Archive for 'Personal'
OpenIDDevCamp was hack-tastic!
I spent the weekend in SF at OpenIDDevCamp, hosted at SixApart’s offices. In the style of BarCamp and iPhoneDevCamp, the idea was just to get a lot of people together who were interested in OpenID, provide the space and amenities for them to work together, and let them loose. About 30-40 people showed up, including […]
Posted: January 14th, 2008 under Personal, Plaxo, Web development, Open Social Web.
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Tim Berners-Lee groks the social graph
I guess I missed it with the Thanksgiving break, but Tim Berners-Lee recently wrote a thoughtful and compelling essay on the Social Graph, and how it fits in to the evolution of the net and the web so far. Definitely worth a read!
I was pleasantly surprised to see that he references the Bill of Rights […]
Posted: November 26th, 2007 under Personal, Plaxo, Open Social Web.
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Bravo for No Such Thing–Go see it!
My good friend Chris’s wife Annamarie MacLeod is an actor, and she’s starring in a new play called No Such Thing that opens tonight in San Francisco. Michelle and I went to see the final dress rehearsal last night, and we were both very impressed.
The play is essentially a haunting, impressionistic sketch of a man […]
Posted: November 16th, 2007 under Personal.
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My Ajax talk is now on YUI theater
When I gave my talk on High-Performance JavaScript at OSCON in July, I found out that I was speaking right before “Chief Performance Yahoo!” Steve Souders. To be honest, I was a bit nervous–we read everything Steve writes at Plaxo, and he runs a whole group at Yahoo that does nothing but focus on web […]
Posted: August 29th, 2007 under Personal, Papers and Talks, Plaxo, Web development.
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Robert Scoble interviews me on video
Alpha blogger and avant-garde digital media journalist Robert Scoble came over to Plaxo yesterday to talk with me and John McCrea about the Online Identity Consolidator I wrote that Plaxo launched today and open-sourced. He posted a 30-minute video of the interview with his analysis on Scobleizer, and I’ve included the video below as well.
Scoble’s […]
Posted: August 29th, 2007 under Personal, Papers and Talks, Plaxo, Open Social Web.
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My quiet twitter friends are getting lost
I like twitter, and I use it a lot (I even a twitter widget on my web site). A lot of my friends use it too, some more regularly than others. I use Bloglines to keep up with the stream of status updates from my twitter friends so I can check in periodically and pick […]
Posted: August 26th, 2007 under Personal, Web development.
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BarCampBlock exemplifies Silicon Valley
I love living here in Silicon Valley. I’m surrounded by smart, passionate people who don’t feel they need permission to make a difference.
Case in point was BarCampBlock this weekend–a spontaneous un-conference-style gathering of 900+ hackers and other valleyites sprawled across the streets of Palo Alto, as well as inside the offices of several host startups. […]
Posted: August 20th, 2007 under Personal, Plaxo, Open Social Web.
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Smashing Pumpkins blew me away again
As a longtime Smashing Pumpkins fan, I was thrilled to get to see them play live again last night at The Fillmore. If you’ve never seen a show there, the Fillmore is a tiny, intimate venue in SF–I was about 6 feet from the stage in the center, and the view and sound were amazing. […]
Posted: August 1st, 2007 under Personal, Music.
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Congrats to David Recordon!
Yesterday morning, I watched David Recordon lead an “OpenID Bootcamp” for OSCON attendees (including a handout for everyone of the implementation guide I wrote, wow!). Then last night he received a Google - O’Reilly Open Source Award for his contributions to the development and spread of OpenID. What a day!
David has been a great friend […]
Posted: July 25th, 2007 under Personal, Plaxo.
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More on my new role at Plaxo
I just posted some thoughts on my new role at Plaxo as their Chief Platform Architect. Like my previous roles at Plaxo, this is both a formalization of something I was already doing and a decision to focus more intensely on it. In this case, it’s because Plaxo has ended up in a potentially pivotal […]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Personal, Blog, Plaxo, Open Social Web.
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