I’m blogging today from a rainy PICNIC in Amsterdam. Don Hopkins is somewhere around - I can feel his vibe. Peter Mitchell is rocking and they’re adoring David Weinberger. Some nice Dutch lady came up to me and asked “are you David Weinberger?” and I said “No - but all old Jewish guys […]

NOTE to Dave Winer - Twitter is not a social network.  No formal friending, just voyeuristic non-reciprocated following.  No galleries or widgets and no groups - dude.  Without groups it ain’t no social network.  IMHO
I have to wonder - as its not clear is Mike Arrington did - how many of these 100k Ning networks: […]

Making a New World - Doc Searls

Great welcome blog post - Chris Alden
danah and I are on a panel together in Amsterdam - PICNIC
I guess we’d better make sure that Broadband Mechanics is not a “me too” company - anybody who really knows me should know that’s not an issue
Me too - I want the […]

Man oh Man - I’m like a kid in a candy shop. Where do I start?
Fred Wilson aptly points out that one’s social graph is everywhere - in Twitter, in your blogroll or MyBloglog - and especially in your email contacts list. Hopefully Fred knows that my open letter to Zuckerberg was just […]

Marc Andreessen’s post on ‘the three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet’ outlines what he sees as three levels of platforms available today.
I totally agree with Marc with one condition - a Level 3 platform does NOT have to be hosted, centralized Solaris driven Opsware enhanced behemoth.
That’s what PeopleAggregator is. […]

Michael Arrington is reporting that some secret meeting happened yesterday at Google disclosing to “some luminaries” plans to offer open APIs that will expose Orkut’s and iGoogle’s profiles and social graphs - but which will eventually unite all of Google’s apps and services together.
3rd party developers will be able to use these APIs to build […]

OK dude - you’ve had your moment at TC40, the Allen and company scene, magazine covers, gotten lots of growth going on, stealing folks from Google, true leadership and all sorts of stratospheric valuations projected.
You’ve got everyone’s attention, turned down Yahoo, you’re making your VCs very happy, we now know who your sister is and […]

The whole OJ thing just seems too weird to me.
Like 9/11 and the Iraqui War - I just don’t buy this whole OJ story.
Complete speculation on my part - I just don’t believe that OJ is THAT stupid.  Why not call the cops on these folks?  If he thought they had stolen property - isn’t […]

The rewason I went to Japan was becuase I desigend a new kind of MLM (multi level marketing) system which uses cell phones and social networking. Its being implemented for the Japanese market - and used - primarily by rural, and small town folks around Japan.
They want to get access to urban products, while urban […]

I’m on the trailing edge of some breaking news - so I thought I’d put up another quick set of links and comments before I head over to Asakusa for some shopping and prayer.  Asakusa is the home of a wonder Buddha and authentic shops - which I’ve been going to for over 20 years.
There’s […]