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 agenda.

Meanwhile….

Heartfelt best wishes go out to GigaOm - Om Malik.

I’d like to ask Nick Carr, Jeff Jarvis, Dare Obasanjo, Michael Arrington and anyone else who is supporting Facebook in their treatment of Robert Scoble using Plaxo’s ‘infamous’ Facebook Export tool to look at the bigger picture.  Preventing spammers is a good thing  Scraping is a bad thing.  Privacy is always important and access controls agreements are needed - as well.  But WE the people - still should CONTROL our own data, and social vendors should add ‘opt-in’ controls - and everything will be copasetic.  But the current state of affairs is unacceptable.  Clearly Plaxo has given Facebook a litmus - now we get to see what happens next.

Clearly Loren Feldman is taking advantage of Robert Scoble - just as much as Plaxo did.

In Dares post ‘Should HotMail block Screen Scrapers‘ Dare points out the reality of what’s going on in this On-line email address procurement game - and again reiterates his belief that screen scraping is NOT the way to go.  Dare is a guy who builds APIs into Microsoft Live products - so he doesn’t see why others can’t provide APIs as well.   he’s a string promoter of OpenID and an advocate for social network inter-operability.  Its hard to disagree with him.  All I ask is that those APIs be two-way - so we can suck as well as spit.

Monster buys it third (or was it fourth) social network play.  Congrats to all.  I guess social networking is a good investment - huh?

Speaking of which - paying a 20% premium on Spark Networks (which owns JDate) night not be a bad investment, considering you’d also get BlackSingles.com and AmericanSingles.com.  I wonder what would happen if you provide interoperability between the Jews, Blacks and Red Necks - I mean White People?

Congrats to Clearspring on the Cloverfield exclusive footage and the Widget contest.  This is what I mean by “getting brands and media involved in guerrilla marketing.”

Rumors are circulating that Jerry Yang will announce support for OpenID at CES

OpenIDDevCamp - Jan 11-13 - SixApart’s offices in SF

Great interview of my favorite Geek Hottie Hacker babe - Leah Culver

Happy 10th Anniversary to XML-RPC - I was there, sitting next to Dave - rolling.  The best of times was when Dave would start yelling about Eric Raymond or the Cathedral and the Bazaar.  We’d sit there and look at Dave’s web servers and think about desktop CMSs.  he tested XML-RPC by pinging this server in New Zealand - that he knew nothing about and who knew nothing about him.  It was coolio.

2008 the year of RSS? I kind of thought that 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 were the Years of RSS.

Singapore National Broadband Network - I wonder what the difference is between this and what Singapore has had since 1995?  And what’s National?  Singapore is just a city isn’t it?

Looks likeCisco is finally ready to launch their new ‘brand’.   This should be a fun CES.

Coolio IKEA kitchen planner tool 

Congrats ot David Berlind on his new gig.  CMP just won’t go away.

I sure hope Susan Mernit makes sure that any new version of Yahoo Personals connects into the OpenID2 mesh.

SpreadOpenID.org - and some great commentary from Marshall Kirkpatrick

Meraki, 5min, Next2Friends, Sugar gets more sugar, BetNow

Driftr - yet another travel social network

Future congrats to Suw and Kevin on their upcoming wedding.  Sure to be the geek fest of the winter in Londontown.

What I’d like to see from Richard MacManus and his Read/Write web are persistent, on-line lists of certain categories of Web 2.0 apps.  I call them domains.  R/W would keep a master database and periodically update the lists.  So Storage, Video distribution, Ad Networks, social networks, community news,  media sharing, profile aggregators, etc - would all be domain.  Think of it as Programmable Web for WebApps.

What does Silicon Valley, the Web 2.0 and bored techies do on a Friday night in SF? They go to an awards ceremony.

Good luck to Robert Scoble on his new venture 

I’ve got $200M for Plaxo. Do I hear $225M?  Going - going - gon…..??????

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