Congrats to Hooman and Ted on buying AddThis. Now you’ve got 20B views with no revenue model.  Good luck on the ad thing.
Socialtext 3.0 looks  to be a dashboard, social based mashup kit that works with Signals (a Twitter clone) and provides a wiki platform for custom taxonomies, private corporate communication and other “inside [...]

My father was an old-time politico in Chicago and one of his old buddies - Don Rose - writes a column for a Chicago web site called the ‘Chicago Daily Observer’.
In today’s column he writes that Obama has taken a 50-42 lead in the polls.
I’m saying this in honor of my father who fought for [...]

What’s our solution to Microsoft’s lock-in Cloud _+ Client strategy?  The Open Mesh!
Doc on the LiveWeb = who’s son actually named it.  Here’s Doc (right) with his son Allen.)
Yahoo’s social network is not a social network - it’s Y! OS - the whole thing.
Who cares what it’s called - moving software and storage off of [...]

See!  This is how it works. I read a blog post which leaves me out. I blog about it.
Robert updates it.
Isn’t the blogosphere an efficient beast that self corrects itself?  How cool is that?

Is this strategy or tactics?

I created a Top 10 Blog list for SixApart’s Blogs.com list of Top 10 lists site.  It’s called “Marc Canter’s Top 10 List of Open Social Networking Blogs”  :-)  I just love playing kingmaker. NOT. Apologies to all the homeboys and homegrrls who DIDN’T make it onto my list.  I’m right between Popular Stock blogs [...]

How come we don’t have prime misters like this?  Japan has got itself a new prime minster - and McCain is crying that he can’t stay focused.  Waaaaah!

And now McCain is crying like a baby. And this is what Barack said about that:
 
So there you have it.
Micromessaging at the crossroads
Congrats to the former TagWorld [...]

I’ve been catching up - since returning from Europe and one of the biggest things that happened while I was away was the launch of Y! OS.  There’s a great interview putting it all into perspective at theSocialWeb.tv with Cody Simms, the marketing manager of Y! OS at Yahoo.
One of the things that Chris Messina [...]

I wrote a post on a Erik Huggers post on open standards - and sure ‘nuf - a BBC blogger named Nick Reynolds replied in detail to my post.
So in the spirit of open conversation, here are my replies to his replies.  This sort of fluid conversation could be happening on Twitter, FriendFeed, Identi.ca, Pownce [...]

Staying on this houseboat
All is geselig
I haven’t stayed on a houseboat since 1998
Been coming here since 1975 - that’s 33 years