2nd week of March ‘08 blogging
A recording of the panel we did at Mix08 is up (moderated by Guy Kawasaki) - but it appears to be only audio. Joseph Smarr (Plaxo), John Richards (MS) Garret (StumbleUpon) and Dave Morin (Facebook). And I can’t find a permalink of it - sorry. But it was a pretty cool panel, so…………
Killer party in NYC on March 14th given by PortoKalada.
Dan Farber has some good analysis of Ozzie’s speech in this post on Microsoft’s Sychromesh.
Poor Sarah Lacy - I bet she thought she was really hot - getting up on stage - to interview Mark Zuckerberg. But it looks like she found an audience and interviewee that wouldn’t go along with her bullshit. I wonder if she’ll learn?
Wanna know what’s up at SXSW? Then get it from the original Texas homeboy Matt Mullenweg.
Russel Beattie appears to have written an OpenTwitter server! How long have I been waiting for THAT! And for it to come from Rus is all the more apropos.
25 Facebook apps perfect for education
DataPortability meeting in SF on March 20th at SixApart’s offices.
I’m just not sure of VC money and p0rn mix.
Loic talked about what standards they’ll be supporting in Seesmic.
What! You men Hugh Forrest doesn’t put on SXSW for his health? One things for sure. He doesn’t go to any other conferences, hys never been seen outside of Austin and doesn’t appear to give a shit about anything - but reining over his fiefdom.
Dan Farber interview by Kara Swisher
‘Bout time! Beatles officially to become available on-line.
Laszlo now has taken $32M in VC. I wonder if there’s any stock left for the founders?
Dave Winer did a short podcast with me about Mix08 and Ray Ozzie’s keynote.
We’re in a list of social networking something or others - called Capterra

March 15th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Don’t be cranky just because you think you should be invited and put up for free every year. SXSW puts on events in several cities worldwide to invite people to come and discuss SXSW. That’s a lot more than a lot of events do. How many other event directors can you even name that do that as a full time job? I don’t understand why you have to hate.