figured out a distributed way to spread that money around, instead of expecting o play the MySpace game and get people to come and join their site. Ever heard of Widgets?

OK I gotta tell this story of Hossein Eslambolchi - the CEO of startup Divvio. Its my job to have a memory - and I can’t help but recall TWO Supernovas - in a row - where Kevin Werbach put his guy Hossein up on stage to brag all about the extent and power of AT&T’s network. I’ll leave all net neutrality references aside (he said NOTHING about it) but I will recant how I tried TWICE to ask this guy the same question - which he dodged both times. I asked: “Its well known that only 3% of the world’s fiber is turned on. If you control all this fiber and have such a great network, why don’t you turn on another 20%-20% of your fiber - to drive down prices?” Needless to say Kevin did nothing to force him to answer the question. IMHO it is the responsibility of a conference organizer to spurn discussion and this is an important issue. Its one thing when after one appearance he runs off the stage and hides. But two times in a row - that’s inexcusable. Especially for such a big issue as “why is all that fiber dark?” This is one of the reasons my support for Kevin had diminished.

Kaliya reports on a coolio new collaborative app coming out of AOL - called ficlet. It’s OpenID enabled.

Family.com, ShowYourself, Hirise, GrandCentral, Justin.tv,

Gamervision (I wonder if Pete Cashmore knows of 1UP?)

Tee Hee Hee - I have to admit that I get delight over poking at the company that I helped co-found and who abandoned all principles of niceness and civility in exchange for buying companies, discarding founders and usurping truth and the way towards helping people improve their lives. Nothing wrong with profits, but money is not the most important thing in the world (please don’t tell that to John Doerr and his teenage daughter.) Meanwhile I still thinks Apollo sucks.

Eurekster gets cash, iVillage laucnhes a social nework (four years after Mark Graham originally brought me in), Buzznet goes sweet,

Dave Winer sets the record straight on his lawsuit with Jack Russo. I really hope these two folks can work things out. I was there during much of what Dave recanted. His contributions to our world - XML-RPC, RSS, blogging, CMS, client-side server, OPML - is still having repercussions and ramifications. The lesson here is about monetizing and exploiting. The people who invent technology rarely benefit from it - as much as the people putting that technology to use. IMHO Dave has quite a few years more in him and I’m looking forward to what he comes up with - next.

James Seng gives away ideas.

I‘m totally joining theFunded - and sharing some of my stories of these virtuous business men. And women.

Congrats to my old boss and buddy Tom Jessimon for his continued success with PicksPal and PicksPop.

Rafat pre-announces something that I can neither confirm or deny. All I know is that we’re working our asses off.

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