1) I have gone independent – leaving my good friends and respected colleagues at Reuters (now ThomsonReuters) to take a spin at early-stage ventures. Advising, angel investing, like an EIR without the “residence” part. I’ll write more about it soon.

2) One of the companies I am working with is Summize. Very promising platform for real time conversation search. This is a whole new world of opportunity for user experience and monetization. As I told a friend recently this isn’t the  “there must be a pony in here somewhere” big, it’s “if we execute cleanly, align well and get the wind at our backs, this is an entirely new way of using the web” big. The big hit at the moment for summize is twitter search. One twitterer tweeted (say that 10 times fast) that it’s so good, it gives you a reason to use twitter. I agree. Check it out.

3) Working closely with Betaworks too. Very interesting stuff brewing there and it’s a treat to spend time with John and Andy as they get their betaworks mojo in full swing. I’m working with a few other companies too, I’ll post a little about them too soon.

4) Calais is continuing to catalyze the adoption of the semantic/text analytic approach. We’re just starting to scratch the surface of the potential here. Very excited about this and I plan to stay closely involved with Tom Tague, Barak Pridor and the rest of my close friends at Clearforest as we continue to drive this forward.

5) Luckyrobot has a new design coming. Should happen pretty quickly. Looking forward to that.

Onward and upward