Valleywag is reporting on a new Google Home page design which includes Mail on the main menu bar and adds Calendar to their ’suite’ of webapps within easy reach on a drop menu menu. These additions, along with integration of a customizable Google  ’start page’ (otherwise known as a NetVibes/Pageflakes killer) will officially launch […]

MySpace for business from SalesForce.com
When Social Web Tools Get Creative 
Somebody better tell Sam Sethi that ‘enabling’ folks to have OpenID accounts ain’t the same as them having one. And even less of them actually USE the account.
OpenLaszlo 4.0 released - with Ajax output. Congrats folks!
Apollo gets competition - more Open?
Hugh Macleaod in a […]

IBM continues to show they grok it. This just in from a Xerox source:
March 22, 2007
IBM Helps Developers Form Social Networks
IBM announced new resources designed to help developers form social networks to work together more collaboratively and accelerate the software development process.
According to a press release on IBM’s Web site, the new […]

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 […]

It’s the anniversary of the war and I’m constantly reminded that I was raised with a war raging on, only in Vietnam, not Iraq. Its too bad that we aren’t faced with the horific details on TV every night, but I guess speculating on Anna Nicoles’s death is more entertaining. Our country […]

I’m confused. What is Grand Central? Is that Apollo alpha. A pre-cursor or just something everyone wants to forget about? Google remembers it - 611k mentions of it - in fact. Others panned it back then.
Now how come no one else is mentioning it now?
Hey John Dowdell - need evidence? You […]

I’ve had to advise more than one client on the validity, importance and threat of Friendster’s ’social networking patents’.
This thorn in our side is aggrevated because there’s no way in hell anyone is ever gonna buy Friendser, so it’ll never reap it’s VCs the kind of return they had hoped for. Everybody knows that […]

I just got off the phone with yet another potential client - who is complaining of the treatment they’re getting from Five Across. This is starting to be a pattern we’re seeing:
- Five Across signs up some big media customer
- they miss their deadlines, they make promises about a next generation platform coming on-line
- […]

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 […]

So it should not be surprising that the paid Apollo supporters reacted to my post on their lock-in platform. I bet there’s a budget line item somwhere that’’s committed to squashing silly truth bearers like myself.
But I do want to respond specifically to John Dowdell - the head Macromedia blogger. He asks “what […]