Mid-May ‘08 blogging
The purpose of social networks is to monetize people - and make money. NOT. And I’m SHOCKED - I tell you SHOCKED that someone would even FATHOM that there are other ways to make money rather than ads! Simply OUTRAGEOUS! NOT.
Looks like Steve Gillmor had fun at the campfire. He’s part of the friend connected web.
Building the open mesh, a decentralized Twitter, embedding profile data, social graphs and content, OpenDD, and the Religion of Bringing Social to Software. My my my - looks like the distributed open web is coming together. Caroline McCarthy sees this as a social mess - but I see it as the elegant organic chaos of an open mesh. Others are confused as well. And some people are still worrying about MyBlogLog. Or have other opinions. Stacy Higginbotham (on GigaOm) has compared all three offerings - even better than I did. Thanks Stacy!
Congrats to Powerset on launching. I really like the idea of focusing on wikipedia - as a first data set.
I really like the idea of HP buying EDS. This approach basically mirrors and confirms Cisco’s approach as well. As all the moving parts and complexity of our world continues - it’s increasingly important that customers be presented with turn-key scenarios - that combine designing, architecting, building and maintaining systems. This is what Cisco is doing. And it looks like this is what HP is now doing. IBM has been doing this - for years.
What to do at the Data Sharing Summit when you’re tired of the arguments over data portability and standards? Go check out the Babbage Difference Engine!
The death of Net Neutrality is Alive
Fiber warfare is born. The real battle in Beirut is over Hezbollah’s own private fiber network.
Photobucket becomes more Flickry
Shut up about scalability, no one is using your app anyway
Nine Inch Nails - continues to lead the way with new attitudes
Congrats to Pandora on their apparent deal with Clear Channel
I myself am definitely waiting for games my kids can enjoy.
I guess I should tell Ma.tt about my favorite places in Milan. Bolognese and the Last Supper.
Best news I heard today - Icahn may go after Yahoo. :-) We had some private equity people contact us - they had no clue what business we were in - they only knew that Ning had awakened the slumbering giant of private equity.
CondeNet brings vertical to social networking
There’s an on-going discussion attached to FactoryJoe’s post on ‘Thoughts on Dataportability’.
Thanks Marc i am looking forward to the Data Sharing Summit as well.
I certainly don’t think that i am the only one in the group that ‘groks’ it- but i do have the luxury of being in the middle of it all- both nside and outside of the Data Portability project group which at times seems 24×7!
i have been involved since the beginning of the project (nov 07) and have known some of the founders for over two years as well as growth to respect some of the other very active participants, who over the last 6months have been advocating DataPortability and doing a great job at propagating these ideas. i spend a lot of time listening to all the project members as well as views from the other communities- this is not easy stuff and has a lot of implications. I am most pleased that the ‘market’ is listening. Now it is up to us to agree on somethings so we don’t let them down.
Meet you at the Babbage Difference Engine~
Thanks Marc i am looking forward to the Data Sharing Summit as well.
I certainly don’t think that i am the only one in the group that ‘groks’ it- but i do have the luxury of being in the middle of it all- both nside and outside of the Data Portability project group which at times seems 24×7!
i have been involved since the beginning of the project (nov 07) and have known some of the founders for over two years as well as growth to respect some of the other very active participants, who over the last 6months have been advocating DataPortability and doing a great job at propagating these ideas. i spend a lot of time listening to all the project members as well as views from the other communities- this is not easy stuff and has a lot of implications. I am most pleased that the ‘market’ is listening. Now it is up to us to agree on somethings so we don’t let them down.
Meet you at the Babbage Difference Engine~
Thanks Marc i am looking forward to the Data Sharing Summit as well.
I certainly don’t think that i am the only one in the group that ‘groks’ it- but i do have the luxury of being in the middle of it all- both nside and outside of the Data Portability project group which at times seems 24×7!
i have been involved since the beginning of the project (nov 07) and have known some of the founders for over two years as well as growth to respect some of the other very active participants, who over the last 6months have been advocating DataPortability and doing a great job at propagating these ideas. i spend a lot of time listening to all the project members as well as views from the other communities- this is not easy stuff and has a lot of implications. I am most pleased that the ‘market’ is listening. Now it is up to us to agree on somethings so we don’t let them down.
Meet you at the Babbage Difference Engine~