Marc's Voice

Euphoria subsiding, now its down to business

I sure would have thought that after the election, stocks would rebound.  Silly me.

I agree with Mark Cuban - Barack needs to be listening to entrepreneurs - people who have started their own businesses.

Hah! I knew I recognized that guy!

Thank you Lora - whoever you are!

Congrats to Allen Hurff on being named chairman of the board of the OpenSocial Foundation. And to Joepsh Smarr for being elected to the board.

Congrats to Kara and Megan.  We were in the  same lamaze class together!

Microsoft does AIMpages right. Riding on thw coattails of MSN Messenger, Microsoft has done exactly what AOL tried to do - and failed.  But with the Windows Live platform,  Live mesh, their identity landscape, their installed base and bank account - Microsoft is doing open right.   And supporting OpenID.  And bringing it to the mainstream.  And there are APIs into all this stuff.  Two-way APIs!

Chris Messina has put out an independent study on OpenID.  Yahoo did one - with 8 female Yahoosters. chris’ study utilzied mechanicla Turk and had 301 responses.

AMD attacks NVidia - but they ain’t gonna win.

More yummy Yui-ness

FWIW everyting single thing I told these people to do - they ignored.  Now I hate to say I told you so - but $25M+ later - I guess I was right.

NetVibes supports Facebook Connect

Congrats to John Musser on 1,000 APIs tracked!

Coolio! Sling Media launches an on-line consumer facing whats-a-mah-callit.

I just love the India of NTT Docomo buying a piece of Tata. But they better realize that Indian curry is a LOT spicier than that bland stuff they call curry in Japan. 
I’m bummed Brett and Steve didn’t hear me start singing Funkadelics, but I was going off on the opportunities facing FriendFeed with XMPP leadership. Maybe next time.

Looks like XMPP is losing a lot of battles - for a number of different reasons.

Tagging - in any way, shape or form is essential for our future. But humans have to see the benefits of tagging!

RED, I’m still looking for a decent on-line image editor - here’s a list of 20 more to check out.