And the beat just keeps on flowing….

I’ll be at the DataSharing Workshop - tomorrow - April 18th  Real world portability meets the valley of the  shrug.  Advocacy, standards and cooperation is hard.

The aggregators are starting to aggregate the aggregators.  But I defer to Eric Schonfeld on all the data clutter issues. How could you even possibly CARE what all these folks are doing or saying? This is the EPITOME of an echo chamber listening to and believing in their own Twitters!  Clearly none of these people using Twhirl or Alert Thingy are real people.

Now I hate to say I told yah so - but I can’t tell yah how many times I’ve had to explain to people why our ‘source code available’ license is NOT GPL. To me - GPL has clear problems - most of which is that we can’t build a system for someone who then wants to sell it again - without my customer having to give back that code to teh community. That is a total deal stopper. So we are NOT GPL we have never put any GPL code into our platform and we OWN what we sell. We (in fact) have never taken ANY contributions - ut we DO give away our source code - for free - to developers, non-profit, students and government agencies. We call it ‘source code available.’ So what’s the leading GPL code right now? Linux? Nope - it’s MySQL. And guess who just changed their policy on advanced features? Gee I guess maybe they just got bought by somebody?

Apparently Microsoft still sells operating systems. They even have a sales team. Hmm - maybe they should have listened ot Ray Ozzie’s keynote. Operating systems are so - so - like 2008.

At this point Brightcove doesn’t sell anything. How do they make money? And what about that $80M in VC money they raised?

Marshall Kirkpatrick understands the significance of SixApart’s BlogIt. 

Now that Google’s App has been ported to EC2 and a deal was created between Google and Salesforce to combine Google Apps and Salesforce - well what can I say - this stuff is everywhere. I guess the future is here in the present.

What is John Battelle going to do with $50M?   I sure hope he learnt his lesson from last time!

Its great to see people focused on granularity in social networks. Right on Thomas!

MyOpenID for YOUR domain - this solves a basic lock-in effect of OpenID - which was un-intended.  everyone should be able to hang their OpenID off of THEIR domain - not the ID broker/provider.

Another example of social networking features being added in - everywhere. Too bad Ross Mayfield and Pete Kaminski didn’t come to us - we could have saved him a whole LOT of money ($1,000,000s.) Can’t wait for Evan Williams to figure this out.

Being human in a digital age - Bill Buxton

You mean there’s tech business outside of 101 or 280 in the Bay Area?  Maybe out on 680 or off some beaten track on 4.  In the 90’s the ‘other’ places to do business was Rt. 128 in Boston and ‘inside the beltway in D.C.   Then NYC and the triangle in N.C. came up. Then Atlanta, Dallas, San Diego, Miami - and even L.A. all developed tech communities.  Meanwhile in every major city - there’s its own tech industry.  Yes Robert - these communities DO exist - and they usually don’t speak English.  But they read your blog.  Not sure about those ‘long’ boring videos.

Stowe Boyd shares with us (from Friedrich Nietzsche): Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

OK - so Powerset (love the notion of focusing on wikipedia!) + Twine (coolio tool) and Freebase (musicbrainz is in there!) = some meshy semantic glue. This falls right into my vision of “How to build the mesh [1], [2], [3]” We just gotta make sure it all works with measly old XML and that rdf is not required.

Good Yuntuf to you 

Mowser R.I.P. - somebody hire Russ Beattie! Immediately!

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