Archive for February, 2008

Mid-Feb blogging ‘08

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Broadband Mechanics begins a big offsite this week - so pardon my preoccupation
Dare Obasanjo reports from the exclusive, private FOO blah blah social graph blah blah that I wasn’t invited to 
Communities as party - is a great way to describe it. I remember when Tribe.net first launched and I tried to explain to Mark Pincus [...]

Google getting played like a fine violin?

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

As many of the prvate emails and public comments have inclinated - it seems that this press release from the Republicans is - well it’s Republicans acting like Republicans.
Throughout the smear campaigns of the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s - the Republicans have shown a consistent abilty to lie, twist truth, steal elections, subvert democracy [...]

Boycott Google? If they’re helping Republicans - why should we help them?

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

This post says that Google is the official - whatever the fuck for Republicans.
Now lets see - McCain says he’ll keep troops in Iraq for 100 years, he wants to ban abortion and supports waterboarding ………… isn’t that enough?
And Google is gonna help them?
I wonder what Brad Horowitz thinks about this? I wonder if [...]

It’s Obama: Do the Math!

Friday, February 15th, 2008

This is a reprint of an article written by an old partner of my father’s - Don Rose.  Don is an old school politician lefty liberal from Chicago - where I was raised.
Truth be told - I’m not only a third generation red-diaper baby - but I was raised on South Side of Chicago [...]

Dataportability.org video

Friday, February 15th, 2008

This is the video I did for Dataportability.org:

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More blogging for today - mid-Feb ‘08

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Hmm - I don’t see Dave Winer on this list?  Dave explains why.
COMCAST buying Plaxo is NOT a good thing.  All that user data in the wrong hands spells trouble.
The repositioning of OpenSocial commences 
PageOnce 
SkyGrid is public now - congrats to Kevin on staying stealth for almost two years.  They’re a former client of ours - [...]

Mid-Feb ‘08 blogging

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

The Attention Operating system
Susan Mernit laid off - ouch
And Salim - too 
And Brad - too?
Less than 4 out of 10,000 people on MySpace or Facebook click on ads.   You mean monetizing people may not pay off?  Oh my goodness!
Google-Orkut Hackathon - Feb 14-15
Iminta - yet another…..
The start of a shareholder war. But the real [...]

Prediction: Obama will be assassinated - Clinton/Obama ticket is best

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

So this lady in Englad - Doris Lessinbg - who won the Nobel prize for literature in 2007 is predicting that if Barak Obama is elected president - he’ll be assassinated. Unfortunately I agree with her.
This country (my country - the U.S.) is fuilled with crackpots, nut case, bigoted racist assholes - and they [...]

Fresh blogging for today

Friday, February 8th, 2008

 I love the idea of Yahoo out-opening Google.
We had a great DataPortability.org meeting last night. Its not just PR.  More later on this.
Oui Loic!  The arrogance that you are now witnessing is why I teased you when you first came here?  In Paris you had - the French women, French wine, French food.  Here you [...]

Fun February blogging

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

State of the Net.  Lo State dell’arte. Della rete - Palo’s conference in Udine.  Sifry, Semple, Mayfield - all the knowledgeable ones.
Data Portability.org will hold its first public meeting on Thursday Feb. 7th at Rapleaf’s offices - 657 Mission Suite 600. Between 3rd and New Montgomery.
Let the platform wars commence 
Widgetbox raises $8M - Ed Anuff [...]