Happy Birthday to Paolo
Congrats to Scobleizer on finally selling out. It’ll put Milan through college.
DataPortability.org - Six Months strong - and a nice new site - too. Now about that logo……
Fine with me - lets just stop using the term Web 2.0. Tim O’Reilly won’t like it - but we’ll all be [...]

Tools Tools Tools - this is one word you can’t ever use with a VC. You mention tools and they tune out.
I’ve been tracking the evolution of tools for a while now, as the web appeared, as countless tools companies cloned the Adobe and Macromedia models (and failed) and as on-line tools have caught [...]

Given the release of Live Mesh, Dataportability.org’s new logo and web site and the increasing attention to FriendFeed, Minggl, Plaxo, OpenSocial, the Social Graph APIs, Twitter, oAuth, Facebook apps and OpenID - I started working on a series of blog posts called “How to build the mesh”.
Last night I completed #4 in the series - [...]

I just love this title.
I just love the idea of using the web as a real-time distribution and communication platform. A Live Web - alive with our thoughts, dreams, business hustles, flirts, updates and expression.
All sorts of players, variations, monopolies, platforms and solutions are emerging in this burgeoning area - unfortunately most of them [...]

Not only is it QueensDay in Amsterdam, but just about everyone I know has their birthday in the next week or so.
Yahho will get bought by Microsoft.
We’ll have started two new big projects.  Can’t mention their names - yet.  But one will go live in June, the other July.  We’re shrinking the time it [...]

 Here’s Kaliya:

David Recordon, Chris Saad, Joseph Smarr  and Angus.

The Microsoft guys - Angus and Inder:

Here I am making a point:

So I tried to publicly engage someone from Ning on the issues surrounding their promotion of their # of overall networks - but lack of details on what those #’s really represent.
I asked to find out:
- how many of these 230,000 networks had more than 5 people in them
- more than 10 people in them? [...]

I like this guy Daya Baran. 
He’s not afraid to speak the truth and point out that O’Reilly is promoting his son-in-law, is working behind the scenes to fuck little guys like him - and in general - acting like O’Reilly.
We’ve seen this before with O’Reilly - with them staking claim to the term ‘Web [...]

Gillmor Gang - Friday April 25
It  didn’t look like there’s much happening at Web 2.0 Expo. Oh well.
Needless to we now have the battle of open platforms - Live Mesh versus Y! OS.
At least Yahoo is finally saying what they wanna do. It looks pretty coolio.
The Bell Video store is getting all sorts [...]

Our client RadioOne (and their division InteractiveOne) started to stroke for publicity today and went on the Tom Joyner Show and PBS and got their new acquisition BlackPlanet.com to link to their new content site NewsOne we built for them.
They’ve got an exclusive interview up with Malcolm X’s grandson - who just got out of [...]