I slipped and fell while getting onto a boat today- so I won’t be swimming anymore here - though I am planning on swimming later on in Walnut Creek, when I get back home. But first its one more trip to London and then Gnomedex and NYC before I finally get home in mid-August.

Meanwhile,,,,,

Here’s a webcam of the collapsing bridge in Minneapolis.

There was a panel on the future of social networking and Gina Bianchini (of Ning) said that there will be millions of niche networks, and she disagreed that people will want a single profile–they’ll want to have identities for different social networks. I think there will be both - single compound profiles, but also mutiple persona as well. There’s no reason we can’t have a world of both.

Dare Obasanjo maps out 3 different Cloud OSes.

Scoble believes Plaxo’s hype. But at least he’s starting to understand the space. I wonder if he’ll ask Tony Perkins who invented GoingOn?

Paolo served vegetarian food tonight.

Yelp APIs. Coolio. Gee I wonder where all those microformats are out there? Oh yah - they’re only page tags. Now who has those tagged pages? Oh yah - Technorati and all those search engines. And where are all the APIs for all those events, reviews and people? I guess Tantek never got to that. But Yelp did!

“The future of social media is the user, not the portal. Permeable borders are the next stage of social media evolution, now that PeopleAggregator, Ning, and KickApps have commoditized the basic functionality.” - Chris Keane

Mr Wong, Startforce,

The Economist has ended their efforts at creating a social network. If I could count how many media companies we’ve worked with who have chickened out - well lets just say this doesn’t surprise me.

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