I have this memory of Kara Swisher yelling out “Get a Canter Tazer” as I was blurting out and interrupting the iLike guy at the party the other night. I was flabbergasted that this kid was lauding Facebook by claiming that Facebook was “the web”.
So Kara yelled back. She felt that I [...]

The Rapleaf guy got attacked at our DataSharingSummit and he insisted that they do NOT expose emails or sell them. Then folks asked “prove it!”
I finally got to meet a fresh faced Mark Zukerberg at this party. He told me I was one of his heroes. I told him I was [...]

I’m reporting to you live from beautiful Richmond, CA - in the middle of no where at the DataSharingSummit. Lots of great things are being talked about, including:
- Google has asked what folks want in terms of Social Media APIs….
- And Dare Obasanjo wanted everyone to know that Microsoft respects everyone’s personal data, will [...]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - Apple is an evil company. They don’t care about YOU or software developers. They see their customers as junkies they can continue to sell heroin to. Just cause they make great products and the world’s best OS doesn’t change that fact - [...]

If so - please put your name into the wiki - we’re trying to count heads for lunch and dinner.
We’ll ask folks for cash - to help pay for this food.  Drinks and space are courtesy of Inovis (Thanks Mukund!)
We’ve got 50 people on the list - so far.   People are coming in from England [...]

A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web
Authored by Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington
September 4, 2007
We publicly assert that all users of the social web are entitled to certain fundamental rights, specifically:

Ownership of their own personal information, including:

their own profile data
the list of people they are connected to
the activity [...]

I’ve been working on and off - on a ‘Proposed Topics‘ page on our wiki.  Hopefully otehrs will contribute to this page - as we approach this coming Friday.
Now that we’re less than a week to go - here is a summary of topics which I think will be hot at the Summit:
- Brad Fizpatrick [...]