Identity Conference Day 2
Today has been fun. We had Indian for lunch. Something about set my mouth on fire. Nearly killed me. During the geek demo hour I met Kevin Mark from Technorati who is one of the…
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Something Scrumdidilyumptious
Just short of a year ago I hacked together a project that we loving called scrumdidilyumptio.us. I and Wiley managed to finish it at about 2 in the morning in a hotel in NY during…
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Identity Introduction
Since we are newbs there are various introductory talks. Conference schedule. Conference Feedback/Collaboration Aggregation of identity blogs – http://www.planetidentity.org/…
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Internet Identity Workshop 2006
I and Trent are headed to the Internet Identity Workshop this next week. This is one of those hard to figure out areas that is becoming more and more important. We hope to have…
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Diet
I haven’t been riding in about a month which really sucks because I am gaining back weight. The trainer is almost setup though – have to make space in the basement – so I hope to…
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Do the economics really work out on this?
We ran some errand yesterday and went by the local Best Buy. I noticed a rather motley looking group hanging around outside and of course we have to ask the guys in the store what…
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Web 2.0 Conference After Thoughts
The conference was a lot of fun and it was interesting to meet people from all over who have a hand in or want to get their hands into the Web 2.0 craze. The speakers were…
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Alumni from last years Launch Pad
Zimbra Ajax enabled software. The cool thing about Zimbra is that they have a way to run offline. They are showing an email client right now that let’s you read and send emails…
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Disruption Opportunity: Venture Capital – Roger McNamee , Ram Shriram
Shriram – Starting an Internet business has never been cheaper. Looks for teams that don’t have business guys early on. The business can develop as time goes on. Why take 5…
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Disruption: Harnessing the Collective Intelligence
Jim Buckmaster (CEO Craigslist) We manage with only 20 peope by relying on our users to manage what goes on on the site. The users keep us out of trouble. The site is the result…
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Kevin Rose – Digg
What we’ve learned. 600k registered people who find stuff and then digg it to the homepage. Rumsfield’s resignation set an all time record for Digg. It took 4 minutes for it to…
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Stuff from Microsoft labs
Here are a couple of interesting things coming out of MS: Photosynthe – pretty cool. Creates a point cloud in 3D of a group of photos. No human intervention required. It looks at…
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Sun’s Cool Toy
Sun labs is showing a project called sunspot. It is awesome. It is a tiny platform that lets you use Java to control a microcontroller that has all kinds of built in sensors. It…
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Marissa Mayer – What google has learned
Company email list called Googlers. Sometimes it is about Tivo series 3. Sometimes it is about changes in snacks in the breakroom. A year or so ago the googler list was filled…
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Mårten Mickos CEO of MySQL
MySQL has been about giving structured data to structured systems. So now “their” idea is to do what Google has done and get people to open source their data, share that data…
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Yahoo! Technology Preview – Brad Garlinghouse , Ethan Diamond
250 million people access yahoo mail every day. They are building web 2.0 experiences to Yahoo mail. Features: When email it will show you if the other user is online. If you…
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A Conversation with Ross Levinsohn
Arranged the deal and bought Myspace. Youtube is their biggest strategic partner. On the Internet may of your biggest competitors are also your partners. Google will power search…
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Bob Parsons – Godaddy
Failed high school got a diploma because the army wanted him to go to Vietnam. Be careful who you listen to. They started their filing to go public then pulled it a week later. It…
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Afternoon keynotes
Here are some highlights from the keynotes during the afternoon sessions. Eric Schmit (CEO Google) John Battelle “Why did you buy youtube?” Schmit’s response video is a big deal…
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An interesting company
Yesterday Vox.com announced they are open for busines. This is an interesting company to me because it is similar to ozmorz. If you listen to thier story and then to ours they…