I’m at Mashup Camp. Tantek is moderating a session on microformats. I just made an hcard. Here is is 🙂 Keith Teare edgeio 44 James Avenue Atherton, CA 94027 +1-650-331-1998
[read more]...I have been gratified to see all the coverage about edgeio since I demo’d it last week at SDForum’s Search SIG, and Rob Hof’s first post. Everybody seems to like the concept. You can track the discussion here and here. Mike posted on Techcrunch and on the edgeio blog. For those who like to know the background, just a few pointers. Philosophically: tagging – it seemed to me – was the thing that could enable RSS to be leveraged as an application layer enabler. Basically, the idea of RSS carrying a payload for an application. Using the “listing” tag to
[read more]...Google had a great quarter (earnings up 82% year over year and revenues up more than 22% quarter over quarter). But they missed Wall Street expectations by more than 15%. The stock took a 15% hit in the aftermarket. It is now down almost $100 from its previous high. My personal opinion – huge buying opportunity. Links: EarningsCast Business 2.0 Inside Google
[read more]...Susan Mernit has announced that she is joining Yahoo. I have had the good fortune to meet with Susan a couple of times over the last 3 months or so. She has a great analytical mind, she is execution focused, she “gets” what is happening with Web 2.0. I suspect Yahoo are the big winners here. Congrats Susan. Links: Susan Mernit’s Blog: Newsflash: I’m joining Yahoo!
[read more]...Umair has a post about why the “Rise of the Edge“? is something highly disruptive to orthodox Internet companies. In “Umair Rocks”? Fred Wilson says he wants to understand better what Umair means here, and plans to spend the time doing so. For me the key is to comprehend that “the edge”? is a concept that only makes sense in a networked world. In a network “the edge”? is “the people”?. And “the edge”? plays the role of both subject (consumers) and object (creators).Blogs are a great example of the edge. Multi-player gaming is another example. Of course the edge
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