Marshall Kirkpatrick is right. Yahoo annoluncing support for OpenID2 is a great first step - but NOW what will they do with it. That’s exactly what I was saying - yesterday.
Sharpcast’s SugarSync sure looks pretty coolio
Yah - decentralized Twitter - exactly. Open Source it - baby! And the difference between a decentralzied […]

Courtesy Dave Winer
Lucy - my youngest

Steve Gillmor

Valerie Cunningham and Tina Gillmor

I have been a MyYahoo user since it’s inception.  3 years ago I went into Yahoo - more or less pleading with them to open up MyYahoo, turn it into a Portals 2.0 - DLA - and ultimately put Yahoo into the lead in the open web.
Well they’ve bought lots of companies - but with […]

Me, Doc, Sam Whitmore and Stowe Boyd - at the Bloghaus.  Photo by Tom Foremski.

It’s Jan. 13th - that time of year when I get to recollect the past year, get ready for the next year - and count the hours til I get to bounce grandchildren on my knee.
Best yet is that I get to share my birthday with my youngest child - Lucy - who turned four […]

This is called Iced Tea. In Europe they are not aware of the bottomless Ice Tea we have here in the States.  It’s just water and tea.  Once you’ve paid for the first one, it’endless refills - which I take advantage of.  This has weened me off of Coca Cola.
But in Europe - they […]

I wonder if we’re supposed to wear hats again - tonight - for Photo Matt’s birthday party.
No such requirements will be instilled for my birthday on Sunday.
Nor shall my daughter Lucy’s party have any other requirements other than ‘DORA’.

DataPortability.org = RSS + rdf + OPML + microformats + OpenID2 + oAuth + APML - anything else? Support is growing. Now we need to test for inter-operability.
LinkedIn confirms that we own our data. Coolio!
Flickr supports OpenID 
Bebo platform open for all 
Flip flips - we tried to help out Conde Net - man […]

Meanwhile….
Bill Gates last CES speech as the head of Microsoft was killer from my POV
Coolio Windows Home Media Center Extenders were not to be seen
Rip off prices for Life|ware solutions. Unfortunately they’re the only Home automation system that works with Windows Home Media. All the others are closed and proprietary. […]

Apparently both Google and Facebook have joined this org.
Now what does that mean? When is the public meeting?
I love standards orgs - but what do they really do?
Just saying…….
UPDATE:  Unfortunately - it doesn’t look like Chris Saad thinks I’m part of this effort or care about Data Portability. I do - and I’d like […]