Coolio new standard called the Digital Living Network Alliance with its own standards body - OpenIP Forum.  I guess those professional standards guys - still have jobs.  But its such a coolio name, I sure hope its real.  Its supposed to support the IP Multimedia subsystem standard for IPTV.  Now lets see what happens.
Marshall […]

When will Adobe/Macromedia learn?
Why would someone want to lock themselves into a proprietary, closed platform - like Apollo?
Unfortunately none of the (so-called) analyst, experts out there plugging Adobe - has brought this up yet. I’m not sure why they think that desktop based apps - connected to the Internet - are so new or […]

I just got back from the SF Virgin Superstore and everywhere you look - CD’s and DVD’s are now $10!
It seems as though the flood gates have opened. I first noticed this price point during X-Mas ‘05 at Target - where all sorts of back catalog and Best Hits compilations were positioned in end-of-aisle stands.
Then […]

Between growth, serving clients, hiring, dealing wiht investors and inventing new kinds of tools and social networks - I’ve been busy. This is one of the longest stretches I’ve gone without blogging and it feels good. Now I can read through my measly 2500 unread posts with fresh eyes.
But it’s not like I […]

Thanks to Sarah Lefton for the plug (and nice photo) and she actually spelled my name right and remembers how her career got started. Our company and product got quite a few careers started - but funny how fast people forget that stuff. You’re only as good as your last IPO round here […]

Imagine my delight when I saw this headline on the front page of the SF Chronicle yesterday:
Niche versions of MySpace — next big thing on the Internet
I love this article as it gets the message across about where we’re at right now. Its great that Marc Andressen is spending all this money to get his […]

There are plenty of arguments why the basic premise of OpenID is wrong and that it’ll never take off.
And then there are those who think we DON’T need anything more than simple single sign-on. In fact I had lunch with the CEO of SixApart (Barak Berkowitz) who said Brad Fitzpatrick is fairly skeptical of […]

PS3 Goes Social with Home Community
3 New Government APIs - I just like the SOUND of that! A HUGE percentage of our revenues moving forward - will be coming from municipalities and government agencies.
The ID community leaders are now pointing to the next stage of OpenID as an important milestone. It’s what I’ve been […]

Between 1987 and 1995 - I went to Japan over 50 times.
But I have not been back in over 12 years.
日本に行って、是非日本のブロガーの皆さんにお会いしてビジネスをしたいと思っています。よろしくお願いいたします。
I used to be represented by Dentsu. I wonder if anyone from Dentu reads this blog.  Neh?
Or if any of my old friends at Fujitsu, JVC, Sony, NEC or …………….. [insert many Japanese multimedia companies]

No I don’t wanna make my East Coast friends jealous, just point out that life in California is fairly idealic. If you’re the right coast, we’re not only the left coast - but also the correct coast.
The story can now be told - my buddies (and clients) at Clearspring just closed […]