BuddyPress
There’s real information on the BuddyPress site today. I am so excited. This is one of the first steps towards easy to create, distributed social networks. Hopefully it is as easy…
Web 2.0
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A Killer iPhone App
I am not great at meeting people especially at conferences. However, the biggest reason to attend a conference is to meet people. (If you think you are paying $1500 to learn about…
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Journal Writing Sucks, Blogging is Cool
The LDS cultural has encouraged personal history and journal writing since its inception. Ever since then the vast majority of the members have ignored this council and the…
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Connected Communities
When Digg was new I spent plenty of time following the latest news ‘dugg’ up by the community. Now I rarely go back. Somewhere along the line Digg became an online Frat house and…
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Disposable Communities
I had a great chat with Brian Lamb yesterday. He and his team are working to use WordPress to support learning communities at UBC. In case anyone else is sick of WebCT, Blackboard…
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Niche Communities
Over the past few months I have talked quite a bit with Joel about online communities and about what philosophically makes a community. I think it is a group of individuals who…
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Content Connected to Geography
Marion has been working on this idea of connecting information to a location for quite some idea now. WhereIGo has made some of the technology that is needed to make it happen…
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Note to Facebook, Myspace and Other Social Silos: DIE
I wrote three Facebook apps and I have ideas for several more. The most successful was the House Plans application I did for ThePlanCollection.com, but in the Facebook world you…
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Utah WordPress Meetup
I spent this afternoon with some really cool and interesting individuals from around utah. Matt Mullenweg, the original developer of WordPress was in town and was willing to come…
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Government 2.0
I really and truly heard the term Government 2.0 on the radio this morning. I shuddered and it wasn’t from the cold. However, I listened to the broadcast anyway despite my disgust…
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Configure your Free Facebook Joyent Accelerator for Capistrano
Right now Joyent is giving away free Accelerator accounts to Facebook developers. I love free stuff so this is so cool I could just cry. Free hosting with one of the premier Ruby…
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Facebook as an Authentication System
I have been playing with OpenID for about a year now. It is a very cool, distributed authentication system. The concept is great and I love that I don’t have to create accounts…
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Have 51weeks feedback?
This morning at the Open Education 2007 conference David Wiley announced our new conference application 51weeks. I wrote the code so if you have any feedback or run into problems…
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Flickr as Web 2.0, bla, The Soviets were like Nuke 2.0 way back in the 70s
I watched Dr Strangelove late at night a couple of weeks ago. It is dark humor and a movie in classical Kubrick style. The irony in the movie has so much to teach modern society…
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iPhone App
I have an iPhone. It is an awesome little toy. I couldn’t just own one. I need a reason to play with it so I wrote an application. igag.us It lets you gather your favorite news…
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igag.us updated
Just updated igag.us so that it supports aggregation via tag. Go to ‘manage aggregations’ then select ‘Add’ after that select ‘Tag’. Enter a tag that you want to track and viola…
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Social Software is for the Young
An interesting study by business week shows who is doing what on line. The visualization helps to show what is in many ways obvious – young people are more likely to do social…
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New Website for Academic Types
We have started a new site for those who are academic in nature. As part of what we do at COSL we have Brian Lamb helping us out with research. As we searched for good research…
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ozmozr is out there
We (COSL) just spent the last three months putting together a piece of software called Ozmozr. I figured that since know one knows us and since we don’t market it would be a while…
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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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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…
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Don Tapscott – wikinomics
Wikinomics – new book. How mass collaboration changes everything. “After the dot com boom many traditional companies breathed a sign of relief. Big mistake.” After the bubble…
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Dr Hyun-Oh Yoo Cyworld
Korean social site. Combination of popular internet activities – blogs, photo, video sharing. Here are some statistics: 20 million subscribers 40% of population 96% of 20-29 year…
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Bruce Chizen
“We don’t view ajax or html documents as competition.” Adobe has been open from day one. PostScript and PDF were open from day one, but we have to make sure to not be so open that…
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Enterprise 2.0 Mashups Marc Benioff
Long term survivors move from being a killer app to a killer platform. Integrate external applications and service into you business application. For example, use iRows…
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Jeff Bezos
This morning I ate breakfast with Shawna O’Reilly from Mayo Clinic Ventures and the product manager of Web Sphere. This conference is a lot of fun. Jeff Bezos is up now. Here are…
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Jeff Jonas Cops and Robbers Las Vegas Style
Helped track down the MIT teams in Las Vegas. Corporate amnesia. Ie marketing sends credit card offer to a guy in jail who just defrauded the company. Companies have multiple…
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Jonathan Miller
I didn’t get much out of this chat from AOL other than a new acronym – UGC – user generated content. The big buzz at this conference seems to be around that very thing – finding…
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Ray Ozzie
John Battelle “How has the world changed and how is it going a year after the memo from Bill Gates?” Ray – It is going very well. Some people get it some don’t. Vista and Office…
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Meet Ning — Marc Andreessen , Gina Bianchini
Empower people to create their own social sites. I played with the beta a while back and it seemed to be decent. I believe you can download your source code from their hosted…
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The Evenings Entertainment
I hear that at past Web 2.0 conferences dinner on the second night was left to the attendees. This year AOL provided dinner and entertainment in the form of Lou Reed. I like music…
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Vinton G. Cerf and Robert Pepper net neutrality debate
Robert Pepper – Net neutrality is a dichotomous false choice – tyranny vs chaos. It is not necessary to create a regulation regime, but we need a to deal with violations on a case…
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Skype ecommerce
Dinner last night included a chat with Niklas Zennstrom who stated that the eBay aquisition was a perfect fit. This is inspite of everyone in the world saying huh? Jack Ma’s China…
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Yahoo opens browser authentication
You can use Yahoo to authenticate your users if you want. http://developer.yahoo.com/auth/ This might be worth looking at. 500 million people have accounts at Yahoo. Numbers tend…
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BlogHer Presents…World Domination via Collaboration
Jory Des Jardins, Co-founder, BlogHer LLC Caterina Fake, Co-founder, Flickr Jessica Hardwick, Founder and CEO, SwapThing.com – people exchange whatever. Uses social collateral…
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web 2.0 conference day one
I am attending the Web 2.0 conference this week. There is an interesting combination of people here and I must admit that I feel like a foreigner as I am part of an academic…
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Whose Data is It?
Marc Hedlund, Chief Product Officer, Wesabe mentioned a couple of sites with openness in mind. He talked about the fact that many of the map companies purchase that data from…
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web 2.0 conference – internet
The free internet is sponsered by AOL – the hotel charges money. Problem is that it sucks. I just lost my last post because WordPress died while trying to connect. For those…
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Launch Pad
The launch is going on right now. Every seat is full, and the unlucky late comers are all standing. I guess everyone is interested in the next big thing. Some interesting…