The key foundation set of constructs, web services and APIs to support when building the mesh - is the area of profiles, personas, friendships, relationships, social graphs and groups. It all starts with humans and every construct, element and component of the open social web we’re building has to do with people. […]

What’s the holdup?
Kara wants her data - but will Sheryl listen?
I’ve been doing some podcasts with some friends and colleagues, and we’ve been talking about deals - and the process of opening up and building the mesh.
This is why Scoble should have hooked up with Michael Arrington - INSTEAD of Ed Sussman. Think […]

 So I’ve been falling into a groove lately - managing an ‘around teh world’ development effort to ship our huge system - next week. More on the system later.
For now I thought it would be fun to talk about my 24/7 lifestyle and work habits.   Keep in mind that all of these times (below) are […]

Lots of people are going googley over FriendFeed. Why did I choose that verb? Cause FriendFeed was founded by ex-Googlers. Tying into their API could be very coolio - btu once again - once you rely upon some otehr vendor’s infrastructure - you’re hooked to that tit - for life!
Lets take a poll […]

It’s great to wake up in the morning to two major announcements:
- Microsoft has hooked up with Facebook, Bebo,hi5, LinkedIn and Tagged - to connect their open APIs - for Windows Live Contacts - into those systems.
- The OpenSocial Foundation has been formed - Yahoo and Google have announcements about this.
At one point I […]

Its strange this year that Easter and Pesach (Passover to the rest of you) are separated by one month. Its weird how the lunar calendar changes like that.  And since I’m in what’s known as a ‘mixed marriage’ - here are my two cute little Easter girls:

So in the spirit of “He goes hop hop […]

The FriendFeed vs Twitter debate has got me thinking about the nervous system of the mesh.  The activity streams that show all the events, tasks, pings that originate from your friends.  I pitched this feature to Mark Pincus and Tribe.net but he wouldn’t do it.
Now that Facebook, Twitter and Friendfeed have each taken the idea […]

When is a social network NOT a social network?  When its part of Ning’s 200,000 social networks!  Give me a break Gina and Marc!  STOP bragging about how many people have clicked and created a network.  How come you have NEVER posted anything on:  how many networks have 5 or more people in them?  How […]

Look - I’m trying to get work done. Could all the idiotic, stupid deals - just stop for a while so I can stay head down? Why don’t these people get on the Clueship!
Well - in addition to AOL creating one of its greatest blunders ever (I can see Ted Leonsis rolling his eyes […]

Randy Falco has got to go down in history as one of the stupidest execs around. he should have stayed in TV.
Not only did he just blow $850M on Bebo - but he’s about to buy KickApps.
Mamma Mia.
I guess Broadband Mechanics is worth more now - right?
I wonder when someone is gonna wake up […]