I’ll be hanging at the Bloghaus
I’ll be on the Microsoft Wifi Bus - allot
I’ll be doing a panel on mobile social networks - as part of the Digital Hollywood conference
I’ll be doing a panel at the Parks Assoc. CONNECTIONS conference - on Tues 1:15-2:15 - South Hall.
Big Blogger party Tues night
I’m staying at the Venetian [...]

Doc nails it in his Dependence vs Independence post - discussing the ramifications of the Scoble getting kicked out of Facebook controversy. Some may say that Scoble was played by Plaxo, and others may take this controversy to run with their own snarky attitudes or push their own agenda.
But at the end of [...]

I took the Microsoft/PodTech/AMD bus down to Vegas - which was filled with bloggers and luminaries like Robert Scoble, Loic Le Meur, Dan Farber and Tom Foremski. I also got a chance to talk to Robert McLaws and Jason Dunn - both ‘dark side’ Microsoft bloggers.
The cool part - besides stopping at the Harris Ranch [...]

As mentioned earlier - I haven’t been to a CES in 15+ years. So I’m excited.  I’ll be staying at the Venetian is anybody wants to get together and meet me.  Lots of folks are going there.
Clearing my plate, focusing on what’s there to see and meeting new peeps are high on my [...]

The time is right for our industry to come up with a way for users to control their profile and social network data. Whether it be access control, exportability or even the right to have email sent to you - user’s need to be in control.
This whole Scoble affair has highlighted a necessity which [...]

Fred Wilson thinks that as long as Twitter is “good to it’s developers” it doesn’t necessarily have to disclose the business model - that it in fact - does not have.  Can’t complain too much about disclosing a non-model - but if every web business had to scale to 10M+ users to succeed - well [...]

Dave Winer responds to Allen Stern’s post on Twitter’s business model with this simple notion: distribution.
Dave thinks its as obvious as falling off a log - that Twitter can now control and/or least help monetize off of all these add-on tools like Twitterific or the latest stats thingie, while at the same time give away [...]

Here’s a list of coolio links - so I can say “I told yah so” - five years from now.

Woe! Stop the Presses Facebook open up!
Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg
Hiding behind the shroud of Privacy
Open Letter to Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini
Broadband Mechanics announcement(s)
Bringing social to software
Ads [...]

Since I’ve already created a post which had some general predictions for 2008 - here’s a timeline of specific goals and milestones we at Broadband Mechanics will be working on for 2008.
Q1 will start with a bus trip to CES where I’ll research DLAs and the Living Room, Car, Game consoles and mobile worlds. [...]