July 31st is both my wife’s (Lisa) and my eldest son’s (Aryeh) birthday.
When I first found out that this woman I was dating was born on July 31st it made we think we could live together forever.
Aryeh was at the birth of his sister Lucy. He just graduated high school and now he’s in Israel [...]

Been getting my family out of the house on vacation so I can drill down.  More BBQs,  More clients to make happy.
Robert Scoble provides insight into Silicon Valley VC disease - and then points to another problem - biforcated conversations. Though his post was published on his blog, the comments and conversation were happening on [...]

Now that Facebook and MySpace have truly opened up and will allow their users to move their profile data, social graph and content to other systems (under certain access controls) its time to talk about these behemoths connecting together via the OpenID Attribute Exchange.
Initially developed by Dick Hardt and Sxip Networks - the Attribute Exchange [...]

We went to a great party yesterday and Mimi learned how to DJ.  Thanks to Peter Rothman and family and friends for a great time!

Yesterday was quite a day - but the world moves on.  We did a Gillmor Gang show today on Open Web Foundation, MySpace/facebook/Microsoft with David Recordon and Chris Messina.
I agree with Arrington that a payment system, better message client and reconciliation with Google should have been announced at f8 yesterday, but this is a company [...]

I’ve finally found some time to write up my reaction to yesterday’s Facebook Connect announcements.  We’ve been waiting since May for details on what Facebook calls “dynamic privacy” - and we found out yesterday that indeed - Facebook has implemented a methodology of making sure that if anyone ever changes their mind, and wishes to [...]

Facebook definitely improved their UI - more on that later.
MySpace supports OpenID - the same week of Facebook’s f8 conference - gee what a coincidence.
3,000 women
Amazon IS providing 99.9% uptime, it’s just that pesky .1 that’s the problem.
$20k a day?  Hmm - maybe I DO need to be talking ot Dave Ulevitch!
Mixi is still rocking!
What [...]

I’ve now got enough in the can so that it’s time to start thinking about getting official versions of these ideas out there.
By iterating on my fence and collecting feedback from folks, I’ve been able to start a ‘book’ of these ideas.
Up to page 70.

Twitter connects to Gnip - and Identi.ca connects to the Twitter API
Kara Swisher sees the genius of CBS buying CNet - it’s called metamorphosis of Big Media.
Walt Mossberg explains SnagFilms coolio concept and business model.  I’d say Hooman, Ted and Miles have a HIT!  Certainly better then the stumbling BrightCove.   I should introduce Ted to [...]