Follow the Friendfeed conversation.

9. I've had breakfast AND lunch with Scoble.

8. I once strapped a camera on my head and pretended to be iJustine.

7. I got better Gadgets than Nik Cubrilovoic.

6. I got .flv video clips of Mike, Shel, Nik, Loic, & Calley talking all sorts of nonsense on Qik.

5. http://federatedclouds.com

4. http://reefinabox.net

3. http://infinitelymeta.com

2. http://refriend.me

1. http://ytranslate.us

0. UPDATE: I had to unblock Jason McCabe Calacanis before I sent my @reply on Twitter.

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*****below is pasted from linked in profile *

8 year veteran in the enterprise software space with experience in pre-sales (Systems Engineer), Product Management, Standards & Evangelism (Standards & Technology Liaison).

Current role: Senior Systems Engineer, Business Process Management & Composite Applications. I'm one of 4 navy seal like SEs that make up the "Solution Center" team at Software AG. We are a "swat team" that can be deployed across the globe (virtually) to support pre- and post- sales activities. We support regional sales reps and SEs with the delivery of customized VMware-based demonstrations that showcase the breadth and depth of the Software AG Product Suite. My area of focus and expertise is in Business Process Management, Human Workflow, and Composite Applications. I'm fluent in most BPMS lingo, can crank out JSF-based webapps, and know enough Java to be dangerous. When I'm not building custom solutions, I'm supporting colleagues in the field and across the organization with a wide range of support duties that range from leading training sessions, generating content (whitepapers, tutorials, webexes), traveling on site to conduct on site demos / proof of concepts, online training & mentoring, remote web conferencing (webex). I also own and manage the 5 core business processes that govern what we do as a team (Solution Center).

Senior Product Manager - for about 5 years I was the product manager for an enteprise portal technology suite, first called DataChannel Server, later renamed Netegrity Interaction Server, then changed to webMethods Portal, then webMethods Access, then My webMethods Server, then webMethods Composite Application Framework. Whew. Lots of names, 3 major re-architectures, 4 major releases, countless minor releases, and god knows how many service packs, hot fixes, and feature roll-ups I've been through. I acted as PM for the Portal technology from roughly 2001-2006. In 2006, I transitioned out of Product Management into the Sales Organization where I currently serve as a Senior Systems Engineer.

Standards & Technology Liaison - I was originally hired by DataChannel, Inc in May of 2000 to serve in this exciting new role. I reported directly to DataChannel's CTO Norbert Mikula, where my primary responsibilities were to participate and sit on relevant standards bodies, seek out speaking opportunities at industry conferences, and generally oversee DataChannel's strategy with respect to leveraging emerging Web standards in our products and services. I was DataChannel's Advisory Committee Representative to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), sat on the OASIS XML.org Advisory Committee, was co-chair and co-editor of the ebXML Technical Architecture Standard, and particiapted in some capacity to the following standards efforts: SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, SAML, webDAV, XML Schema, SSTC, RosettaNet, ebXML, BPML, BPMI, and a few others that escape me now. When DataChannel was about to be acquired by Netegrity, I realized that my role as standards guy were probably targets for elimination, so I started building demos that showcased what our portal technology could do. I did that for about 6 months and then moved into my role as product manager for Netegrity's Portal technology initiatives, which were done under the brand "Netegrity Interaction Server" and later "PortalMinder".

This effectively sums up the past 8 years of job experience for me. I've only been hired once, back on May 8, 2000, but I've now officially worked for four different official business entities. I'm thankful to be working (albeit indirectly now) with the same core team of Java devs for 8+ years and that is the only thing that keeps me going during challenging times.

• Streaming the iPhone launch from Apple Store on Stockton St.
• Buying new iPod Touch, upgrading to 2.0, loading Pandora and other apps from the AppStore
• Discovering my new addiction at the Blue Bottle Cafe. Siphon Pot coffee is unbelievable. Check out my Flickr pics.
• Super secret meetings with some very big names that I can't really talk about.
• Rocked the Mechanicrawl, met Terry Lindell (uber-master of the Mark IV TDC).
• Attended Gary Vaynerchuk's party for taping of the WLTV 500th Episode  (insane energy and good vibes at that event). Ran into old friends like Scott Beale (@laughingsquid) and an old college buddy - Brad Murphy - who is VP at Revision 3. Got to meet/talk to Kevin Rose and many other notables in the local tech scene.
• Attended the Freshbooks Tweetup at 21st Amendment. Geeked out with fellow iPhone/Touch enthusiasts. Drank 9.2% IPA that was out of this world.
• Attended Social Media Camp San Francisco. Met some AMAZING people at this event. Met Erica O'Grady. Hung out with @danielbru and the Qik guys. Got to meet @Corvida and a lot of other awesome people.
• Attended Mashable SummerMash San Francisco. Met Pete Cashmore, ran into lots of friends & met new ones. Met Steven Fruchter, CEO of Stickam. Discussed some ideas / opps for collaboration.
• Dinner with Yeshi Govindas Friedland and drinks with Brad Murphy. What happens when you get together with 2 college buddies who haven't seen each other together since around 1996? A late night that ended at 2:45am this morning.
• Upgraded to First Class on Virgin America flight from SFO -> SEA and had the absolute pleasure of meeting and talking with Actor Peter Coyote (wikipedia him). Overhead voicemail on ride from SEATAC (he offered to share his driver) from Matthew Modine.

That about sums it up. Tomorrow I attend a day long course by one of my true idols, Mr. Edward Tufte.

I have a crapload of stuff to do between now and next Weds, when I fly to Albany, NY and head up into the Adirondack Mountains to a little area where there is still no mobile phone coverage. There I will continue work on one of my engines. This is a VERY exciting time for me right now.

Thanks to all my new friends, followers, and supporters!

Onward & Upward.

--Brian

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Aaron Brazell has a post and conversation on going on Friendfeed on this topic. We need Scoble and the rest of the crew to blast this out to make sure some attention is paid to this alarming development.

UPDATE: looks like this got micro-blogged a bit out of proportion. Just read this post and this conversation.

While we're at it, I REALLY REALLY don't think I can EVER EVER EVER vote for a PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES that does NOT know HOW TO USE A COMPUTER.

My profile is here: http://identi.ca/infinitelymeta

A few first impressions:

1. Logged in for first time using OpenID. Worked great. Then had to create "local" account to get new profile/handle, etc setup.
2. Adding friends is pretty easy. Basic search and follow.
3. Timeline - posts up to 140 characters. View Personal timeline and Everyone timeline.
4. RSS - Dave Winer says it sucks. Add /rss to any url and you supposedly get RSS.
5. XMPP - I'm just setting this up now. Will see how well it works.
6. UPDATED: URLs - No auto-tiny URL (yet). I sent @evan a feature request.

I also downloaded the source code here and am actively picking through it to see how well written it is. Would be great if this were the start to a framework for a microblogging socnet platform that can scale. I could really use such a framework right now for one of my "engines".

That is all.

UPDATE: There is a "Coming Soon" FAQ here: http://identi.ca/doc/faq

UPDATE #2: Some now thinking it can't scale due to sql table / schema design. http://identi.ca/notice/4085