Jeff Barr - is the guy behind Amazon’s APIs and web services. After practically inventing the open web years ago - with their basic APIs - Amazon has continued to hold their own, focusing on exactly where meatspace meets cyberspace - in selling stuff. Their S3 storage service and EC2 computing service has [...]

Her’s the video of our panel we did.  I hope you enjoy it.

I’ll be on the bus - too.
But I’m afraid Faux Grois will be impossible.
Cie la vie
Fear and Loathing - it’s the only way!
And we all get to tell Microsoft stories - once an hour.

We went down to Banglore for one day - now I’m back.
Meanwhile…..
David Recordon reports on the state of data portability and lets us know about a wecbamp on Social Network portability in Cork in March and another Mediamatic event on Federated Social Networks.
Open Source OpenSocial - by the Apache foundation = Shindig
Mary J. Blige “Growing [...]

Here’s a bunch of folks waiting in line for food:

Here’s the dome at the Hotel Trident:

These France 24 people were all over the place and actually researched their material and actually asked good questions.
Here’s a good summary of what’s going on with OpenSocial - from France 24. 

I’m here in India guests of the Times of India. I’ll speak tomorrow at the WebInnovation conference in Banglore.
Needless to say I didn’t fall asleep in Paris - but most of the VIPs never showed up for any panels - except their own. That’s a bummer cause I thought our panel was pretty coolio. [...]

One of our clients - Radio-One - the publicly traded, 2nd largest Black media company in the U.S. (after BET) just launched a social network built with PeopleAggregator.
Its called GIANTmag.com and it starts the process of building a community while republishing content from the dead-tree mag GIANT magazine. This community is going to be [...]

 I spoke at a very nice place on Thursday Circolo della Stampa.  It was basically the press club in Milan - built in the late-1700s.  I was the guest of Lehman Bros, Italia
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I ranted and raved for two hours and they ate it up.  I guess they’re not used to speakers like me.

I hate picking [...]

Here’s the video I made while up on stage at LeWeb3. Hans-Peter Brondmo is talking about users’ controlling their own data.