I had fun.
I talk about:
- Activity Based Computing
- Kreplach
- DataSharingSummit
- our business models - how we sell our product and services - and our platform
- digital lifestyle aggregation
- the evolution of the chess game we call our industry
- out upcoming client systems (going live - soon)
- interface domains
- and the incremental steps we’re […]

This is what happens when Tim O’Reilly emails Dave Winer.
Tim O’Reilly left a long, thoughtful comment on my blog saying that I shouldn’t promulgate memes that secrecy is bad’. He was referring to my post on some private meetings about open standards. “Hmmmm I thought - now why would he stop from his […]

Now I hate to say I old yah so, but Facebook’s recent release of feeds to show what your friends status is and what your friends have recently posted - is another giant step down the incremental path towards full openness.
This proves that Facebook are NOT the bad guys, but the good guys.
So what else […]

There are so many clients here who need our product and services - I just LOVE NYC!
Congrats to Alex Blum and KickApps on raising $11M more VC money - which brings to a total of $17M they’ve raised.
Mark Hendrickson of TechCrunch has published his survey of downloadable social networking solutions. He’s fixed many of the […]

Marc Shiller writes (inspired by Dave Winer) of the notion of Building Companies so that others can profit.  That’s what I did with my first company and that’s the goal of Broadband Mechanics as well.
Our developer program has started (we’ve got a wiki) and we have a mail list of PeopleAggregator developers - and a […]

Phil Pearson (our senior engineer) goes over the basic of creating a decentralized social network. The trick (besides being nerdy enough to do all this work) is to federate and connect together the networks themselves.
Groups or Networks are the glue that helps humans cluster.
I’d be interested to see if there are any other basic […]

Dare Obasanjo (as usual) hits it on the head in evaluating four different meanings and definitions of what’s known as ‘Open Social Networks’. He also extrapolates a future where open social networking is inevitable. That’s great to hear - since Dare does the social networking stuff for Microsoft’s Live platform. Now I […]

I’m struck with the behind the scenes approach that Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordan seem to be taking in discussing ’social network portability’ with some publisher guy who likes to trademark things.
This is exactly why Kaliya Hamlin and I are organizing a DataSharingSummit so that these issues can be discussed - in public - with […]

So Dave Winer got me into using Twitter - just so I could experience it. Despite my resistance, I finally succumbed and have been able to let people about my dirty laundry in a box in Paolo’s office.
Thank goodness for this utility.
But seriously - I just read Fred Wilson thanking Dave for the ability […]

Finally left the Continent after almost 3 months.
At Gnomedex now - after some great meetings in London. How come folks in the UK seem to understand me more than anywhere else?  I think it’s because once you’re outside the U.S. reality seems less distorted.
After Gnomedex we go to NYC for meetings - so I’ll be […]