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Which gang are you members of?

Facebook did the right thing

We went to the Facebook f8 conference and found out that we'll be able ot offer Facebook Import now.

Building the open mesh

Here's some updates on my efforts at creating a reference design for the open mesh:

- Progress report

- Reference Design

- New kinds of Infrastructure

- original "How to build the Open Mesh" overview and links to 10 areas of focus

I'm doing a bunch of BBQs in my back yard - huddling round the fence - to garner feedback and buy-in.

Coolio

I feel honored being a member of this elite group.

I agree

One day we'll all have a storage cloud in the sky.

One year Anniversary of the “Bill of Rights for users of Social Media”

Episode 8 of theSocialWeb.tv show was on the Bill of Rights that Joseph Smarr and myself authored - exactly a year ago on Sept. 4th, 2007. As a coincidence it was also David Recordon’s birthday as well, so we had a great episode - talking about why the Bil of Rights happened in the first [...]

How to build the Open Mesh presentation

This is what I’ll be presenting on Sept. 18th in Rotterdam for eday. How to build the Open Mesh View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: open mesh)

Last day of the summer - blogging ‘08

There’s a moment in the Snag Films’ documentary “Africa Unite” where Ziggy Marley is talking about his father Bob’s efforts when Zimbabwe was freed.  Ziggy talks about a father listening to his son’s pleas, and they showed footage of a 9 year old Ziggy dancing on stage at the Zimbabwe liberated concert.  Classic footage.  Lots [...]

4 Appendices that conclude “How to build the Open Mesh”

I’ve been finalizing my book “How to build the Open Mesh” and I wanted to post the four Appendices that conclude the book. Here they are: Appendix - A = “What does Google’s Open Mesh look like?” Most of the infrastructure, services and applications that Google offers work all by themselves and are not dependent upon anything else.  [...]

Aren’t Facebook and MySpace really Closed Meshes?

I’m finalizing my book “How to build the Open Mesh” and Mary Hodder suggested that I add some Appendices on how various BigCos are building THEIR versions of the open mesh.  The full title of this Appendix is “Aren’t Facebook and MySpace really Closed Meshes and how can we connect to them?” So here is Appendix [...]