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 [...]

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This new Religion of Bringing Social to Software is based upon the notion of embedding one’s profile data, social graph and content into external sites.
The distributed open mesh can be built with this sort of religion.
We’ve had that ability in PeopleAggregator for almost two years now and it [...]

We’re starting to see a pattern here.
Profiles, social graphs and user’s content is starting to get encapsulated and plopped into external web sites, blogs and other social networks. The user’s data stays locked up in the originating site, but varying levels of integration, access and ‘inviting’ IS being enabled.
This plopping is happening in different [...]

Happy Mommy day to everyone
Lots of feedback and talk about Data Availability and Facebook Connect. I’ll be posting about this separately.
I’ve been doing these Gillmor Gangs - which are webcast here. There is one of these every day.
My daughter just signed up for Club Penguin - and she’s real excited about being able [...]

The One Upmanship continues. MySpace announces DataAVAILABILITY between MySpace and ebay, Yahoo, PhotoBucket and Twitter. This is INCREDIBLE news. More to follow. Chris DeWolfe: “Today MySpace no longer operates as an autonomous island on the Internet….we’re hoping to create a significantly more social experience across the Web.” Amit Kapur: “DataAvailability is founded [...]

Ben Werdmuller and his colleague Marcus Povey of Curverider came out to Walnut Creek yesterday to talk about OpenDD (Open data definition.)
Its a schema and an approach to representing all the disparate kinds of data that a social network stores - so that this stuff can be successfully exchanged, synchronized and subscribed to between different [...]

So since Kara Swisher did an open conversation with me - last year - and Marc Andreessen has chosen not to respond to my requests for public discourse on Ning’s #’s (and I’ve left Brooke alone) and now that Marc is joining my favorite CEO’s board - this is gonna get fun.
Now whenever I run [...]

So why did Fred Wilson create that coolio Yahoo poll yesterday?
His Quibblo poll (which asked what price would Yahoo’s stock price would close at today) - was picked up by 24 blogs (including his own.) It collected almost 2,200 votes within a day.
But did Fred do this out of some interest in Yahoo or [...]

So the interest is rising on what to do about all this Twitter lock-in and their inevitable failure at keeping up with the infrastructure demands of scaling.
Michael Arrington has a surpringly nascent post on what he sees as a solution. Though Michael is surprised at my cognitive state, I was happy to see a typo [...]

Happy Birthday to BigDave Jacobs
Dan Farber groks what I’m trying to say. The open mesh is not Microsoft’s mesh - it’s ours. Please go and read my series of 10 blog posts and stay tuned for the evolution of my mural. Like I said I’ll be throwing a party a month this [...]