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 Shopping Day blogging….

Facebook’s Beacon - REVEALED

I can just see Chris Messina sitting around all day long - grabbing screen shots of different user interfaces for usage flows,  design patterns, best practices support of open standards, etc.  Thanks Joe!

See!  It pays to be open. Not sure how Plaxo makes money off of that - but who cares!  It makes for GREAT copy!  Congrats ot Joseph and John and everyone at Plaxo!

Branded social networks becoming a common feature in ad campaigns

Visualizing Social Software Best Practices: three approaches

Kiosks - where meatspace meets cyberspace.  Blockbusters can become an important link in the chain connecting the TechCrunch 50k down the learning curve/behavior changing pyramid of the mainstream world.  Lots and lots of kiosks.  Everywhere - but certainly in all those Blockbuster’s locations.

DJ Spooky Digital Africa remix 

I also wonder - where is Ray Ozzie in all this.

Internet Identity Workshop - Dec. 3-5 2007 Mountain View, CA

What I’d really like Gina to tell us - of the 125k Ning networks, how many have: more than 10 people, more than 50 people, more than 150 people and of each of these categories - how many page views they’re getting - per network.  Just bragging about 125k networks - doesn’t really mean anything.  Come on Gina!

Portable Social Networks - - for who?

I’d pay to hear Jaron Lanier and Cory Doctorow go at it.   Throw in Alan Kay, Ted Nelson and Mitch Kapor and it could be a real party.  Stewart Alsop could MC.  Dave Winer’s paying for drinks.

I also was wondering my each sees-bit-twit didn’t have a permalink. It’s not blogging without a permalink.  But it took recent investor - Dave Winer - to wake them up.  Thanks Dave!

Its great to see Herr Godhead The Web-miester Mr. T B-L weigh in and quote Brad and David.  It’s all about the social graph now - long live the social graph.  Tim seems to be up on what’s up - and what we’ve been trying to do - so you can’t call him ’sleeping’ - and there’s really nothing really wrong with anything he says - so “RIGHT ON to Tim - is what I say!”  Tims influence may have waned, but he sure knows how to pontificate about eras.  With the best of them!

Meanwhile Stowe Boyd spews hatred on the term social graph and the semantic web in general.  I’m not too uptight about either - as long as we can all sing Kum Buy Yah together.  Who cares what its called - Stowe?  Just as long as we can mesh everything together - which seems to be what Tim B-L is saying.  Stowe should just ignore Tim’s FOAF plugging and the rdf-aspect of his red pilling popping discourse and appreciate that this old geezer is still rapping the rap and bringing the message to the people - like any self respecting visionary.

Speaking of Stowe - he found some interesting spam. 

Great to see Leonard Brody get some press 

This guy Boris - who Om has as a guest columnist is smoking crack.  In an enterprise kind of way.  This is what bums me out about having too much money around. It attracts opinions like this.  Please just go away.  There really is a world beyond Google, Amazon, Salesforce, Sun and Akamai.  I really kind of feel sorry for this guy - and I wonder what Cisco, EA, Microsoft, AOL, Facebook, NetFlix, MySpace, SlingBox, Bebo, TMZ, hi5, LinkedIn, Flickr and a 1,000 other clouds think of him.  Its this sort of crap shoot - make stupid investments to shoot for “it all” or nothing - that makes VCs what they are.

I agree that Yahoo’s execution has been disappointing - but I don’t think it’s as much about who they’ve BEEN hiring - as much as who’s been there forever and who just needs to leave and let the new guard take over.

L.A. ContentNext mixer in LaLa - Dec. 4th 

Lucas Gonze come sup from LaLa to speak about portable playlists - Dec. 11th = SF 

OpenDRM is snake-Oil = SyncTV 

Onaswarm, Live Documents, MyM, MyCRMcareer, WebRadioPlayer widget, Social Actions, MyNetworkValue, Synthasite, Afero
Sony is still charging developers for a Playstation SDK/development system.  You’d think they’d get a clue and PAY people to develop.

Happy Birthday to danah boyd and Linda Chan.

I tried to get Sue Decker’s kids ot play with mine - at the BrickHouse open house.  But then Lucy fell off the South Park jungle gym - almost falling into broken glass in the crack-head infested former home of the web.  So we never got our kids together.  Oh well.

Sorry Dave - Dec. 7th - I’ll be in Milan, but I’ll see you in Paris on the 10th.

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