Please join me and my family tonight at the Lamplighters “Pirates of Penzance” sing along.
Its Feb. 29th and thats when Frederick, the pirate apprentice was born.
So tradition has it - that on every leap year - we toast to Gilbert & Sullivan and this wonderful operetta!  Should be fun.

 OpenID Japan announced
T B-L speaks on on ‘freeing’ data from those dam data silos!
OpenSocial Orkut - coming
I guess Loic LeMeur is learning much from Mark Pincus
The Coming Ad Revolution
Open Social Networks
Web 1, 2, 3 & 4
Some coverage of my talk from Northern Voice
Apparently FriendFeed doesn’t have an API - yet.
LiveMocha, Traackr, Xdrive/AIR, Chess.com,

Thinking about Veeps for Obama - by Don Rose
Chatback is here 
Open Search is here
Up time is a bitch.  My favorite thing our sys admin guy said was “Uptime measured in decades with Debian”
Since FriendFeed got $5M, I gotta wonder “what is there business model?”  Ads?
Dave spoils the Wire season finale.  I’m not reading this link [...]

Live Alaskan King Crab - a small one.

My longtime friend, mentor and Angel Investor Miles Gilburne got some press in the NYT today on his company ePals.  I’d love to say that we’re doing their social network - but that deal ain’t done - yet.
Meanwhile In2Books - the non-profit that Miles and his wife Nina started - is an exciting program that [...]

One bi-product of our recent offsite - is that we’ve pushed live a brand new version of our social networking and blogging platform - PeopleAggregator. Here’s what’s new.
We’re open source - so you can download the source, play with it and give it a try. If you’re a non-profit, government agency, student or [...]

Thanks to Dan Farber - now the editor-in-Chief of all of CNet - for doing this great interview.
I especially like the fact that there was some post production done - so it actually looks like it was done by real professionals, rather than bloggers.
This is a great example of the difference between bloggers and professional [...]

We’re on the Vivalogo list of 40 top open source social networking software (though I’d have to argue that most of the systems on this list aren’t social networking….. but who’s quibbling?)
Now HERE’s a candidate we can all get behind! Larry Lessig for Congress! Maybe Joi Ito will be his campaign manager?
ONEsite buys [...]

Total congrats to Dan Farber - on becoming edito-in-chef at CNet. Dan and I go back 23 years.

Those bad girl Sac Kings dancers. Now wonder they haven’t gone live with the network we built for them!
Example OpenSocial apps
Hadoop is so hot - very few things get me this excited!
And the beat goes [...]