Archive for December, 2007

10 more who really mattered in 2007 - as well

Monday, December 31st, 2007

I got allot of great response from my first list - so here’s some
I don’t care if he gets a ton of press, Robert Scoble’s journey is all our journey. Robert Twittered about the birth of his new son Milan, blogged all the things wrong at Microsoft - while working there - let [...]

Saying adios to 2007

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Sayonara 2007, auf wiedersehn, ciao bella!
$.10 a user. Is this a trend or are VC’s assigning valuation based upon registered users - again?
One trend that we’ll definitely be seeing next year - is MP3 players, digitAL video players and computers in general - in the car. After OnStar’s stupdi closed network strategy, the folks [...]

We’re 341 out of 586 in Programmable Web

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Right now we’re the featured system with an API in Programmable Web’s excellent blog on mashups, APIs and the open, programmable web.

I’ve been a fan of Musser’s since he first launched and I have this fantasy bet with John, which I actually haven’t ever formalized with him yet - but we’ve talked about it.
I [...]

Too many toys - and blogging about it

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Every year we bombard our children with toys, candy, new cloths and trinkets and keep them busy with as many activities, attractions, events and nights out as we can. For me - it was a mini-helicopter XMas.
And for many of you - you got the hell out of town and are on vacation somewhere.
CES [...]

Customized solutions or generic, off-the-shelf meta-networks?

Friday, December 28th, 2007

I gotta wonder why Mark Hendrickson didn’t dive further into the connection between Ning and PlayboyU in this recent post.
Afteralll Mark is the TechCrunch social networking expert who did two intensive surveys of white labeling services in the market.  So when the highly publicized PlayboyU network (driven by Ning) only brought in 5,000 members - [...]

Reply to Paul Montgomery…. why OpenID?

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Paul Montgomery is a chap down in Geelong, Victoria, Australia - who posted an open letter to me - on OpenID adoption. Paul is someone I’ve known for a while and he actually alerted me ahead of time to this post/open letter coming.
I’m glad to be able to answer Paul’s doubts and deal with [...]

#3 with a bullet on Techmeme and we’re in theTimesofIndia

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

UPDATE: the Site is back up. And we’re in the Times of India - today.
When I posted some announcements for our company’s progress and status in 2007, I added on a few predictions for 2008 - which is basically what I’ve been saying allot lately.
It seems that people appreciate my visioning, and I [...]

Broadband Mechanics announcement(s)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

I hate doing press releases - they seem so old school Web 1.0-ish. Scheduling appointments to go kiss Om Mailk’s or Arrington’s ring just seems so arcane to me, but it’s clearly what has to be done to get coverage. And then they assign the post to some ‘junior’ [...]

Paolo’s XMas lunch

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Here’s a slide show of Paolo’s lunch prep work

Rounding out the year - blogging

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Hey folks - its been a great year and next year will be even better. I appreciate the feedback I get from everyone - keep it coming.
Not sure how I missed this - I must have been on the road.  Facebook Platform details.   Dare’s got some good insights on all this.  I don’t see [...]