- Andreas Krohn, one of Kapow's product managers, has a great blog posting about the evolution of mashups, from "Hacking to Assembling." He talks about several mashup products and gives Mashup Hub a plug here as well. We're going to have a lot more to talk about in 2008 around Mashup Hub and Info 2.0, so stay tuned... can't give away anything this time guys, sorry :)
- For those of you who live in San Francisco, The Bay Area Interactive Group is co-sponsoring (with Yahoo) a community party that benefits "One Laptop per Child" this Thursday, Dec. 20th. They also plan to have a panel discussion around community and how to build a network of influencers to support your product. It looks interesting; I am hoping to attend and meet some folks. So if you're in town, come on out. It's $20/head, but for a good cause. Plus 200+ cool folks look to be attending.
- Andrew Gent has an interesting blog post addressing the lack of process in Web 2.0. His argument is that Web 2.0 is about people, and that it involved technology, but there is a huge gap in the area of "process." I've been thinking a lot about this, and talking to my team about creating some sort of blueprint for success around how to implement/use/benefit from Web 2.0 in your company. We've already implemented a bunch of Web 2.0 products internally, and hopefully you'll be seeing this blueprint in Q1. We're talking to more customers though first, so if you have thoughts about what should be in here, let me know. Ideally I'd like to see this as a Web 2.0 Community effort - not just a vendor driven one.
- Last, but certainly not least, here's a pic of my kitten Hannah from a few nights ago. She doesn't like it when I work too much and ignore her (I think she's co-dependent), so she snags my blackberry in an attempt to get attention. I snapped this pic right after she tired herself out and fell asleep on top of the device. Enjoy!
