Marc's Voice

Mid-Jan 08 blogging #2

Coolio - turn Last.fm into a video service!

Rafe Needlemen has some interesting insights into NetVibes new ‘Ginger’ upgrade. What I wish Tariq and NetVibes would do - is further embrace the notion of a public side to NetVibes - one which engages people in a distributed mesh - without having to JOIN NetVibes. If a NetVibes member subscribed to your feed - that’s the connection. Think of it as MyBlogLog - yet NOT locked into Yahoo’s silo. MyBlogLog kind of got it right - and then disappeared. NetVibes can pick up the ball and run with it. They need Groups. IMHO. Meanwhile Stacy Higginbotham only sees Ginger as a path towards monetization - which is a good thing. Right?

Speaking of which = MyBlogLog API! Coolio! Finally!

Kaliya on the Open Social Network and also - the “We” of Identity for “Our Web” (the social graph)

Congrats to David Galbraith and family!

Zynga takedown? Gee - now here I was gonna ask some of my hacker buddies to game Zynga and create some bots and scripts to sit there all day long and pound on those “give me money’ buttons. But it looks like Hasbro will get to them first. I wonder if Fred Wilson will get his money back or if - like Tribe.net - he’ll just write it off as yet another Pincus-gate? Afterall Fred makes plenty of money on his crap-shoot investing style on non-business model plays like delicious and Twitter.
XMPP as the basis for interop in Twitterland? Any kind of interop is a good thing and using XMPP even better!

Congrats to my Slovenian buddy Andrej Nabergoj on the launch of Noovo

Before there was content, there was conversation

Captn Crunch is BACK!

Reddit goes white label - create you OWN Reddit.

Identity Gang and the Identity Commons are meeting in NYC Feb. 19th. I wonder if they’ve all decided upon “what is Identity” yet?:-)

Though I really like Jeremy Zawody - there are clearly a LOT of old guard folks at Yahoo that simply need to go away. They haven’t been able to keep up with the rest of us - how long has it been? For four-five years now? There simply is no excuse how badly those people have executed. Clearly its time to ‘put up a fight‘ or die and get bought. I like Kara’s line Yahoo can’t cut itself into greatness. They actually have to do something RIGHT now. I say flush the toilet and start over. Keep Jeremy, Caterina and Stewart - and Chad and Bradley. And Ian and Lucas of course. I can’t get Ash Patel to return my email.

Is there any connection between foldable computer screens and cellulose rolling papers found at the Grey Area? Inquiring minds wanna know!

DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix

Moxi failing. Oh gee that’s a suprise - that’s #4 in a row for Steve Pearlman. Sell it off before anybody realizes how full of shit he is. Anybody remember WebTV? How ’bout General Magic? Did you know that Steve got a patent on anti-aliased text for TV - in the mid-1980’s - while at Apple - and Apple did/has done nothing with it? So selling off Moxi to Paul Allen was just the latest of Pearlman scams. Go Steve go!

Social Software is the Platform of the Future = Dare Obasanjo 2004

Bye bye Barney Wragg - never did get that appointment with him.

Report on social networking panel at DLD in Munchen by Patrick Le Laive

CoverItLive, Quantcast, Mixercast, iPartee, Badoo, ActiveRain, hypertable, profy, OpenURL,

The only new ideas to show up at SXSW will be those folks who hire a PR flack to suck up to Hugh.

Loic is doing a panel with EIGHT - count them 8 panelists at Davos. Good luck Loic. I”m sure Mitch Kapor will have many intelligent thinsg to say. NOT.