I had a great Wednesday asking questions of both Mark Zuckerberg and Chris DeWolfe. First we did a workshop on ‘open data’ and then I made a nuisance if myself by insisting on asking the same dam question - twice.
“Will you please expose the unique identifiers of one’s friends to use via your APIs […]

My son Jacob has been around - it’s in the genes.  Here he is in Oaxaca last summer (where they were rioting and taking it to the streets):

and here he is in Mali this summer:

(where clearly they like to do Kung Fu fighting……)

Joseph Smarr, Tariq Krim and myself did a workshop on ‘Open Data’ today at the Web 2.0 Summit.
It was well attended given the 8:30 in the morning slot. This was the fourth year in a row that I did this sort of panel at Web 2.0. Brian Dear was there - and reminded me […]

Yesterday at Web 2.0 I did a workshop on ‘Open Data’ (with Joespeh Smarr (Plaxo) and Tariq Krim (NetVibes) and asked 2 questions of the big shot social networking CEOs - Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and Chris DeWolfe (MySpace.)
I asked them both essentially the same question: “will you allow us developers access to your end-user’s profile […]

One woman’s wangling is another (old has been’s) diss.

There’s this interesting moment when folks are streaming into a large ballroom vying for the best seats to sit down.  I’m walking in, I see Kara and think “OK - this is gonna be a coolio table” (as it was at the iLike party.)
So I […]

I often talk about ‘digital lifestyle aggregation’ and my vision of Portals 2.0.
Now I’d like to respond to a post Fred Wilson has up today - where he credits Jeff Pulver’s for the term social media living room.
I spend a lot of time with customers - working through their dreams and visions of how they […]

PopTech, Widget Summit and Web 2.0 all are this week. And other happenings as well. Coolio - I say. I wonder if anything significant will be said. One thing I can say for sure = I’m no dam LobbyConner!
Why do you think I always speak at these things - […]

It looks like the world of open platforms is becoming a marketplace unto itself. Facebook has opened up the Pandora’s Box - and if MySpace isnt gonna copy them, well then you can sure as hell bet that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft will - in addition to LinkedIn hi5, Bebo and Tagged.
What will be […]

I’ve had 3 calls today from people asking me to verify whether or not MySpace is really opening up.
All I can say is “My Buddy Dan Gould hasn’t called me - yet”
Now I hate to say I told you so - but I have this memory of talking to Ross Levinsohn at a Rafat Ali […]

I love NYC. All I have to do is plug into the sidewalk and live off the energy it emanates.
I got to see the new NY Times building yesterday, it was intense. Next up - St. Marks and Thompkins Sq park. Got to get some chicken cutlet, corn and kasha & varniskas.
Meanwhile…..
The […]