Archive for February, 2008

Interesting blog posts - on Super Tuesday night

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

OK - I finished my work log for the day, I’m watching election results (which kind of give me Deja Vu) and I’m blogging…….
Marshall Kirkpatrick confirms that MySpaces platform will support oAuth and provides controlled access to social graphs.  Holey DataPortability Batman!
Those DAM users are monetizing enough!  You mean networks are for something OTHER than [...]

I’m so behind in blogging……. here’s my catch up

Monday, February 4th, 2008

I’m finding myself falling more and more behind on my blogging. Apologies to all these posts and things I wanted to say.
But I gotta just keep moving forward….
HOLD THE PRESSES!  MySpaces’ Aber Whitcomb claims that the MySpace APIs will
the platform is made up of three APIs — primarily Open Social and extensions we’ve [...]

Google officially accuses Microsoft of……

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Well you can just imagine what Google has to say about Microsoft ‘hostile’ takeover of Yahoo.
This is evidence that such a ‘consolidation’ would rattle Google at its core and create a formidable competitor - ’cause neither Microsoft or Yahoo by itself can do that alone.
I’d argue if the Microsoft offer was a takeover attempt. Microsoft [...]

Another tale of Facebook account suspension

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Kelli Fox is a dear friend and Astrologer extraordinare. She and her husband - David Fox - founded Astrology.com and sold it to iVillage back in the day. Now they have a state-of-the-art Astrology site - with APIs and a web service for developers who wish to offer astrological matchings to their customers.
Their [...]

XFN and FOAF triumphant!

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

When I first met Dan Brickley and the various folks from the FOAF community - my life was immediately changed.  The notion of a format that held (what we now call) a social graph - was exactly what I was looking for. I didn’t care about triples, or all the other stuff FOAF was attempting [...]

Yahoo up 8.5, Google down 50

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Isn’t this fun?
Or perhaps Google is down because they admitted that social networking sites don’t payoff in ad revenues as well a sthey’d “hoped”.
Oh Gee - yah gotta feel sorry for Google.  Right?
And how will the Borg dissemniate Yahoo?
I just hope they trim the fat and only keep people who do things.  But I bet [...]