I’ve been in this chess game of social networking from the beginning. I had a design called ‘the Community Commons’ which I shopped around in 2001 and 2002 and I have prior artwork to ’social web’ applications and ‘faces being used in software’ - dating back to 1995.
My first involvement in what’s officially called [...]

Its been a hell of a summer. Totally worth it - getting out of the US is a necessary step that every one should do - often.
Kim Cameron is reporting on some successful user-centric Interop testing - via the Burton Group. This is what’s needed for OpenID - interop testing. THAT will [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been reading with interest about this new company Bug Labs - coming out of stealth.
I’ve been working on our own business plan and have this vision of embedded systems providing social networking and blogging to a world immersed in Wimax, cheap handheld devices, mobile and auto based devices, and a living room of the [...]

Dave Winer writes……

State of the Platform, 2007 edition
Wednesday, August 1, 2007 by Dave Winer.
1. The great thing about the Internet was and is that it’s the platform without a platform vendor. That’s why it has been the engine of growth and innovation for so long, over thirty years now. There’s no entity with eminent domain [...]

I’ve just read yet another article on Ning (man does their PR firm work hard!) and I’ve noticed a subtle positioning which I have never heard before.
From the ‘After selling Opsware…‘ Wired article:
Andreessen bristles at comparisons with Facebook. “(Ning) is a fully programmable platform, not just a way to inject features from the outside into [...]