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 look alike.”

Meanwhile….

Whatever…..

I love Kara’s line here - “Potential is not actual”. $10B - $15B - what’s the difference? Microsoft can afford it.

Congrats to my dear old friend Ariel McNichol for getting WAY more publicity then they ever could have gotten by actually appearing at DEMO. By being one of two companies to get kicked out of DEMO because they appeared first at TechCrunch40 - now THAT’s a badge of distinction. Ariel’s company mEgo is an intelligent avatar play - very much like what I told the folks at Wee World to do - back when they had me helping them out. But as if often the case -my ideas areway too far fetched for most people to grok. But Ariel hit it on the head! More to follow on mEgo.

Just imagine me sitting on a hill, arms outreached, smiling.

France Telecom/Orange supports OpenID - add 45M people to the mesh.

Dave Winer educates us as to the power of combining the NY Times open archive and a service like NetFlix. The possibilities are endless! What about Google maps or Amazon or a giant music database and a timeline - “what song was on the charts on THIS day?”

Eventvue does what we do - for Rafat Ali and Staci Kramer. SNS focused on conferences are very useful. They have one here at PICNIC and Chris and Ponzi had one for Gnomedex.

What? Apple get something wrong! No! It can’t be!

I really like the idea of combining language learning and SNS. LiveMocha is doing that!

Zimbra could be generating $400M in revenues by 2010. Now THAT’s what I’m talking about! You mean there’s money in white labeling an open source platform? Hmmmm

RevolutionMoney, YourTrumanShow, MuseStorm, Mig33, Odnoklassniki.ru,

Urbanspoon - restaurant reviews - I sure hope they support microformats

I have to disagree with Michael Arrington a bit. He says [when talking about Friendster)] “The only problem (if you call it a problem) is that, like Orkut, most of those users are outside of the U.S. Specifically, they’re in the Asia/Pacific region - 24 million of the total 27.4 million unique monthly visitors come from there, as do 35 million of the 50 million registered users.” DUDE - that is so NOT a problem! Friendster in Chinese is totally coolio!

Echostar buys Sling Media

Bud.tv is a great example of what happens when major brands decide to jump on the SNS bandwagon. And fuck up.

Turning point in my life - when Devo went on SNL in 1978. I was there - glued to the tube at Oberlin. My life changed at that moment and I haven’t looked back. Up until that moment I was dwelling in the valley that lies between a shrug. The world of esoteric electronic music. Devo showed me how to apply it to R&R!

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