Congrats and Mazel Tov to Peter Rojas on the launch of RCRD LBL
The digital cognoscenti were all drinking from Om Mailk’s NewTeeVee cup this week- while Mogulus live streamed it. Pretty cool.
Looks like the Beatles catalog will finally be available on-line - before we die and get old.
All sorts of social stuff came […]

Fred Wilson just posted something insinuating that Hotmail, AIM and otehr on-line IM and email systems can be ‘converted into social graphs.  Or ARE social graphs.
We tried that at AOL.  Its called AIMpages.
Sure the execution was wanting and it was never marketed - but it points at exactly what Fred Wilson missed: “people are not […]

I created this video for Seesmic - and I was tired of dorky head shots.

Roger Benningfield left a very articulate comment on my last post, pointing out to me that the Facebook privacy shroud is as much about you moving your friends around then others getting access to your own profile data.
I totally agree.  Perhaps Roger probably hasn’t heard my rap on ‘opting in’ as an important ingredient to […]

I’ve heard this excuse before - coming out of Mark Zuckerberg’s mouth - that Facebook’s privacy was the main reason why they were NOT letting those same users have access and export their own social graph with unique identifiers.
I am in a situatiion myself - where I have now collected a crucial list of industry […]

Did I tell yah that wild Turkeys come in flocks up around my house all the time? We have to be careful not to run them down. But they’re too dam scrawny to eat!
Waxy moves on.
Oooops - maybe I’d better reconsider that TOI launch tour!
Special Theme: Social Network Sites 
Now that the last of […]

There’s a war raging on out there and I ain’t talking ’bout Pakistan, Palestine, Iraq or Darfur. I’m talking ’bout the war over openness - open platforms and access to end-user’s data and social graphs.
Its a war over money, Ads and Widgets. New eco-systems which breed VCs, greed and acquisitions. […]

I’m finally in town for a Scott Beale party.

Friday - at Varnish Gallery - 7-12

The only thing to do after a night of blogging, is start off the next day with even more blogging. Simple goal - read all your feeds and clean out your InBox.
An Open Facebook API versus OpenSocial - is gonna get me in the right mood today. Today is the day I […]

My wife has gone to a woodwind quintet rehearsal (she’s a Basoonist) - so here I am, got the kids to sleep and so now I have some time to blog……
But no - its not 100 degrees out, 95% humidity and I’ve just finished a 30 hour rampage. Though at times - I have […]