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Now we’re REALLY ready to start the year - blogging

The New Year hasn”t really started until I get my birthday ( and my youngest child Lucy’s birthday) out of teh way.  Now we star tthe New Year - with a vengence!

On the continuing end of business as usual

Liz Gannes continues to be the leading writer in terms of grokking the politics, maneuvering, big behemoths, social, inter-connection thingie.  This time - she’s covering the new effort from Yahoo - called Yahoo Updates.  I also LOVE the new GigaOm - “synopsis” IMPORTANT POINTS - at the top of the article! Liz’s earlier articles on the Connect Wars - and Google’s new approach to Open - paint the perfect picture and analysis (albeit short) of the current state of affairs in our Open Web - and people/social.  REMEMBER all software of the future will be social - so ALL of this is important!

Now I know what my friends and colleagues at CWRU will be doing the next month…..

Meanwhile MySpace is making MORE money for its platform developers - than Facebook - and they’re about to turn the crank and upgrade their core engine. The issue here is what Facebook will do about music.

And speaking of Yahoo - its clear that they see Open as a key element of their strategy. That’s never been the issue.  The issue is execution.  Yahoo is VERY lucky ot have folks like Allen Tom and Era Hammer-Lahav, however shutting down shopping APIs ain’t cool!  Regardless of what Neil Sample says, this just shows Yahoo’s retrenchment (after 6 years of a buying spree) - to adjust to the new realities of being 4th on the list.  But Neil is also right - the open web ain’t all roses. But sometimes you gotta stick to the strink field - to pay your dues.  And just cause Yahoo has been around, doesn’t make them all sacrosanct and safe.  We NEED shopping APIs!

Microsoft loves ot put on these exclusive intimate social computing research symposiums. I used to get invited - but I think I was too loud.  One of teh presentations coming out of that - is this beautiful city collage called Deep City.

Tee Hee Hee - Brad DeLong learned something most of us SFers knew - iPhones suck in downtown SF.

When disgraced, ex-investment bankers start chanting the rap, then maybe it’ll happen - Legalize It!

A history of the world = BBC

This is the kind of money we’re tapping into here at CWRU

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