It’s really hot and muggy here - as if summer has not gone anywhere. I did a second event last night in Osaka (firs one was in May) - which I was warmly welcomed - and swarmed by adoring fans who ALL wished to have their photo taken with me.  This crowd is actually from [...]

Congrats to the Scobles.  Nuf said.
Coolio LeWeb3 badges - meet you at the Buddha Bar.
FWIW I bet Valleywag is right and that Adam Bosworth is going to Facebook.
I bet I was the FIRST to reply to Russ’s plea.  It popped up on my reader and I immediately emailed him. If we don’t hire him - [...]

I’s simple.  Give us full APIs - both sucking and spitting - of MyYahoo info. It’s not your info, it’s ours. The end-users - who have made you so successful over all these years - own our data - so just free it up, let us do what we want with it and you might [...]

Jason Calacanis stopped by to inform me that indeed it does NOT cost money to be on stage at TechCrunch40.

My bad - sorry.  Never mind.

Doc Searls sent this to a bunch of us.  I’ve been reading through his other blogs and I don’t see it - so I thought I’d reprint it here. I’m sure he won’t mind.
As with all stories, all narratives, there is the matter of framing.
For too long we have framed the Net — especially in [...]

Doc Searls’ ‘Bill of Necessities’ and Mary Hodder’s Social Media User’s Bill of Rights - take #2 are two posts that are reverberating throughout the blogosphere started with our Bill of Rights for users of the social web. The BoR itself is going through a rewrite its verbiage is completely vetted, consensus is [...]

This is how open conversations happen in the blogosphere.
I make unsubstantiated claims and accusations, ranting and raving (I don’t drink alcohol - this is actually how I am in real life) demanding attention like some spoiled brat - pouting over being yelled at, misunderstood or the worst - ignored.
And some come back and defend [...]

If you look at the top of our corporate web site - you’ll see the phrase ‘bringing social to software’. Its our positioning saying “sure we can buid you a stand alone social network - but we can also add social features to the web site you have already”.

We do this with a widgetization process [...]

OK - so I ‘m stuck blogging, waiting for my family to get back from Church (Unitarian-Universalist) so we can go have dim sum.
I started this post on “What Adobe should do” after seeing that they previewed online versions of Photoshop.  How long did that take them to figure out - what?  Five years?  Ten [...]