London Bombings

We have two good friends in London, Kerry and Sunil, who live in the Barbicon which is close to the city center/financial district. I have been unable to reach them thus far. I am fairly certain they are alright, but it would be nice to know that for sure. I feel terrible for all the people who are going through what many people I know from NYC went through on 9/11.

Rabble Announced by Verizon

We are really excited by the support we have been given by Verizon. The press release announcing Rabble can be found here.

Cool, Southern California, and Information Overload

James Governor from Redmonk mentioned my three uses of the word cool in one paragraph. Upon a second read I think I ended up squeezing 5 in two paragraphs. Ouch.

Ok so two things. First, I am from Southern California. I like to think that isn't all that obvious, but I use the words, dude, cool, and awesome rather generously in conversation. For the record I don't surf, but I do live in a surfer Mecca known as Cardiff by the Sea. I am not sure if it's that or the fact that I have spent a good chunk of my existence in or around various parts of southern California. I also do a really funny thing with the letter "O" when I say it in words. Sort of an elongated emphasis. I don't know why, but I can't seem to stop it.

Second, I find myself in a weird place in terms of my information consumption and regurgitation. I am working on a post about the Sidekick I just bought and the challenges of too much and too many ways of communication. I'll hopefully get that out later today. What I should have said about Where 2.0 is the following:

1. There is a fundamental shift in the development of wireless infrastructure and a growth in the ability of personal devices to capture and both produce and consume content. If you have read my posts or any of the Intercasting Corporation posts this is a consistent theme for me and people in our company.

2. The general release of advanced mapping APIs from the large search engines, and the capabilities that are already present and that will logically follow will create an overlay of location that will become a new and key metatag for information consumption.

3. This open approach towards location and mapping APIs, which is consistent with much of what you see in blogging and RSS platforms is very important in that people aren't leveraging the core platform to box out competition, rather they are allowing small startups, individuals, and even big companies to use the platform and provide context on top of an important layer of abstraction for the development of new services and products.

That, in my mind, is VERY COOL.

Live 8

Wow, what a terrible show from a TV perspective. I TIVO'd the show on ABC and I can't tell you how bad the show was. The only thing that really captured my attention was the Pink Floyd reunion, which I would have paid large sums of money to see the whole set.

Where 2.0 - Postscript

Where 2.0 was a really cool conference. I had a number of really cool meetings and I got to see some people I know like Russ (met once before) and Dan. I got to show a number of people Rabble and I got a lot of good response and feedback that I really appreciated. Dan showed me his beta which is very cool.

The big takeaway to me, and I obviously have a bias, was that the big players are taking an awesome approach to exposing their APIs for some cool mapping applications like the image I posted on the previous post. (Be sure to click on the image) Creating value in context is going to be key. Location materials will be broadly available and I think that there are going to be some really cool things happening as the big search guys and the wireless carriers roll out their location based apis. We obviously hope to help push the envelope on some of those things as it relates to what we are focusing on.

Rabble Meets Google Mashup

Rabble Meets Google,
originally uploaded by brikmaster.

A friend of ours did an overlay of Rabble users with the Google Map API that was released this last week. There are going to be a lot of really cool things that come out of stuff like this.

Passed Out

Passed Out,
originally uploaded by brikmaster.

Yeah, I have no shame. I took pictures of my wife when she was super pregnant with triplets and put them on the Internets. So figuring that turnabout is fairplay I found these pictures she took of me and I think that this is a good example of a typical morning at our house.

Sidekick

I picked up a Sidekick yesterday. I think I have seen four or five different people with one of these in the last 30 days, and mind you they weren't super connected geeks like myself. I'll drop a review later. I have to say it's really funny to be walking around right now with a Sony Ericsson P910, an LG 6000 for using Rabble, and a Sidekick.

Where 2.0

Fascinating conference. I am running between sessions and other meetings I had previously set up, wishing I could sit in sessions all day. I'll recap some of the highlights later.

iTunes Podcasting support

I downloaded the new version today. The flavor of the podcast directory is decidedly Adam Curry and general commercial like BBC etc. As someone into music podcasting I was bummed to see there were only 17 music shows. Accident Hash, from CC Chapman who is heading up the Podshow Music network makes sense as he is an early player and has a good show. The Biddies? Yuck. But that's my opinion. Coverville? A good show but a serious lawsuit waiting to happen. I can't believe that Apple has that one in there. They should talk to their lawyers...

On The Road, Grokster and Where 2.0

Ok, my 4th consecutive business day in LA. That's back and forth way too many times. Its been a good time though. Unfortunately it's been in the car and not the train as I needed some flexibility. This morning I had heard that the Supreme Court was done for the session and I knew that there were some important rulings that I wanted to hear about, I just didn't remember which ones. Duh! Grokster. Wow! I can't wait to read the opinion. I have heard mixed interpretations on the radio and in phone calls with people like " www.bigchampagne.com " Joe a .

Back in San Diego tomorrow and then off to " conferences.oreillynet.com where " Where 2.0 a . Stay tuned.,

Technical Difficulties - New Features

I checked out Bloglines the other day and saw that I had made a whole lot of posts and I didn't recall what was going on. When I looked at the post I saw some strange pictures and things that I hadn't put up. I then realized that we are just a couple of days from rolling out some new features on Rabble. So for those patient readers of this blog a quick heads up.

Early next week we should be rolling out integration of Blogger and Live Journal with Rabble. What does that mean? Well for one, I am going to be importing a whole bunch of content from this blog into my Rabble account. People on Rabble will be able to see these posts alongside the posts I create on Rabble. The other thing, which I think is even cooler, is that when I post on this blog, the content will go to Rabble. When I post to Rabble, the content will show up here.

If you see any weirdness just know that this is what's going on. We have a lot of other really cool features and things going down in the coming weeks as well.,

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Engage

My friend Neil works at a new dating site that soft launched last night. It is called " www.engage.com " Engage a . I haven't had a chance to check it out, but next week when I am up in SF I look forward to hearing all about it. I am sure there are some particular twists that will make it interesting.,

AMP Relaunch

As I alluded to in my last podcast there was a bit of a separation of some of the early members of AMP ( " www.musicpodcasting.org " Association of Music Podcasting a ) as there were some personality conflicts and the normal crap you get in a fledgling organization. I am still a fan of those who left and I think for their own in idual reasons it made sense in each case and I completely understand and support their decisions. Part of that separation resulted in a change of technical responsibilities that necessitated a dormant period on the AMP site.

Well no more. Please come by and check out the almost 40 awesome music podcasts covering just about every genre and style from all over the world. We have a lot of awesome deals in the hopper and expect to be making a lot of noise really soon.

If you are a podcast fan and want to see THE music place for podcasting, I guarantee you won't be disappointed.,

ODEO

I am starting to play around a bit with ODEO. Very cool. More later...,

The $250 Million Radio Show #24

After a long hiatus, Show #24 is here. Credits are here.

New Technorati

Check out the new " www.technorati.com " Technorati a . It seems like they have made some really good improvements. I haven;t checked the result sets yet and I am sure that there probably are continuing problems in that area, but I am excited to see where they go.,

Rabble in New York Times

We had a really nice write up here today.

Triplet Baptism

It's Friday and still no podcast. Maybe tonight. This weekend every relative on the planet is descending on our house to witness the baptism of our triplets, Mallory, Tucker and Brit. It should be great fun. I'll definitely post a bunch of pics.,