Archive for December, 2007

24 who mattered in 2007

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

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 [...]

Video of our “Bringing Social to Software” panel

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

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

Oui Oui - We’ll all be partying like it USED to be 1999

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

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.

Back in Gurgaon now

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

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 [...]

Images of India - #1

Monday, December 17th, 2007

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

Here’s the dome at the Hotel Trident:

Coverage of LeWeb3 from France 24

Monday, December 17th, 2007

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. 

Blogging from Gurgaon

Monday, December 17th, 2007

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. [...]

Announcing GIANTmag.com

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

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 [...]

Blogging from Milan

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

 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 [...]

Panel Vlogging

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

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