I did tell you about “Open Mesh for Dummies - right?  Thanks Steve!
Meebo is inserting itself into social networks - congrats dudes!
Is Facebook ready to face the music?
Poor Mark Pincus - he was bragging about how he didn’t need any funding for Zynga - and now he can’t find his next $10M   Whaaaaaaah!  I [...]

I just did a 1:30 hour long show with Steve Gillmor on my ideas and writings surrounding the open mesh.
Steve argued with me, and ‘held my feet to the fire‘ on many of my ideas and assumptions regarding the open mesh.  I find this sort of interaction incredibly helpful as it’s important to get push [...]

Steve Gillmor thinks we’re “Back on Track” to realizing that Twitter “is the most important service in the next generation of computing”
Building the Microsoft Mesh
Dave Winer “All I can say is that Nik is right, it’s ridiculous, and people who believe in open systems who bet heavy on such a closed system are [...]

I created a second post on Personal Knowledge Bases for a blog called ‘Internet Evolution‘.  The first one is here.

They named the piece “Dawn of the PKB (Personal Knowledge Base)” = which is not my title FYI.
But it’s a coolio piece - check it out…..
This is the second post I’ve done for these folks

What am I waiting on?
Being able to enable our customers to offer their customers the ability to automatically access their Facebook social graph and invite their friends into the social network we’re building for them.
This is a demand and expectation from ALL our customers. We’re willing to jump through the hoops, respect the TOS and [...]

Congrats to TechCrunch on putting APIs into CrunchBase!  Right on!
Jon Udell is proving to be an amazing hire for Microsoft!  Turning Internet feeds into TV feeds
Twitter is starting to talk about a business model which charges commercial interests on using the network.

John Borthwick is becoming a player.  Its nice to see some [...]

 We had a great weekend, doing nothing but hanging at home and swimming all day long. Ah California.
This excellent analysis of Plurk’s rise and fall proves a point I tried to make about Ning.  As 100,000’s of worthless networks get created on Ning, there is valuable data in there about what it takes to build [...]

I’ve had the opportunity recently to collect allot of feedback and input on my ideas surrounding the 10 areas that should be focused on in building an open mesh for the future.  I’m using these 10 areas as anchors on which to hang conversations, chapters of a book, wiki pages and tags.  In other words [...]

Three new services have launched recently which provide infrastructure for our open mesh of the future.  These services all share in common the notion of ‘digital lifestyle aggregation’ in that they incorporate features which connect together, route or provide a backbone for communication between apps and services.
Most importantly these three new services establish models which [...]

The second show, first episode of theSocialWebTV is up - with my boys John McCrea, David Recordon and Joseph “the fastest gun on the web (which it comes to implementing these technologies)” Smarr.
In what they call their episode #1 Identi.ca and Gnip are explained and a slight update to day 57 of the Facebook Friends [...]