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 now) lets see what else is going on in the blundersphere today.

WAIT! You mean consulting companies are worth money? But they just have people - no business-model-less IP!

Young whippersnappers are being given more money - after not making any money before. This time its the MyBlogLog guy. What was/is MyBlogLog’s business model? Ads?

Then there’s FriendFeed - the current darling du jour. Now what’s it’s business model? Duncan Riley gets it right - the functionality is sexy, but REAL aggregation is yet to come. Susan Mernit has a great name for FriendFeed pill poppers - Stalkerati.

I don’t agree with Loic that International startups have to MOVE to Silicon Valley or take money from worldclass VCs (or insiders like Loic did.) But many of his other advice is correct. What everyone needs to do is NOT spend money on overpriced execs who are lazy and don’t work hard (which there seems to be plenty of in Silicon Valley) or listen to these stupid Angel Investors (who Loic seems to have collected a bunch of.) Common sense rules. But oh yah - having a business model - helps.

danah boyd has to study and come up with a name for this. It seems that once Spitzer’s ‘girl’ dumped her MySpace page - there’s been all this fighting over who can pick it up! Doesn’t she know how to monetize page hits? Its the new form of prostitution!

iPhone apps only run “one app at a time”. Its as if the Finder went back to 1985! I can just see Steve Jobs saying “fuck them - who cares about running more than one app at a time! They should be HAPPY we even let them run anything!”

When in doubt - go rdf and semantic web - NOT

There’s a battle brewing around open source ad servers. Coolio!

Congrats to MySpace on going live with their Apps gallery. Now lets see how well their ‘open social graph’ stuff works out. We haven’t had the time to kick those tires - but we’ll get there - soon.

One day I will bring my sons to SXSW - as well. Then I’ll bring my daughters - 10 years later. SXSW is where Mimi learned the term SWAG.

Is Mozilla the platform? Is Flock the web?

I was wondering when someone would mention Zimbra

Speaking of platforms - need another one? Try Xcerion and their iCloud.

Oh yah - and the Adobe exec who engineered the Macromedia ‘merging of the dying dinosaurs‘ is leaving Adobe. Wow - that’s a surprise.

Once you’ve kicked out Ed Anuff - where else do you go - but to the VCs.

ShareThis,

Final note - if Jim Bankoff’s AIMpages had been done right - maybe AOL wouldn’t have needed to buy Bebo? Just think about - that.

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