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An important conversation

Brian Daniel Eisenberg — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:27:40 +0000

This is an extremely important discussion in my opinion that will ultimately shape the future of social media and who is able to monetize and leverage the power of the social graph.

http://friendfeed.com/e/d89fb1b7-ad57-aa52-c07d-76de7f8d2771/Should-Early-Adopters-Reap-The-Rewards-for-a/

Top 10 Reasons I should get a free Techcrunch50 invite

Brian Daniel Eisenberg — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:31:29 +0000

10. Seattle is the new San Francisco

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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Congress trying to restrict Twitter, Qik, and other social media sites’ usage by Representatives?

Brian Daniel Eisenberg — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:43:34 +0000

Ok. I saw a little bit of this break earlier today, but I'm just now catching up. I guess the word got out that John Culberson and Tim Ryan are using Twitter, Qik, and other socnets to interact in near real time with their constituents. Now apparently, there is a growing uproar of objection to using Twitter, Qik, and other social media outlets by representatives in Congress

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.

Check out Identi.ca. Open Source Twitter Clone

Brian Daniel Eisenberg — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:51:57 +0000

A couple hours ago Marshall Kirkpatrick over at RWW posted about Identi.ca, a new open source Twitter clone. Check it out here: http://identi.ca.

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

A few first impressions:

Logged in for first time using OpenID. Worked great. Then had to create "local" account to get new profile/handle, etc setup.
Adding friends is pretty easy. Basic search and follow.
Timeline - posts up to 140 characters. View Personal timeline and Everyone timeline.
RSS - Dave Winer says it sucks. Add /rss to any url and you supposedly get RSS.
XMPP - I'm just setting this up now. Will see how well it works.
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

Can/will Bezos put Twitter into the cloud?

Brian Daniel Eisenberg — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:56:08 +0000

I think Bezos stepping up and backing Twitter is probably the most significant bit of news about Twitter in recent months (aside from all the well, you know, the WHALE episodes). I think it will be very interesting to watch and see if, with Bezos' backing and support, if they can successfully re-launch Twitter completely in the cloud. It could be the first real test to see if this type of social network can scale using cloud computing techniques. I am going to be watching this closely, as one of my engines will place similar loads on the cloud.

A time for exploration

Brian Daniel Eisenberg — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:18:37 +0000

Welcome to the next phase in the exploration of some ideas that I and several others had just over a year ago. This is one of many new sites we will be bringing online in the coming weeks, and hopefully months. Hold on tight, things could get a little crazy again. We're going to try and build a couple of the engines I've so desperately wanted to code up and deploy to the cloud.

Please do keep in mind that I am only able to devote a very limited amount of my precious time to exploring these ideas for now, as I have a full time job in the enterprise software industry where I work as a Senior Systems Engineer for Software AG Inc., and also own/manage Eastlake Associates LLC, a commercial property management business in Seattle, WA.

Major props to @kibmcz, my stealth coding ninja from parts way up north for helping pull this stuff all together so quickly. Be sure to check out KComputer Zone for all the meta. Special thanks to Chris Pirillo for a truly stellar WordPress theme. Well done! Bravo.

Now that I've got this nifty new WordPress blog, I will be retiring (not deleting) my old blog which I recently changed from http://bdeseattle.blogspot.com to infinitelymeta.blogspot.com. Please also be sure to follow me on Friendfeed and Twitter, as they are where you can figure out all the other socnets I frequent.

And now the fun continues.

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Changed My Friendfeed & Twitter handles

Brian Daniel Eisenberg — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:09:11 +0000

OK. Today, I'm deploying my new personal brand and retrofitting my online presence across socnets to reflect these changes. In 2007, I was pplpwrd, now here in 2008, I'm Infinitely Meta. So please come find me on the backchannels on socnets. Here are the ones that matter most:

http://friendfeed.com/infinitelymeta (same account as before, just renamed)

http://twitter.com/infinitelymeta (same account as before, just renamed)

That is all.