In NYC now - links
There are so many clients here who need our product and services - I just LOVE NYC!
Mark Hendrickson of TechCrunch has published his survey of downloadable social networking solutions. He’s fixed many of the mistakes he published from his last post on hosted networks and simply published the survey I helped him evolve - for downloadable solutions. This time he doesn’t add any ‘editorial’ opinion. He uses terms of ours like ‘widgetization’ (our term for what we’re doing) without crediting us (but that’s OK) - and he alludes to our SaaS service as well. Too bad he doesn’t mention that we’re the only company on both lists. Maybe customers will figure that out. All in all is clear its a crowded space. One thing he doesn’t compare is flexibility in pricing and willingness to do customization. We’ve gotten most of our customers that way - since many of these companies refuse to customize and stick to their templates. Congrats to GoLightly, Omnifuse, Pringo, Social Platform and Telligent - for supporting OpenID!
Speaking of OpenID - I asked Dare Obasanjo if he could come to our DataSharingSummit on Sept. 7-8. Turns out he’s getting married - so congrats to Dare! He post a typically eloquent and well thought out analysis and Proposal with OpenID and then he says “it will never happen!” This is what comes from working at Microsoft too long! If I was Ray Ozzie I’d IMMEDIATELY make sure to prove Dare wrong. Microsoft NEEDS us and we’ll all like them better - if they support OpenID. Kim Cameron (of Microsoft) is making sure Cardspace supports OpenID - now we need to gateway to Dare’s Live Spaces platform and Passport.
Future of Business Media - NYC Oct. 30th
Getting social networking sites to socialize
Fellowforce - open innovation platform
Double standard with MySQL. That’s why we did our own license, as I don’t like the idea of a dual license approach.