Marc's Voice » Dec. 3 blogging ‘08

Dec. 3 blogging ‘08

I love the energy of the first week in December. Everyone is thinking about X-Mas and vacation, while at the same time closing up their year and trying to close last minute deals or spend remaining budget. Since it’s a short month - things happen much quicker during this time of year.

I bought an HP laptop on Black Friday, got it home, configured it - and it’s screen stopped working. They gave me a lemon. The folks at BestBuy told me that 1:30 gets returned. It doesn’t matter what the brand or device is - 1 out of 30 get returned! Good news they didn’t blink an eye and just handed me another one. Seemed like SOP.

One event I’m bummed I can’t attend (I was invited to speak at) is the 40th Anniversary of Doug Engelbart’s infamous demo - where he first showed…….. [insert almost everything - mouse, windows, tele conf, etc.)

Congrats to Dare Obasanjo, Angus Logan and all the dudes and dudesses up in Redmond who have launched an open Windows Live. They did exactly what we asked them to do. Now it’s time to bring open to the mainstream!

Dave Winer has a nice proposal for creating level playing fields inside of FriendFeed. I like it! This is the kind of attitude which will build our open mesh!

We don’t do open source - but we make our source code available. I really think this is the right model.

Arrington’s take on the battle around identity. I wonder when TechCrunch will bite the bullet and become an OpenID RP.

Social Aggregation and Activity feeds on Windows Live Spaces

Indeed - VC fnding is NOT for open source

Congrats to Pandora on 2M iPhone users

Congrats to Leah Culver - I think.

Congrats to Logitech on their 1B mouse - yes that’s One Billion.

Facebook Connect is launching - bigtime. And Google Friend Connect is right there as well

We have programmers in Croatia. I must warn them to NOT create a politically motivated Facebook groups!

Vlingo seems coolio. I wonder what it’ll do when I sing into Twitter and Facebook? Yes indeed folks - I bought an iPhone.

Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone collaborative book - Designing Social Interfaces.