If you like Saganaki, Gyros and beautiful raven haired women - then perhaps you need to make it to Greek town (in Chicago)  on Dec. 15th for the launch of Portokalada - a Greek-American SNS created by Peter Quintus and team.
Pete is one of our best independent developers and is incredibly helpful on our dev [...]

Right at the end of the conference - Google held a session on OpenSocial.
If ever there was a reason to call it OpenGadgets - this was the session. All they were interested in talking about was iGoogle, Gadgets and all these gadgets which were iGoogle compatible. I’m not sure if they even [...]

The video isn’t up yet but here are some photos and comments from our panel on:
“Bringing Social to Software” - at LeWeb3 this week in Paris:
I had at least 25+ people come up to me and tell me it was their favorite panel.
Here I am handing the mic to Robert Scoble - who asked the [...]

Today is the panel I organized at LeWeb3. It’s entitled “bringing social to software” and it will cover a trend which I believe will continue to become more and more prevalent and obvious throughout 2008.
The paradigm of social networking works great for dating, having fun and discovering new and old friends. But we’re [...]

New version of NetVibes: Ginger - coming soon.
This is a form of opening up.  Facebook now sends the body of  a message into your email InBox - so you don’t HAVE to go into Facebook to read it.  Now THAT’s open!
What’s new in OpenID2 - the bar has been raised even further.  We cam commence [...]

I’ve been so heads down getting Sac Kings and Bell Canada out the door and our ‘RadioMini‘ SNS up as well, I haven’t had time to focus on OpenSocial.
I knew once it was prematurely announced,. that the Nov. 1st announcement was more about stealing thunder from Facebook Ads and laying the groundwork for Android.  So [...]

Doing last minute errands for my next trip. VISA to India, haircut, new supplies, setting up appointments and of course - setting up wikis.
OpenID2 is done.  Congrats to all involved - including David Recordon, Dick Hardt, Scott Kveton and hordes of others.  OpenID accepted on 8,000 site so far.  Here’s a screen cast called [...]

Thank god I’m not featured in this video.  We consider ourselves the opposite of bubble - no VC, bootstrapped, happy customers, real revenues - backup the vision with real deployed standards and trends.
Speaking of happy customers - here’s what one of our leading developers has done - using PeopleAggregator. It’s called Portokalada.com - it’s for [...]

What a JOKE! Yahoo is adding a Facebook module to MyYahoo - yet they still can’t figure out how to a) add their own social networks or b) open up MyYahoo - this is getting pathetic guys! You told me you’d open up MyYahoo by X-Mas - you just didn’t say which year!
I [...]