Greetings from Trieste, Italy - blog links #3
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 things will come to it. I applaud them on this openness and hope that they will come to our ‘DataSharingSummit’ and help us coalesce some open standards around this notion of allowing an entire social network of content, data and people - to move wherever it wishes to go!
Instead of getting rid of Irina - John Furrier should dump a bunch of those ‘other people’ - the ones you DON’T know. IMHO
Om Malik says he’s a fool for caring about the magazine her worked for - which is tubing. He shouldn’t be. Without folks like Om - we wouldn’t be where we are today. I really became aware of Om when he wrote the cover story on OddPopst and how the path to liquidity is through acquisitions, not IPOs. He told me he worked on that article for two years. I believe him. Now I read Gigaom everyday.
Its coolio that Facebook has started buying companies. But I guess they’re using stock - right?
Yahoo Music Videos on Facebook - from FaceReviews…..
Seedcamp is starting to gain traction. Kudos to Saul Klein and others for getting it going!
Everything that is old becomes new again - and everything that was hip - gets old fast. I can’t wait till Sergey and Larry are has beens, Jerry Yang brings back Yahoo and Larry Ellison’s yachts sink. Lots of great people just stop caring while others come out of no where to change the world. This especially goes for restaurants.
Congrats to ICTV and Michael Taylor for getting some coverage from Arrington. Michael was a partner of mine, our kids were raised together, he was coach of our kid’s soccer team and ICTV was an early client of ours. Now he’s a big shot at ICTV.
How come I just don’t trust Google and their ‘open wireless pitch?