Phil Windley’s got a good piece on a favorite topic: How to get Mashups, APIs right–from a WWW2006 panel Rohit Khare’s moderating. Ross Mayfield: Wikipedia ain’t dead and Nick Carr is a new DW, so there Redlight center: Create an avatar and have sex in a virtual Amsterdam. Yawn. Charlene Li: How media business models… Continue Reading

Mike Arrington just pointed out the blogosphere related links provided by SF start-up Sphere on selected Time Magazine articles. Very cool, but it makes me wonder why Sphere was successful in pulling this off when Technorati, Feedster, and probably every other start-up in blogosphere land has been pitching these guys (and every other big media… Continue Reading

“…If you look at the numbers, by far the biggest photo-sharing service out there is still email.” — Tabboo CEO Antonio Rodriquez on his blog, explaining how his about to be launched but embargoed was broken photo-sharing service is muy unique. (Via Jerry Michalski’s sociate, writing on why email is a survivor)

Could there be any better kick-off for the recognition that women bloggers–and women-blogger positive enterprise Blogher.org–is both good practice–and big business–than the detailed–and thoroughly researched article in this Sunday’s Contra Costa Times? Lisa, J ory and Elisa hit a vein when they started BlogHer last year and now are building our a market at the… Continue Reading

“Let’s see if I have this straight — if you weren’t part of a teeny-tiny social clique, which heavily skews well-off white men, in a small part of California, more than a decade ago, that’s ‘a major reason’ you won’t be on the A-list (‘those early dinners back in 1992/93’). — Seth Finkelstein, commenting on… Continue Reading

flickr is hiring Amazon launches a media browser with all the stuff you’ve bought available–it’s heavy on the Ajax and looking very cool. (Via Rubel) Diggerati: eatmyhamster and NooZ make me smile ( Dave W likes em too). WWD: Rich Stengel to run Time (congrats, dude!); Deborah Schoeneman ‘s penned a Page Six-ish gossip book.… Continue Reading

“…By solving a problem that you have, you, by default, have passion for the idea. And you need to have passion for the idea, because a startup will overwhelm you; it sucks your entire life away. Your friends will leave you; your dog will leave you; everybody will leave you. It’s the hardest thing you… Continue Reading

Here’s the 188 page preso from Wednesday’s Yahoo ! Analysts’ Day. Nothing like downloading a nice big fat deck to get the 50,000 foot view–it’s all about talent, globalization, monetization and next generation product strategy (damn right on that one!)

David Jackson’s Internet Stock Blog reports that according to Nielson/NetRatings the top 10 social networking sites collectively grew 47% since last year ? a climb from 46.8 million uniques in April 2005 to 68.8 million in April 2006. The data includes blogs ? such as Google?s Blogger platform–but News Corp?s (NWS) MySpace tops the list.… Continue Reading

“…I?m very proud that the new Yahoo! home page uses the open-source Yahoo! User Interface Library extensively. ” — Nate Koechley, Yahoo Interface User Blog Susan sez: Open Source..way to go!