Back from Oklahoma - now onto June. Have a great weekend everyone! Steve - change the code.
The new new browser wars
Blowing a hole in the fallacy of social capital! Go Dare Go! Great to have you back.
It’s nice to see Bubble 1.0 mistakes come back to haunt the same assholes trying [...]

I caught this wonderful documentary on PBS yesterday on the life and times of Pete Seeger.
Blacklisted, banned from TV, Pete was feared by the powers that be - because he was tuned into the idea that people can change things.
Pete fought for Civil Rights, against the Vietnam War, to help clean up the Hudson River [...]

I did a blog post for a blog called the internet revolution.  It’s called (surprise, surprise) “How to build the open mesh“ - it’s another version - with a different angle - summary.
lots of stories coming in from D - Jerry Yang will never be a CEO again, Bill “guys like us avoid monopolies, we [...]

Excellent pebbles
Open source, closed attitude, onerous TOS
You can call it an arms race, I call it inevitable.

Deceptive business practices - bait and switch - no tell me it’s not true!  Not DELL!
Halsey Minor resurfaces
James Seng trying to not get lost 
netLog rising = 35M members, OpenSocial support
Verticalization is the only strategy left
News at 10!  Marc Andreessen [...]

Just about every country has had war ravage their youth so it’s on this Day - Memorial Day - that I dedicate this post not just to dead American soldiers - but to the young men and women round the world who have given their lives to their country.
First pictures from Mars 
3 women will be [...]

I appreciate Mr. Loic Lemeur espostulating his own take on PR and providing a little pushback to Brian Solis. Afterall - allot of what Loic says is true. he talks about community and friends and honesty - all terms and notions which are foreign to the traditional world of PR.
But I do feel [...]

I agree with Gartner - for IPTV and InteractiveTV to work - they have to integrate with the rest of the Home and the Home network - and connect to the outside world (read: Internet.) Stand alone STBs ain’t gonna cut it. This is what I was ranting about - here.
The discussion on “what’s [...]

The Bell Video Store movie downloading site is live. It uses social features served up from our PeopleAggregator platform. This ‘widgetization technique’ allows Bell to provide social features and build a community of movie download customers. Congrats to our team members in Christ Church, NZ (Phil), Sebastopol, CA (David) and Nurenberg, Germany (Martin) [...]

Bell Canada announces video downloading store:
The Video Store includes a social networking feature, using “widgets” from Broadband Mechanics to allow users to give five-star ratings to the content, write reviews and comments, add friends and send messages.
More here…..
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Must be Canadian to use it
No wonder I can’t visit Dave Morin this week Facebook’s new [...]

It seems that someone at Adobe just figured out that Photoshop might be useful in helping to produce widgets. How long did it take them to figure THAT one out? No wonder no one will buy Adobe!
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Lucas Gonze moves on.  After Ian Rogers left, it was only [...]