Ellen Leanse @chep2m asked me about details of why I was worried about data portability, so I wrote this technical note on my blog - http://tinyurl.com/437zv9 - Mitchell Tsai
dbrowell writes "I want packages of my identities as signals and signs, like a group of hung shingles outside a mainstreet. If I post on a blog I’d like it to be clear that I have a Twitter ID, Facebook, etc. But linking to that personal ID village and literally having my ID village follow me like a redundant Verizon commercial is NOT what I want." as a comment on Ellen Leanse's "MicroPost: Data Portability…what’s in it for me?" [5/13/08] http://tinyurl.com/5htpyr - Mitchell Tsai
Carolyn McCarthy writes "Welcome to the social mess?" [Webware - 5/12/08] http://www.webware.com/8301-1_... Saad characterized the Facebook, Google, and MySpace announcements as "internal brands that are technically the beginning of a data portability play." All three companies have representatives in the DataPortability Workgroup, even though none of the week's announcements were developed in conjunction with the group. - Mitchell Tsai
Google Friend Connect, Facebook Connect, MySpace Data Availability, OpenID, DataPortability: Managing a bunch of different log-ins and passwords suddenly seems easy and straightforward. - Mitchell Tsai
Checking 2 Diggs at 12:26 pm PT. Twitter at 12:31 pm PT. Still waiting on 1 Del.icio.us at 12:16 pm PT. Del.icio.us arrived FF 12:48 pm after 32 min delay. My Del.icio.us items are arriving within 1 min at 12:48-3:22 pm PT. Twitter stalled, but restarted after 45 min. Shay has a big timing thread http://friendfeed.com/e/e65952... - Mitchell Tsai
5:26pm EST some later Del.icio.us entries came through within 5 mins, but the original ones, Flickr and GReader have yet to arrive. Weird. - Sally Church
Sally: The original ones might be "lost". Hopefully, they're still in the pipeline on another server. I'm assuming FriendFeed has distributed pipelines for incoming stuff, not just one queue. - Mitchell Tsai
2:33 pm PT YouTube videos arrived at FriendFeed (2 hr delay). Tried Google Picasa at 2:51 pm PT (since I don't use Flickr). - Mitchell Tsai
3:11 pm PT Still no Digg (2 hr 46 min) or Picasa (21 min). Twitter, Del.icio.us 12:48-3:01 pm, and YouTube coming through. Sally & others are reporting some of their stuff from ~6 hrs ago is stuck, but some newer stuff is coming through. - Mitchell Tsai
3:18 pm PT Picasa just arrived at FriendFeed (27 min). Still no Digg (2 hr 52). - Mitchell Tsai
11:12 pm PT 2 Diggs still not here (10 hr 46). None of my later Diggs (like on Chris Brogan's article @chrisbrogan http://tinyurl.com/6gn37h) are here either. - Mitchell Tsai
From an e-mail by Obama: --- We've won more elected delegates, more states, and more votes than Senator Clinton. But until yesterday we trailed among Governors, Members of Congress, and Democratic Party leaders -- the so-called "superdelegates" who have a vote in the nominating process.
As it stands, we have 281 superdelegates who have committed to cast their convention votes for us. That includes 23 since last Tuesday's elections, and 3 who switched their support from Senator Clinton.
We have just 150 delegates to go before Barack Obama clinches the nomination - Mitchell Tsai
June 15 it will officially be final, Hillary it looks like is riding this out to the very end, when she should of it called it quits days ago, if not months ago.. - Mike Fruchter
Maxim Vengerov is my favorite classical violinist. Possibly the "violinist of the century". First heard him at age 19 in Los Angeles. Links to my favorite YouTube videos on my 11/30/07 blog post. http://tinyurl.com/2eks8d - Mitchell Tsai
Paul Buchheit (FriendFeed) did not attend the 10-year reunion at Webster High School, but had one of his old buddies take pictures of everyone. - Mitchell Tsai
"Yes, the data systems are all around the world. One of the unusual things about the Gmail system is that you could literally destroy any one city in the world and there wouldn't be any data loss because everything is redundant. So, you could survive just that sort of issue." Heh. - Philipp Lenssen
I love the 3X redundancy of Google search servers. Don't know how much Gmail server redundancy. Google's doing a lot of stuff very well! - Mitchell Tsai
I offered to pay Paul Buchheit a monthly fee for using FriendFeed, and he turned me down. :-) Good to see there are still idealists in the world! - Mitchell Tsai
Christine Herron is a venture advisor for First Round Capital and an independent startup consultant. Previously, Christine was a director at Omidyar Network, where she invested in social media. - Mitchell Tsai
An 18-yr-old high school girl, Kristen Heath, presented about a company, Passive Devices, she started while 14 yrs old! Kristen sells Snoop Tunes, devices which allow 15-22-yr-olds and 18-30-yr-olds to share music with nearby friends on iPods & other devices using FM (rather than sharing earbuds or illegally copying music). Describing her experience at starting a company at age 14, she shared "I wasn't thinking I would actually have to be there & go through all the steps." :-) - Mitchell Tsai
Amra Tareen (allvoices - helping 3rd world voices get heard, Geolocating), Erica Estrada (d.light, sub-$25 lights), Leila Chirayath (Market for Change - supporting outsourcing to Kenya & other developing countries) presented about the challenges of international business - Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan. NOTE: Leila shared that biggest challenge for Kenyan programmers is NOT infrastructure, but lack of marketing ability to US/Europe. - Mitchell Tsai
Business Plan Competition - Finalist #1: WebVet - "WebMD for pets" http://webvet.com, Hope Schultz, William Zaccheo, Target: Most pet owners don't trust internet info for pets, and are very picky about vets. Q: How sticky will the site be? Are they spending too much on content? - Mitchell Tsai
Business Plan Competition - Finalist #2: Koollage - 1-step pod-maker for social "mini" blogging and "micro"media. http://koollage.com. Mythili Sankaran. Target: Right now blogs look terrible on iPhones. No easy 1-step method to make pods. - Mitchell Tsai
Business Plan Competition - Finalist #3: Gaiagy - 1-stop-shop for finding the best eco-efficiency products. http://HomeEnergySaver.com. Margot Eiran. Kanika Singal. Rucker Alex. Target: It's a pain-in-neck to find & evaluate eco-efficient stuff for the home (even for experts)! Existing government sites can NOT recommend actual products. - Mitchell Tsai
Business Plan Competition - Finalist #4: Skill Shop - Help IT shops put the right people on the right projects. Idea stage. Solution: Use a taxonomy rather than a keyword match on "C#, HTML, Javascript, CSS" - Mitchell Tsai
Business Plan Competition - Finalist #5: Passive Devices (mentioned above). Sold 2,000 units. $20 each. Have order for 50,000 units. Redesigning units based on feedback from 1st 2,000. Two Markets: 18-30-yr-olds want better earphone quality, and share less. 15-22-yr-olds share more. - Mitchell Tsai
Google.org's (Hybrid Philanthropic-Profit arm of Google) Rachel Paynes discussed their 3 areas of interest (1) Climate Change (2) Global Public Health (3) Global Development. One project, Planet Read, teaches people in India to read by showing the words to popular Bollywood songs. "Same-Language Subtitling" In 1 year, 200 million people have been learning to read. Watching 1 day/wk, they estimate it will take 3 years to learn to read. - Mitchell Tsai
With Amra Tareen (Co-Founder and CEO, allvoices) http://allvoices.com "Beyond the Spark: Entrepreneurship Redefined" Conference (by Women 2.0 & Stanford Women in Business) http://women2.org - Sat 5/10/08 (Photo by Shirley Lin, Co-Founder WooMeOver http://woomeover.com) - Mitchell Tsai
My sister Margaret waving from a cruiseship as it leaves Miami for the Carribean. I won some cruises in Las Vegas before getting banned from 2 casino chains last year. - Mitchell Tsai
You must be a mathematical whizz since I'm ruling out "lucky"! - Alex von Halem
When you can get odds of 101-110+%, it's pretty good! Banned on slot machines both casino chains. I'm ok with my blackjack cover acts - never banned for those. The reality is you don't need much math (calculation-wise), but non-obvious advanced theory helps. - Mitchell Tsai
I was using this post to test someone's suggestion about using the bookmarklet to post blog articles manually WITH a PHOTO. But I had comments before the article was finished, so I just left the blog article in the auto-post. - Mitchell Tsai
lol, apart from that did it work for you? I'm actually thinking about removing my blog from my feed completely, and doing it all manually. - Slippy Lane
Slippy: It does work, but I think I'm going to cross-link instead. Some of my blog posts don't have pictures. - Mitchell Tsai
