In response to Dave Winer stating that he doesn’t think Google’s OpenSocial approach will work let me point out that Google is indeed not trying to control end-user’s data.
They are leaving that to each and every social network ‘host’ that supports and participates in this ‘open community’ (which is how it has ot be IMHO.)  [...]

Well well well - the wars have begun. Just as Facebook announces SocialAds - Google moves up their launch date and announces (kind of) OpenSocial.
Originally slated for Nov. 5th, Facebook’s attack on Google’s family jewels must (obviously) have prompted them to start to sneak details of OpenSocial - the APIs I was disclosed on [...]

The best part of not being disclosed on some upcoming Google social network is that you can wildly speculate without breaking any sort of covenant.
So I have no idea what Maka-Maka is - but it sounds totally coolio!
The challenge of Google’s open APIs for social networking is that no one uses Orkut anymore. But [...]

I’ll be home for Halloween but in the mean time I’m sitting in a hotel room, watching the World Series and cleaning out my aggregator starred items.
We held a standing room only ad hoc sessions at PICNIC in Amsterdam at the end of September on ‘open social networking’.  Here’s a video summarizing the session by [...]

I read with joy and exultation Jeff Jarvis’ post on Yahoo as a Platform. It seems like Jeff and myself are totally in agreement when it comes to what open platforms are all about.
Jeff has been asking Yahoo to open up and not just copy Facebook’s ‘lock-in’ strategy - which only exposes the user’s [...]

There are reports that Facebook is about to get another $500M from some NYC headge funds (I’m here in NYC right now.)
But what about the hippie hedge fund dude - Roger McNamee and his Elevation Partners fund? I highly recommend that Facebook take money from Roger not because I’m getting a kickback, but because Roger [...]

Now that the deal has closed - we can look back and realize that $240M is just interest on Microsoft’s T-bills.
What happened to the $500M deal?

Caught a cold at Web 2.0 - shaking the wrong people’s hands - evidently.
Meanwhile…..
I just bought a webcam to fully test seesmic.
Always remember - humans are migratory beasts.
The season of social network platforms
I agree with Om - that home networks will need LOTS of bandwidth for the future. Multiple lines will be coming in [...]

His nose, his eyes - its clear who his Mom is.
And he’s not a thing - but a bubbling baby boy.
Goo goo Gah Gah 

November is gonna be a big month for Broadband Mechanics. The network we did for the Future of Business Media conference is live. We’re hiring, we have three large sites going live in November and///
Well lets just say that the world is starting to “bring social to software” and that’s what we [...]