final July ‘08 blogging
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 FriendFeed, Hmmmm - what’s wrong with this picture?
Robert’s digital life is sliced around all parts of the web. That’s good for page churn and his web persona - but what he reaqlly needs is a - People Aggregator. An Our Data server. IMHO
Microsoft Data Center Monitoring uses ZigBee ’swarm’ devices to track humidity and temperature changes
In other ZigBee news - Tendril deploys ZigBee into Home Networks
Microsoft is a serious, very mature technology company. I’d be paying attention ot what they’re up to - if I were you.
Yahoo, HP and Intel join to form Cloud Computing Test Bed - this is important. It shows that they’re not gonna let IBM, Google, Microsoft and Amazon rule the clouds. This is also big for Hadoop - as it gets it into the enterprise and supported by HP and Intel.
Listening, Respect and Teamwork
APIs for ’send to GPS’ on MSN. Look for MORE and all sorts of interesting APIs to come out of Microsoft in the next few months.
Speaking of APIs - NPR’s APIs are another example of persistent ubiquitous content. That’s area #2 in my open mesh treatise - for those of you who care.
Beyond REST? Building data services using XMPP
EA is dong package deals with PCs. You’ll see more and more of this soup-to-nuts marketing solutions - as profit pressures force companies to both consolidate and offer solutions - across the entire stack. That’s what HP is doing and Cisco - for sure. Even Intel has been getting into this game.
Facebook is now 2/3 International and growing
San Francisco Music Tech Summit - Oct. 20
I’ll be moderating a panel at ‘Building Blocks - at the San Jose Marriott on Aug. 5th. Open Social Networking is the topic.
MySpace is growing, trimming and looking more and more like a REAL player. It was great to meet Allen Hurff and Chris xxx at f8. Now we nee dot get them to help us ‘extend the Attribute Exchange’.
Pandora is kicking some serious ass
Live Mesh is almost on the Mac - but at least they’re getting there!
As Rafe says: “its hard to stand out in an orgy”
MySpace partners with Amazon on Music
Now that we have the Wired Celebirty Widget, lets aggregate that with CrunchBase, Wikipedia, Facebook pages and wrap it all inside of a Our Data server. With support for Portable Contacts. Thank goodness I’m not in the top 50.
Delicious is about to lose a bunch of users
Home Network Technologies will coexist, not compete
Interesting comments on XMPP from Alf Eaton
Bye Chad - now who’s gonna run Brickhouse - Tom Coates?
What a joke. First Mark Pincus brags that he doesn’t need his $10M series A round, then he does a $29M series B. I guess they don’t need to ever be profitable either and they’re battening down the hatches and gettign ready to ride out the nuclear winter - too - huh? Mark Pincus and Kleiner Perkins are perfect for each other.
More details than you’d ever want to know about Tara and Chris.
There were all SORTS of hookers, pimps and whores at the TechCrunch party last week - and even more
Browzmi, WireShark, Blippr, Moondo, LabMeeting, Goober, WidgetBucks, KickFire (I love that name!), OpenRemote, Clearstep,