I’d like to extend hearty congradulations to Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini on figuring out how to get a $170M pre-valuation on Ning!
I think the secret is that the majority of the money seems to be coming from not a VC firm - but a private equity firm named Legg Mason.  I totally dig this […]

Wow! - I’ll leave the congrats to another post and first focus on how your recent investment can be turned into helping us all out.
I know the majority of your cash will be used for new features, infrastructure and hanging in for the long haul - but ‘just a little bit’ could be earmarked to […]

I wrote an op-ed piece for CNet. Here it is. Unless it’s not clear - all this stuff is in our product PeopleAggregator and this is our marketing:
Looking over the landscape of recent blog posts on open social networking, it’s clear that folks are interested in connecting together some of their disparate accounts […]

Had a great day NOT doing touristy things, just enjoying la dolce Vita.  Went to Murano to buy Gaurav a wedding present.

The winged Lion is the symbol of Venice.  This is in Piazza San Marco - one of the world’s most famous places.

There’s a cemetery in the middle of the Venetian Lagoon.

A glass tree in […]

Turns out VideoCounter is tracking who’s looking at your videos - across different video hosting sites. Wouldn’t it be coolio to have one app to UPLOAD videos to multiple sites?
Now tell me again how one vendor’s actions don’t affect another vendor? Or cause vendors to start thinking differently? Doesn’t this prove that […]

Now that I’ve had some time to catch up, I’ve just read Jason Kotke riff on Facebook as the new AOL - and I want to assure you all that he was not paid by me to say these things.   Jason is describing social networking APIs.  We just happen to have social networking APIs […]

The conversation should not be about which is better - Twitter or Pownce and who will support who - but “how can we achieve interop BETWEEN Pownce and Twitter?”
And 100 other ‘clones’.
None of this functionality is rocket science. The challenge comes in establishing relationships ACROSS vendor’s offerings - which just happens to be the exact […]

The medical Marijhuana Law in new Mexico requires the state to grow it’s own supply.

“The long-term goal is that the patients will have a safe, secure supply that doesn’t mean drug dealers, that doesn’t mean growing their own,”

 The article also had this little bit in the sidebar……………
 

Dale Rogers displays different types of marijuana available […]