The DataSharingSummit wiki is open. We’re asking for $25 - to filter out the ‘voyeurs’ and we’ve got a few sponsors already: Clearspring, Cerado, Leverage and AOL. Kaliya Hamlin will be facilitating. Sept. 7-8 in Richmond, CA - which is near Berkeley. I’ll be blogging on all the proposed topics throughout [...]

This recent faux paix at TechCrunch has forced our hands and caused us to finally open up our new company site.
We were waiting for a couple of our large clients to lift embargo and sign paperwork - but its more important to get the basic news out now and load up the big guns for [...]

Ask me how happy I am that we moved out of 365 Main?  The word is that 60,000 people in SF are without power.

Good luck to Ben Lavender - on leaving the Beeb and going to Lovefilm.
Social Platform summit - by Stowe Boyd

Speaking of which the DataSharingSummit wiki is open for sign-ups.
And speaking of leaving [...]

A few of us have been working on putting on an intense two days of meetings and discussions surrounding the notion of open standards for social networking.
Here’s a list of topics we’ll be discussing.  I’m gonna try and get most of the major players in the space to come.  If you’d like to contribute or [...]

Om Malik complained about Ning licking in his networks’ community data and Gina Bianchini responded - NO that’s not true! Check this out. So now we have an example of open social networking that works! Ning has shown that by taking the high ground and doing the right thing - all good [...]

Now that I’m back from India - I’m heading to meetings in Zagreb, Milano and Londra (that’s London in Italian.)
But meanwhile………….
Welcome to Owen Thomas - you got it right dude - with your five rules.  Things will get even more interesting around here with you taking over from Nick.
It’s been 10 years since blogging began.   [...]

Whoever said I can’t get out on the dance floor and boogie? Like I told many of the young people there - “I was dancing at the Mudd Club before you were born!”

Here’s the happy couple. Gaurav is one of the founders of Tekriti Software - our development partner. Palak - the wife- is a [...]

We’ve decided to biforcate into two camps - one for hackers to hack, the other for folks to discuss mapping schemas and protocols and to work on interop utilizing the Attribute Exchange.
Stay tuned for more details - but we’re still shooting for Sept. 8-9 in the Bay Area. Kaliya Hamlin will facilitate.
UPDATE: We don’t want [...]

I came here to go to a wedding reception of my partner Gaurav and his new wife Palak.
At the party - Arvind - one of our senior coders was telling a story of his experiences in the States when he came to visit us.
“So I tell them I’m a Vegetarian, and they offer me en [...]

So a major reason for being here in Trieste is to be near clients in Europe and our dev team in India. We’ve also been lining up resources in Prague, Budapest, Zagreb and Ljubljana.
I want to make sure Broadband Mechanics is a truly International company - as the dollar keeps slipping and almost nobody [...]