Delicious both gave birth and killed social bookmarking. You can’t leave a product alone for what was it - four years? - without an update!

One simple questions, if Jon Miller is so smart, or as Ted Leonsis says “a new case study in courageous and visionary leadership“- then why did AOL end up like it has? Who’s to blame?  Isn’t that  CEOs fault?  I’m confused.  I credit Jon Miller with bringing us TMZ, but that’s about it.  Transitioning the company from a loser to a REAL loser.  This is a MAJOR problem with our culture. It rewards mediocrity and failure.  Just cause he walks and talks like a CEO and has a resume (of failures) - why does that make him good fodder for MORE CEO positions? And more failures?  Miller as CEO of Yahoo would tube it.  This advancement through failure has been endemic for years.

You’re right Chris: “Sometimes things are too personal to share, and sometimes experiences cannot, or should not, be generalized.” Welcome to the Aquarium we call “our industry”.

Scrabulous reborn as Wordscraper - well done!

Poor Robert - no startups for all of August.

Congrats to Marshall Kirkpatrick and Read/Write web

BTW speaking of Jason Calacanis and failure - this is what happens when someone sells a company - and then dumps it - and walks away from the employees.

Structured Data is getting hip. That’s area #3 in the “How to build the Open Mesh” treatise. I’m hard at work on the book - BTW.  And tying in Yelp and LinkedIn into their search results is TOTALLy the right thing to do. Differentiate yourself - that’s gonna be KEY for Yahoo moving forward.

The selling out of MommyBloggers. Oh goodey - time to be monetized!

Oh Goodey - a new version of Twine. Remind me what it DOES?

Some web apps work better together

Me too - I have also recently “broken free” of Outlook. Goodbye spam, Goodbye Norton/Symantec.  Good riddance if you ask me.

Brian Alvey et al are building a platform for ‘vertical destinatioin sites’ and got some money from Jon Miller and Marc Andreessen. What’s not clear is if this platform has anything to do with Ning.  If so, coolio.  If not, then what are they building that Ning doesn’t have? Isn’t Ning a ‘vertical destination platform?  Is this Andreessen’s model for using his money? Get others to build OUTSIDE of Ning and then acquire then?  That’s what Alvey did with Weblogs and AOL.  Same team, same scenario.  But congrats ot Judith Meskill!

Ah Kara was visiting, no wonder the Mozilla people haven’t returned my email inquiry.

Oh Goodey - two groups of analysts are now clustered. I’m sure that will make them smarter.

Kris Krug will be photoblogging the Olympics

Yahoo is hiring

Getting ready to BBQ - been checking out to cook stuff on How2Heroes

I love the notion of braided journalism - sort of like a a yin, yang balancing act

Social media in the Military

I have no hunch about Hunch.

Yahoo BrowserPlus, MyArtSpace, Socialmedian, Tapulous, Balsamiq, Zorap

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