final April ‘08 blog post
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 fine without it.
Congrats to John Battelle - for cashing out early - like Matt Mullenweg and the guys from Metacafe. It seems to be the thing to do.
Nice little bit of innovation from Mixx. They’re now a web service which offers the ability for ANY news service, newspaper, magazine, ezine, whatever - to comment on stories. This is the next logical extension of Digg - which is a Web 1.0 lock-in exploitation model. Mixx has really taken the spirit of citizen journalism and interaction to the next level!
Economies of scale versus niche content - Marshall Kirkpatrick hits it on the head. We are grappling with this very issue - as we speak.
One thing I can say for sure - is that ’subscribing to people’ is a feature that’s here to stay. Whether it be in a News Feed, FriendFeed or baked into your blog tool or email client.
The trick is gonna be to use this feature vis a vis other contexts, services and use cases.
I really liked the graph from Marshall’s post - so I stole it.
Did you know P Diddy is getting a Hollywood star? Now you do.
Yet another social application server platform - Ringside. They’re true open source - I don’t see no business model.
My favorite line from this article on ‘Adobe guru to improve Windows interface‘ is this: “Photoshop has well over a decade’s worth of accumulated menus, panels, and dialog boxes..” Actually that’s two decades worth - dude.
Wright-Obama locked in a generational conflict.
Om has a conference called ‘Structure 08′ which looks pretty coolio.
It doesn’t surprise me if LinkedIn is making some serious CPMs. They’re the epitome of the niche high quality target market.
Mister Wong acquires Lifestrea.ms
The commodization of frameworks continues.
Congrats to Eran Hammer-Lahav on his new title “Open Standards Evangelist” - it has a nice ring to it.
Thank you to Mark Hendrickson for remembering us…… (though I was surprised to hear that one could get Ning’s source code - I’ll have to try and get a copy.) Maybe Marc will bring that up in our open conversation.
Textcu.be, SocialThumbs, Watercooler, Weplug, MOG, Fixya,
In closing - here are two little Canter girls in the Canter’s parking lot in LaLa.
You’ll notice that I’m adding more images to my posts.