Archive for June, 2008

Final day of blogging - June ‘08

Monday, June 30th, 2008

I’m headed to Europe today - so this is my last blog for the month.  And what a month it’s been!  Caption to Obama photo: “I will never question others’ patriotism”
INTEROPERABILITY FROM MICROSOFT!  Is this a coincidence that this happens the week AFTER Gates officially left?  Nothing like “additional steps” when you need it.
Welcome Soceeo  [...]

Request for Ping.fm beta code

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Ping.fm looks totaly coolio.  This is exactly the kind of service that builds the Open Mesh.
What does one have to do to get a Beta code invite?  Blog about it? 
One way that Ping.fm could help us build the Open Mesh would be to save off and load in the list of services/sources one [...]

Website is down - goes viral

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Migrating the corporate mind

Friday, June 27th, 2008

I engaged in a conversation today - off the record - with someone involved with MySpace regarding the Data Availability effort launched yesterday and the fact that it does NOT allow software developers to store any profile data on teh destination site.
The ‘person’ related to MySpace made it very clear that this was just an [...]

Blogging on June 27th - ‘08

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Congrats to the folks at MySpace for shipping Data Availability - something more for our programmers to adopt!
Dare Obasanjo brings up a good point about FriendFeed:  “Why would I want to go to whole new site and create yet another friend list just to share what I’m doing on the Web with my friends? Isn’t [...]

My own Personal Knowledge Base

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

So lets imagine I’m Leo LaPorte, Veronica Belmont, or even better Om Malik or Robert Scoble.
Let’s imagine that I wanna be a public figure, keep track of all the conversations, memes and tags I’m accumulating and keep them all in sync with my various social graphs I’m accumulating around the web.
I talked early about the [...]

Blogging on June 25th - ‘08

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Can Michael Arrington just make shit up like this?  Isn’t it illegal to manipulate of stock prices?
Speaking of TechCrunch I’m thinking APIs on CrucnhBase might be appropriate just about - now.
And now that I’ve given TechCrunch two plugs, where’s my ticket to the party?
php4 going away?
Nokia buys Plazes!

Scaling Facebook
Mixx gets Social
Tim O’Reilly [...]

Trying to convince bosses to do the right thing

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

I’ve had a whole bunch of people tell me recently “how come there aren’t more people using your platform?”
“You’ve got the best platform we’ve seen, yet most of the white label deployments out there are boring and unsatisfying.  Nobody seems to understand the market as well as you do.”
The answer of course is that [...]

Blogging on June 22nd, 2008

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

 Caught a few deer in my back yard this morning.  Will post that video as soon as I’m done - here.
Recent posts on:
- a reference design for the open mesh - and an idea for an ‘Our Data’ server
- rebirthing ThreadsML
- a new IPTV show called theSocialweb.tv
have kept me busy.  But I just wanna make [...]

ThreadsML reborn

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

A few years back Steve Yost, Ben Hammersley, David Weinberger, Danny Ayers,  Shelly Powers,  Jason Shellen, Jay F, Mark Carey, Jon Lebkowsky and myself (and others) participated in a mail list/conversation about the notion of a standard for representing conversations.
We called it ThreadsML and the web site and archive of the mail list are still [...]