March 08 blogging #1
My voice giving out - captured on phone video Robert Scoble shot - at dinner last night. We all thank Dave Winer for RSS. Now my voice is totally gone. I’ve gone to whisper mode.
Congrats to Robert on the launch of his new show and channel.
Eric Shonfeld thinks Ray Ozzie pre-announced a product called mesh. DUDE - the whole dam thing will become a mesh!
More evidence of how flakey wikipedia is - and how sleazy they are - as well
Robert Scoble runs down many of the highlights from Mix08. My favorite demo was the Coica-Cola/UEFA MSN Messenger trading card promotion. It connects meatspace and cyberspace and is totally coolio!
Fire Eagle - billed as a location broker - appears to aggregate location info - and make that info available through APIs. Coolio! Congrats to Tom Coates.
Congrats to Matt Mullenweg and the Wordpress community for embracing social networking. This is what I picthed Matt and Toni 3 years ago. Once again - I was just a little too far out ahead of the curve. But integrating social networking within Wordpress is totally the right idea. Now lets gateway to MyBloglog!
Google Contact APIs - nine months after Dare Obasanjo did the same for Microsoft.
Speaking of APIs - here’s an interesting overview - of the pros and Cons
Also speaking more about APIs - Leah Culver must be happy
Charlene Li tells Facebook to open up - and raps out the whole social network ecosystem pretty succinctly.
OpenAIM - how long did that take?
Dries Buytaert - the creator of Drupal - gets a real job
And before you know it - there are 35 Lifestreaming products to choose from. Though I would argue that many of these products don’t necessarily constitute what a real Lifestreaming product. But I won’t quibble - it’s time has come.
The consolidation is our world continues - MZinga buys Prospero. OneSite bought Social Platform a while back. I mean - how many white labels ocial network plays can the market stand?
Speaking of MyBlogLog - there’s been an update
OnePlace, Shyftr, Traackr, Orgoo, Ghost Town,