So I was sitting here trying to figure out who is evil, who has our best interests in mind and who we can trust.  Afterall Facebook is a company you love to love and then you hate them.  Apple is a company I’ve hated for years - yet many people love them.
Its hard to find [...]

My virtual Blue Beenie hat is on.
DataPortability.com looks coolio. I’ve asked if I can contribute as well.
How long did it take for this to finally happen? Fox is going to leverage it’s MySpace Ad Network across all it’s media properties. And if those ‘hyper-targeted’ ads actually work - prepare for Fox’s profits to [...]

Whenever Doc creates a major post - he gets all sorts of feedback. So I’ve learned to wait a day before responding - and sure ‘nuf a whole bunch of stuff explodes around Doc’s post. And since Jason Calacanis used my name (and even mispelled it) I feel even more obligated to weigh [...]

I think we should officially name this day “Shopping Day“.  Entire industries and research groups live to analyze today’s commerce results and use today’s ‘behavior patterns and financial results” as a litmus for the rest of each season’s Holiday “results”.  The whole thing is reduced to money and “God bless them for it.”
So for today’s [...]

So here we are, the busiest shopping day of the year and yet talking about OpenSocial is still on our radars.
I was asked by Kaliya Hamlin to make it to the next IIW (Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View Dec 3-5 ) as the Google and OpenSocial folks will be out in full force - [...]

The hypocrisy of Facebook is being disclosed. How can you on one hand hide behind the shroud of privacy - while MoveOn and others complain of privacy violations? What’s wrong with this picture?
Me on the DishyMix podcast show with Susan Bratton - it was fun.
Nov. 26th mashup* in London
Joi Ito shares with us [...]

We’re up in Eureka, CA right now.  We droive up the coast and took a few shots to share with you.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Morning

Garden

Coast
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Tree - a big tree - 2,400 years old

APOLOGIES to all my kosher peeps - including my son Aryeh and Bobby Orbach. This recipe includes pork.
THANKSGIVING Stuffing:
1 ib. ground pork
4 large onions
a whole bunch of brown mushrooms
10 garlic pieces
some carrots, orange peppers, celery
a whole bunch of brussel sprouts
walnuts, raisins, apricots
off the shelf ’stuffing’ (bread croûtons - spiced or unspiced - doesn’t matter) [...]

NBC just picked up Quarterlife - which was airing on MySpace. Why? Cause of the Writer’s strike.
One week OpenSocial is the next greastest thing since sliced bread, the next week - it’s just a widget platform. And Facebook goes from being vilified, closed eveil empire - to - raising the bar once [...]

I posted a retort to Fred Wilson almost giddy extrapolation of the numbers of email systems out there today and how they dwarf the existing social networks - in terms of size of the ’so-called’ social graphs. I called it “Why email and IM systems ain’t social networks” (don’t you just LOVE my candid [...]