While the rest of California burns, we here in Walnut Creek immediately get green grass growing up all around - as soon as it rains.
So I used this photo as an excuse to change my header and to spell Marc’s Voice - the English way.

I’ve left it up as Marc’s Voce since the summer - [...]

Valleywag is so bored they got nothing else to do but blog about boring conferences.
I’m not surprised that Mike Arrington forgot about some speech he had to give - he did that to us in Amsterdam in June.
But Dave Winer says it best “there’s just nothing to do” at these conferences - which is why [...]

Its that time of year again.  My best wishes go out to all our friends, colleagues and customers - in India.
Here’s a great intro to Diwali and a comic book featuring Superman - giving a gift to India.

100,000 Facebook Ads and I can’t find one. Argh - they’re not live yet!

Well we all certainly know why Google moved up their OpenSocial announcement - from Nov. 5th (yesterday) to last week. They wanted to one-up SocialAds - Facebook’s new sector KILLER ad system!
It was actually kind of childish and vindictive of [...]

Thanks again to Kara for the coolio video interview. I seem in a good mood.
The HiveLive LiveConnect Community Platform - is another example of ‘bringing social to software’.
eVectors announces ‘Pages’
We went to see the ‘final cut’ of BladeRinner in NYC. It was amazing. The funnest part was trying to find the differences between [...]

Take a look at this video - I had fun creating it with Kara on the day Google announced OpenSocial.
Kara didn’t give me top billing (that honor goes to Max Lechin) but who am I to complain?  I’m just an over the hill has-been who had his :15 minutes - 15 years ago.   But being [...]

Just got back from an OpenSocial social at Plaxo - where Plaxo showed off their compatibility with OpenSocial APIs.  We got to discuss a little about ‘bringing social to software‘ - as I see all this as just a precursor to a 2008 where social features will creep into all forms of sotware.
Plaxo certainly agrees.
Robert [...]

Paolo Valdemarin - my partner in Italy - has a great write up in BlogNation on his company eVectors - and their new direct in-page editing technology, they call ‘Pages’.
I wouldn’t call OpenSocial - limiting and crippling. In fact I do think of it - as enabling and empowering. So I guess that [...]

Now that MySpace, SixApart and Bebo have joined Orkut, Friendster, Ning, Xing, Slide, RockYou, iLike, hi5, LinkedIn, Tianji, Engage, Flixter, Plaxo, Oracle, Viadeo and Salesforce - among others - it looks like the OpenSocial juggernaut is steamrolling along. Now we just gotta hear from Yahoo, Microsoft and - Facebook.
Facebook claims Google hasn’t even asked [...]

My blog attracts the kind of nerds who actually understand what’s going on with OpenSocial, Facebook and the world of open social networking. One of those nerds is Julian Bond of Ecademy. Julian is a far sited individual who worked with us on FOAFnet - to utilize FOAF to facilitate moving user’s data [...]