In Milan, then Venice, now back to Trieste
Been enjoying ‘la dolce vita‘ while getting work done with clients, potential resellers and speaking engagements. Everybody wants to talk about social networking - around the world. That’s why we’re here in Europe this summer. I don’t want to be known as yet another silicon valley startup.
Meanwhile back in the States AOL has webcast the winners of their TopCoder contest.
Tim Draper’s kids are making videos (and getting paid for it.)
It seems that Chris and Tom (of MySpace) want a raise. I guess they weren’t taken care of - with the purchase. Anyone who gets bought for $580M shouldn’t have to ask for a raise!
And meanwhile Yahoo and AOL’s attempt to siphon off TV Ad dollars isn’t working.
The Beeb’s iPlayer is actually gonna launch! That’s been the BBC’s greatest challenge - to actually ship. But now it looks like they ARE! Congrats folks!
And I actually don’t think Facebook is gonna sell. Looks like its IPO time!
And thank goodness the Spice Girls are getting back together again! The new O2 dome looks coolio!
Boris Mann thinks Twitter should be rewritten using jabber - and Dave says we should ‘federate’ with Twitter. I agree with both of them. The APIs and protocols should transcend the tech details and give us a meshed, distributed world.
the real story of JPG magazine - ouch
Soundpedia, Beatles downloads, 51.com,
Check out Paolo’s little video thing he did.
It’s an International world - and we’re all part of it. Not just folks who live off of 101 and 280.